What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Arzosah]

I've finally managed to put up a curtain in my kitchen window. It could do with being flattened out from its "I'm a curtain" gathers at the top, to make it more of a blind. It isn't quite long enough, either, but I have a lot of edging material of various sorts in my stash, I could do that. There are hooks that were screwed in to the wooden surround to the window, and I've got a piece of very rough string/small rope as a curtain tie-back It's not on a curtain rail, just the tension rod for a net curtain, so it needs something like that.

So, I have (quite a lot of) privacy, and the start of cutting down my lighting profile from the outside. Very pleased, there've been about 5 steps to get to this stage.

[Medusa]

I've bought a second hand Blu Ray/DVD player and toured the local charity shops at the weekend buying up a load of movies/box sets to watch - they are SO cheap now - I averaged five DVDs for £1.00! My old DVD player gave up the ghost when I dropped it on the floor...

You may not think it's a prep as such, but I won't be doing much during the winter months, to save money, so this was a bit of a no-brainer for me. I do have a Sky package/Netflix and Prime Movies but it's amazing how quickly you can run out of things to watch, even with a gazillion channels.

I wouldn't be without my DVD collection nor my CD collection and people laugh at me. I hate shopping but love nothing more than a trip to CEX to add to my DVD collection. I refuse to have my phone connected to the truck to play music and had to have a CD player fitted as "an extra". Salesman was quite rude when I requested it. I have Prime and Netflix but still struggle to find things to watch when my brain is fried from work and often resort to old favourites from the DVD collection.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Few little jobs..

Sisters oven has packed up fan bearings have failed new fan sourced £25....

Stocked up on wood pellet cat litter (they will be in short supply very soon....)

Stocked up on cold and flu stuff I feel crap ....

Little man now has a electric blanket on his bed with an overnight low mode .. boiler fails and he can be nice and warm in bed... And I can join him and we can read a book together / discuss the inner workings of the solar systems, cars, planes and the current go to subject of smelly trump's

Did a bit of work on the car it was running crap cleaned the throttle body re learned the throttle body using the diagnostic kit I have it's like a rocket again ...

Bought a few slabs of pop they never go a miss for work / emergency drinks

Ordered a 12v usb adaptor for my sheds back up power supply

All being well little misses new bike light should be here soon too..

[Medusa]

Stocked up on wood pellet cat litter (they will be in short supply very soon....)

I have noticed that it has been in short supply, what is the reason?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Stocked up on wood pellet cat litter (they will be in short supply very soon....)

I have noticed that it has been in short supply, what is the reason?

Short version ;

Wood shortage due to Russia sanctions... Wood price
from other countries spiked, people stopped buying wood... + Past two years of lockdown anyone who was going to do their garden up has done so no demand for machined timber. Coupled with spike in price for sheds / fencing putting buyers off.. that's before factoring in the cost of electricity / road haulage / import tariffs
..

.. So not much sawdust / shavings about for animal bedding/ toileting

[itsybitsy]

I've bought a second hand Blu Ray/DVD player and toured the local charity shops at the weekend buying up a load of movies/box sets to watch - they are SO cheap now - I averaged five DVDs for £1.00! My old DVD player gave up the ghost when I dropped it on the floor...

You may not think it's a prep as such, but I won't be doing much during the winter months, to save money, so this was a bit of a no-brainer for me. I do have a Sky package/Netflix and Prime Movies but it's amazing how quickly you can run out of things to watch, even with a gazillion channels.

I wouldn't be without my DVD collection nor my CD collection and people laugh at me. I hate shopping but love nothing more than a trip to CEX to add to my DVD collection. I refuse to have my phone connected to the truck to play music and had to have a CD player fitted as "an extra". Salesman was quite rude when I requested it. I have Prime and Netflix but still struggle to find things to watch when my brain is fried from work and often resort to old favourites from the DVD collection.

I have thousands of CDs too, which I listen to in the car. I also have Spotify which I do love and also an app called Radio Garden which allows you to listen to digital radio stations across the world - I'm currently crushing on Nashville Country radio!

[GeeGee]

I've bought a second hand Blu Ray/DVD player and toured the local charity shops at the weekend buying up a load of movies/box sets to watch - they are SO cheap now - I averaged five DVDs for £1.00! My old DVD player gave up the ghost when I dropped it on the floor...

Still have the dvd player started on all the dvds when we finished Netflix in lockdown
Theyre so cheap at car boots amd charity shops now ..
Also still have a cd player in the car even though it will Bluetooth music from phones..mainly country music
Took grandson into a cafe on Saturday it was a retro one records all over a juke box etc ..old records for place mats
The place fell silent when he said ..GG whats this black round thing ....
Explained it was a record and you used a needle to play it
He looked stunned...
I said like a big CD ..looked confused
So said those things I use in the car
I mean he thinks telephone boxes were built for the defibrillators so I defo feel old now !

[itsybitsy]

[diamond lil]

Thinking of getting this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09 ... O5TM&psc=1

[GeeGee]

Thinking of getting this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09 ... O5TM&psc=1

We have one its a pretty neat piece of equipment
Used it a couple weeks ago. When the power cut hit for a good few hours and it didn't dosappoint it does what it says on the box