Preparedness for when

sophlowe45

westlothianlass wrote: »

Do you think its possible to get addicted?

Yes! i think so.

grandma247

yes but at least it is stuff that is useable.

mardatha

Yes it is - you try to fill up a cupboard and then as soon as it's full you start looking round for another cupboard you can fill and then you need to fill that one and then you start looking around for another cupboard you can fill ..and breathe
Can I ask where you all get your flour from?

Possession

mardatha wrote: »

Yes it is - you try to fill up a cupboard and then as soon as it's full you start looking round for another cupboard you can fill and then you need to fill that one and then you start looking around for another cupboard you can fill ..and breathe
Can I ask where you all get your flour from?

Amazon.:D:D

Dippypud

mardatha wrote: »

Yes it is - you try to fill up a cupboard and then as soon as it's full you start looking round for another cupboard you can fill and then you need to fill that one and then you start looking around for another cupboard you can fill ..and breathe
Can I ask where you all get your flour from?

Shipton Mills in 15kg bags tho delivered by UPS

http://www.shipton-mill.com/flour-direct-shop

valk_scot

I've decided not to buy any more supplies for a couple of weeks but have a good sort out of the emergency equipment and supplies and then target the gaps. TBH though I'm pretty sure I'll only want to get a bit more food, I'm already prepped up for being stuck in the house for a month of bad weather. Things overlap after all, there's stocking up with bargains to save money, stocking up to make sure you've got enough food and fuel to last you through periods of bad weather and outages and then there's prepping for the zombies. It's a sort of tier system, no?


Also I was thinking about what I could do to usefully expand my skill base, in case of catastrophe. I have quite a range of craft and self sufficiency skills but I have no clue about things like car mechanics, building techniques or woodworking for example and my first aid certificate expired years ago. I've never made soap from scratch, have very little idea about how to prepare herbal type remedies and only know the basics when it comes to making butter, cheese and yoghurt. Or candles!

So out of that lot I'm going to look into brushing up my first aid certification and perhaps one other making skill, probably the cheese/butter/yoghurt thing. After all prepping isn't just about filling up the shelves, it's mindset too.

Also speaking of skills, does anyone else get The Home Farmer magazine? It's a fascinating read and covers some very diverse topics ranging from how to skin and gut a rabbit, how to make sausages, all sorts of growing and preserving and lots on keeping livestock. Well worth a look.

GreyQueen

Val, I was thinking along the same lines; retaking my First Aid qualification and scouring the evening classes etc to see what there is available which is stuff I've always wanted to have a go at and OS/ SHTF applicable.

Last year I took a bushcraft course and learned some interesting stuff. I can now un-zip a wood pigeon barehanded in about a minute and it's a technique which works on all birds except waterfowl. It was taught to the bushcrafters by someone who hand-dresses 250 birds a day, so you can guess how fast it is. Anyone wants a tutorial, feel free to PM me.

I've been thinking I ought to take advantage of some of Mum's OS skills and get her to teach me how to gut and fillet fish. She was taught by an old-style fishmonger back in the 1950s and enjoyed filleting so much that if the customers weren't quick enough off the mark their fish was filletted whether they liked it or not.:rotfl:

I'm building a small library of OS type books; stuff on gardening/ smallholding/ sewing etc for the time when the internet might not be so readily available.

I'd also like to learn basketry, archery and perhaps go on a cob-building course and a few other bits and pieces.

If anyone hasn't come across a book called Emergency by Neil Strauss, I can highly recommend it. He was a Rolling Stone journalist who had a revelation one day; he knew nothing of any use to anybody in any kind of emergency situation. It is about his preps and training and is very intersting. I got it from my library.

There's lots of intersting things to learn and do, subject to limitations of time and money. I'd also like to do some bicycle maintenance as my bike is my secondary means of transport (the first being Shank's Pony).

elona

GQ

I got that book a few years ago. Interesting that the conclusion seems to be you are better in a small accepted group rather than "the stranger".

Have you read the ferfal blogs about what happened in Argentina and the first 100 items to disappear?

GreyQueen

elona wrote: »

GQ

I got that book a few years ago. Interesting that the conclusion seems to be you are better in a small accepted group rather than "the stranger".

Have you read the ferfal blogs about what happened in Argentina and the first 100 items to disappear?

No, but it sounds intersting. Could you point me in the right direction, please.

Buckets are very important post-SHTF. Buckets and batteries.

D&DD

Val one of the books I have is called Back to Basics and it covers a whole range of useful stuff I'll dig up a link in a minute
This is the copy I have but think theres an updated version for cheaper so do check plus you can sometimes get it cheaper on Eb*y or amazon secondhand http://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Basics-Complete-Traditional-Skills/dp/1602392331/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345670057&sr=1-7

Well I'm stocked for pickles for the year now after a 3 day mammoth session but now need to fumigate the house lol
Quite happy that the majority was homegrown this year despite the dramas with the weather!

I've been having a major sort out of all my gear trying to organise it all a bit better I think you need to once in a while as things can sometime slip when you get busy or in my case I live in 'organised chaos' most of the time :rotfl:
Its helped to have some fresh ideas on here to read too so thanks to everyone for their input

Still trying to catch up..you lot have been busy today!