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Aims. This bachelor’s thesis is literature overview about home emergency supply kit. The aim of the thesis was to define meaning of households emergency supply kit. Study’s aim was also to define what actually is home emergency supply kit, how households prepare independently on emergency situations, how the home emergency supply kit has been developed and how the home emergency supply kit bases in bigger picture at the society’s emergency preparedness. Methods. The used research method in the thesis was descriptive literature overview. Official documents, publications, researches and webpages were used at overview’s reference material. In the thesis home emergency kit was examined about food and groceries point of view. In the literature overview the subject is considered through mastering the household’s everyday life. Results and Conclusions. Home emergency supply kit is defined as household’s own voluntarily basic kit of accessories that should help survive three days if sudden threatening situation would happen. Home emergency supply kit contains groceries, water and other daily needed accessories. Home emergency supply kit has been developed after wars as the result of society’s necessity. The purpose of the home emergency kit is to reduce the instant impact of abnormal situation and to temporary secure the household’s ability of function. Today households have bigger role to manage their preparedness and everyday security by themselves. As the result of overview can be said, that the attitude toward home emergency supply kit is positive and households see it as a necessary way of preparedness. Even though households don’t keep emergency supplies consciously, the will survive through short abnormal situation with their everyday accessories despite they are not totally identical to the official guidance. More advice and information about home emergency supply kit are needed.