What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

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pseudonym wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:07 pm Powercuts here in Melton. By the time I had got up for the Jackery it was back on..... :roll: :mrgreen:
Bet you was gutted you couldn't play 😂
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 9:14 pm
pseudonym wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:07 pm Powercuts here in Melton. By the time I had got up for the Jackery it was back on..... :roll: :mrgreen:
Bet you was gutted you couldn't play 😂
A bit, but safe in the knowledge that it was there.
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A financial Prep. I've been researching the options to fix home energy prices.

So far, fixing for a year seems a no-brainer for me. If I fix JUST BEFORE 30 Sept, I'll be paying about 5% a year more than I have over the last 12 months. Since capped energy prices are scheduled to leap by 10% on Oct 1st, anyway, I'd already be lined up to pay much more than the capped rate.

Caveat, if home energy prices drop over the next 12 months, I'd maybe over pay...... And pigs might fly.

Caveat not mentioned elsewhere....... Locking in today would mean I overpay what's needed for the rest of September. So long as the deal is still available, I should execute the lock in at the end of the month.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/ ... r-october/
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Nothing exciting added a couple of packs of D cell batteries to replenish some id taken out of stock...

And bought a new torch :roll: (not for me little lads Christmas list has 10 torches on it to be like daddy) :oops:

Little rechargeable energiser one but it's "only" 300 lumen and won't set fire to anything unlike my more powerful torches he keeps hankering after :o unlike his sister so far he seems to genuinely care for his stuff and looks after it his prised torch from santa is always put away bless him

It's his favourite colour and has snow flakes on it so definitely from Santa :ugeek:
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diamond lil wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 5:18 pmFinally surfaced here after 2 weeks without internet. Really hard to manage life without it now. I was going to bed at 9pm because I was so bored :evil: Even some nice light fluffy little old lady reading material - (ok, so mainly supernatural demons)- was not helping. Flat is quiet, warm and calm. And we don't have St Trinians next door now.
I was wondering where you were, Lil - glad to know you're okay (if bored!).

My prepping is as disrupted as ever - I had my niece's cat in the house for a few days a fortnight ago, and I have to move the houseplants around because they're listed as making cats sick. Plus tidying up the back door entry because he likes sitting there :lol: 🦊 He's back again for 3 weeks when she goes away for her main holiday, and I've just got back from a few days at Hadrian's Wall, which was fantastic - but my bug out bag and my hospital bag are both now decimated from things I nicked from them for the holibob. And I'm shattered :roll: so it's all catchup.
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Hadrians Wall is fabulous!
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Been and got extra keys cut for the estate agent cleared out all the clutter .. New boiler put the epc in the c bracket so was worth it .
Taken stock of what preps I have and adding discretely to the ones I'll need for winter ..Still hidden from anyone viewing
Have one of those birthday thingies today where people send cards and remind you you're a bit old now the pressies ace tho
How to apocalypse book
Ang one called no grid survival projects.. its a beauty
( off separate people )
2 torches a portable light switch ..ace ..love it takes batteries looks like a light switch and is bright ...and some para cord ...
Think that the ones that know me ..know me :lol:
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Bappy Hirthday GeeGee! Glad you are getting some useful pressies.
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GeeGee wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:33 pm Been and got extra keys cut for the estate agent cleared out all the clutter .. New boiler put the epc in the c bracket so was worth it .
Taken stock of what preps I have and adding discretely to the ones I'll need for winter ..Still hidden from anyone viewing
Have one of those birthday thingies today where people send cards and remind you you're a bit old now the pressies ace tho
How to apocalypse book
Ang one called no grid survival projects.. its a beauty
( off separate people )
2 torches a portable light switch ..ace ..love it takes batteries looks like a light switch and is bright ...and some para cord ...
Think that the ones that know me ..know me :lol:
Ohhh happy cake day 🎂 just go steady with the candles :twisted:
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

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Cant fit them on :D
But reading my books I know how to tunnel underground and hide in trees so the preps are coming on well :lol: