Preparedness for when

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This is rather worrying.

Contactless payment data can be picked up at a distance.

Data transmitted during contactless payments can be picked up from almost half a metre, researchers have warned.


On a prepping note, I found I had a bit of spare cash, so decided to buy some long shelf life stock.

I got myself:-

12 jars of Lemon Curd.

12 Jars of Strawberry Jam.

12 bottles of Brown Sauce.

12 bottles of Tomato Sauce.

96 Cereal Wheat Biscuits.

1.5Kg of Corn Flakes.

Total cost was less than £16-50.

Yesterday, I got:-

1,000 teabags.

12Kg sugar.

Total cost was less than £19.

And, to top it off, I won £5-10 on the Euromillions. :cool:

tryingtobethrifty

pineapple wrote: »

F A B U L O U S
I want that house!
Seriously most of us gather 'stuff' then we need stuff for the stuff.....

For a while in Uganda I lived in the servants quarters of a well to do Kenyan woman. She lived in a mini mansion and I lived in a little one room affair at the bottom of her garden. :eek: It had everything I needed and were it not for her gardeners continually leering in, it would have been perfect

After I found that website I read for hours about the Tiny (or small) House Movement which is growing momentum at the minute. There were some beautiful small homes.

I was a bit cross at some of the American small homes which were the same size as mine (for 5 of us!). There average house size is over 2,400 sq ft whereas the UK's is 800 sq ft. George Clark's programme Small Spaces has really piqued my interest, I just wish I was crafty/could do wood work.

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Popped into my local Tesco Express, to get some more tins of powdered milk, to go with all the teabags and sugar I've bought (see my last post), but they hadn't any.

So, I popped into Morrisons, who had some bags of their own brand.

I bought a bag, and used some to make a brew.

IMHO, it's not quite as creamy as the Tesco stuff, but a lot better than the Cowbelle/ALDI stuff.

Price wise, it's virtually identical (actually a whisker cheaper), per g, as the Tesco stuff.

grandma247

Thanks Pineapple Halifax is not too far away if you could PM me the name etc.

JayneC

Good evening peoples

Yes I loved the little house too. I'm a big fan of Ben Law's house http://www.ben-law.co.uk/
The idea of simplicity really appeals, however I struggle to marry that with my [STRIKE]hoarding[/STRIKE] prepping tendencies.

It really struck home when I went camping for the first time since I was a child about 4 years ago (ex OH was not a fan of camping!). I realised that I had everything I needed in that little tent and vowed to try and rid my home of junk. To be fair I think I have got rid of a lot of unnecessary clutter and have (mostly) useful stuff remaining. I will continue to purge, but after the initial push the impetus has definitely waned:o Must do better...

Me and DS2 are hopefully going a rabbit hunting with a guy from the rifle club this weekend. He hunts deer too and we may progress to that eventually. He will show us how to skin and butcher it too. He rents a fab cottage right on the edge of a woods and has access to lots of farmland and woodland - I will be getting firewood from him too next year.

It's all about those connections I think. Good prepping has to involve building a bit of a network of like minded people. Knowing the people who know things has to be good thing I reckon.

mardatha

I'm loving the Tudor Farm, seeing them having everything they need for life, without any gadgets or plastic or clutter whatsoever

armyknife

mardatha wrote: »

I'm loving the Tudor Farm, seeing them having everything they need for life, without any gadgets or plastic or clutter whatsoever

Till one get a serious illness and suddenly all that hi-tech, cutting edge medical science and modern medicines looks rather handy.

I'm not knocking you or the programme, but it's a past time, how we got to where we are and it's not everything we need for life.

For instance probably one in three or four of us wouldn't have made it 16 years old.

ALIBOBSY

grandma247 wrote: »

Alibobsy I think I could do with borrowing that OH of yours

I was tearful a couple of weeks ago when I found a few photos in a very old email sent to a friend that I thought were lost forever because I had them online and the company just closed down and I discovered it too late. They had also been on my external disk which ds and dgs broke when they knocked it to the floor in a scuffle. The computer also stopped working and we can't seem to get anything off it. I have kept the disks in the hope that one day I will be able to do something about them.

If you are in the habit of sending photos in emails and think you have lost some forever check your sent file.

Not sure where you are Grandma, but we are in the Northwest as well. If you wanted OH to take a look and we are near enough I could PM his details website. He doesn't charge if he can't access anything as he can usually tell in a short while if he will be able to get anything off at all. No guarantees unfortunately, if they are completely mechanically kaput you are looking at one of these forensic recover companies and its stupid money.

Ali x

jk0

Did anyone read the story about the poor man who discarded his old hard drive, forgetting that he stored his bitcoins on it, that are now worth £4.6 million?:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/27/bitcoin-buried-wales-46-million_n_4350267.html

Poor guy.

thenanny2die4

pineapple wrote: »

F A B U L O U S
I want that house!
Seriously most of us gather 'stuff' then we need stuff for the stuff.....

For a while in Uganda I lived in the servants quarters of a well to do Kenyan woman. She lived in a mini mansion and I lived in a little one room affair at the bottom of her garden. :eek: It had everything I needed and were it not for her gardeners continually leering in, it would have been perfect

A few years back I lived in a tiny cottage that was based on part of a very old railway carriage. It was a live-in arrangement for a previous Housekeeper/Nanny job. The cottage was built into the side of a bank in the grounds of my employer's home, surrounded by trees. At first I'd be woken up by the owls which would sit in the branches just feet from the bedroom window and I soon got used to the sound of the squirrels running around on the roof. I was also scared witless on more than one occasion by a pheasant breaking cover with a screech as I approached the cottage (they truly are the stupidest birds) and once rescued a little vole as it toppled over the edge and rolled down the bank. I did have a working kitchen and a little shower room but virtually no storage, hence no opportunity for clutter. I loved it there but did feel a bit like "the witch in the woods". :rotfl: