Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Oh, and I've done bushcrafting and do know how to ***t in the woods.:rotfl:

Is that your bear impression?

GreyQueen

Frugalsod wrote: »

Is that your bear impression?

Bare-arrised impression, maybe.

Enough of this delightful nonsense, I'm off to read Paper Money Collapse. It'll make a change from The Saint paperbacks.

moneyistooshorttomention

grandma247 wrote: »

when we first moved here 20 years ago there was an incident with cryptosporidium in the water supply and I was ill for three weeks. I felt like I was dying.

I always try and sneeze into my elbow so long as I have long sleeves on after I watched this.

No need to sneeze at all - if you can "catch it" in time - if its inconvenient to do so for some reason. Pinch your nose - about halfway down - and that should stop the sneeze.

Re antibiotics - and I guess we all know that these are pretty much coming to the end of their useful life in effect. I read that no new ones have been developed for quite some time and it wont be long before the ones we have are ineffective.

....and...yep....I do tend to think they are dished out like sweeties still to an extent.

I've just been prescribed an antibiotic by a doctor. I know it was with the best of intentions - and I hadn't asked for it. I wont be using it either. It didn't take me long to start googling for natural alternatives to antibiotics. There are various ones and, with it being an "external" thing I've been prescribed that for - then I am using an external remedy. I got out the honey - and smeared some on and am doing so at intervals - and I will see what happens. I am guessing cheapo supermarket own brand would do the trick - but the contents of my own personal larder are top-quality stuff - so organic/raw/etc/etc honey it is. I could get my antibiotics for free - courtesy of free prescription - and my own remedies will cost money. I aint gonna bother with Manuka honey - because there is one heck of a lot more "Manuka honey" sold than is ever made - hmmm........so how do I know I would get the "real deal" and, frankly, I doubt it makes any difference...

But - my own remedies it is....

mardatha

Really enjoying this discussion on germs. I once was a trainee nurse in an infectious diseases unit, and the charge nurse who took me under her wing was very much old-school. She knew such a lot about illnesses and how easy it is to get and spread them. And the first thing she ever told me was that money is filthy.

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Pinch your nose - about halfway down - and that should stop the sneeze.

Why would you want to stop a sneeze?

It's so frustrating, when a sneeze goes back.

jk0

Make sure you always carry a couple of clean tissues. Then you can sneeze all you like.

charlies-aunt

The smell of carbolic soap is one of my favourites - sadly I've just started the last piece of it from my stash - I bought a big-ish box of long red bars as a bulk buy when the old fashioned ironmongers shut down ten years ago. Its turned rock solid over the years but it retains its distinctive smell.
I have switched to buying big blocks of Savon de Marseille soap whenever we go to France - lovely but still prefer the carbolic!

jk0

charlies-aunt wrote: »

The smell of carbolic soap is one of my favourites - sadly I've just started the last piece of it from my stash - I bought a big-ish box of long red bars as a bulk buy when the old fashioned ironmongers shut down ten years ago. Its turned rock solid over the years but it retains its distinctive smell.
I have switched to buying big blocks of Savon de Marseille soap whenever we go to France - lovely but still prefer the carbolic!

I bought some Carbolic soap from Amazon when someone mentioned it last year.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genuine-Fashioned-Carbolic-Soap-125g/dp/B007ZYU6TO

moneyistooshorttomention

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Why would you want to stop a sneeze?

It's so frustrating, when a sneeze goes back.

Errrm....there are a couple of possible reasons - which many women would know.

1. You've just put your mascara on and its still wet and you don't want to blink and smudge it.

2. You need to go to the loo and haven't made it there yet before the urge to sneeze comes on (which I gather can be exacerbated if the woman has had children and possibly...ahem...muscle strength in that area hasn't returned to normal afterwards...). My sympathies in that case - from what I've read about that...

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I've started building my supplies up again in the store room, I've done a bit of restacking on the shelves and made quite a lot of space by just consolidating and sorting through. This week I bought 2 tubes of Wil*os own sensitive toothpaste at 70p a tube, a large box of matches 75p, 4 x dettol soaps for 99p and a Dove deodorant for 99p. I'm trying to use any extra cash generated when I find reduced things on my list to buy in basic essentials that I know we'll use to go into my stash, stops me wasting money needlessly just because it IS left over. I'm also going to start getting one item of Christmas food/drink a week from now on as it spreads the load a little and should TSHTF before Christmas I'll then have a little stash of bartering goodies to negotiate with if I need them. We went to the garden centre this morning and I've got some spearmint and moroccan mint plants to go in the garden for mint tea which I love and they would be useful if my 'tea' tea supply wasn't available for any reason.