The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

thriftwizard

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Anyone bought any drill bits recently?

OMG, how expensive, when bought singly? :eek:

I needed a 9.5mm HSS bit, but they didn't have one in stock, so I was about to buy a 10mm, for nearly £10.

Then I spotted a set of 25 drill bits (same brand - Erbauer, same type - TiN), sizes ranging from 1mm to 13 mm (with several fractional sizes, including the 9.5mm I was looking for), for £22, so I bought the set instead.

That's 25 drill bits, for less than 2.5 times the price of a single 10mm one.

Yup, same experience! Then when I pointed out that the first one they'd tried to sell me wasn't a hex-bit fitting, which I'd specifically requested, they tried to convince me that the next size down would do the job if I "wiggled it around a bit". No it wouldn't! Luckily they did have a hex-bit set left, including the size I needed. It was more than twice what I'd expected to have to pay, but it's already made itself useful changing the door-handle on the tumble-drier which needed two sizes of star-screw (whatever that's technically called) drivers which I didn't otherwise have.

fuddle

I have several store cupboards that I rotate the stock. Pile? Pile? There's no pile in my cupboards just organised ingredients that can bridge a crisis whether that's weather/finances/supply or illness. Life taught me that it was sensible to that so do that I will.

Each to their own. I don't care for accusations or questioning of my motives or practices. A true prepper never let's on anyway

GQ I've never heard of a weskit. I'm intrigued so will pop on to a search engine for a nose.

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

I have several store cupboards that I rotate the stock. Pile? Pile? There's no pile in my cupboards just organised ingredients that can bridge a crisis whether that's weather/finances/supply or illness. Life taught me that it was sensible to that so do that I will.

Each to their own. I don't care for accusations or questioning of my motives or practices. A true prepper never let's on anyway

GQ I've never heard of a weskit. I'm intrigued so will pop on to a search engine for a nose.

It's just an old-fashioned way of saying waistcoat!

fuddle

Much more economical on the speech. I do recall my grandad saying something similar but it might have been his accent being all fast and northern.

herbily

If anyone wants to make a feature out of their loo-roll store:


https://www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk/lyon-beton-concrete-cloud-toilet-roll-shelf-large.html


(Or a small part of their store, there can't be more than a dozen rolls there...)


I'm not prepping, I'm creating an artwork!

GreyQueen

herbily wrote: »

If anyone wants to make a feature out of their loo-roll store:


https://www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk/lyon-beton-concrete-cloud-toilet-roll-shelf-large.html


(Or a small part of their store, there can't be more than a dozen rolls there...)


I'm not prepping, I'm creating an artwork!

That's quite cute but did you see the price?! £145! I have a narrow oblong basket from a chazzer on my cistern which holds several rolls. Am also planning to use the wasted space inside a couple of my suitcases to hold some TP. Just need to get to the store.

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thriftwizard wrote: »

star-screw (whatever that's technically called) drivers

I believe you're referring to Torx screws/drivers.

herbily

Yes, I did see the price - £145 for a bit of concrete. I reckon you could make the same thing out of papier mache quite easily. Wrap three or four loo-rolls in clingfilm to use as a template, wet a few strips of newspaper, and bingo, a shelf that my not-very-strong walls should hold. Hmm, I feel another project coming on....

Cheapskate

We're having a new bathroom in the next month or so, and I'm insisting on a washbasin with a cupboard underneath, and 3 or 4 glass shelves on the wall, at the foot end of the bath. The shelves will have day-to-day toiletries on, and the cupboard will have follow-ons, plus a few spare loo rolls. I keep most of the loo roll in my bedroom, but when we finish the attic, I will have space up there for a range of dry goods and ambient produce.

I have a LOT of wool to use up - will be making some more crochet blankets for us (those I make seem to go home with the adult children!), and to donate to a hospice where a friend's mum recently passed away (they're collecting handmade stuff like that to make life cosier for those in the last days of their lives, lovely idea!).

My cupboards are a bit stuffed, but badly organised, so this week's preps include a game of storage Tetris - done it before, and it's amazing how much more you can store when it's better organised! :rotfl:

A xo

thriftwizard

Thanks, Bob, new word! Torx screws....