Preparedness for when

homesteadchick

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

The company called 99p Stores (Check for one near you HERE), have some interesting food items, suitable for preppers.

In particular, 425g tins of Sardines and 425g cans of Pilchards.

For those who concern themselves with BBE dates, the sardines are dated May 2016, and the Pilchards are dated Aug 2015.

yuck.



Thanks anyway. :rotfl:

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They're obviously not for everyone, but for someone like Danny John-Jules, they're ideal.

ALIBOBSY

Hand up over here that we have that SAS book as well as the urban guide which is very useful.

My food for free guide I use for foraging has disappeared sometime we were packing up downstairs to decorate at Christmas so used the couple of pound left in my Amazon account to order the new version, if the older one turns up we can stick one in the car so we have one when out and about and come across stuff when not actually on a foraging walk.

Thought we had missed out on the kitchen cupboard doors as poster had given it to another freegler, BUT OH just took a call to say they were going to reoffer them as first person has messed them around about pick it. When can you come they said, now said OH, so we will see what the doors are like shortly :T. Got 2 bottles of the rosehip syrup cooling on the side and was going to get going with the bag of blackcurrants my sister gave me yesterday-was going to do a jelly overnight, but looks like I will be clearing the cupboards and getting my "new" kitchen sorted.

Ali x

wondercollie

I can honestly remember when society changed. From 1981-1983, I was living in Germany with the spousal unit. We came back to a Canada that was very different from the one we left.

People had suddenly become much more materialistic, into status objects. It was the same time frame that interest rates climbed through the roof and a recession hit.

It wasn't just the culture shock of returning home, it was really a different society.

I've taught both my sons to cook, clean and mend. The oldest is a Combat Engineer and if he can't fix it, he sure as hell can blow it up.

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WONDERCOLLIE just love it, same philosophy as DD2 in her first year in med school taking a security job and phoning me with the information that she now knew how to break a mans wrist with ease but felt it would be morally wrong to do so until she had enough medical knowledge to mend it again!!! Oh how proud of our offsprings we can be!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

wondercollie, we had a similar situation here in the UK in the early 1980s. I was a young adult, poor as a church mouse, student.

There was a Gordon Gekko greed-is-good vibe. There was a British comedian who had a comedy character called Loadsamoney. The eighties were all about grasping, brashness, big shoulderpads, big hair, braying cityboys and vulgarity heaped upon vulgarity.

It made the gentle preoccupations of the 1970s seem like postcards from an antique age; cheesecloth shirts and back to the land, anyone?

I was born in the sixties, had most of the bits of childhood I can remember in the seventies and was a twenty-something in the eighties. I feel that I've seen a lot of changes in those years, and the endless rise of the consumer society, along with the decay of civility and manners.

It's a commonplace thing now to hear people yelling at their pre-schoolers and every second word is f*@!. And to hear primary age children f-ing themselves. Constantly. It's lost all shock value, it's moronic and boring and coarse and naff.

Heaven knows what the older people, the octogenarians and nonogenarians, make of this. We have them being stoned in their sheltered homes by packs of feral children in this city; I've been talking to the victims.

I encounter a lot of people who are highly-dependant and very much of the opinion that the world owes them a living and that it should provide to their satisfaction - or else!

I find myself stunned almost into speechlessness by the ramped up lifestyles which seem to have become the new normal. Since when did ordinary British schoolkids from non-privilged backgrounds get to fly across the Atlantic to NYC for a school trip? Or go ski-ing?

Strange to feel a bit like a fossil when I'm not even fifty.

But I do worry about some people I know who are clueless about survival. They don't carry cash, they haven't savings, don't own sensible footwear or a coat.

;) Good job I'm nobody's Mum or I can see myself saying to some poor lass or lad : You'll catch your death going out like that!

ALIBOBSY

Ok well today we put down a "new" carpet in our bedroom-was actually a piece from MIL, they got a new carpet in the big through room and we got the old one, but its like new and only a couple of years old. The only worn bit was by the door, but once cut down for our room this bit was gone. So best axminster underfoot, good tidy and clean of Bedroom-then Oh decided to give it a quick coat of paint to brighten up with the leftover paint from downstairs. So "free" new bedroom.

We then got the kitchen doors and panels and drawer fronts from freegle.

They are the birch/oak shaker style from B & Q, been on the doors, but not for long as they still had some of the boxes off them to pack them in. Looks like put in by developer or seller to sell the house, then new owners wanting different style. They are like new and we had already decided to go for the shaker style wood doors. Some have frosted glass panels as well.

The drawer fronts and most of the doors are exact fits, just the corner cupboard to try to sort and there are enough extra bits and doors to cut down and sort.

Going to be a busy weekend lol.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

GQ you are only just older than me, and OH. We sometimes feel like ev1 else is of the minimalist, magnolia, buy new and chuck out the old even though is perfectly ok just for a colour/style change, obsessed with acquiring money and "things", wanna be on TV and never worry about tomorrow brigade and we are old before our time. That's why its lovely to come on here and see you are not alone.

BTW anyone spot the prepper on the one show tonight, interesting that they allowed him to point out its not just if the world ends its prepping for all sorts of possibilities that can and do happen. Mr Allbright almost seemed converted by the end of the interview .

Ali x

GreyQueen

:j:T Well done on the cupboards! Excellent. See what you can achieve with resourcefulness and taking the time to freecycle.

Cutting down the carpet is something I'd do, as well. When we moved as a family from council house 1 to council house 2, we were two kiddies under ten, one modest wage earner and a SAHM.

Poor? By heck, we wuz poor. Tenner to our name. And even in 1971 that was pitiful. So the parents packed up their scrippy scrappy bits of linoleum, some of which came from Grandma's old house, and we had them on our bedroom floors with a handhooked bedsde rug each made from offcuts of yarn.

I've just had a memory flash of a blanket made from handknitted squares, grossly distorted by its own weight, that Bruv and I used to vie to have over the tops of our beds. We had other blankets, but that one had added Mum-love incorportated into it and was very precious...........:rotfl:

Do you know how I found this place? I picked up the MSE Old Style book in the library, hung out on the main site for a few months, looked across and thought What's a forum? and clicked thru. Was wide-eyed at the endless lists of the OS boards until I came to this one.

I feel we're a tribe of common values, whether were teens/twenties/ thirties or oldenoughtostartlyingaboutit.

nuatha

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

BTW anyone spot the prepper on the one show tonight, interesting that they allowed him to point out its not just if the world ends its prepping for all sorts of possibilities that can and do happen. Mr Allbright almost seemed converted by the end of the interview .

Ali x

Nice to see a prepper portrayed as fairly normal on TV, overall a well balanced piece that allowed the prepper to get his side over.