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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »My question above has made me think 'What IS prepping?
To us, I guess it's mainly two things.
Checking every three months that the bug-our bag's good to go with what will keep us self-sufficient anywhere for 48 hours minimum plus essential paperwork and puter files.
Always keeping enough water to last 48 hours, enough stock of food 'n' stuff to enable us to do without any shopping for 14 days, and enough logs to keep us warm for 6 months. (Power we can do without indefinitely, likewise mains sewerage.)
Apart from that, AFAIC "prepping" is to do with resilience, low expectations, a frugal lifestyle and the conviction that it could all go pear-shaped at any time ... :cool:A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but with luck it'll annoy enough people to make the effort worthwhile.0 -
For me, prepping is not having to run round like a headless chicken for short term disruptions and being able to keep my family safe and comfortable in those circumstances. I could cope with most scenarios lasting a few days. I also have some medium term resilience - say a few weeks - with the multifuel stove and a good supply of logs, plus I have well equipped kitchen and craft supplies and moderate skill in using them.
But I know this would only tide me over short term disruption/medium term issues such as intermittent power cuts becoming the norm. I have thought long and hard about what I could do to prepare for more extreme scenarios and I don't think there is much more I could realistically do.It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0 -
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For one job, I used to drive a diesel ford escort van. With a broken fuel gauge. Although this multi-drop delivery van worked six days a week, and was serviced every three weeks, the employer didn't think it worth getting the gauge fixed.
Standing instruction to staff was to set the trip counter every time you filled the tank and then go into the nearest filling station when it hit 250 miles. We never had any problems, it was just something you knew you had to do.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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I think also it's about NOT allowing yourself to be utterly scared by changes you have no control over, if you can keep your head cool and roll with the situation rather than being scared to the point of terror and not able to think straight to the point of being the 'rabbit in the headlights' you will stand perhaps a much better chance of dealing with whatever it is and removing you and yours with as little damage as possible to a safer place. Part of what I try for is buying 'time' in situ by having in the water, food, meds, equipment and the means to cook/heat water etc. here already which enables us to just lock down and be as invisible as we can and also not have to compete for what is left in the shops when people DO panic and try for last minute supplies. I guess that does come under the hat of resilience? Hopefully if it IS safe to stay it will get us enough time to allow the situation to be dealt with by the emergency services and make it safer for us to leave when we are able.0
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Recently I ordered a bottle of this, as you can't get medicine over the counter with opiates in it nowadays.
I have an awful cough today. (I've actually made my chest hurt with coughing.) I've taken several doses of Covonia for tickly coughs, but it gives me a belly ache.
Dare I take some Collis Browne's? It says a side effect is constipation.0 -
He Who Knows tore a sheet of muscles in his side with the cough that came with his virus! he is still having to take pain killers (although is in less discomfort now) and we're coming up to 7 weeks. Luckily my preps included some over the counter Co Codamol in the medicine chest which gave him some relief until he could get to the GP.....unfortunately it too is known to have constipation as a side effect!0
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Dare I take some Collis Browne's? It says a side effect is constipation.
It's been many years since I was behind a counter selling C B's "Chlorodyne" as it then was, but I distinctly recall it was always sold for Gippy Tummy and/or the trots - never primarily for coughs.
If it's a niggling tickly cough, Pholcodine Linctus (which is nothing to do with codeine) is the best over-the-counter remedy I've ever found. And it's cheap A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but with luck it'll annoy enough people to make the effort worthwhile.0 -
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A big part of my preps are geared for sudden shortage of money. My bank (RBS) might fail or have a major IT problem. Our pensions might one day be delayed like they were in Greece - and Cyprus or Malta or somewhere had a Bank holiday that lasted a week.. Big supermarkets can and do have IT glitches and the tills don't work.. lots of things could maybe possibly go wrong with the money or food supply.0
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