To ask what slightly strange things you’re going to be keeping in now, in case of a blackout?

[hopeyourethereinthemornin]

Mine is fresh bedding!

I work in a hospital so will be expected to work through any sort of disastrous event. I would want to keep my normal life going as long as possible so I have two duvet/sheet sets washed and dried this weekend and stored away, with dryer sheets to keep them smelling fresh.

For this reason I’ve also got a load of dry shampoo in!

I thought she usually has a dirty spare set, but because we might have a war, now she’s going to wash it?

The Op does have a spare set. It’s just always dirty.

Not any more though. War is coming after all!

Blimey OP, there's a lot had a sense of humour bypass! I love these threads. Having lived in the middle of nowhere in the past, I've got into the habit of having quite a bit in. Got around 2 weeks human food, three weeks dog food, started to get the Christmas food in which will be eaten if we suddenly have no power. We live in an area where thousands were without electricity a couple of days ago so it beggars belief people don't take it seriously.

Now buying booze, crisps, chocolate. Making sure the washing is up to date so we've plenty of clean clothes. Changed the bedding yesterday 😂 Have plenty of books and games but might nip down the charity shop for some jigsaws.

its a real shame people put more energy into stock piling items in case of these emergencies rather than the cause.

There are so many small things we could be doing to help prevent these types of emergencies and I would recommend anyone searching for the showing of the film https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film

take 50 minutes to watch the film at a local showing or host one if there isn't one local to you - there is a tab to find a showing.

Posters just curious about the bed sheet situation is not a sense of humour bypass!

I was going to buy some uht milk this week but upgraded to normal milk frozen in ice cube trays for similar reasons. If I'm going to be living through a 3 day power cut I'll be in a much better frame of mind if I've had a decent cup of tea. Uht milk does not make for a decent cup of tea. We have ice cube trays shaped like stars so I'll boil my water outside on a pile of sticks then drop a star of milk into my tea. Then getting into a nice clean bed would round the day off perfectly. Maybe I should do the same as you op. We don't have to rough it just because there's no power.

I read it as they've been in storage and she's washed them so they're fresh. Things do get a bit musty if not regularly aired out!

but without electric how are you going to have milk?

But you aren't. Hygiene standards have to be maintained for the workplace. Staff would be allowed to use the showers. There'd be some way to wash your hair.

Lucky for us, Up North we'll probably get torrential rain until it's icy.
We just need to source mangles.
Befriend people who have pet rabbits, constant supply of nutritious meat. Raid your local pets at home.

If you have a power cut you'll have one day of frozen milk. Your freezer won't work.
People are saying they've got a stocked up freezer. It's around 18 hours of food, two ish days, if you are lucky.
Rewatch the walking dead. This is the end, is good. They survive so well because they've spent their lives watching disaster movies.

Guinea pigs are also delicious, although a bit bony, as I discovered in Sth America 😉

I’m keeping the battery fairy lights handy for a bit of extra light and comfort in a power cut. As well as torches etc

rather than worry about milk you might want to get a potty, some nappie sacks and cat litter

so you can line he potty with the nappy sack and put some cat litter in it for when you poo

no water means no flushing, no flushing with a household of three people is going to be very stinky

putting poo in a nappy liner with cat litter will save you from stink loo

how? if the water is not on and without heated water - how are you going to have a shower?

everyone will be a bit stinky, your nose will get used to it

people in the 1970s only bathed once a week, no one complained about the smell

buying mouth wash might be useful

The food won’t go off the instant it is taken out of the freezer. A freezer full of food would easily sustain a family for three days, even with the power off.

Yep and the more it goes on, the dafter they look and the more tedious it gets. People are very strange with their faux wide eyed misunderstanding shit.

yes, but putting the milk in ice trays is going to leave it as puddles of stars and open to the elements - better just putting a couple of pint containers in the freezer. Only opening the freezer once a day to get out what you need for the day and the milk will last a lot longer that way

I've just said the very same thing to my DD!

Why doesn’t the Op just answer the first time then. It’s not hard.

Is your spare set always dirty then?

Yes or No

It matters why exactly?

Once the divvys came out in force on an obvious light hearted thread, it was game over anyway.

You start a thread about what you do, then hardly unreasonable to ask about what you do if it doesn’t make sense or it’s curious

And yet many of us rolled our eyes at the ridiculous questions about duvet covers.

And many didn’t

Yep, just made themselves look foolish and killed a thread that could have been light hearted and entertaining. Something many people on here could do with I think.