Preparedness for when

Cheapskate

Happydays and taurus, thanks for the fruit tips, might ask some friends with shrubs for a few clippings to start off for next year.

Re the bankers' deaths, may be coincidence, but feels a bit weird for that, feel for the families, though. Must have been something very wrong in each person's life for them to go to such extremes.

Mar, thanks for the fb link, looks gorgeous!

A xo

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm glad nothing worse happened with the burglars, GQ - but very nasty, all the same makes you think about the bankers too ... and that third one sounds, off, just *off*. There are coincidences in this world, of course, but it isn't only these sad events that say something is going on that we don't know about yet....

That run of banker deaths feels a bit 'off' to me, too. Particularly the one who drove to a bridge, and instead of jumping off the bridge, climbed a 4 foot fence and apparently threw himself down a 40ft embankment.

Seems a very funny way to end your life, and a suspicious person wonders if he had 'help' on the way down. Of course, one cannot know the mental state of someone who is deep enough is despair to end their life, and it may have been perfectly rational to their distraught mind at the time.

If there's any more of them, I'll don the Tin Hat and call it murder.......

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Guess it depends if you are the hoarder or someone else. I know no-one would put up with my hoarding, but in my view it's a useful stash.

As long as you can eat it then if problems strike then you can seriously cut down on shopping. I probably have as much as a 18 months supply of some items. If pushed I could really cut my spending while I use them up. That does not make me a hoarder. Though I will increase my stocks of some items to give me even more scope to have months without shopping excluding dairy items.

Rosetta92

Afternoon folks :hello:

GQ sorry to read about the breakins at the lottie. May their thieving hands shrivel.

I've been following the good advice on here about saving candle ends for re-use, and have collected old cans and pringle tubs as suggested. My OH loved to help by eating the contents :rotfl:

Now before I start I have a couple of questions:

Do I cut the string into lengths before steeping in borax or just put it in the mix in one piece?

What is the most efficient way to chop up the candle ends - some are quite big because the original wicks were defective.

Any other advice very welcome.

Thanks

R

GreyQueen

Thanks for your good wishes, Rosetta92.

Can only answer half your query as I used H0bbycraft wicks for my pringle tube candles. However, half is better than none, so here goes.

After experimentation, I found the fastest way to prep the old candles, inc great lump of candle-puddles, was to chip away at it with a small veggie knife (I used my smallest kitchen devil) whilst holding it over a bowl.

I sorted the shredded wax by colour as my candles are stripy and added layers as I went. A bean or soup tin full of shredded wax melts down to one-third of a tinful and makes a band about 1.5 inches over the candle. If you want the stripes to stay distinct, let it cool for several hours before adding the next layer or even overnight.

One thing I did find was that pouring too much candle at once worsens the annoyance of have dips appear alongside the wick in the middle. I guess it's to do with the physics of the sides cooling faster, and drawing the wax away from the middle.

Any other queries, just ask, I'm pootling around at home doing a few bits and am on and off the pooter today. GQ xx

mardatha

I remember when my daughter made candles she was forever topping up that dip around the wick.

Butterfly_Brain

Actually there have been four if you count this one as well
Last week, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG he was the financial director in charge of I.T. died last week the cause of death has not been made public.

Something dark this way comes

I think that I will get some extra food, coal and other preps in.
I think that we are heading towards global banking Armageddon, especially if we take into account HSBC limiting how much money people can take out of their accounts and the Russian "My Bank" that has stopped withdrawals for a week and now news that JP Morgan/Chase have limited cash withdrawals.
http://www.infowars.com/chase-bank-limits-cash-withdrawals-bans-international-wire-transfers/

This is even more worrying

https://topinfopost.com/2014/01/29/massive-emerging-markets-currency-collapse-is-imminent

Hollyberry

mardatha wrote: »

Just floating around the internet and found this on fb
https://www.facebook.com/TinyHouseBlog

And loads of tiny house vids here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDcVrVA4bSQ - this is a long documentary, but there are lots of shorter clips too.

Sad tales of attempted lottie thefts and exploding stock - glad all is well in both cases.

You've got me thinking about longer term preps here. We certainly have enough coal to see out this winter and into next. Way too few logs as our tree surgeon retired and with him our regular stash. I have a new contact though, so hopefully the tarpaulin will be sheltering more logs soon. I think I mentioned that we have about 3 months of food, possibly more. We could certainly be clean and sweet smelling for well over a year, although the TP would run out very quickly! Oops... Need to get on the case with that. OH is the house's TP shopper, and any more than one big bag in stock is seen by him as wasteful. I'll have to have the TP inflationary measures talk.

I'm getting ready for a chilly holiday, which has made me realise that I don't have a really warm coat or jacket, so that's something to look for in the dregs of the sales, or once we're away. That's been the bad side of losing a lot of poundage this year - nothing like that fits any more. Not sure whether to :j or , but probably the former overall.

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At the risk of sounding rather gross about the whole TP thing in the very long run, should things ever become very difficult I would invest in a real sponge on a stick and keep it in disinfectant rather than the vinegar that the ancient Romans used, not to our liking in the civilised 21st century but better than nothing if we can't make TP eh? I think that researching history to see the social side of how things worked, what people managed with and perhaps to think of changing habits to what is available at the time would mean a better standard of life and a degree of comfort should the chips really be down!!! Lyn xxx.

paidinchickens

Without going into too much info I have to be careful which TP we use. Have they started using more chemicals? We use F@rmfoods TP here as it does not affect me as much as the others and it is a good price.

Re the bankers I think there is plenty going on they're not letting on.

I'm using they're as I don't always use them in the right place but I like having the apostrophe around and I heard whispers they want to get rid of it on the news.

I re homed a cat today and I miss him already he has been with me for nearly a year as he had so many illnesses to sort out. I should be happy for him and I am but I'm still selfishly missing him to bits.

PiCx