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  • Bronnie
    Bronnie Posts: 4,169 Forumite
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    rachbc wrote: »
    just one? ;)

    Y'know I'm not sure now you mention it! She'd certainly have approved of OP's username:D
  • Jolaaled
    Jolaaled Posts: 1,063 Forumite
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    A few cans of food and can-opener.
    string and swiss army knife
    big book of sudoku
  • luxor4t
    luxor4t Posts: 11,125 Forumite
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    Paracetamol (for when DH bangs his head in the dark - happens every powercut)
    Plasters (inevitably I'm chopping veg when the lights go out ...)
    Tissues
    Matches & spare matches each in damp proof containers (box gets dropped in the dark)

    It's all go in our house.
    I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.
  • ClootiesMum
    ClootiesMum Posts: 1,606 Forumite
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    Our blackout box also has a battery operated alarm clock in it - so we could still get up to work on time
    Debts 07/12/2021
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  • bevrob
    bevrob Posts: 37 Forumite
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    Try and check out 'cody lundrin' on 'you tube'. Fabulous! you will need paper plates and cups. coz if the power grid goes down then there will be no water for washing dishes. the water you do have will be used for drinking and washing. I have a stock of food as i buy when things are on special and stock up because of prices.
  • Nickitree30
    Nickitree30 Posts: 103 Forumite
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    My 12 year old son has his packed already for the forthcoming Zombie Apocalypse:rotfl:
    I've also started planning for an emergency, I have asked my lovely OH for a solar powered battery/ mobile phone charger for my birthday, and I already have wind up torches.
    I've been reading Kathy Harrison's blog called "Just in Case", http://justincasebook.wordpress.com/ and plan on buying her book (once I've earned an Amazon voucher from answering surveys :))
    First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
  • GreyQueen
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    :) I've just been poking around in the A*g*s catalogue and they've got windup torches with mobile chargers built in or windup torches with FM radio built in. I want 3 functions in one!

    :) Thanks for the tip about the windup radio from T*sco Basics, I shall have to get me one of those. Am also looking at a windup lantern as candles are dangerous. A pal who lives on the next street nearly lost her life to a housefire caused by candles, so I'm ultracautious, even though I have plenty by me. Anyone got any recommendations re brands of wind-up lanterns?

    :) I'd say keep tinned sardines/ similar tinned fish around at all times; high quality protein, compact, can be eaten cold, sold in a variety of sauces, has a ring-pull can.......and currently cheap.

    :) Itsy-bitsy pasta shapes, like those tiny little shells. Got this tip from a pal who does extremely long-distance hiking trails all over the world; put tiny pasta shells into a dehydrated soup mix, add water and quickly cook up a nourishing carb-rich meal.

    :) Hand sanitiser gel. If the water supply is down, you won't be able to wash your hands after the loo or before food prep and run a real risk of poisoning yourself. I keep some on my lottie as well as soap and a towel, as well as several bottles at home.

    :) Bleach. I know, as a greenie, that it's a Bad Thing, but it's very handy. Put a splash into dishwashing water if the supply is dodgy. A pal who did kitchen work on Eos in Greece gave me this tip. In a crisis, you can't afford risk preventable illness.

    :) Prescription meds. Do you use them? If so, make sure you have plenty. I'd be dead in about 24 hours without mine so that concentrates the mind wonderfully. Raiding the local pharmacy in a real SHTF situation would be of limited help as my prescription is 180 tablets and they usually have to give me an owing note as they don't keep that many in stock.........:mad: I'm getting the address of the sole UK factory which makes my meds under license and print off and laminate the map to get there. If it gets really really bad, a real, long term disaster situation, I might have to get down there and burgle them........

    :) General Supplies:
    First aid kit, ladies' monthly supplies (if applicable, obviously), water carriers, plenty of batteries if you have things which use them pref solar rechargables. Warm clothes of robust construction (possibly in murky green if you might end up hiding in the woods), Kelly Kettles, camping stoves and gear, rope, string, bungee cords, fuel for anything which needs it. Books with useful info (we won't be Googling without the electricity) and some low tech amusements like playing cards, acoustic instruments and alcohol. Emergency chocolate or boiled sweeties. Maps. Guidebooks to edible flora. At least one cooking pot or pan which can be used on an open fire and some practise in this style of cooking.

    :DBlimey, I need to get a wiggle on and work on those things which I haven't yet done myself.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • ceridwen
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    Books with useful info eh GreyQueen - if we cant all google.

    Errr...does that mean I need to put the kettle on now ready for an influx of visitors - because of my good "library" of reference books?:rotfl::rotfl:

    I dont have books for an "If it goes BAD and stays BAD" scenarios though - as I decided there was no point in getting ones for how-to-cope if things got THAT bad....;)
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    ceridwen wrote: »
    Books with useful info eh GreyQueen - if we cant all google.

    Errr...does that mean I need to put the kettle on now ready for an influx of visitors - because of my good "library" of reference books?:rotfl::rotfl:

    I dont have books for an "If it goes BAD and stays BAD" scenarios though - as I decided there was no point in getting ones for how-to-cope if things got THAT bad....;)
    :D A gal should always have the kettle on, Ceridwen! And one can never have too many books.........:rotfl:
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • ceridwen
    ceridwen Posts: 11,547 Forumite
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    GreyQueen wrote: »
    :D A gal should always have the kettle on, Ceridwen! And one can never have too many books.........:rotfl:

    Errr..you dont mean ter say that you've got more books than me have you - squeezed into Shoebox Towers somewheres (errr...hanging from the ceiling in hammocks maybes?:D:rotfl:). 'Tis all I can do to count the number of bookshelves. It would take a while to count the number of books on them - and I've just seen another one I shall be scouting-round on Amazon to find...:rotfl:
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