Preparedness for when

prepareathome

suburbanwifey wrote: »

And the thanks were much appreciated I did try that, clicking the little icon, however when it displayed the pic on here it was HUGE and I mean, bigger than the page. So, I resized it small and it still showed huge, that's why I wondered if anyone knew why. Sadly, I still haven't gotten to the bottom of it.

I know how to do it, its the explaining without showing you I have the problem with so was hoping someone would be able to

When you get the code on flickr have you chosen thumb nail size, if you have and its still coming up big then just post an either it will sort itself when you actually publish your post or will not..........its not a problem you can resolve yourself as it is either a flickr or mse tech problem.

if that doesn't make sense I will do a series of screen shots to show you exactly what you chose, highlight etc.....

Hugs and Love to allxxxx

meme30

http://homesteadsurvival.blogspot.com/2012/09/idea-starter-making-your-storage-rack.html
This picture is circulating Faceb**k today
Lots of people are getting very excited about it, it seems there is a lot of store cupboard envy out there! :rotfl:

Popperwell

I love that idea Meme30 but I have more than that. Not buying anything at present, using some of what I have or replacing like for like. But I don't really like the crates but was my best option(if I move or stay here shelves might be better)and if I want to hide the food from show I could draw a curtain across...

The shape of the crates restricts in some ways what you can get into them and if some items are tall you cannot stack them.

People are no longer laughing at the idea of a food store and when I now talk to people many are doing their own versions not always with an emergency in mind, more because prices are rising and incomes reducing...

Popperwell

The local council magazine has come through the door and usually in austere times this seems to waste money and there is little worth reading but they have devoted a page about what to do in an emergency but it offers much less than we read here...

It says that we need to be aware that an emergency can happen anywhere anytime and they include things like flood, flu,fire and severe weather.

There six steps to be prepared are...

Having a torch, bottled water, warm clothing, first aid kit and non perishable food.

Think what you need to move to another location or take upstairs if you have access to an area above ground level.

Have various contacts and telephone numbers handy.

Know how to turn off the gas, electric and water.

A little more detail might've been nice...

Bitsy_Beans

meme30 wrote: »

http://homesteadsurvival.blogspot.com/2012/09/idea-starter-making-your-storage-rack.html
This picture is circulating Faceb**k today
Lots of people are getting very excited about it, it seems there is a lot of store cupboard envy out there! :rotfl:

Oh yes.......I frequently have pantry envy I'd love one

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Isn't that silly? a store cupboard is such an easy thing to put together, you just have to realise that you can build it gradually by getting one or two extra things each week. It isn't rocket science is it? Mind you - when it comes to Pantry Envy I'm next on the list!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn.

GreyQueen

It was a very nice picture, wasn't it? Did you see how it rolled out of the cupboard and there was a neat full-sized door to close behind it. Sigh.:o Envy is one of the bad emotions, isn't it? Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's storage trollies even it they have baskets on them.

Cutting my coat according to my cloth has meant that the 2 new underbed storage trollies which I commisioned from Mum arrived today as part of a family visit.

I keep my larder (or the tins at least) under my bed. My home is silly-small. Would rather have a pantry or at least a cupboard which I could open when I needed but as it is, the bed is where there is space.

My bedroom is only about 1 foot bigger than my standard double bed on three sides and on the fourth side, there is just enough room to open the door and not strike the bed. So I can't get around the bed, so stuff in tray boxes tends to go to the far side of the bed and then I have to hang head-down and reach underneath to shove it so that I can reach the boxes from the other side.

That's just as blinking awkward as it sounds, so I have two Arg0s rolling trollies (£3 the pair from a bootsale) plus one scrap-wood-and-repurposed-castors trolley and now the last of the boxes will be replaced by these 2 new trollies of offcuts. Each of my h.m. trollies has a very large screw-eye screwed into the end and I have a pole with a large cupbook on the end and can grab them and tow them into reach. Luckily, I have vinyl tiles over a concrete floor so trollies roll nicely and there's no heat in the bedroom so they're cool under there.

Larders can take all manners and forms. Where there's a will there's a [STRIKE]blinking idjeet[/STRIKE] way.

prepareathome

For ingenuity you should be awarded a prize GQ.

I tend to come over all faint when I watch the videos of LDS women taking about food storage and showing you their storage rooms, under the house, all shelved, places of worship almost with all their supplies.

No chance of a cellar here as this house is actually sitting in a cradle - not so far found out why as earthquakes are not a major problem here now and certainly weren't in 1930 when foundations went in for house, unless that is a part of local history they are keeping hidden and ground was a farmers field for over 1000 years as it on Maps dating from 1000 approx so no mine workings locally, although Romans did mine top of hill 1/2 mile away 2000 years ago. We very occasionally, neighbours and I, turn up odd Roman artefacts ( just pottery fragments) that have been washed down hill, but only when you go down quite deeply in garden

YS who is out of work now has registered to do a joinery course so have offered him plenty of practise - floor to ceiling shelving in store room and raised beds for starters. Told him happy to give him as much practise as he needs:)

Pops at least your council is admitting there is a need for that information to be out there. They obviously didn't want to panic the 'sheeple' hence it being so offhand to be almost, but not quite useless.

Popperwell

prepareathome wrote: »

Pops at least your council is admitting there is a need for that information to be out there. They obviously didn't want to panic the 'sheeple' hence it being so offhand to be almost, but not quite useless.

Interesting post PAH and as for the above...I guess you are right, I wonder if this is a change of policy in general across the UK?

mardatha

GQ I quite often wish I was single just so that I could have one of those Ikea platform Tarzan Treehouse beds, always have this urge to play on them when I go to Ikea and the RV grabs me and hurries me past. You'd have a lot more room if you got some kind of cabin bed or single bed... maybe fit in a wall unit then ?