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Funnily enough a couple of years ago I reverted to blankets after 30 years under duvets.
The reason was that for years I have had terrible catarrh, and this was diagnosed as a dust mite allergy. Unfortunately millions of these little blighters live in pillows & duvets, so I was inhaling them for 8 hours every night.
I now use up to 6 blankets, and they are washed every fortnight, together with my pillow & sheets. I am 90% improved, and certainly recommend anyone with catarrh doing this.0 -
another one who has noticed the heat the past few night, off is the heavy tog duvet and on is the lighter padded throw! I am a warm person anyway so glad to be having no heating on.C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater
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Browsing on the web today I came across this interesting axe:
http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/index.htm
Pricey, I know, but might be worth having if SHTF.0 -
Funnily enough a couple of years ago I reverted to blankets after 30 years under duvets.
The reason was that for years I have had terrible catarrh, and this was diagnosed as a dust mite allergy. Unfortunately millions of these little blighters live in pillows & duvets, so I was inhaling them for 8 hours every night.
I now use up to 6 blankets, and they are washed every fortnight, together with my pillow & sheets. I am 90% improved, and certainly recommend anyone with catarrh doing this.
This is really interesting, my son has dust mite allergy and is always snuffly. I bought a foam mattress that was meant to be less appealing to them and anti allergy bedding, but not sure how good that is. I will try to find blankets instead (maybe not wool, in case he's sensitive to that as my brother is) ... but the pillow, I can never wash mine without killing them! They turn lumpy and un-useable! Am I going wrong or do I need special pillows?
Prepping wise (sorry, haven't been on here for ages apart from reading a page or two a week), hubby picked up a great book from The Works the other day called 'KNOTS, step by step', by Des Pawson, it even came with a bit of rope to practise with. Really useful book with hundreds of knots that have symbols by each one to tell you what they are useful for. My younger son is fascinated by it... £1.99 well spent and I can fully recommend it to anyone who fancies learning some new ones.June Grocery Challenge £493.33/£500 July £/£500
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This is really interesting, my son has dust mite allergy and is always snuffly. I bought a foam mattress that was meant to be less appealing to them and anti allergy bedding, but not sure how good that is. I will try to find blankets instead (maybe not wool, in case he's sensitive to that as my brother is) ... but the pillow, I can never wash mine without killing them! They turn lumpy and un-useable! Am I going wrong or do I need special pillows?
You need to get pillows that can be washed at at least 60 centigrade, and then tumble dry them on the lowest setting. Something like these:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7960576.htm
I also use one of these 60 degree washable mattress protectors:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1275061.htm
I think you should be okay washing the blankets at 40 degrees, as there is less scope for dust mites to hide in them.
I hope that helps your little boy.
Edit: One more little tip I picked up some years ago was regarding not getting dressed/undressed in your bedroom. I keep my clothes and pyjamas in the bathroom, as dust is produced when you dress/ undress. The pyjamas & dressing gowns should not be worn downstairs as they will carry dust back upstairs from carpets & upholstery.0 -
I got caught out at the weekend when we had a power cut. I can usually tell, as the lights flicker beforehand, but this was a break in the underground power cable, no warning, instant darkness. Each of us had an illuminated device at hand, laptop, kindle and iPhone so we could see to find the candles and matches. My two H*mebase LED torches proved brilliant (pun intended) and I could have cooked a meal by the light of the one hanging on the handle of top oven door. The safety device on my new gas hob that detects the flame blowing out didn't stop me from lighting it with a match and making a pot of tea.
The wind up torches in the toilet and bathroom were charged enough to see by, despite not being touched for months. I used to have easily reachable torches ready in every room, because total darkness skews our sense of position relative to walls and furniture and you can never be sure what you will be doing and where when the light goes. I'd got rid of some older torches because of their heavy battery consumption but I'll replace them with more H*mebase torches. These have had the same batteries for at least eighteen months, with occasional use.
One thing I did notice, because we went into the garden to see the stars without too much light pollution (fairly rural here), was the amount of light visible through our lined curtains with a couple of candles burning in the living room. Something to remember if we need to keep a low profile in a crisis. We would be visible from quite a distance even though it wasn't light enough in the room to read a book.0 -
water filtration is my next prepper related expenditure...... Bobs Sawyer bottle will do..... took me a couple of weeks to refill my stock of water , couple of bottles a time... got a supply of approx 30 litres in my little flat..... me and a mate have sort of agreed to an holiday in tenerife in sept 15 .... long time to save up for it...... avoid debt as much as possible these days0
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I bought an LED lantern for any power cuts and have rechargeable batteries in everything now. Expensive but it was done over many months as I needed them. I have a couple of really good LED maglite torches which are always keep close by. I will supplement them with candles and a candle heater if things get bad.It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0
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Funnily enough a couple of years ago I reverted to blankets after 30 years under duvets.
The reason was that for years I have had terrible catarrh, and this was diagnosed as a dust mite allergy. Unfortunately millions of these little blighters live in pillows & duvets, so I was inhaling them for 8 hours every night.
I now use up to 6 blankets, and they are washed every fortnight, together with my pillow & sheets. I am 90% improved, and certainly recommend anyone with catarrh doing this.
That's helpful thanks as I think I have allergies too.:T I will dig out my blanket tonight instead.:)HOUSE MOVE FUND £16,000/ £19,000
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I am another who keeps dehydrated veg in glass jars, they seem to sweat in plasticBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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