Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

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.

most prepper sites say the minimum is one gallon of water per person per day so for five of you that would be fifteen gallons or approx sixty litres :eek::eek:

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JAZZEE it's a bit of a dliemma about helping others isn't it? I think it would really depend on what the prevailing situation outside your own four walls was in the given emergency. If it was something like rolling power cuts or the water being off then no question if I knew someone disabled I'd help them with whatever I had, and my time and energy too, however, I would have to think very seriously about what help I could give if the event meant it was too dangerous to leave the shelter of the house. I think that maybe if there was some indication of problems to come I'd most likely try to ensure they had enough stores, water, medications and easily accessed stored food BEFORE the event happened, and then check on them as soon as it was safe to do so and in a bug out scenario if possible make certain they were able to be moved to a safe place too, Hope that's not too selfish, Lyn xxx.

Butterfly_Brain

Tongue in cheek but interesting all the same

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/may/10/lucy-mangan-wealth-divide-revolt

D&DD

Afternoon all
Stoopid busy here and being hammered by the wind since yesterday so trying to keep the damage to a minimum at present.
Some really interesting posts so shall catch up properly this evening when I plan to be sitting firmly on my bot!


Jayzee interesting question and theres no easy answer to it it would really depend on what the emergency was for me personally..If it was likely to blow over I'd be the first to help out most,TBH I'm too much of a softy and usually do as I seem to be the unofficial first port of call in an emergency for most here where I live..
In a more serious situation where there was no end in sight,that'd be a different matter but one I hope to never have to worry about.


Will come back to this in more detail later,but I would say that a good portion of preppers I know have a disability or a disabled member of the family,thats what helps in some ways as we're used to thinking 'outside the box' so its not necessarily something that gets in the way of prepping


Later peeps Tesco's is a knocking! XX

Butterfly_Brain

i posted this on the daily but it is actually more for a preppy natter
we had one of our neighbours pop in this morning because she wants to get a multifuel stove like ours and she needed some advice. if she does that will be six of us in this street with them in the last two years, more and more people are fitting them now, which makes you think that people are starting to worry about gas supplies this winter. we are going to get some more coal when dh is paid, because if demand goes up , you can bet the prices of coal and logs will go up as well

everything in the garden has started to grow which is great especially as we had so much surplus last year i have still got some left in the freezer and some of the dried stuff as well

sorry mar the kale is galloping along

craigywv

everything growing nicely over here too bb especially the potatoes.beetroot is going crazy which im delighted at as I eat it by the bucket load. only concern is I planted iceberg and theres no sign of it at all,the baby gem is coming along lovely what copuld have happened? I was going to wait another week and if no sign of growth I was going to plant more of a different variety, any advice would be welcomed thank-you.xxx

herbily

mardatha wrote: »

This house has just come up for let, it's an estate nearish to me where one of my sons works... Get ready to drool
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-46264115.html?utm_content=ealertspropertylink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates3day&utm_term=letting&sc_id=12999690&onetime_FromEmail=true

I am drooling as I type - bit messy, but hey....


That is stunning, I've always wanted a little white cottage on a hillside.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Frugalsod, there has been a minor canned unicorn meat scandal, when some randomly sampled batches were found to be deficient in the promised amount of sparkles (should be a min of 5% sparkles by volume) but after some swingeing fines by the SuperNatural Meat Marketing Board, that problem was resolved. There are some rumblings, sub rosa as it were, that some tinned gryphon meat may be adulterated with beef, but I stress that these are only rumours and no one should change their shopping habits just yet.

Good to know I do not manage to follow all the food safety issues. Glad someone else is keeping keeping aware of the issues.

Nargleblast

Yesterday my OH decided to install a new flush mechanism in our ensuite shower room toilet. Unfortunately one of the bits didn't fit so the toilet was out of action last night. I was cursing away at the inconvenience of it all when I thought "Toughen up, you big tart!"
We have 3 toilets in our house. Some houses only have 1. And some places in this world have to use holes in the ground.

Just goes to show, doesn't it, how quickly we get used to modern amenities? And there's me mocking those who feel lost without their regular access to F-book and Tw*tter, when I'm not much better!

Homework for the weekend - write out 200 times "I must get my prepper's head on."

nuatha

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.

There is a gadget that looks a little like a footpump for doing this. I've also seen wall mounted versions.
Though I agree, burying waste might be the most effective short term solution, longer term we might be better off looking at reusing every resource.

Jazee wrote: »

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?

In some cases it may well be - though I'd not be the fittest or best prepped.
Both my wife and I have major disabilities, that doesn't stop us prepping - its a major reason why we do prep. I have some neighbours whose financial priorities are designer clothes, the latest gadgets and cars. Should they benefit from the fact that we spend our money differently?
Depending on the situation I would try to help neighbours, but I won't put mine in a worse position deliberately. In a major SHTF scenario I would expect those who couldn't contribute in the way of prepps or skills to at least contribute labour - though that would make me very unpopular with at least one neighbour who regularly shouts that the state owes him and shouldn't expect him to work for anything.

Mardatha I disagree, only in that simplifying the pre SHTF life brings its own rewards. I'm no longer a coffee addict, otherwise my opinion may well be different