Last week I put together a kit because my car only comes with a pump and a can of tyre goo:

• 2t bottle jack the correct height for the axle jacking points (fits in the palm of my hand)
• 2 x lightweight wheel chocks
• 2 x folding axel stands (checked to make sure they can lift axels enough to change a tyre)
• wheel spanner for the lug nuts turned down to fit the bottle jack handle hole and drilled the end to work the jack release valve. (The handle that comes with most bottle jacks are useless)

On uneven ground bottle and scissor jacks are always sketchy, having chocks and axel stands can give you enough time to get out of the way and prevent an accident. Most importantly the time to test out the kit is at home before you need to use it.

When I knew my income was going to be destroyed I prepared by stopping all my outgoing subscriptions immediately. Changed phone plan to bare minimum etc. traded our car in for electric which cut our fuel bill from £100pm to £15. Finally I’m slowly selling my stuff, but I’m now at the stage where I have a 10 yr old laptop, 8yr old phone and something is going to break soon. Fun times.