THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Churchmouse

In that case I would expect it to have printing/photographs showing exactly what it contained. I bought a small carpet shampooer/spot treater recently. The colourful manufacturer's packaging was visible through a plastic bag. And thinking more I've had stuff delivered just in the original manufacturer's packaging with an address label stuck on.

ivyleaf

:hello: Nice to "see" you on here Churchmouse!

Perplexed_Pineapple

The thing is, about a water filter, you need to have some water to filter. I'm not knocking it, indeed I have the same one, bought a couple of years ago, in my emergency bag. (Calling it a BOB would be excessive, I couldn't live off the contents, it's just intended to be a helping hand in a variety of crises). The world seems a more unsettled place. Adaptability is the key. If water was short, I wouldn't worry about water to wash in, being smelly would be the least of our problems

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Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

being smelly would be the least of our problems

Exactly.

Everyone would be smelly, so we'd soon get used to it.

Churchmouse

ivyleaf wrote: »

:hello: Nice to "see" you on here Churchmouse!

Thanks, now back to lurkdom lol

thriftwizard

I know it's best to keep one's preps - subtle - but I'm not sure why it being delivered in visible packaging would be a problem? Mind you, I don't live in a block of flats with nosy neighbours. But if I did feel I had to justify my purchase, I'd just say that it was for my holiday canoeing down the Yukon, or rowing round Norfolk, or some equally salty or soggy pursuit where you very obviously couldn't take gallons of water with you.

I suppose that does run the risk of actually having to go & do it, so you can talk about it afterwards. But as far as I remember, a number of members here have done equally adventurous things and loved doing them. My own uncle was still haring off every summer to canoe down Canada's more remote rivers in his mid-80s.

Anyway, thanks for the link, Bob; I might well invest in one of those.

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thriftwizard wrote: »

or some equally salty or soggy pursuit

I doesn't desalinate water.

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Even desalinated water tastes disgusting .In Malta there is very little fresh water and most is desalinated I used to drink bottled stuff when I was there. A lot of the water in Maldon in Essex is desalinated and tastes revolting as well

Doveling

Just seen this


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36864432


Think our water has just got fluoride in :rotfl:

craigywv

hi all been away awol again work and all that , anyway phew! you lot can talk !so many pages to catch up on but fun. so got a bit confused a while back who was the troll???????????????
in my work we selling bags of wait for it GQ......................illuminous paracords!!!!!!!!!!!6 in a packet,i know your love for the stuff xxx. thought that was very good they come in pretty pinks and oranges and more manly bright blues and yellows ........BOB they would do you. worked and evaporated many times last week as shop i in is like a large greenhouse very uncomfortable. garden is thriving got loads of jam made and froze a good amount too. waiting on plum tree yielding as lots of plums on it. first year ever my spuds did not get blight ! so have 2 sacks nabbed from sister barn she not know i took them ,is it still theft as we siblings lol. well they in my shed got one and a bit sacks of potatoes i so proud of myself i actually sat and got a nail brush and swept the soil of each one lovingly blight free.that will see us in spuds for a while.turnips look ok still growing away.
terricle things happening in Nice and Germany so sad . I go away to spain in next few days and my brother called over last night giving me the big bro warning about watch my surroundings,stay together ,hit the floor stuff basically but what can you really do in cicumstances like what has just happenned ? i definatley will be more alert to things around me .
sitting here with my one pound hair dye on me ,that my limit to prepping for holiday,why does phone ring 3 times as soon i i put dye on my head mum number kept coming up so ended up HAVING to phone back seems she had an uncontrollable urge to enlighten me to the fact it was raining and she couldnt get a wash out to dry!!!! i said that is why you rang 3 times in a row to which she replied no not at all the second time i rang was because you never answered the first time and the third time was because i thought you had an accident!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY! what made you think that mum ! the joys of mums xxxx bored you all enough bye for now by the way where is Lynn?