Preparedness for when

Mojoworking

Glad your regular Frugalsod ;-)

happydays89

GreyQueen wrote: »

Possibly, thriftwizard, if I could be arrissed. It took about 16 hours to drain completely and I have no need to have a tub standing full of water. I was just being a bit hardcore because we had a drought. Maybe I ought to think about getting another plug, in case I did need a tub full of water. Greywater to flush the loo would always be handy in a crisis.

Fascinating listening to people's set ups at home. I pick the brains of the electrical engineers at work, querying why one householder had some of the sockets in each room working and not others. It was something to do with the wiring and was quite deliberate. It's very handy if you have more than a micro-home (I have four small rooms in a 240 sq ft flat).

I think a lot of prepping is getting away from the mindlessness of assuming that water will always come out of the tap, and electricity will always be available at the flick of a switch. I have enough memories of the 1970s to know neither of those things is a given. And we could be subject to a terrorist attack which took down a utility (or even several) for hours or even days.

The best thing to do would be to avoid being part of the problem, and to come through the crisis in the best shape possible.

Just grinning at the thought of what would go through somebody's mind if they rummaged into the nooks and crannies of my outwardly normal-looking home.

Bedroom; longbow and arrows, stored water, stored food, kelly kettle, camping gear, stored stuff too outre to be discussed on t'interwebs.........:rotfl:

When our bath leaked we put a plastic bag over the plug hole and then pushed the plug in and the water stayed in the bath.

daz278

popping in to wish you all a happy xmas and new year ..... unfortunately im working most of it late xmas eve/early xmas day and the opp new year with boxing day off.... my dear sister will deliver mine and dads xmas dinner... so not all bad and working gets me out of full family get togethers whom i treasure dearly but gets a bit much after a while...... my water set up living high in a high rise is 10 litres potable and about 20 litres not sure been at least 8 month since i rotated my water.... i also have a sawyer bottle filter system.... thanks for the reminder to rotate.... you all take care

ivyleaf

Thinking of you daz Hope you'll manage to have a rest at some point!

pineapple

Frugalsod wrote: »

I find a suspect package in my toilet every day but solve that crisis with a simple flush.

Though I would never make any such joke on a plane or near an airport. It seems it was an exceptionally crude device to cause more panic than be a real threat.

This sort of thing needs nipping in the bud. When I become Dictator of all the World I will dish out the same sentence as for anyone planting a real bomb. That might concentrate minds somewhat...;).

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Relationships need working at and a massive amount of tolerance and give and take. We find the very best thing in our relationship is to be able to laugh at ourselves, laugh at each other and laugh together at the rest of lifes happenings and foibles in general, makes it much easier to deal with the frailties of only being human when you have a shared sense of humour!!!

elaine241

Hello All
Just popping in to say still here but RL taking over for a bit!
With regard the London effect of sucking everything in I must say I was subject to it spitting out! I had just finished my degree and although southern born and bred I could see the rat race getting faster and faster and I needed out! I came to Wales to die or dry out, well I was an original eighties wild child!!! I have never looked back or felt the urge to return "home".
With water supplies we had to redo the whole house so I have two feeds to the house so that we can have the water turned off in the main house but water still running to the utility room, downstairs loo and shower. Really handy if work needs to be carried out on the main house. We have a Dunsley (sp?) Interchanger which allows the boiler to heat the water and run the heating but if the wood burner gets up to temperature it takes over and shuts down the boiler; nifty as we have free wood :-).
As for emergency water if the water supply is off we have the original spring that fed the farmhouse just outside my back door running into a pond (with watercress).
As for relationships I do not know how my other half puts up with me! I know I am highly strung, get wound up like a top and take it out on my nearest and dearest! Thank god he is laid back and placid and just ignores me! We have been together 20 years and I still ask myself how the hell did we last so long, my OH has the patience of Jobe!
Hope everyone has a calm, peaceful and stress free Christmas, if you find yourself in anything other than this I find copious alcohol helps you get through it!
Happy Christmas all, xx

chickens11

Well said Lyn , thats what hubby and I do now that we are apart , laugh on the phone everyday so things dont seem too bad ....Its a complete waste of life if you dont.......

Its been a lovely mild sunny day today got all the washing done and line dried , love the smell of washing on the line ......And I lit the sitting room fire at tea time and me and the dawg are very cosy now ......

daz 278..Try and get a bit of " me" time over christmas , even if its having a candle bath and relaxing .....

Im going to do a bit of a food shop tomorrow , I wont be buying too much food as im out to see hubby christmas day and the home cook a turkey roast , boxing day the boys and their wives and family coming to me , so ive only got to buy enough food for them for boxing day , then all the shops are open so its all back to normal for me , cant be dealing with all the fuss , it dont have to be that way at all , its a 2 day holiday.........

Catch you all later Sheila

moneyistooshorttomention

Don't know how thread went onto relationships but:

Fingers crossed - and I think I've got two friends lined-up so far for visiting during "better weather" period of year this coming year and figured out that winter here means "lotsa crafting" (not me then....) or catching up on everything.

It's that time of year when you find out what's been happening to everyone over the last year. So one friend is going to be made redundant (as per expected by both of us) and they are one of the friends that will hopefully be Having A(nother) Visit here over coming year. Another friend has "mixed blessings" - of having lost someone close to them on the one hand but now moved to a very nice house on the other hand - and ditto for hopefully Having A Visit here over coming year.

One plus point here is that old friends investigate possibilities of having a "holiday break" with me when they find out where I am these days:).

So - a plus side to being here is friends I haven't seen for donkeys years deciding "Different Area for MITSTM = must pay a visit"....

Yep...that is one thing on the relationships front - as friends concerned are of 40 years standing, 30 years standing, 30 years standing respectively ....and, at "old-er age" its nice to think that some people have remained friends for so long...

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This sad old world is definitely a better place if you can find the funny side, relationships or not. It's a good thing to share the laughter, lifts spirits in a way that nothing else can, you can't be uncheered with a good giggle, a good joke or two should be part of every preppers equipment. I love the one that says .....Every day for a week a man came out of his front door and walked down the stairs passing a man who was sitting on the bottom step with a bowl of custard in one ear and a bowl of jelly in the other.....on the last day of the week, the man from upstairs stopped beside the man on the step and said 'Please can you tell me why you're sitting on that step with a bowl of custard in one ear and a bowl of jelly in the other?'.....The man on the bottom step said ' Pardon? you'll have to speak up, I'm a trifle deaf y'know!'...........Love it!!! Contributions to the preppers joke book please.