The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Helebore

You can get the ear savers from Etsy. I bought some and they look better made/stronger than ones I have seen in the flesh from Amazon, the plastic ones that is. 

DigForVictory

My sister made her ear extender with a bit of dressing gown sash & 2 buttons. I may make a couple for my parents as ear elastics & their hearing aids are not cooperating! Dad nearly puttered around the supermarket with it gaffer taped but lost his nerve at the idea of getting it off again.

Si_Clist

boultdj said:

 ... OH smokes, yes bad habit, baccy has jumped by 80p, he's having another go at packing in.

Would it perhaps be worth semi-tactfully pointing out that being a smoker seems to be one of the worse things to be if you get Covid?

(This suggestion from Si_Clist, who freely admits to being on the fags from the age of 15 until I was in my forties, by which time it was 40 a day.  Been off 'em 30 years now.  Best thing I ever did apart from marrying the present Mrs Clist )

Suffolksue

DfV I can emphasis with your Dad ,I pinged a hearing aid across Sainsburys car park today taking off my mask !!

littlemoney

Suffolksue said:

DfV I can emphasis with your Dad ,I pinged a hearing aid across Sainsburys car park today taking off my mask !!

Hearing aids with glasses and then a mask are a receipe for disaster. It has cost mes lot of money. I removed my hearing aids, so they wouldn't go flying across the car park whilst wearing a mask and now can't find them. I have to pay the NHS for the replacment aids.

annieb64

Earring  backs get caught too. I only wear cheap ones but it's  a nuisance.

Suffolksue

That’s awful littlemoney agree re the glasses too ,I only need them for reading( thanks for cataract surgery)and pushing them up then down is a nightmare in shops 
I feel really old !,

elaine241

Just popping in. Ecoegg have 40% off their wash balls and the replacement pellets to go in them. I have just ordered one plus some replacement pellets delivered £13.17 this will give me many washes and a good back up if things lock down or run out. Plus they don't take up too much space!

Rowan9

Massive virtual hugs to our GreyQueen for today 🤗🤗🤗

LameWolf

littlemoney said:

Suffolksue said:

DfV I can emphasis with your Dad ,I pinged a hearing aid across Sainsburys car park today taking off my mask !!

Hearing aids with glasses and then a mask are a receipe for disaster. It has cost mes lot of money. I removed my hearing aids, so they wouldn't go flying across the car park whilst wearing a mask and now can't find them. I have to pay the NHS for the replacment aids.

Oh no, that's a nuisance. Have you systematically looked everywhere you could possibly have put them?

I have the same thing - behind-the ear hearing aids and glasses; I've sewn my masks with elastic that goes all the way round the back of the head.