What Preps are you doing this week

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Cheers jansman and Arzosah!

If there is anything at the job centre freely available, then I've not been told about it. Last time I was unemployed I found free IT courses under my own steam. Basically the job centre take one look at a CV listing a degree and a good school career and kind of don't know what to do. This time round I've got a decade of constant employment behind me and I know what I want. Sadly, what I want is thin on the ground or over subscribed. I just have to keep plugging away. I've got two applications to do tonight, another that I have to check that I'm qualified for and tomorrow after I've signed on (urgh) I'm going to a couple of temping agencies in the vain hope they'll have something. They seem to have some bits of part-time work (not my ideal scenario). Meh.

Anyway, this evening I made a quick Google map of the wild food sources I've found recently. Pleasantly surprised at the amount out there and I'm sure I'll find more :)
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Received a second sprouter today so I can make my sprouter up to a 6 tray job and it seems to work nicely with the water flow. Now I just want to get another 4 or 6 of the same model so that I can have masses of sprouts each and every day in a manner that saves counter space. It should seriously cut down on food costs as well as to provide me with many valuable nutrients.

Also purchased two watering can roses.
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Le mouse, unfortunately we find ourselves overqualified. My young son in law is underqualified. WTF!!!

As a member of prepper/survivalist forums for well over ten years now, the idea of shtf/eotwawki/general crap/(unemployment) has been talked to death.

Well now it is here!!!!!

This is the reality, like it or not. Personally I think the economy we now have will be as good as it gets. This IS the new paradigm. We will all be scrabbling for crumbs to survive.
Why?

We have too many , demanding too much of the resources available. And the resources will not last forever.

I am back to earning what I did , more than ten years ago. It is the best I have. That is my survivalist attitude.
Adapt.
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And I mean that in a general way, not just to mouse. I really should read my pre-posts.
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Oh I get what you mean jansman. When I moved back home from London, I knew the wage I could get here would be what I was earning 5 years ago. I'm now beginning to look at jobs where the wage is what I was paid 10-12 years ago. And that's fine. I've got my living expenses down to a point where I could actually live on less than that and I'm lucky that my living arrangements are what they are with my family. But so many people haven't had the luxury of foresight. Sadly we're going to see many more people falling from their current standards of living and not having the skills to adapt. And that frightens me because that's when we'll see unrest IMO.

Also I feel for people much younger than myself. Nowadays you can't get a job without experience, so young school and college leavers are stuck in a catch-22 situation of not having experience because they have no job, but can't get a job without experience. *sigh*
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Le Mouse wrote:Oh I get what you mean jansman. When I moved back home from London, I knew the wage I could get here would be what I was earning 5 years ago. I'm now beginning to look at jobs where the wage is what I was paid 10-12 years ago. And that's fine. I've got my living expenses down to a point where I could actually live on less than that and I'm lucky that my living arrangements are what they are with my family. But so many people haven't had the luxury of foresight. Sadly we're going to see many more people falling from their current standards of living and not having the skills to adapt. And that frightens me because that's when we'll see unrest IMO.

Also I feel for people much younger than myself. Nowadays you can't get a job without experience, so young school and college leavers are stuck in a catch-22 situation of not having experience because they have no job, but can't get a job without experience. *sigh*
Yep. That's where I was after I left uni. If I ever am blessed with children and they want university qualifications, I will pay for them to do Open University whilst they are working. That way they get 6 years of work experience plus a degree and can leave "college" a damn sight richer than the "normal" students. I would also insist that they do Toastmasters and a comedy course
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nickdutch wrote:Received a second sprouter today so I can make my sprouter up to a 6 tray job and it seems to work nicely with the water flow. Now I just want to get another 4 or 6 of the same model so that I can have masses of sprouts each and every day in a manner that saves counter space. It should seriously cut down on food costs as well as to provide me with many valuable nutrients.

Also purchased two watering can roses.
hi nickdutch, can you tell me where you acquired your sprouter please?

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Not posted for a while as I just moved house :D Out in the countryside now with a decent sized garden, stream at the bottom and a few little outbuildings for storage. Got my 4 chickens last week and they are providing me with 3 eggs a day on average, super tasty and good for trading with neighbours / family already ! Got a lovely big wood burner in the lounge for winter-time, and hoping to replace the oil fired boiler with a wood fired one if I can sort out the green deal and get some cash off the government to help with the cost. Got a reasonable friendly community, been invited to various neighbouring houses for tea and cakes, strawberries and cream at the village hall, and got to meet the local bee-lady who has loads of hives for good local honey. A bit late in the year for a good crop of anything really, but I've created 12 beds each about 3.5mx1m and got loads of donated plants in them including squash, cucumber, beans, tomatos, lettuce, etc etc. Don't think I've had to buy a single veggie or seed for those beds. Also planted raspberries, blueberries, loganberries, japanese wineberries (it looked different ;) ) and red/black/white currants.

I am missing the cool cellar I had at the old house and the loft space (got none now), but Im learning how to find little storage places to stuff all my various prepping stuff I'd accumulated in the old place.

Got a completion date for the sale of my old house now, just 3 weeks time, so all going well I'll be able to pay off the loan for the new place only a couple of months after moving here and be mortgage free again !
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Glad yer back moony! Sounds like you have yourself sorted. Good luck with the sale. Mortgage free is THE best feeling!In fact, I would say one of the best preps you could make.
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Moony, that sounds fantastic! Mortgage free is definitely the way to go :) and thats amazing that you've already managed to get some chooks in and made some beds.

I was out lateish yesterday evening harvesting from my single (mature) blackcurrant bush, and I was amazed at how much there was.