Preparedness for when

Popperwell

How profound and true GQ and how spooky I have looked at the date of the inscription you have posted and guess what...the year may be out by some 350 years but the date is my birthday.:eek:

Its unusual for me as I am usually full of wonder about the world and nature and have sage like advice...

Thank You...

meme30

suburbanwifey wrote: »

I'm feeling rather pleased with myself but a little nervous. After reading all these posts you good ladies make and becoming rather involved in both this thread and this preparedness thing myself (I'm enjoying it, makes me feel good preparing, knowing that if there is trouble in the future, I can cope and look after me and mine etc) I have also taken excellent advice from it. None of us know everything, together we are a formidable force, gaining in knowledge, education and resourcefulness I trust you ladies and your advice and I'll just say I am honored to have been included in your thread and my comments appreciated, thanked and responded to :beer: So, I'm nervous as I have just invested in something I have never used before and don't have a clue how to use - a food dehydrator - this one here As I am a Uni student I get a fabulous discount from anything I buy from Amazon so I got it cheaper than the price advertised, however, I haven't a clue how to use one or what to do with it, but your posts on the benefits of one of these has encouraged me to buy.

Can you advice me on what are good things to dry (is that the right term?) and what is best to try for a beginner? I have visions of packing out Kilner type jars (I always get mine cheap from car boots, they always have tons of them, not always Kilner branded but I buy new seals from eBay to get them looking brand new and give them a good clean and sterilise etc.) with lots of healthy, tasty goodies preserved for if the SHTF type scenarios etc.

Help and advice please

There is a whole thread on dehydrators on MSE

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/139707

Should get lots of ideas on there

suburbanwifey

meme30 wrote: »

There is a whole thread on dehydrators on MSE

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/139707

Should get lots of ideas on there

OOh thank you I'll go read it all and learn, never seen that thread, thanks for your help x

prepareathome

I got my dehydrator this year thanks to grandmas advice and love it. At first I was nervous and packed everything in freezer but now being braver and putting them in kilner type jars, fingers crossed all will be fine. Similar t yours suburban but different make and not see through but does the job.

I am in my mid 50's and so past child bearing age but hope I would be thought worth my food due to the knowledge in my head, it gives me something to offers if things ever got so bad.

My main aim is stock up as a hedge against financial problems but over the years got more and more interested in learning true survival skills.

7roland8

Popperwell - don't feel your family photos are unimportant. Write the names and dates on the back.
Is there a history society where you live? They would love them for their archive - we always welcome any pictures in our village group and publish them in books to keep peoples' memories alive.
Or do you have cousins and other family that wold love them? I am always trying to find family pictures for our family tree.
But as GreyQueen says - in 80-100 years we will all be just a name (if we are lucky) - but such is the circle of life for us all.

Popperwell

Fair point 7roland8,
Pity we never really took for the last twenty years together but that happens...and many have been lost/damaged so are fewer than they might have been and I don't know some of the people on them.

Most are my parents,me and my grandma and that's about it!

Life can be sad can't it!

Hey ho!

prepareathome

Another place for family memorabilia are museums and a library public record office, as these are places historians go when looking for info even if just photos of the past, jeepers anyone can use them. So your family records will survive there.

Popperwell

prepareathome wrote: »

Another place for family memorabilia are museums and a library public record office, as these are places historians go when looking for info even if just photos of the past, jeepers anyone can use them. So your family records will survive there.

May have to donate them and leave instructions in my will...

SpikyHedgehog

Popperwell wrote: »

Fair point 7roland8,
Pity we never really took for the last twenty years together but that happens...and many have been lost/damaged so are fewer than they might have been and I don't know some of the people on them.

Most are my parents,me and my grandma and that's about it!

Life can be sad can't it!

Hey ho!

Pops, I'd start to put notes with them to say who & where & what's happening that you know; then do the ones you think you can work out who, where & what's happening. Then I'd share them with your uncle & aunt next time you see them & see if they can fill in the gaps.

& I say this while sitting on the sofa with lots of photo albums behind me with no captions... But I know you do have time to start to look at them. If you're not ready yet, don't do it yet.

Took 1 of my parents self sufficiency books away to read through yesterday (with their permission!) Slightly annoying, I can't find the John Seymour books, or another I remember that had brilliant stuff about building furniture & weapons. But this is better than nothing, & aims to be on a small scale, though I think Sally Gordon had a bigger garden than mine.

vanoonoo

rhiwfield wrote: »

On the SHTF preparedness theme, what about ill health/old age/accident/injury (all of which are likley/inevitable). How do you open your cans of beans with one hand or get in the bath with knee joints gone or manage the garden without grab rails by the steps. When the Zombies have mauled you a bit, or the medics have finished rearranging your bones, making a bracelet out of para cord is unlikely to be top of your priorities

but that's exactly where the paracord is so useful - you could lasso the bean tin with the paracord, then hold that in your teeth to keep it steady whilst you open it - likewise for getting out of the bath - you could easily rig up a pulley system to help you out of awkward situations. but only if you have it about your person at all times, obvs. hence the need for a bracelet it seems :j loving mine