Preparedness for when

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Where there's a will there's a way?

And, where there's a will there's relatives.

RAS

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T Well done, RAS, I have had a freebie greenhouse to dismanted in a hurry from a stranger's garden and re-assemble at my parents' place before and it's a bit OMG!!! Where do I start?! Help!!

But if you can move beyond that hopeless panic, you really can achieve things. The trick with ME, which I've had for the best part of 30 years now, is pacing. So I do a little and then rest. This is an excellent carry-through habit for almost anything in life, although my native temperament is a crazy enthusiasm and wanting to go at life like a bull at a gate.

But, with patience, low cunning, an ability to think around the corners and a small tool kit, you'd be amazed what you can achieve. The trick is having the guts to start.

I once found part of a pushbike abandoned. It had one wheel with no tyre, no saddle. I took it apart with a few basic tools. I carried the bike down to my friendly neighbourhood bike shop to get them to knock the chain off so I could get the derallier. I reduced that bike to its component parts, carried it across the region on the blinking bus and carbooted it as spares - made £50. Have done many similar things over they years, which is one of the reasons I smile wryly if told am lucky to have savings - I work at being that kind of lucky. :rotfl:

I would not have a clue how to dismantle a bike now; bikes are a deficit I want to remedy in the next few years. (wee bro dismantled and sold my only bike whilst I was on a school exchange visit, which tell you how long a go I had any experience).

At the time the greenhouse had to be moved before building work started and my work gets very busy at the time they were due anyway. And it was in in a space not much bigger than itself.

I found I could do about 3 hours and then got to knackered and too hot to carry on. It was about stopping before I made mistakes. As it was three decent sessions and one very brief one sorted it.

It was the friend's advice to take a small screw driver for the clips that made all the difference.

GreyQueen

It wasn't rocket science, I did it in my sitting-room one evening in 2 hours with just an adjustable spanner and a couple of screwdrivers (one cross-headed, one straight-headed). It only had the back wheel but the deraillieur was still on it but I couldn't detach it as couldn't get the chain off. There's a special doodad for such things so I called the bike shop where I was a regular customer and asked if I brought it down, would they take it off for me? They would. Asked how much I owed them and nada (it took 10 seconds but I felt it moral to offer payment).

I know squat about deraillieur gears, have always had sturmey archer 3 speeds, but placcy bagged the oily bits inc the chain and everything sold easy as spares. Nice little earner.

It's a useful thing to know that some things can be more saleable when reduced to components than when together. Strange but true.

I did quite nicely out of the things my former neighbours fly-tipped in the back lane where I used to live. That wombled dysonne pimped with a £5 spare part made £35 and is still going strong, I hear.

Well, there's no point sitting on your arris complaining that you're poor when there's stuff being discarded left, right and centre. I've even done can collecting when money was very tight.

Butterfly_Brain

Did anyone hera camerloons speech today ? I had the subtitles on because his voice irritates me as much as his smug face.

It was just lie after lie, he says he won't let the NHS be privatised when Hunt was at a meeting this week with BUPA representatives discussing making us pay to see a GP:mad: :mad:
He wants to do away with the Human rights act, is planning kicking the poorest again by freezing benefits and bringing in ebt cards for those on benefits, how will they be able to shop for the cheapest deals in markets or butchers if they are tied to the "company store" probably be Asda/Walmart or Tosco both with overpriced crap food.

If the Tories get in next year we are going to lose everything our forefathers fought for :mad:

GreyQueen

BB, it's party conference season, where gobbets of raw meat are thrown to sate the baying hordes of the faithful bigots, to garner as many column inches as possible. Anything heard at this time of year should be treated with a bucket load of salt. And quite possibly disinfected barge-poles.

Once the lights are dimmed and the pols surface from the daze like sheepish drunks, it will be business as usual. I'm working on the theory that the ToryDems are bricking it at the possibility that they might win the next general election and have to face the consequences of the S hitting the F on their watch.

Gonna be !!!!!!. Their rats are heading off the ship. I think we might be heading for an era of Ukip-Labour coalition politics. Could be very interesting times.

Not good, but interesting, nonetheless. Prep harder, good people of the world.

danih

I'd be surprised if the tories win the next election. A few have defected to UKIP recently, isn't good for public confidence in the tories, and doesn't suggest they have much confidence in their own party.

To change track onto something less worrysome then politics and scary diseases . . .

How do you store your preps?

I have a mismanaged hoard building up. I live in a very average mid terrace house, and prob best to store a category of stuff per room - candles on top of main bedroom wardrobe, water in cupboard under stairs, etc.

Tips please

Butterfly_Brain

Did you know that many states in the US are making it illegal to collect rainwater, some are making it illegal to grow your own veg live and others it is now illegal to live offgrid.
land of the free my bum.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/florida-makes-off-grid-living-illegal-mandates-all-homes-must-be-connected-to-an-electricity-grid/

http://www.realfarmacy.com/cedar-rapids-man-threatened-with-police-action-for-growing-garden/

http://www.realfarmacy.com/oregon-man-serving-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-ownproperty/

http://www.realfarmacy.com/florida-woman-fights-for-sustainability-after-judge-declares-living-off-the-grid-illegal/

www.realfarmacy.com/montana-mountain-man-arrested-for-trying-to-feed-himself-leaves-judge-speechless/

daz378

whomever gets in were in for more pain over the next few years...and with attacks on benefits.... your wary of losing your job..... id prefer a coaliition ...of parties so harsh policies could be blunted....... well thats the good weather over ..... candles more matches tins of stewed steak, potatoes tinned

Butterfly_Brain

The current coalition has been an unmitigated disaster that has run roughshod over the most vulnerable in our society, they have brought in destructive laws without mandate, they have destroyed our NHS, whilst trying to sell it from under us , they literally gave the post office away to their mates.

Meanwhile they have been backed by the odious Lib dems
who wanted a sniff at power and sold their souls to the devil.

I dread to think what another coalition will do.

Mojisola

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Did you know that many states in the US are making it illegal to collect rainwater, some are making it illegal to grow your own veg live and others it is now illegal to live offgrid.
land of the free my bum.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/oregon-man-serving-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-ownproperty/

This guy was storing 13 million gallons!