The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

fuddle

Extractor fan is your friend. We've just installed a beast of a machine in our bathroom and not so much as a drop of condensation settles on the window. With the old unit the whole window was covered. I've had a freestanding wooden unit in my bathroom for nearly two years and it looks like the day it went in even with that old useless extractor. The unit wasn't particularly expensive and also has two wicker baskets on the shelves still as good as the day they went in. We just take care of our house as best we can,l and have our eye on condensation and mop up any water splashes. We're having to work on our walls now but all for the health of the room.

We have a yoga mat silicone to the inside of our toilet to stop that from condensing up. There's always a way.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Himself is quite perturbed. I persuaded him to go shopping with me, rather than leaving him to pop round the corner [strike]and come back with twenty quid's worth of junk and a couple of YS vegetables that'll go off[/strike] each day.

I'm forty five quid down on the afternoon, but the freezer is jam packed. Admittedly, if I go and sort it out tomorrow after the dratted Work Thing, it'll probably be merely full, but nonetheless, there are vegetables galore, a few bung-in-a-sauce-and-serve-with-rice things, bits of dead animal and, together with the other purchases (including his compulsive buying of things reduced to clear but then not portioned up, so will end up being used in one go), we've got enough food for the best part of two months eating well every evening.

All he needed to do was acquire some milk, some eggs (no point lugging them back when they're the same price round the corner) and a bag of spuds (same).


He came back with two bags bulging of perishables. That there is no room to accommodate.

So I'm now going to be sorting the fridge out as well as the freezer.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

As a matter of fact, I am the proud possessor of three gilets jaunes.

The original one which was my Dad's when he was gainfully employed has been in use as my cycling weskit, and I have another two as spares, picked up at the chazzers for 50p and £1 respectively.

Sooooo, I just need two likely lassies to join me and we can riot every weekend until we bring the grubbyment to their knees. Howzabout it, maryb and Karmakat?

*** thunder of running footsteps as the ladies make a sharp exit ***

**180 degree turn, and more thundering footsteps returning, fastfastfast.** Avec le gilet jaune

Grubbyment really needs what you're describing

GreyQueen

I think grubbyments should live in a degree of Fear of The Populace. It discourages arrogance at all levels.


Righty-o, must avaunt and rest my eyes before bedtime. And rest my poorly shoulder on a heat pad for a while. Heat = increased blood flow = faster healing. Apparently. If nothing else, 'tis wondrously comforting.

Karmacat

That sounds lovely! Hope it helps you sleep well, healing all the while

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Cheapskate wrote: »

Now need a trip to !kea to replace... :rotfl:

Try Asda.

https://groceries.asda.com/product/candles/george-home-100-pack-white-tealights/1000003249717

DigForVictory

Ponders layout of local Asda & to get at candles, you have to go past Toys. However, fewer miles for me.

IKEA you can slip into the marketplace & grab the tealights by the sackful without having to hike past the miles of improvement opportunities, let alone toys. Plus it's a stretch of motorway away.

I like the idea of a child industriously illuminating Christmas. Within reason, I think this is a thing that Should Be Encouraged.
After all, the ability to find candle & matches, use them safely & monitor the results just needs the "in the dark" capability adding & you'll never have to worry about a power cut (in the same way) again.

Bob, I had a similar 'yerwot?!' when sourcing brushes for youngest's Art exams. One was exorbitant, same one in a pack of four others, cost a mere £5 more the lot. Unfortunately Himself spotted a superfine brush and there went the planned saving, but at least we had the benefit of his wisdom in exchange for said brush. Were he capable of a portrait, he has all the doings to be a miniaturist.

9 may be a bit young for a pitchfork, but absolutely let us give the gubbyment a Hard Time.

happydays89

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

I had a suitcase I wasn’t using so I decided to put one of those vacuum bags you store clothes in and suck out the air with a vac,but instead of clothes I have flattened loo rolls and put them in then sucked out the air and the suitcase is now under the bed and out of site.

grunnie

Am very glad of my store cupboard as i have knocked out my back. Painkillers as prescribed by doctor and a hot water bottle over the sore bit. Ouch when i try to move. Been like this for 2 weeks and 2 days. If I didn,t have a store cupboard i might starve. The wind is howling and the BBC weather says it is 59 mile an hour and I can well believe it.So even if I had been fit I wouldn't be venturing out.

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

:D:D

:kisses3: to mardatha
and
:kisses3: to my friend Goldie.

Who actually think very similarly to one another, and to me :j
I've just done a proper stockup shop, to be delivered Tuesday. I usually do one a month, but I'll do two this month, taking advantage of coupons on Saynsbo that give £10 off a £60 spend. Delivery costs £1, so its a win-win as far as I'm concerned.

Yoo-hoo ! :kisses3:

In December I had one of those coupons although it was £10 off £70) and I used it for the next weekly shop combined with getting some goodies for Christmas. What with the £10 off and using my Nectar points (most carried forward from 2017) I paid about £14.00, which was very decent