not much really,i'm retired and my wife walks a few blocks to work.we don't do a lot of travel outside the Metro area so a cell phone and a old sleeping bag is all we need but our SUV is new so a break down is not in the works and we just stay home in bad weather.if we are going up north it would be to winter camp so the car would be filled with gear and food.we are putting in new windows so just a couple storms have to be put in on the ground floor.i fire up the show blower just to make sure it runs,it's also new so no sweat there..winter in Minnesota is such a "normal" thing with a summer so short that a lot of things are not really put away but just set aside.when you look at other people yards it looks like they don't do much more than turn the bird bath over and lean the deck chairs over to keep the snow from piling up on them.