Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hello sorryImoved, I have a series of plastic containers in my storecupboard with a basic range of medical supplies. We live in a remote area and 1) its good to have a range emergency supplies for if we cut ourselves etc. and 2) we don't have quick access to 24 hour supermarkets etc. for cold and flu supplies. Some of the things we have are:

Plasters
Bandages
Sterile dressings
Eye wash solutions
Antiseptic (Dettol and creams)
Dressing scissors
Antiseptic wipes
Paracetomol / Ibuprofen
Vaseline
Vapor Rub
Cough Medicine
Cold & Flu remedies
Happy Nose
Latex gloves (sizes to fit both OH and myself)
Plus lots of other things I can't remember offhand right now. We also have emergency kits in the cars which include foil blankets.

Other things to consider are

Butterfly stitches
Multivitamins and minerals
Hand sanitiser gel
Baby wipes
Immodium
Laxitives
fleece blankets
tick remover tool if you are planning on camping out

Butterfly_Brain

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T Good! And may you thoroughly enjoy them; plus as a non-observer of Crimble, you won't have to delay opening them until the big day.

Anyroad, what preptastic purpose will you be putting the container to afterwards, said by the woman who stores some candles in those orangel plastic J*cobs cream cracker boxes which appear at this time of year. And which will be sold off for £1.50 in late January, as happy experience has told me..............could do with one more, akshully.

Anyway, hand-turned wooden rolling pins made like mine on an outdoor lathe are great potential weapons. My bedroom is pretty small and if I wanted to get into close-quarters fighting, I'd only get one whack in. Preferably across a wrist. I keep my fire extinguisher on a bracket on the kitchen wall, as I've seldom caught fire in the bedroom since I traded in my Bri-Nylon sheets and nightie for pure cotton. Not nearly so much fun with the static sparks, tho......

I have a very heavy marble rolling pin, now that could do some damage

GreyQueen

homesteadchick wrote: »

I LOVE your way of thinking!

I may be slightly eccentric but everything I do has logic behind it......might not be immediately apparent, but it is logical......

short_bird wrote: »

Funny that GQ should write about people oblivious to the outside world. Most mornings, I use a crossing with traffic lights to get to work, crossing a 2 lane main road and then a feeder road that allows you to bypass the roundabout. From experience, I know that every other week, a driver will go through the red lights or someone won't indicate that they're going to pull out to use the feeder road. Or I'll be at work and I'll hear brakes screeching; the last 2 Mondays, I've stepped over bits of car mirror.

The student checking texts or emails yesterday morning while crossing the road wouldn't have stood a chance.

:eek: Tell me about it!

After I left you this morning I went to w*rk. A young woman walking at at speed around a blind corner on the street just about bounced off me; she had her earphones on and was simulaneously texting (as well as not looking where she was going) then two mins later in the office someone came thru a doorway at speed, head and eyes at 45 degrees to direction of fast travel, and did it again.

It's a blessing to get safely to your desk some days.

Am scarfing a quick bite before going to archery. Last week we on the early class nearly skewered someone because she walked through a side door on the sports hall. The one with the notice saying Archery in Progress use Other Door. Which brought her side onto the targets with no warning for us shooting. Fortunately, the instructor noticed and yelled REST! and she didn't get a few arrows in her.........

He asked if she hadn't seen the notice and she said she had but she thought we weren't using the hall at that time. It's a tough job keeping some people safe from themselves, innit?!

ETA, rembering a house I used to house-share in which was on a one way road which went around the block. People would pull out of the side road ignoring the NO LEFT TURN sign and then be nose-to-nose with the proper direction of traffic, which was coming around a sharp bend and would see them about 0.5 seconds before smacking into them.

Our days were often punctuated by the sound of crunching metal. The only thing which saved it from being a bloodbath was that the oncoming traffic was coming off a set of lights and there was only about 20 m between the lights and the one way street so no one had got much speed behind them. Great biz for bumper manufacturers and light unit suppliers, tho!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Interesting link ..

do you think now that loads of people are having log burners etc, do you think our government will put some sort of taxon wood, or if you have a wood burning stove/fire etc you will be in a different council tax bracket??

As lets face it loads of people can get wood for free, and I know loads of people who sell it ' cash in hand'

I am def buying more 'extra' bits when I am shopping now, and making a bigger stock pile, in a catch 22 really, as yes I do have debt with interest I need to get rid off, BUT peace of mind knowing that I have at least some sort of back up is well worth it..

GreyQueen

Morning all.

