The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Floss

Lots of pocketses for your precious...

pollyanna_26

thriftwizard said:

Have you all seen https://utilikilts.com/product-category/kilts/? Wonderfully practical & hard-wearing garments, & not quite as scratchy as wool, I suspect. I've seen a fair few worn at the festivals & fairs I (normally) trade at in summer & have spent the last few years trying to talk OH into one - without any success, alas! Just love all those pocketses...

Oh I missed this. I love a good pocket or two. I used to follow Dottie Angel's blog and managed to track down some skirt patterns she'd done for Simplicity with big pockets. No idea how many of them I made but like the cobbler's wife,family and friends would beg for them so it was a while before I had a few of my own.

pollyx

Thriftygifty

thriftwizard said:

Have you all seen https://utilikilts.com/product-category/kilts/? Wonderfully practical & hard-wearing garments, & not quite as scratchy as wool, I suspect. I've seen a fair few worn at the festivals & fairs I (normally) trade at in summer & have spent the last few years trying to talk OH into one - without any success, alas! Just love all those pocketses...

Let's not burst my Outlander men in kilt dream with DH wearing one, that won't do at all lol

ivyleaf

Glad you're starting to feel a tiny bit better Cornishchick!  Take things very very gently.

-taff

pollyanna_26 said:

Oh I missed this. I love a good pocket or two. I used to follow Dottie Angel's blog and managed to track down some skirt patterns she'd done for Simplicity with big pockets. No idea how many of them I made but like the cobbler's wife,family and friends would beg for them so it was a while before I had a few of my own.

pollyx

Don't suppose you'd be able to find them again would you?

mothernerd

As an occasional visitor I've hesitated to post this mental health tip but something a poster said about the sameness of the days and having nothing to look forward to resonated with me. I would say that having something to look forward to is important for mental health and for general wellbeing (resilience and looking after our own health as far as possible are prepper traits aren't they - keep the thread on track).
In the current situation we need to create our own 'moments to look forward to eg
1)   I have just had 3 barm cakes (baps, rolls etc whatever they are called where you live/ were brought up) with bacon and tomato ketchup (don't start any brown sauce arguments please). This is a rare treat for me. I don't generally have bacon in the house (cooking bacon for soup with green lentils and barley) but mum does. On Sunday I made her bacon with mash and cabbage (both already to heat up). Then I started to lay out my bacon reusing the plate I'd used for mum's. I started to lift the plate up but it ended up on the worktop and on the floor in lots of pieces, several chunks and myriad slivers and I had to throw the bacon away and ate the last portion of veg curry instead. Now I had been thinking about bacon buns for weeks but when I had them in either the bacon or the buns would be used for something else or another thing was in urgent use of eating. So I took another pack of bacon from the freezer and today I had my bacon barms. They were absolutely wonderful and I enjoyed every second.
2)    My feet are very dry. I might have neglected to moisturise yesterday as it was a back and forth day - several times I was deflected from the task I had in hand (mum needed help, she broke the tv, I fixed it, she broke it again, couldn't fix it, found her something on the laptop to watch, could she have a cup of tea, could I find the pill she had dropped, could I go to the post box - outside the gate - to see if there was a letter from a cousin who has been doing a family tree - no but 2 more items to put on my to do list). you get the picture. So my feet need moisturising and I'm going to make a little occasion of it. Slather my feet (using a 'facial wash' that was in a gift box for mum and has sat in the cupboard for a year or 2) and wrap them up and not move from the bed until it's all absorbed and then add more if needed. 
3)    I've just had today's excitement/ adventure. I went to wash myself and took my glasses off in the bedroom. When I came back i couldn't see them so I felt my way round the tray were I knew my bifocals were and then I could see the reading glasses. A treasure hunt, a sensory experience, the joy of finding the glasses.

Sorry if I'm teaching my cousin/ niece (not sure of my age relative to the poster but don't want to insult her) to suck eggs but hope this helps. I live with long term fairly severe depression and manage to be happy every day. Mum upset me yesterday so I went outside moving buckets of stones so most parts of my body are threatening to quit if I am anything other than slow and gentle today (hence loz-ing around now).

Gratitude is also a great help as it allows you to focus on the good parts of each day (some good bits in the worst of days and something interesting to look at on even the most miserable grey day - the pattern of bare branches against the sky). 

Humour is also a great survival tool (what doesn't kill us gives us a very dark sense of humour and some unhealthy coping mechanisms). Picture of man and dog on the sofa looking out of the window. Man is saying to the dog "I never understood until now, why you got so excited every time someone went past the window".

Making little changes to your routine can help. I worked as a cleaner for some years (anyone who has been to my house would laugh their socks off at this). I decided that whilst I was a cleaner, I would be the best cleaner I could be and I was very good (had to keep turning jobs down to stop my hours getting out of control). However sometimes doing the same thing day after day takes it's toll and you get stale. I found that even something like going round a room anticlockwise rather than clockwise could make a difference. You noticed bits that needed attention, saw things from new angles, maybe even found a short cut or something out of the window (one of my jobs was in a four storey building - one of the only jobs were I had co-workers and we swapped floors at the beginning of each month to make things more interesting and the view from the top floor showed most of the town).

Doveling

That's a lovely post Mothernerd. Thank you.
And for the ones upthread - Clanadonia......just sayin......

Shropshirelass

Mothernerd, I always read your posts carefully, so as not to miss anything. Thank you for this one.

Onebrokelady

calicocat said:

Nargleblast said:

I think it's good to have somewhere to express our thoughts, share experiences and unload concerns. I had a work meeting the other day and we were given the opportunity to say what was on our minds. Some broke down, they were so tired and fed up and anxious for the future. I said I was sad and frustrated about how the virus situation was dragging on with no apparent end in sight. I said I was angry at the media, the politicians and some stupid members of the public. Despite thIs I said I was fine in myself, I am strong and I am not going down without a fight. And that is my standpoint. It's the survival instinct, the prepper in me. 

I like this post , makes me feel better. 

I haven’t  posted for ages . Too wrapped up working for the nhs right now......and what a disaster that is by the way. Utter fiasco from someone on the front line,  and it is only now getting really up to your neck in it type of disaster ...🙄🙄. February is going to be a blast .

We are getting fed up with general public who don’t adhere to rules.  We get fed up with shops who dont enforce the rules, and the parties people have. And the Gov not being clear let alone focused and actually implementing things efficiently . 

What is wrong with England. ??? Even the kids meals are a disaster  for Christ’s sake. Utter shambles. Wales has managed to see this through from the start........Why can’t we? It really isn’t rocket science . What it is is bad negotiation and companies who are clearly ripping everyone off.. 

I’m on a rant again. It’s why I stopped posting so I will leave again......🙄.

On a lighter note ......I just didn’t really need to go to shops in the first wave, and won’t and will  be able to survive for probably more than I realised at first this one as deffo prepped for this in the summer.

Always a positive of this wonderful thread 😃. 

Another here who works for the NHS and I hear you and feel the same, it's an utter disaster 😟 there are going to be a lot of damaged NHS staff she and IF this is over,and it's a big If because all I see are people breaking or bending the rules to suit themselves 

Onebrokelady

Does anyone remember !!!!!! Strawbridges series It Not Easy Being Green with his first family, I loved that show