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Terms of Sale and Use

Last updated: 1 December 2026

These Terms are the agreement between you and the business that publishes The 1955 Pantry ("we" or "us"), named with its address in section 14. They cover the1955pantry.com, everything you buy on it, and your member area. By placing an order or using the site, you agree to them.

Published independently. The 1955 Pantry is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any government agency, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Ready.gov.

The 1955 program this book describes was run by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. We tell its story as history. No government agency, then or now, has reviewed or approved our books, lists or guides. Where we say our guidance is aligned with official guidance, we mean that we have checked it against published checklists such as those at Ready.gov, not that any agency endorses it.

1. What you are buying

The description on the order page at the moment you pay is what you are buying. In outline:

  • Digital products: The 1955 Pantry, The Civil Defense Archive, The Four-Week Pantry Build, and the bonuses that come with them.
  • Physical editions, where your order includes them: the hardcover of The 1955 Pantry and the printed Civil Defense Archive (section 4).
  • The Pantry Club, a membership that renews until you cancel it (section 5).

Digital products open in your member area as soon as your payment goes through, and your welcome email carries the link.

2. Prices and payment

  • Prices are in US dollars and are shown before you pay. We never add a charge you were not shown.
  • Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
  • At checkout your card is saved with Stripe, so that you can add an offer on the pages that follow with one click. On those pages, the button that says yes charges the card you just used, at the price shown on that page. Nothing more is charged unless you click it.

3. Your licence to the digital products

You may read, download and print our digital products for your own household. That includes printing the cards, labels, lists and logs as often as you need them. You may not resell them, share your copies or your login, post them publicly, or use them to make a product of your own.

Where the Civil Defense Archive or our books reproduce historical government publications, the restorations, layouts, introductions and notes are our own work and stay ours.

4. Physical editions: shipping, and what happens if we are late

We do not sell physical editions on this site yet. When we do, the ship-by date will be stated here, on the order page and in your receipt before you pay, and the delay protections of the US Federal Trade Commission's Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule (16 CFR Part 435) will apply to every physical order.

5. The Pantry Club membership

The Pantry Club is a membership that renews automatically until you cancel it. There are two routes, and you choose one:

  • Monthly: $9.97 a month, charged when you join and on that date each month, to the card you used at checkout.
  • Yearly: $97 a year, charged when you join.
  • The membership starts only when you click the button that starts it, in your member area, beside its price. It is never started for you at checkout.
  • Before every yearly renewal, we email you a reminder with the amount, the date and how to cancel.
  • You can cancel at any time from the account page in your member area, in one click, or by emailing us. Cancel and your membership runs to the end of the period you have paid for, then stops.
  • You can pause your membership for one or two months instead of cancelling.
  • If a renewal payment fails, we retry it and email you so you can update your card. If it keeps failing, the membership ends.
  • We will not change the price of an active membership without emailing you first, in time for you to cancel before the new price applies.

Refunds for Club payments follow our Refund Policy: every payment is covered for 60 days from the day you made it.

6. Information, not professional advice

  • Our books, lists and guides are general information about keeping a household supplied. They are not medical, nutritional, legal or professional emergency advice, and they never replace instructions from your local emergency officials.
  • Anything we say about a medicine cabinet covers basic first aid and safe storage only. It is not a treatment for any illness. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about medicines, special diets and allergies.
  • Follow the maker's instructions and your local safety rules for any stove, heater, lamp, generator or fuel you store or use.
  • You are responsible for checking dates and storage conditions on the food and water you keep.
  • We present the 1955 material as history. For what to do today, current official guidance such as Ready.gov is the standard, and in an emergency you should follow your local officials.
  • We cannot promise any particular outcome in an emergency.

7. Your member area

You sign in to your member area with a one-time link sent to the email address you ordered with, so keep that inbox secure. Your access is for you and your household. We may suspend access that is being shared or used to copy our products.

8. Using the site

Use the site lawfully. Do not try to break into it, overload it, copy it wholesale, or interfere with other people's use of it.

9. Text messages

If we offer text messages and you opt in, we send order and account messages only. Opting in is never a condition of purchase. Reply STOP to stop them or HELP for help. Message and data rates may apply.

10. Age

You must be at least 18 years old to buy from us.

11. Limits on our liability

We provide our products and the site as they are, and we do not promise any particular result. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the product the claim concerns, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that the law does not allow us to limit.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. A change never applies to an order you have already placed, and for an active Pantry Club membership we email you before a change that affects it takes effect.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the consumer laws of the place where you live, and you can bring a claim in your local courts.

14. Who we are, and how to reach us

15. The whole agreement

These Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Refund Policy are the whole agreement between us. If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.

The 1955 Pantry is published independently and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any government agency.

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