I will check!
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I don’t know anything about owning a house, but I totally support the idea of a house journal for you! 
I’m so excited for you!!
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I love the Schlage keypad we have. It’s not the pricey smart lock, just the keypad deadbolt. It’s been working great for 6.5 years now.
Same! Highly recommend this one
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We did the blackout double cell I think.
Here’s actual order details:
$400 something for two large custom ones.
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What medical supplies could a post apocalyptic society be able to generate? Like The Walking Dead kind of post apocalypse. Alcohol, vinegar, maybe penicillin?
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Distilled water?
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Silk thread for stitches
You can sterilize stuff with steam or alcohol so anything that’s metal, cloth or organic could be sterilized into being sterile medical supplies (so like needles, surgical knives, bandages)
I don’t know if vinegar is really that helpful. At least I can’t remember how it would be
Willow bark is an NSAID, that’s why it’s so common for headaches and fever in historical fiction
This is a fascinating question!
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Lots of herbal remedies. Cherry bark and honey for coughs, Williwbark for pain or inflammation, plantain for skin ailments and upset stomach, puff ball mushrooms or milkweed for bleeding, elder for antiviral, the list got on really. Not much for a strong antibiotic but you can make a start with garlic or onion. Better if you can make penicillin, and if your patient can tolerate it.
Soap would be very important. You can make lye by filtering water through hardwood ashes and then use that to make soap from rendered fat. It’s labor intensive but having the cleaner is pretty essential.
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Weed, willow bark tea, chamomile, lavender, mint. Hopefully valerian and St John’s wort -you just need a few herbalists. Honey, ginger, garlic.
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+1 on honey (if there’s someone in your group without dangerous bee sting allergies) and mint. Wish I could grow ginger here, but don’t think I can. Hadn’t thought of weed, but it would be useful.
Something for scurvy, even if it’s just storing some beans to sprout.
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Thinking of my own situation, we have citrus so scurvy is no problem. I think we’re too far south for willow trees though.
I was thinking of vinegar as an astringent or cleaning agent when one doesn’t want to use alcohol.
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Tourniquets 
splints. Look up wilderness first aid- lots of DIY trauma medicine ideas there.
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Just look at indigenous medicine in whatever location you’re at. Indigenous people had long, healthy lives pre-colonization. I mean, long for the era. Much longer and healthier than their equivalents in Europe.
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Yes, that would be very good, and if you could make vinegar, that means you can make wine. If you can make wine, you can make brandy, and then you have another good cleaner/sedative/carrier for various herbal remedies.
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Thank you!! This is super helpful. And also makes me want to cry because all of my money will be gone forever now because I own a house.
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I’m definitely not going to argue on that last point. I will say, order the samples before you decide. Some of the colors were way different than they looked online.
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Kinda depends on what kind of knowledge base the characters have. A pretty scientifically accurate anime I’ve been watching (Dr. Stone) starts with being knocked back to Stone Age technology but the protagonist is a polymath with tons of modern scientific knowledge and they synthesize sulfa drugs and recreate all sorts of technology in progressive steps over time, for example.
And in a typical zombie apocalypse it would be potentially easier because of being able to salvage modern equipment to rebuild. If they had the knowledge
You can also go to Home Depot/Lowes and look at books full of the different colors!
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forceps, splints, hot/cold compress
boiled water, distilled water
salt
soap
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