CTC, I think putting a little into the storecupboard despite having interest-bearing debts is highly prudent. A few pounds a week can quickly build a useful cupboard but not add much time to the time until you're debt-free. And should something happen before you get there, like loss of employment, you still have to eat, don't you?

I've just restocked the cupboard in the kitchen from the stores in the bedroom, part of my rotation. Newly-purchased stuff goes away. I like this way of living. I don't have to feel that if the bank went on a government-mandatd bank holiday and closed, that I would go hungry.

I read a snippet it a national newspaper over a week ago, which I haven't seen covered since, that Co Op Bank is planning to withdraw its banking services from nearly 200 local authorities. Apparently it wants out of this type of business and into more lucrative banking.

My employer, who is also my landlord, is one of the 200, so I could (theoretically) have an interruption in paycheque or a hiccup in DDs going from my bank account to their's.

Has anyone else seen anything/ heard anything about this? I know it's less exciting than the big boss buying hard drugs, very much in the news today, but it's a lot more important.

Re the possibility of tax on woodburners/ logs etc, I have to say I bliddy well hope not and keep your voices down in here, we mustn't give the evil s0ds ideas.

Howsomever, gubbermints have taxed all sorts of things in the past even fresh air and daylight (see window taxes and the origin of the term daylight robbery) so just because it sounds daft doesn't mean that it won't be tried on.

I think goverments are hopelessly embroiled with business interests and businesses, by in large, detest the citizenry achieving any degree of independance. If substantial amounts of people started burning wood because they couldn't afford other fuels, we could see a situation such as has pertained in Athens in the past few years where the city becomes smog-bound. Or wood could be more in demand and become more expensive, although there will always be waste wood around, there will be more people competing for it.

I must admit to astonishment when the public call us to remove tree limbs, even ones of 10 feet and more, which fell into public areas weeks ago in the big storm. I would have expected some enterprising soul with a saw to come and help themselves. Stack it and season it and enjoy free heat.............

Righty, weather's looking grim but I still have stuff to do........laters, GQ xx

greenbee

Round here, GQ, a branch can barely hit the ground before someone has 'cleared' it.

I've just had four trees down and have a HUGE log pile which will keep me and my DB who lives nearby in logs for a year or two once it has seasoned.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

If substantial amounts of people started burning wood because they couldn't afford other fuels, we could see a situation such as has pertained in Athens in the past few years where the city becomes smog-bound. do........laters, GQ xx

Good morning GQ,

Last year, my local authority in their wisdom decided to start charging for collecting green waste.

I told them what would happen: People would just start having bonfires to get rid of it, and that is exactly what has happened. Every week now, someone stinks out the whole road for hours with one.

[Deleted User]

GQ I don't know if it was in the pipeline before all the Co Op kerfuffle of the last few days but it's in the local paper that the big Co Op Store at the local centre has been sold to Waitrose and will trade until next February when it will close for a re-fit and re-open as a Waitrose Store. We have a small and very expensive Co Op here in the village too and I'm wondering if it will stay or be sold on to someone else in the long term. We've just had the letter of notification too that as members of the co operative society we will not be getting the usual bonus this year as there is debt from the bank crisis and no profit at all from the shops. I wonder how many of us will vote with our feet and stop using the Co Op altogether as they are undoubtedly VERY expensive to use for no come back at all!!! Luckily we also have a One Stop Store here and I've been using that in preference to the Co Op as they are so much cheaper and do amazing reductions to YS, Lyn xxx.

thriftwizard

Seems that any profit from the Co-op's banking wing has probably gone straight up someone's nose.

We too have a Co-op store "competing" with our W8rose. Just as expensive & nowhere near as good. Yet people are terrified that it might become an Aldi or a LIDL and "bring the tone of the place down" - bring it on, say I! We now have a food bank too, but it can't feed all of us improvident non-wealthy people all of them time.

Happy bunny this morning. Seems that DS2 and his young lady friend will be moving out into a house-share sometime after Christmas. Whilst I love him (and indeed, her too!) very dearly & will miss them, it's high time! As he himself put it, not so much a cuckoo in the nest as a buzzard… it will do them a power of good to realise that they have to pay the bills, remember to have food in, sort out the washing etc. etc.!

Hollyberry

That's interesting about the lack of profitability in the Co Op stores, Lyn. I'm in the city and have a big choice within 10 minutes drive or Mr S in walking distance, but I do tend to use the Co Op for top up shopping as it is a) usually less busy and b) has a nice gluten free range which is more interesting than that of Mr S. I'd be sorry to see it go for selfish reasons, but I can see why they are not making a profit...not least because of a humungously large Mr T having opened not far away last year. Thanks for the tip about the One Stop's YSs - I'll keep my eye out for those!