Preparedness for when

simmed

Been nice and warm tonight, hasn't it? (relatively speaking)

Gives us a break (we can't afford heating).

Westywoodpecker

Yes been warm enough here for us not to need heating this evening :j

When DS's home from uni I think he'll expect it on though. :undecided

Molly41

wondercollie wrote: »

It's -20 right now and the perky bunny on the radio just said with the windchill factor it feels like -30C!

I do love Northern Alberta in the winter. NOT!!!

But I did manage to get two shrimp rings on sale today to put away for Christmas and NYE.

You could just freeze them in your garden :eek::eek::eek:

pineapple

simmed wrote: »

Some people want to be strong and build muscle (especially important for people who want to remain thin whilst still eating liberally). Difficult to do that without a gym.

I think some gym equipment is probably necessary if you are in to honing and sculpting big time. Plus one hopefully has access to skilled advice. But imo one can stay slim and fairly toned - with the minimum of equipment and at home. I've got some resistance bands, a skipping rope and some leg weights, Add to that a couple of cans of baked beans and you're good to go .
So why am I not slim and toned? It's because they are all gathering dust! (apart from the beans which I eat ). But in my gym days - which I am thinking about revisiting - it was a great motivator. Not to mention the motivation of having paid for membership :eek:.

mardatha

Wonder if I could make people pay to come up here and chop logs/dig the garden...?? hmmm

craigywv

lovely morning here bright and clear not too cold at all havent been on for a few days been catching up on all your posts hope your all doing ok xxx 1 more week till oh leaves work so been prepping like crazy only thing we need is oil for heating will get this out of redundancy money as want to fillerup! i can start my new job in 3 weeks so at least 1 of us working , looking forward to it. we went to my sons sunday school party yesterday he was doing a long reading in it i was so proud he managed it word perfect(practised all week) had a lovely day then home made dinner and between storage wars and pawnstars my bum didnt leave sofa only to trot to and fro from kitchen to eat!!!..........constantly trotting was i!!so today me thinks we will go to local market for a nosy will let you know if i have gotten any bargains have a lovely day all xxxxxxxxx

thriftwizard

The scenario in that film was essentially one of waiting; waiting for the lights to come back on, waiting for everything to be all right, and the gradual desperation when the stored food starts to run low/ is taken by force, when people realise that what they have isn't enough and that they're clueless about foraging, hunting or fishing. And the slow erosion of values.........and not a zombie in sight.

Anyone else remember the original 70's TV series Survivors? About life after some ghastly manmade bug has devastated the world? A few years ago I found one of the videos in the local library & brought it home to watch again, then ordered the two others that had lasted this long; the kids were fascinated & horrified - not just by the fashion/hairdos - and talked about it for weeks afterwards. I can't tell you what an effect it had on me back when I first watched it as a teenager; it's probably why I am a prepper (in a minor way) to this day. The feeling that it could all fall apart quite quickly has never really left me.

I didn't like the ending, though - getting the hydro-electric power grid up & running again seemed to mean that they were just going to make all the same mistakes all over again... I know they re-made it a while back, but the few snatches that I watched just didn't seem to have the raw power of the original series.

pineapple

thriftwizard wrote: »

I didn't like the ending, though - getting the hydro-electric power grid up & running again seemed to mean that they were just going to make all the same mistakes all over again... .

Some people believe that if our modern world goes down the pan, we'll be thrust into some sort of back to nature, idyllic existence. We'll all be singing cumbayah round the camp fire don't ya know . And it won't matter a jot that we'll lose things like modern dentistry! :eek:
I suspect there will still be all the old human evils - it's just that the hands on the clock got wound back and it'll be same old, same old but on a smaller scale. And eventually we would get back to where we are now. Maybe we're on an infinite loop .

mardatha

Survivors stuck with me too.I haven't seen the new one because everybody said it was rubbish.

Confuzzled

mardatha wrote: »

One thing I always wonder about. When I went to primary school, around the late 50s, loads of kids had chilblains, cold sores and that gentian violet on their faces, or iodine. I presume for things like impetigo but not sure. I wonder if that stopped due to better nutrition or hygiene or housing? Would that come back ..?

most certainly they'd come back, skin conditions will be one of the most commonplace illnesses in a post SHTF world. without proper diet, sanitation, and/or shelter you'll see a proliferation of things that still happen now but are so uncommon that we now pity the poor souls rather than accept it as an unfortunate aspect of life in general.

better diet, santiation and shelter have helped humankind along enormously healthwise, good preparation would also include knowing natural replacements for soap, brushing your teeth and dealing with nits and insect bites etc etc.

also making a mental note of what plants offer what vitamins in abundance and understanding the role of these vitamins play in our health would also be very beneficial for long term survival. it's sad to say that despite having all this information at our fingertips most of us are still clueless. knowledge truly IS power.