Preparedness for when

craigywv

HOT PRESS over here for me too, only knew what airing cupboard was when brother married a Lancashire lass,also my gran used to burn SOME potato peelings every night as she said it cleaned the chimney for her????? chocolate.............usually eaten where purchased or en route home!

115K

I saw this and thought of this thread.:)

Prepping 101: Be Prepared Not Merely to Survive, but to THRIVE | The Frugal FarmerThe Frugal Farmer

Memory_Girl

Mardatha "Ben the hoose" .............. from the 2 room Cottages "But n Bens"

bearing in mind our Dutch connections here on the east Coast -Dutch for outdoors (buiten) and indoors (binnen).

Way back - humans in one half and animals in the other (Inside and outside)

So in a two room house if you were going to the "other" room you would be going "ben the hoose"

No - not the Queen of Trivia but DS1 is doing a project on the subjugation of language post Union. How Scot's as a language was minimised through the Church and Education systems. Pretty interesting project as we are finding out just how many languages we have incorporated over the years.

MG

greenbee

Memory_Girl wrote: »

No - not the Queen of Trivia

A direct contradiction of what you claimed yesterday

Memory_Girl

Ah - but it's DS1's trivia

MG

mrsmortenharket

There's a house in St Fagans museum that is half house, half for the animals.

I still haven't got any spare water....will do so today.

How much would I need for 72 hours for 5 people? Not buying all of it today, lol!

Hopefully will get out to the garden today. Weather has been a bit damp these last few days.

mrsmortenharket

Oh and it's an airing cupboard for me. The one in this house is tiny. I miss the huge one from my old house.

mardatha

Reading that link from 115k - she used petrol or diesel in the jenny twice a day for the coffer maker and her hairdryer ???! And then the husband had to go 20 miles and wait in a long queue to get more!
I think people make this too complicated - they sit and work out what they ate yesterday/last week/last month and try to replicate it in their preps. That's not how to do it. KISS!
Keep it simple. Think of simple easy filling meals.
1) Soup with bread. (add more meat/less stock to make stew).
2) Porridge. (add fuit & syrup and you got flapjacks)
You could live a long time on those two meals only. People once did!

Jazee

I've been interested reading this thread over the last few weeks for the hints and tips. I actually think I'd be rubbish in any emergency but have stores of food anyway.

I notice that a lot of the comments are about hiding what you have to stop the marauding masses in the event of disaster, but I would like to know where you stand on helping those who can't help themselves, for instance someone who is disabled and can't grow their own potatoes.

Or is this really survival of the fittest/best prepped?

thriftwizard

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

For can crushers would it be an option to use those little gadgets for making paper bricks? I'm fairly sure you could use one of them with foot pressure, the same as you'd use to get the water out of the paper bricks when you made them, to crush and flatten cans.

MrsLW, you could just use your foot; no mechanical bits needed at all, just a sturdy shoe! Lay the can on its side & stamp down firmly