Preparedness for when

pineapple

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

JAYNEC What you are describing as skill sharing is virtually the same scheme as the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) .

I keep thinking about trying to set one up here - it's a small community and imo ideal. I look on it as a 'favour' exchange as much as anything else. For example I do the occasional doggie care for a neighbour and in return I use her washing machine (mine gave up the ghost ages ago). That same neighbour looks after someone's cats occasionally and in return gets occasional help with decorating. Another neighbour used to do small diy jobs for me and in return I used to cook him a meal (he was rebuilding his house and living in his shed at the time :eek:).
Really it's just an extension of traditional good neighbourliness.

Back to 'unexplained item in baggage area', I hate these tills. A local Sainsbobs has gone one step further and sends customers round the aisles with their very own scanner . Plus for some people their trip to the local supermarket is their human contact.

I'm battling to keep my dog's bronchitis under control at the mo. Pineapple's house has never been so clean! Plus I'm reducing as many potential allergens/irritants as possible. Just started using white vinegar as a laundry conditioner and it works! I buy vinegar in bulk so it's cheap. You can add a drop of essential oil if you are concerned about your sheets smelling like a fish'n chip supper, but everything smells just fine. As an added bonus, the neighbour's soap dispenser (which she is lax about cleaning) is strangely free of gunk. I'm waiting for her to notice!

westcoastscot

We have a timebank here - its growing in success but part of the problem is that we have lots of offers of people to help, but not so many takers.

mardatha

I wish we had it here. We have a very unoffocial limited version of it - but in this house it seems to involve the RV doing favours for others and being too proud to ask anything in return.
Our weather forecast is "overcast" for this morning but either we're having a joint hallucination or else "overcast" involves white fluffy stuff falling thick and fast. Either way the hills being covered it in - but yesterday I heard my first plover of the year

missrlr

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Milton tablets are very useful, but are different from Milton fluid - the tablets contain sodium dichloroisocyanutate, the fluid sodium hypochlorite. You can use the fluid to sterilise drinking water - it says so on the Milton website; I'm not sure about the tablets, although obviously they are great for sterilising equipment and surfaces they might not be safe to drink in solution. Just a thought.

It's OK short term but long term use may give rise to accumulations of chloride and cyanate products which can be bad.

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Get yourself a jar/tub of potassium permanganate.

It can be used to sterilise water, as a disinfectant/antiseptic, and as an anti-fungal treatment, for treating things like athletes foot.

Brilliant stuff. Used to use it all the time when visiting Middle East and India although tasts takes some getting used to. Great for washing salad etc if you are a bit concerned about eating it

bluebag wrote: »

For water sterilization is use aquaclear tablets available online or from camping shops.

Yep also good and without the possible side effects from other two but again taste takes some getting used to.

pineapple

missrlr wrote: »

Great for washing salad etc if you are a bit concerned about eating it

It might be overkill but I wash all my salad even over here - including the stuff in the bag that says 'ready washed' (plus what's it washed in eh?). I'm horrified when people on programmes like Come Dine with Me are filmed tipping the salad straight onto the plate! But maybe that's just me. :rotfl:

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For sterilising water, there's always boiling.

7 minutes at sea level. For every 1,000 feet of elevation, add a minute.

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This is what I keep on hand, in case of a household emergency.



Actually, the 2 bags of tealights are less than half of my stock. I have 5 bags (100 per bag).

I also always have at least 1 month's supply of food and drink, 5 canisters of gas for the stoves, and 4 Litres of paraffin for the Hurricane lamps.

Also, 32 AA and 32 AAA batteries for the LED lamps and DAB Radio, and (in case of a very long power failure ), a wind up radio.

pineapple

I have a few months supply of food - albeit very, very boring food. :(That said it would probably still be better than what a sizeable chunk of the world's population lives on.

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pineapple wrote: »

albeit very, very boring food.

Mine's not exactly exciting.

Mostly packets of Pasta and Sauce, tins of soup, beans (could be bad news in the event of a nuclear attack ), spaghetti, bags of rice, pasta, instant noodles etc.

pineapple

Plans to raid bank deposits in Cyprus - bank run underway.
Could it happen here?
Not only that but panic bank runs could spread.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/nervous-cypriots-hit-cash-machines-29134513.html
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39507.html
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130316/cyprus-govt-race-ratify-shock-bank-deposit-tax-0