Preparedness for when

BessieBooBoo

carriebradshaw wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me adding BBB that I would shop before I went camping and take it with me too if I had car space as A : I wouldn't want to shop for food unless really had to,only for things like milk and B : shops on or near campsites are usually quite expensive,I've been caught out like that myself in the past. I am a real tightwad though

Hello Carrieb

Ah, a woman after my own heart! That was what I was thinking too... Only our site is so basic there is no camp shop there...

However there is a T*sco...

BBB

BessieBooBoo

lobbyludd wrote: »

my camping approach is "any fool can rough it" however, when it got to the point where I needed to buy a camper van to transport my camping equipment, I strimmed down.

plan your meals, then only take stuff for the first couple of days, and concentrate on taking high value things, (tea, coffee, sugar condiments etc), and decanting things into plastic containers for oil etc, prices are often higher in rural holiday areas but you have to (literally) weigh that against the fuel costs to transport it yourself.

so in addition to the other comments here are mine

Hello Lobbyludd

Sorry it's been a while since I've been on here, stuff in RL happening and all that....

Thank you LL for taking the trouble to read my list. I think you have great suggestions, e.g. I will only pack the Kindle, and I have now talked OH out of taking 4 different stoves to cook on! Thank goodness you are a sensible lot, and calming my over-prepping nerves on what to take. I may probably take too much food in case the local supermarket is expensive though... :cool:

Thanks again!

BBB

short_bird

We have, or rather had, 6 packs of glow sticks bought for 10p after Halloween about 3 years ago. Due to a bout of silliness, some of them were broken out whilst watching Glastonbury on Saturday.

Despite the age, they gave a good light for over 12 hours. As they don't take up a lot of space and aren't heavy, might glow sticks fit in to somebody's STHF scenario? I mean, they're not exactly ecologically friendly but safer than candles.

oh, and I watched World War Z last week. What we need are partners who have flares in their back packs. :rotfl:

grandma247

I can also confirm that space blankets under the foam mats in your tent work very well.We camped in Scarsdale a couple of weeks ago. I remembered I had one Sil had given me for something else so packed it with the rest of our gear.

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

We have, or rather had, 6 packs of glow sticks bought for 10p after Halloween about 3 years ago. Due to a bout of silliness, some of them were broken out whilst watching Glastonbury on Saturday.

Despite the age, they gave a good light for over 12 hours. As they don't take up a lot of space and aren't heavy, might glow sticks fit in to somebody's STHF scenario? I mean, they're not exactly ecologically friendly but safer than candles.

oh, and I watched World War Z last week. What we need are partners who have flares in their back packs. :rotfl:

I got some of those from Poondland last year. They're a nifty idea and very lightweight.

Am v. tired right now. As in, grabbed a can from my stocks, pulled off the ringpull lid and thought Why is that sweetcorn green?

Doh. Because it's peas. Nil problemo, ate it anyway. These new glasses obvs aren't improving my mental processing power when tired.....

vanoonoo

morning all - I just thought I'd check in and get some opinion. We're looking to buy a new lawnmower and my husband is thinking of getting a manual push mower - does anyone else use one and how do they get on with them? is it easy to get serviced and sharpened or even to do ourselves? all thoughts appreciated! hope all is well in your worlds

7_week_wonder

Hello - finally a question I can answer!

We have a really old manual mower and an electric one. When it's sharp the old mower is fantastic, it gives a really good cut and I like the fact that it doesn't require any external energy supply (apart from the cake I have to feed OH ). It probably needs servicing every couple of years. I'm sure in theory we could sharpen it ourselves, but we take it to someone else (there are quite a few firms to chose from around here). They love servicing it, as it is such an old favourite (I think it is from the early 60's?)

The electric one is better if the grass is a bit damp or has got a bit out of control, but if I could only chose one I'd go for the manual one.

thriftwizard

Vanoonoo, we've used push mowers for years. The lawn's not big, but OH is a large & fit sort of bloke so it only takes him a few minutes. I can use it easily too, if allowed... We've never had one serviced; they're very easy to look after. We just give it a dollop of oil every now & then, run a strop down the blades occasionally & keep it dry. And when one breaks, we go down to my favourite emporium, the Tip, & order another... they get several in every week! Which might mean that there are lots of other people who don't get on with them, but round here it's probably just that the previous owners have gone to mow the Great Lawn in the Sky.

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7_week_wonder wrote: »

I'm sure in theory we could sharpen it ourselves

You certainly could, as there are plenty of sharpeners on offer on t'internet.

Just Google "Lawn mower sharpener".

GreyQueen

vanoonoo wrote: »

morning all - I just thought I'd check in and get some opinion. We're looking to buy a new lawnmower and my husband is thinking of getting a manual push mower - does anyone else use one and how do they get on with them? is it easy to get serviced and sharpened or even to do ourselves? all thoughts appreciated! hope all is well in your worlds

My Dad had had one of these for 50 years, the kind with the roller as well as the spinny cutting bit.

One great advantage it has over power mowers is that when someone forced their way into the third and smallest of their back garden sheds, they were confronted with a chained up ladder which led into a second shed, a load of wombled timber and the mower in easy reach.

They didn't bother reaching for it, the Police officer who came around said villains never do.

To my certain knowledge it has never ever been serviced other than by Dad giving it a little 3-in-1 oil and rasping up the cutting edges with a rough !!!!!! file.

These are fine for smallest needs but you'd want a powered mower if you had a lot of grass. But of course, we preppers will be digging that up to grow veggies any day now.

PS I have a grass path along the 33 meter edge of my lottie. I give it a rough haircut with grass shears every few weeks in the growing season.

Can I just share my new joy in life (being a saddo) because someone either on here or on the Doorstep thread recommended Astonish to clean stoves. Got some yesterday and ohmigosh, does it do what it says on the tub. I have despeckled the glass oven door and just done the stove top and burners. Darned nuisance that I have to go to work and won't be able to Astonish the pan supports until later. Simple joys..........:o