What Preps are you doing this week

[Steveo82]

It is good, very good. Very good. But it ain't holdin' as many tins per square foot as shelving (conventional?).however, if it suits you-fair play.

I know what you mean but 5ftx6" that's a foot print of 2.5 square foot and it holds 390 tins that's 150+ cans per square foot and it make rotation easy.
I think you ment wall area so I will design a hinged unit just for you. It will have a foot print of 3ftx15" and should hold 700+ std tins.

[moocher]

Not a prep as such,but missus dragged me into charity shop I had only been in yesterday and there was set of old zenith 7 x 15 binoculars , for £8.99. Case is broke and no lens caps,but they will be put in one of the vehicles.

[jansman]

It is good, very good. Very good. But it ain't holdin' as many tins per square foot as shelving (conventional?).however, if it suits you-fair play.

I know what you mean but 5ftx6" that's a foot print of 2.5 square foot and it holds 390 tins that's 150+ cans per square foot and it make rotation easy.
I think you ment wall area so I will design a hinged unit just for you. It will have a foot print of 3ftx15" and should hold 700+ std tins.

I am not knocking it one bit. It is brilliant. But *I* have never had the room for this kind of arrangement. If it works for you-great! p.s.it is a good bit of engineering

[SooBee]

It looks rather like a glorified version of the little rack I keep my OXO cubes in and it works that way to. I wouldn't be without my OXO rack.

Don't you find they go soft if the room is a bit steamy in one of those? I keep mine in a tuppaware box, and have you noticed a change to chicken oxo, I'd like to see the OXo woman crumbling these new buggers they're like cast iron

I agree...maybe they have steamy shops nowadays?
Failing all else, stick it in a plastic bag and hit it with a hammer!

[Xico]

I bought 2kg rice, 2 cans corns and peas, garlics and onios dehydrated, caned beans(carioca beas)

[nickdutch]

Made sure I had enough sensodyne repair and protect toothpaste in to last me until mid january.

On another note, successfully used some of my "hardware" to help get a particularly viscous splinter out. My new magnifying glass was brilliant as my eyesight is getting longer (must get my bottom to specsavers soon!), the first aid kit provided me with sticking plasters and germoline and I had a needle and tweezers that I used to dig and pull (respectively) the blighter out before applying the germoline and plaster.

Even with small day to day issues, being prepared can be a blessing. If I hadn't got obsessed with this forum a while back and started getting things in that I might need some day, I would possibly have been stuck or might have had to go next door to ask for help which would have been an embarrassment.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Made sure I had enough sensodyne repair and protect toothpaste in to last me until mid january.

On another note, successfully used some of my "hardware" to help get a particularly viscous splinter out. My new magnifying glass was brilliant as my eyesight is getting longer (must get my bottom to specsavers soon!), the first aid kit provided me with sticking plasters and germoline and I had a needle and tweezers that I used to dig and pull (respectively) the blighter out before applying the germoline and plaster.

Even with small day to day issues, being prepared can be a blessing. If I hadn't got obsessed with this forum a while back and started getting things in that I might need some day, I would possibly have been stuck or might have had to go next door to ask for help which would have been an embarrassment.

You great fairy Just leave it to go septic and it will squeeze out done that a few times

(only joking about the fairy bit honest )

i work in the Timber industry and had to have one surgically removed under local aesthetic from under my fingernail that hurt like hell after i will admit. Still it gave a laugh to a lass whos pet rottie had mistaken her foot for his tennis ball who was in the next cubical


Regularly remove them at work with my spiderco Bug pocket knife although also have a set of forceps in the car boot for the more stubborn ones and some tweezers...

The First aid at work trainer i had told me we could remove splinters as a first aider to which i asked him how big is a splinter and he couldn't get his head round the fact that in some jobs what we call a splinter would probably be classed as an impalement by a paramedic



Ive got some packs of Asprin to add to the other First aid kits for heart attack. this week Spent the rest of my prepping money on bloody car parts least i can spanner myself so saved a bloody fortune

[ticklemonkey]

Used the lifesaver-water purification system 20% discount code, Christmasgift, to get a 10-15 year disaster pack. Still pricey but water insurance is key. Very Happy , I. Like discounts.

[Spiderwebb]

Kept up the Rock 'n Roll image in the Spiderwebb household by spending a couple of hours in the loft today bolstering the insulation. Yeah baby!

[Briggs]

Thanks to the recent rain we've had, I was able to test my guttering first flush system. Quite pleased with it as the 200 litre water container with the flush fitted was almost crystal clear as opposed to the same size water container without the flusher. I tested after a dry spell when the roof would have been most dirty to make sure it was a fair test. I now need to upscale it from the 40mm pipe prototype to 100mm plastic pipe which will flush and clean a larger volume of water. My long term aim is to be turning this into grey water for the downstairs cistern and with proper filtration turning it into drinking water which should be of a higher quality than the recycled and reprocessed water coming out of my taps.

I've re-read the above and I fear that what once started out as a harmless way to reduce my utility bills may now be bordering on an obsession....