What Preps are you doing this week

[Arzosah]

Hi, "Jansman" & "Arzosah" can I ask you both in what form you have recorded the data i.e.: paper or electronic means as I have yet to take on this task myself.
regards arnieh

Hi arnieh - I've got my information in the original format (letters from building societies, certificates, whatever - the original paperwork. That paperwork has been scanned, and I've got lots of redundancy in that bit - my laptop, my old laptop, my backup hard drive, and my flash drive the flash drive was cheap as these things go, and is the one I'd recommend - you could even wear it on a chain around your neck, no need to ever lose it.

For things without original paperwork, I've just got website names and passwords written down, though the most important thing of all are the passwords to my email accounts - you can always get a new password online, as long as you can get to the email account for the retrieval password.

Oh, and phone numbers and addresses are included in this - friends and I have all lost phones at various times, and its really tricky without having those numbers somewhere other than your phone.

HTH.

Sorry - the 3rd format I have is the little book that Jansman also refers to - lists of addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, etc. The only time that leaves the house is when the house is on fire!

[arnieh]

Thanks for the reply Jansman & Arzosah keeping up with paperwork is not my strong point though with autumn & then winter around the corner that could be the ideal time to sort it out once and for all, being fully retired now I have a lot more time on my hands a very useful commodity when you are a prepper. Though I do often wonder how I had time to go to work.

Regards arnieh.

[Le Mouse]

Finally, *finally* got an official job offer from the job I'd been chasing references for for a fortnight. I start Tuesday. Wahoo! So apart from sorting out work clothes, I've been rethinking my EDC. I really won't need all the stuff I trogged with me when I commuted in London. I'll be able to walk to work in half an hour and I've worked out (and *walked*) an alternate over-the-fields route home should anything go pear shaped on the roads enough that pedestrians can't get by. Being so close to work will make my life much easier and my back will thank me for not carrying so much stuff anymore!

[2ndRateMind]

Finally, *finally* got an official job offer from the job I'd been chasing references for for a fortnight...

Grats and good luck!

[pseudonym]

Finally, *finally* got an official job offer from the job I'd been chasing references for for a fortnight. I start Tuesday. Wahoo!

Congratulations, I bet that's a weight off.

I've been rethinking my EDC.I've worked out (and *walked*) an alternate over-the-fields route home.

Any place you could dig a mini- cache? Maybe store a bottle of water and some snacks etc?

[Arzosah]

Mouse, thats brilliant! Congratulations!

Just thinking about what might close the roads to pedestrians ... a traffic accident, of course. A chemical spill? Flooding? If its only half an hour's walk, though, your cache might as well be at work, surely? Wellies, an umbrella, a mask, and yes, a bottle of water and some snacks

A short (free) journey to work will be great!

My preps: picking blackberry and apples! And my almost-prepper neighbour saw me, and we swapped - I got some of his tomatoes

[PreppingPingu]

Grats Mouse good luck! My preps this week involve getting my bike bicycle roadworthy again. Making sure you have an alternative mode of transport is always good. I just need to find a panier frame/rack that actually fits my mountain bike - most I have tried in the past don't fit and if you want to carry stuff, that'd be useful.

[Plymtom]

This week and for a while I will be re stocking stuff I used instead of spending money on the usual food shops to pay for hospital car parking when my wife got taken in for a day or two, it's shocking how big a financial hit just getting there and back a few times can be for those of us on low budgets, so there you have it SHTF in a small way, and food/domestic preps are better than money in the bank, they saved having to go shopping and allowed a juggling of funds, that is exactly why we do it, more gremlins than zombies

[nickdutch]

This week and for a while I will be re stocking stuff I used instead of spending money on the usual food shops to pay for hospital car parking when my wife got taken in for a day or two, it's shocking how big a financial hit just getting there and back a few times can be for those of us on low budgets, so there you have it SHTF in a small way, and food/domestic preps are better than money in the bank, they saved having to go shopping and allowed a juggling of funds, that is exactly why we do it, more gremlins than zombies

The whole juggling of funds things is actually quite important. If you have something to save up for, just carry on working your normal way for a while and use he stuff you have in stock to keep you alive. it can work very well

[Le Mouse]

Thanks guys!

I think I will keep a cache at work as long as I get access to a big enough drawer! Having a mini cache somewhere on the fields is fairly impractical - horses are grazed on there for most of the year and it would be hard hiding stuff away from nibbly teeth and from their inquisitive owners. Also it's very popular with dog walkers and geocachers, so if not a horse, it would be a dog or human that found my food store!

I thought about the alternate route for when (inevitably) snow cripples the city again. Last year the entire city went into gridlock and I'm going to be working very near to where the epicentre of the chaos was. Not only do the roads go into meltdown, but the pavements become lethal really really quickly. Logically the fields will be a bit less trodden and seeing as part of the route is through a small wood, less snowy too.

Oh, actually, in reference to geocachers, I found a geocaching resource yesterday with really good map options: http://www.geocaching.com/map/#?ll=54.5 ... .03223&z=6
If you go to the little layered paper symbol thing at the top right of the map, it shows lots of different maps. The Esri WorldImagery one is a bit more up-to-date I think than the satellite option on Google Maps.

This week and for a while I will be re stocking stuff I used instead of spending money on the usual food shops to pay for hospital car parking when my wife got taken in for a day or two, it's shocking how big a financial hit just getting there and back a few times can be for those of us on low budgets, so there you have it SHTF in a small way, and food/domestic preps are better than money in the bank, they saved having to go shopping and allowed a juggling of funds, that is exactly why we do it, more gremlins than zombies

I had something similar the last three weeks when I hurt my whole left side quite badly after a fall which meant I couldn't ride my bike because of the pain. I've been relying on public transport to get anywhere and it's so very expensive! Next on my prep list once I'm earning again is keeping a small transport fund for when I can't cycle - whether it be due to injury, weather or bike repair. And having food preps reduced the amount of shopping I had to get thereby resting the injured side more.