What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[gunner7]

I've spent the day printing off survival manuals and end of the world guides on the printer at work. If nothing else I can use the paper to start my fire in my wood burning stove

[Decaff]

Not that far from me then terrytaylor84 similar distance from hull myself but in melton so probably only around 10 ish miles from Beverley

My prepping this week hasn't amounted to much but am now looking for decent supplies of canning jars in quantity after my All American 921 pressure canner has finally made its way over from the states and arrived


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Cheapest place I've found for the jars is Lakeland, they sell the replacement lids too, free P&O on orders over £35 or free to collect in store. Happy canning

[defender130]

Lakeland is looking like top of the list at the moment although I can't seem to find anywhere doing wide mouth jars

Looks like I either need to do a bit harder googling or just get a pallet over from the U.S. and sell the extras


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[Decaff]

That's my only gripe, they don't do the wide mouth jars, I have been emailing them to ask them to stock so who knows! They only started stocking the Ball stuff last year so it's a bit early days, that what I'm telling myself

[Arzosah]

I've been doing a bit of long term financial prepping - otherwise known as pension planning I'm retiring end August, but no pension set up, though I have a small pension fund. I've realised I can set the pension up to start giving me a bit of an income - it's maybe a quarter of what I need, very basic level (biggest expenses is my council tax). I *had* been thinking of downsizing into a flat from my little house so that I could have some extra cash to play with and live nearer my sister, but I don't want to move into a flat if I can avoid it, partly because of the noise issues (which are bad enough with only one family through a party wall) but also on a prepping level - I want to keep the ability to grow food, however little, and to keep my own front door rather than go through a communal area to reach the outside (thinking of influenza season or even pandemics there).

It's going to be squeaky, but I think I can do it.

[whenfires]

I assembled my new log store and it is now about half full so need to buy/cut some more logs to fill it completely. I might add a shelf at the top of it to store the kindling on as well. Makes a nice feature in the garden and no-one thinks of any prepping aspect to it at all.

Also I bought socks, because no apocalypse will be survivable without socks

[Djorn]

Just bought a boat that needs a wee bit of restoring, basic 14ft fishing boat with a small cabin, she is sea worthy but requires a bit of cosmetic work. Due to my location on the shores of a Loch it will make a great prepping tool. I plan to fish from it and explore the local inlets and Lochs. There are a number of small islands and most aren't inhabited. I am guessing she will carry 4 people and be a good place to store a BoB.

Also been focusing on veggies this year, got a large selection of different veggies starting to sprout up (not going sprouts though), got the seed potatoes in this weekend will have to see if the squirrels have dug them up when I get home.

[jansman]

[quote=to rzosah"]I've been doing a bit of long term financial prepping - otherwise known as pension planning I'm retiring end August, but no pension set up, though I have a small pension fund. I've realised I can set the pension up to start giving me a bit of an income - it's maybe a quarter of what I need, very basic level (biggest expenses is my council tax). I *had* been thinking of downsizing into a flat from my little house so that I could have some extra cash to play with and live nearer my sister, but I don't want to move into a flat if I can avoid it, partly because of the noise issues (which are bad enough with only one family through a party wall) but also on a prepping level - I want to keep the ability to grow food, however little, and to keep my own front door rather than go through a communal area to reach the outside (thinking of influenza season or even pandemics there).

It's going to be squeaky, but I think I can do it.[/quote]
I have been doing something similar today.Running through our finances and my mediocre pension fund.I have a while to go yet, but I have to start thinking about retirement, and getting creative with the resources available!

[gunner7]

I've spent today looking at houses for sale as I may now be able to get a house in the country. It's been my dream for a long time to have a house with a small amount of land to be a bit more self sufficient. I've had allotments but I want to be away from the town with large enough garden space. Hopefully I should be able to afford a few acres of woodland as well to keep the wood burners going.

[nickdutch]

Been getting obsessed with the idea of having a car of my own, then it struck me, why not make my own?

Cars cost money for tax, insurance, fuel, maintenence and the like. Electric cars are pretty much the same and you have to hire the batteries as well as charge them up. Purchase cost can be high and then the depreciate in value as they sit on the drive.

However there is this thing called a velomobile. A pedal powered vehicule in an enclose aerodynamic shell.......

http://www.velomobiles.co.uk/

These things are more popular in Europe than the UK at the moment, but we got enough A roads to make the ownership of one worth while

Apparently you can even make your own with a three wheeled electric bike (possibly with UK road legal electric assist to help get going in traffic and to help get up hills) and then make a aerodynamic superstructure around it.

It is said that a normal cyclist suffers most road friction when starting to pedal, ten after a time the road resistance declines and air resistance takes over. Eliminate or reduce the air resistance and you have a faster "bike".
These things can go at 30 MPH for longer then you could on a regular bike, some youtube videos show thee things going at a comfortable 40, and some commercially available models, is is said, have been known to break the national speed limit (60Mph)

Commercially available high speed velomobiles are pricey. You can buy a new car for less!

But if i can wait patiently for an appropriate recumbent geared bike to appear second hand.... and i can get a UK road legal electric assist system fitted to it.... and then get the superstructure..... I then have myself a "pedal electric hybrid" that might be no bother to drive in the rain and the cold (unlike the bike) and could enhance my range capabilities. And it woudl be even more "green" than an electric car.

It may be a few years before I have it built, but it could be worth it

This will take some planning.