Terry,
My cunning plan has been to order my repeat prescriptions several days early each month to build up a small stock of several months' worth of meds. So far so good. Please don't skip your meds. My wife - also bipolar - did this and ended up in a very bad place
Hobo
It's that time of year to recharge all our lanterns and eneloops!
I also sorted through my stash of batteries. OMG, it must have been years! Some were use by 2011! How time flies. I'll be gradually replacing them with Duracell Ultra where possible, as they claim to have a 10 year life.
sniper 55 wrote:My micro stove finally arrived from China (via ebay) it fits with the gas bottle inside the small mess tin, and to be fair it works a treat, turn all the way up and theres shed loads of power for boiling, and it'll turn right down low for a simmer, built in lighter and all for under £8 including the gas,
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I'm going to make up some ziplock bags of drinking chcolate later and pop them in the space thats left over, that way I have a nice hot drink ready.
hobo wrote:It's that time of year to recharge all our lanterns and eneloops!
I also sorted through my stash of batteries. OMG, it must have been years! Some were use by 2011! How time flies. I'll be gradually replacing them with Duracell Ultra where possible, as they claim to have a 10 year life.
If the old ones are still good I wouldn't ditch them, maybe put them at the back of the queue but if you've got the space..... but then, I'm a wee bit of a hoarder.
hobo wrote:It's that time of year to recharge all our lanterns and eneloops!
I also sorted through my stash of batteries. OMG, it must have been years! Some were use by 2011! How time flies. I'll be gradually replacing them with Duracell Ultra where possible, as they claim to have a 10 year life.
We have been caught out by batteries going bad inside things, maglite 2AA in particular are vulnerable to complete ruin as they expand and will not come out, so along with stock rotation of food/water, I'd say it's crucial to check more frequently, or perhaps as I have seen on the Youtube folks channels, not even keep batteries in some gadgets at all but in a little baggie rubber banded to it? We use Duracell procell or Ever Ready Energizer batteries, my wife's e-bay skills tend to get good bargains, even good dated batteries seem to fail us and go manky, some whilst still working, so I'd say a well organized checking routine would be wise, all that remains is to follow my own advice
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
hobo wrote:Terry,
My cunning plan has been to order my repeat prescriptions several days early each month to build up a small stock of several months' worth of meds. So far so good. Please don't skip your meds. My wife - also bipolar - did this and ended up in a very bad place
Hobo
We've found the bean counting practice managers make that strategy a bit difficult, and in the case of the hospital chemist supplied meds for CML, it wouldn't happen, it's clear that many of us are dependent on meds for a great many conditions and would be screwed in a long term crisis ( to varying degrees of course) so skipping meds is not generally a good idea, mine are most effective if taken regularly and in the same time window every day, which is one reason I suspect many of us scoff at being thought of as Doomsday preppers, no we just want to keep ticking over if shit different to normal happens, having disabled family members ( who became that way as life progressed) for us means TSHTF two decades ago and hasn't stopped our type of prepping is to continue to survive and live with it, we could not survive without the welfare state, but could get through the most likely and ever ongoing glitches
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
sniper 55 wrote:My micro stove finally arrived from China (via ebay) it fits with the gas bottle inside the small mess tin, and to be fair it works a treat, turn all the way up and theres shed loads of power for boiling, and it'll turn right down low for a simmer, built in lighter and all for under £8 including the gas,
Edit.
I'm going to make up some ziplock bags of drinking chcolate later and pop them in the space thats left over, that way I have a nice hot drink ready.
do you have a link for where you got this please
I got it from lucky-4u-store off Ebay (I've no connection with the seller)
It's payday tomorrow, so today is the day for finding myself a new headtorch, mine is getting a bit old and tired (not to mention it chews through batteries). It's served me well, but it's time to retire it to the backup store. Something bright and rechargeable to replace it, I think.
sanctuary wrote:It's payday tomorrow, so today is the day for finding myself a new headtorch, mine is getting a bit old and tired (not to mention it chews through batteries). It's served me well, but it's time to retire it to the backup store. Something bright and rechargeable to replace it, I think.
