Preparedness for when

craigywv

mardatha wrote: »

I did a massive clearout/check/move/tidy. I found far more pasta than anybody could ever need apart from the Italian army. I found 10 pkts of instant mash with a bb date of May last year... I found semolina bb Aug 2010. And I found I'm short on teabags..only 39 boxes
AND I cleared a whole new cupboard so I can start all over again filling it - but I might use it for xmas stuff.

you started me on the teabags............my mother thinks i now need therapy!!!! have a collection of 3 massive tubs filled with lids on had to remove from boxes as they took up so much room................dont get me started on the creamed rice xxxxxxxxx:D

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

:j I can now work the scanner part of my 3-in-1 printer-scanner-copier. Sheesh, only took me nearly 2 years to use that function.:rotfl:

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Now I know how that scanner works, there'll be no stopping me.

While you're scanning, may I suggest copies of any treasured photos (scan at a minimum of 300 dpi for same size printing)

Mar, how did your kitchen tidying go? I found some giant choc chip muffins in my cupboard, hidden by me from me 2 days ago. I'm simply thrilled at still having them unmolested on the premises. They're whoopsied, too, which makes them extra tasty, don'tcha know.

48 hours would be good going here.
Good luck with the banana bread.

vanoonoo wrote: »

I miss custard *sob*

What's the problem with custard?

TeaCake

GreyQueen wrote: »

Sounds like a plan. Didn't MSE used to have a drooling icon? Just tried to find it and it's gone.

Never mind, I shall have some custard with my choc chip muffin after tea. Thanks for the reminder.

:drool: Its still there


: drool : without the spaces


I was having SHTF dreams all last night and woke up in a bit of a tizz , that'll teach me to read this thread in bed last thing at night :rotfl:

thriftwizard

Been Thinking... and wondering...

(Warning - quite possibly irrelevant ramble coming up!)

Had to drive down to Devon & back today to "rescue" DS2 & GF, whose transport plans had come unpredictably unstuck through no fault of their own. It was a fairly hairy drive; we don't expect snow in November down here, especially not mixed with floods in blind dips, and it was interesting to watch the Audis & BMWs, having screamed past me with no lights on in the murk, hitting floods at 70+ & literally aquaplaning sideways across the carriageway! Luckily the roads were fairly empty & nothing unduly nasty occurred, and at least it got some of the gunk off their windscreens; I'm surprised some of them could see out.

Radio reception, never good on our coastal hills, was useless so I had plenty of quiet "thinking time" on the easier bits of the way down, and at one point I got to thinking about this thread & why I feel a need to prep. It's not just because I have 5+ young people to care about, provide backup for & not become a burden to. I remember thinking when I was 17, long before I had any kids, that I wanted to learn as many useful skills as possible and always be prepared for the possibility that life as we know it may not always trickle on as easily & pleasantly as the admen & politicians would like us to believe. I actually made a list of skills I thought I'd like to learn, and items I'd like to acquire; I've ticked off most of the skills, own a few of the items & have decided that most of the rest are irrelevant & that travelling light is better than being weighed down by stuff you may never need.

That was 36 years ago! I can't help wondering how many of you have come to prepping recently, through some kind of untoward incident or lightbulb moment, and how many are like me and have always felt this way?

Hardup_Hester

Interesting post TW, I grew up in a chaotic household, no soap, no food, no regular meals, I swore I'd do better for my kids.
Hester

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Hi THRIFTWIZARD - I've always felt the human race is on the wrong path and been out of step with most of them. I've only recently come to realise that Prepping is something relevant to us. We've been a source of amusement to most of our aquaintance with my determination to learn the old ways and live by them, no one has understood the drive that makes us not want the accoutrements of modern living to 'Make our lives easier' and why we do things to give us just as good a life but not a wasteful one. I like to cover all eventualities and am convinced that we shall need all our skills and ingenuity in the fullness of time. We live how it suits us and the prepping is a big part of that philosophy, Cheers Lyn xxx.

missrlr

I didn't have central heating til I went to uni, and uni halls are no great shakes .... Dad insisted we did thing old school, he is a some sort of engineer and wanted to passed this training on to me

nuatha

Excellent post Thriftwizard

I grew up in a family which kept an excellent stock cupboard, my father kept us supplied with fruit and veg from the (admittedly large) garden. I acquired a wide range of knowlede and some skills by osmosis (and have spent the last 20 years wishing I'd acquired more).
Self sufficiency has always been an aim, and where I've realised I have a skills gap I try to rectify it.
Prepping is a handy label for something I think I've always been.

GreyQueen

I'm just odd, I've come to the conclusion.

Was transplanted from the countryside the the very fringe of a market town just before I turned 6 and spent my childhood building dens in trees, attempting to knap flints, building bows and arrows, identifying ,foraging and generally behaving like a right little Neolithic person.

I've always liked to know the old skool ways and indeed lived a lot of them in my own childhood. I also grew up with tales of the great-grands inc my grandad's parents who raised 11 kids in a cottage without water or sanitation. They all lived into their eighties bar one who died at 73. In my family, if you kark it before you're 80, people tut as if you'd let the side down somehow.

I had a LBM doing O Level Economics when it was explained to us that there is NOTHING backing the currency. That, in fact, the entirity of what it pleases us to call the RW is nothing more than a confidence trick. Lose the confidence and the trick won't work anymore.

I've always been a person who wants to go around the back and see how it works, and am afflicted with more curiousity than there are hours in the day.

Plus I did mention that I'm a bit odd, didn't I?

ETA 2 banana bread loaves now in the oven and smelling lush. My first ever. They'll be ready in about an hour and you can have a virtual slice if you like. In fact, if you'd volunteer to help de-gloop the kitchen, you can have two.

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GQ - When the girls were little we had a book about TIGERPIG who was a pig in shape but had stripes like a tiger, and didn't fit too well anywhere. He had to leave home and join the circus and for a while had only odd jobs and not a lot of tolerance until, one day all the circus people were ill and Tigerpig had to save the day and found he was better at all the acts than any of the real acts were. The moral of thes little story is that being A Tigerig is not always easy, but it IS always FUN!!!!!!!! I'm a Tigerpig and proud of it, I suspect there are lots of us on these threads, don't you? Cheers Lyn xxx.