2022 Frugal Living Challenge

maryb

If they cut off gas they have to go to each individual property to reconnect.  Not going to happen to conserve power, it only ever happens on a small scale for safety reasons.  Industry shutdowns and cutting back on heating in public buildings would come long before any power cuts to domestic properties 

London_1

Since being offline for awhile, I have been making lists and decluttering in my kitchen.Sorted out four food cupboards with tinned and baking stuff.
Actually found a tin dated 2015 which even for me was a tin too far , but all is sorted and in date order and I have four bookshelves upstairs, denuded of books to the CS, and filled with tinned  and dried goods for the coming winter. 

 I am becoming adept at squirrelling away stuff now, and have a book full of notes telling me what I have, and what I may run short of. No more shopping now until 1st September when a shop for most of those things will be on the cards.

Being organised is one of my favourite things and I am in inveterate list maker  

Hope all is well with everyone and sorry for the absence due to an apparent technical fault 
Cheers chums JackieO xx

Primrose

No I don,t think actual gas cuts will happen for safety reasons, except perhaps in very extreme circumstances.  .  What I foresee happening perhaps  is that gas  pressures could be drastically reduced so that if a gas hob were used, everything would take much longer to cook.  In cases like that , for cooking vegetables you,d have to cut up everything into very small pieces, cook your potatoes in the same saucepan as other veg snd use as little water in the pan as possible to get things up to simmering point as quickly as possible. 

ZsaZsa

Good to see you back JackieO

Primrose

Good to see you back online London-1.
frustrating to be cut off from a community you,re regularly engaged with!

Pollie

For anyone who only has an electric cooker. As I assume we will be notified of times of power cuts, why not invest in a food flask and cook soup, casserole etc just before and put in flask ready for your meal time.

linz

Floss said:

Those of us around my age (late 50s) can likely remember 3-day weeks of the early 1970s and power cuts in the late 70s. I can clearly recall mum using a camping burner to cook,  making toast at the coal fire in the first & the gas fire in the second (we'd moved home in between) with candles being lit and a battery radio & board games for entertainment. During the 3-day weeks I was at infant school in the afternoons only while my junior age brothers were there in the mornings. Classes were part time as we were in the old Victorian, too small school building because it was heated by big boilers while our shiny new school was all-electric.

The forthcoming winter could be just like those 1970s days, dark & chilly and I am trying to prep as best I can.

Why were there 3-day weeks in the 70's? Mid-40's here so don't remember them - what was the reason behind them?

weenancyinAmerica

Yay - you are back JackieO. Missed your posts.

joedenise

cw18 said:

joedenise said:

@cw18 - I really can't see any gas cuts at all as it would be extremely dangerous if it was cut and then turned back on later and there would likely be explosions!  There certainly weren't gas cuts back in the 70s during the 3 day weeks when we had plenty of power cuts - as in no electric.

If we have just gas I can cook and have hot drinks, which is good.

But I can't heat the house, as central heating needs electric for the controls.

I think that's the same for all of us unless we have a wood burner or oil fires.  Didn't have that problem in the 70s though as didn't have central heating only a gas fire in the living room so at least we didn't need to be cold!

tooldle

@ Linz a combination of miners and railway workers strikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week