THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Just popping in while I make the most of wifi that will actually load a page before the tablet shuts down

We go sailing and our loved little boat is too old to have pressurised water let alone hot water. So we boil a kettle to wash up and rely on marina showers:eek: luxury it ain't. Sometimes we do have to shower on board which is doable if a hassle. Lots of people use those solar showers which can get quite warm under the right conditions. Trouble is, the time you really need a shower is when you are cold and wet ( why did I marry a man who likes sailing?) and solar showers don't deliver

So I bought a garden pressure spray and a rose type nozzle. You can get a really good shower from one kettle full of boiling water plus twice the quantity of cold water. Lots of pumping and you are good to go. It works so well I keep one at home for any time we have problems with the hot water. Hopefully not too frequent an event but if you are all electric heating I can recommend it as a backup. Easy Peasy with a gas stove and stove top kettle but it would work with one of Bob's camping stoves or a Kelly Kettle

ivyleaf

elona wrote: »

In the seventies it was not just that the price of things shot up by about 100% but that there were sudden shortages of things like coffee, sugar and salt.

During the three day week it was impossible to get candles and a candle making factory near where I worked had a queue of nearly a mile long of people asking for some.

My MIL struck a bargain with the manager of the local Mace - he agreed to keep two bags of sugar a week for her if she did all her shopping there!

milasavesmoney

Jackie, bikers in Montana! Ooh wee!! You two were probably quite a novelty to them. I'm sure they enjoyed helping you just as much as you enjoyed being helped. It's a wonderful story.

Mar, I live in Carlsbad, two of my children live in Albuquerque and one in Clovis. We have half the state covered. I love that you have a friend here!

Stocking up not only can save money at the time but also time and gasoline.

ariarnia

jk0 wrote: »

My old man used to do that. (Pointlessly in my view.) Unless you know the date of your death, and can buy enough to last until then, eventually you have to go back to the shop, and pay the new price.

Say you have 10 % inflation and stock up once a year, it is no cheaper than stocking up every 6 months and paying 5% more.

But it doesnt work that way does it

i mean if you buy 1 at 1 pound 1 at two pound and one at three pound youve spent 6 pound and your next one will cost four pound making ten pound

but if you buy three at one pound then nothing till you run out and buy your next for four pound youve only spent 7 pound and saved three pound

ivyleaf

ariarnia wrote: »

But it doesnt work that way does it

i mean if you buy 1 at 1 pound 1 at two pound and one at three pound youve spent 6 pound and your next one will cost four pound making ten pound

but if you buy three at one pound then nothing till you run out and buy your next for four pound youve only spent 7 pound and saved three pound

Now this is exactly what I was trying to work out, but it was tying my brain in knots so i gave up

jk0

ariarnia wrote: »

But it doesnt work that way does it

i mean if you buy 1 at 1 pound 1 at two pound and one at three pound youve spent 6 pound and your next one will cost four pound making ten pound

but if you buy three at one pound then nothing till you run out and buy your next for four pound youve only spent 7 pound and saved three pound

So, inflation is 100%, then drops to 50%, then you think it will drop to 33%? I don't think that's likely is it?

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DigForVictory wrote: »

I'm told there's a one-time-use sack & pump that goes into a bathtub that lets you wring all the water "in the system" into one safe place you can draw as needed from...

... not sure I'd want to drink from that.

I keep 50L in storage, at all times.

Karmacat

I used to keep part of my water store in 5l containers, the sort you buy at supermarkets for £1.10 or so. Decided to rotate them ... and with the state of my fingers (arthritis) I can't open them so I used a knife to rip them open, used the water to flush the toilet and I'm restocking using 2l bottles. Such is life ...


ETA - oh, and some of those 5l containers were bent out of shape. At least if a 2l bottle gets bent and leaks, there'll be less wetness about

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Doveling

We have a ten litre camping water container but it is too heavy for me to pick up. I also try to keep 10 x 2l bottles. There's three of us so I figure that's 5 days water if we're careful. Have I got that right?

I usually have two or three packs of baby wipes in (invaluable for sticky fingered grandchildren!) so they could be used for freshening up.

On a water meter so very careful with water anyway.
I'm going to pinch the tip that someone gave on one of the threads about putting a bucket under the shower head to catch the water before it becomes the right temperature. That can be used for flushing the loo

Always a bit of something you can pick up on here isn't there

GQ - Thanks for help with Teva sandals. My foot is held together with plates and pins so I need quite a bit of support. I tend to wear walking boots so that I have some support around my ankle as well; or Merrell trainers which suit.

If I don't wear my orthotics I'm quite wobbly and have to use my stick.
I may have made a mistake buying a leopard print patterned stick
It doesn't match anything else I've got :rotfl:

thriftwizard

We have a number of camping water containers, and a number of water butts dotted around the place, too. Must admit that I don't tend to keep clean water stored, as we're a short distance from a clean chalk trout stream (water is taken from it for our domestic supply about half a mile upstream) and it wouldn't take much effort to trundle a container or two down there to fill up. There's always Milton on hand, and a number of different resources to boil water with, although agricultural chemical residues mean I wouldn't want to survive on it for long.

Have to admit that we'd have a LOT to learn about conserving water, though - we're not metered. I don't think we're particularly wasteful, but we don't think twice about flushing the loo, for example. We do get some practice when camping, however! Not needing EHU (Electric Hook Up, for non-campers) and never having had it, we're usually placed some distance from the nearest tap...

Which triggers a train of thought - camping is actually rather good practice for genuine emergency situations, isn't it? I know that I now take about one hundredth of the stuff with me that I would have taken when the kids were small, not because they've grown up now & don't need so much, but because with practice, I've worked out that we didn't need most of it in the first place!