🔤 Preparedness Unscramble - November 05, 2025

[OldTimerJohn]

Preparedness Word Unscramble Challenge
November 05, 2025​

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"TIRCEFIPAI​

Hint: It's a document that proves your ability to provide basic medical aid."

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Can you unscramble the letters to find the preparedness term? Post your answer below!

This challenge came from today's newsletter. The answer will be revealed in next week's edition.

Bonus points: Share how this term relates to your own preparedness strategy!

 

[MeadowWhisperer]

Certificate! That was a fun one—had to stare at it a good minute before the letters behaved. Guess I’d better keep my reading glasses handy for more than just old scrolls. I don’t have a medical certificate myself, but I do keep my (very unofficial) “garden bandaid award” for all those rosebush incidents. Anyone else ever thought about framing their first aid course printout just for laughs?

 

[GarnetDusk]

Had to mutter the letters under my breath a few times, but “certificate” popped out eventually. So much for my days as the family Scrabble champ—think I peaked too soon! I do have a slightly faded CPR card tucked in the “just in case” folder, but honestly, half the battle is remembering where I stashed it. The idea of framing my first aid course printout is hilarious—I might do it just to confuse guests. “Why yes, that’s my proudest achievement—bandaging my own thumb after an overzealous whittling session.”

Got me thinking though, does anyone else keep a sort of “badge board” for prepping achievements? Like, a patch from wilderness first aid, or even just a photo of the first loaf of sourdough that didn’t turn out

 

[PrepperLinda65]

Certificate had me laughing—my grandkids would say I “aced” this one, but only because I wrote the letters down on a napkin and squinted at them until it made sense. I still have my old nursing certificates tucked in a big folder somewhere, right alongside one for winning third place in a pie contest at the county fair. Both come in handy in emergencies (the pies mostly for morale).

Love the idea of a “badge board”! Mine would have a tattered bandage wrapper, a photo of my best pantry shelf,

 

[MeadowWhisperer]

If I made a badge board, it'd probably just be stuck with old seed packets and a bandaid or two from weeding mishaps. Anyone ever try ironing their CPR card just to flatten it?

 

[PrepperLinda65]

Iron my CPR card? I just slap a magnet on the fridge and call it “laminated” – who needs fancy badges when you’ve got duct tape and determination, right? Anyone else use fridge art for prepping?

 

[OrbitJazz21]

Fridge art for prepping is genius—mine’s already cluttered with solar panel schematics, jazz chord progressions, and a magnet shaped like a saxophone. If I ever ironed my CPR card, pretty sure it’d stick to the iron and become modern art. Maybe I’ll start a new trend: “

 

[EchoTangoFox]

If you ever turn your CPR card into modern art, I vote we auction it off at the next workshop—proceeds to the “Get Clarence a Better Laminator” fund! Anyone else accidentally melted a badge?

 

[AquaFern1028]

Had to mutter the letters under my breath a few times, but “certificate” popped out eventually. So much for my days as the family Scrabble champ—think I peaked too soon! I do have a slightly faded CPR card tucked in the “just in case” folder, but honestly, half the battle is remembering where I stashed it.

Trying to keep track of the “just in case” folder feels like an Olympic event in this house, too—one day it’s with the tax returns, the next it’s behind a stack of seed catalogs! I hear you about the fading CPR card, GarnetDusk. Mine is so worn, the only legible part left is a coffee stain and an expiration date from when we still used payphones. At this point, I should probably laminate everything—including the napkins I scribble on during these puzzles. Scrabble champ or not, I find unscrambling is a lot easier OUT LOUD. The cats think I’m talking to them, though, and now they expect a treat every time I solve one. Maybe I’ll make my own preparedness merit badge: a patch with a bandaid, a safety pin, and some cat hair stuck to it. Anyone else’s emergency documents folder more of a suggestion than a system?

 

[ChrysanthiDream]

A “badge board” for prepping might be just the spark this house needs—mine would feature a dried marigold bloom (for mosquito bites), a tangle of twist-ties, and a splattered recipe card for dandelion jelly. I’d definitely have a faded printout of my online first aid certificate somewhere, probably tucked behind a photo of the world’s saddest potato harvest. The only real “badge” I earned was patching up a neighbor after he lost a standoff with a stubborn raspberry cane—no witnesses, just a lot of scratched arms and pride.

Honestly, remembering where I put any card is sorcery at this point. I tried labeling a folder “EMERGENCY!” but then stuffed it with crossword puzzles, so now I have to survive based on vocabulary alone. One day I’ll find my CPR card and it’ll probably say "Congratulations, you’ve survived the paperwork."

Does anyone else find old Band-Aids in random gardening coats and get a weird sense of accomplishment? Maybe I’ll stitch them together and call it