What prepper equipment is on your wishlist ?

[BlackeyedSusan]

From budget to fantasy and in various levels in between?

Budget: I have treated myself to a few of these for birthdays and Christmas but some are still only on the wish list
Car charger that is also seatbelt cutter and glass breaker.

Flint and steel.

Water purification tablets.

Disposable bbq
Head torches
Many little torches for each bag/car/

Branded Cous cous packets (rather than making your own from own spices and a large pack.)

Next level:
Good insulated travel cup.
Good flask./food flask with different sections
Wind up torch.
Disposable bbq stand.
Brighter torch and or lantern for car.
Solar lanterns (want one each for child's room)
Life straw.

Bit more expensive:
Solar power banks for kids.
New bag to take to hospital with lots of pockets for different things.
Merino wool base layers and woolly jumpers.

Expensive:
A good brand waterproof coat or two.

Fantasy:
House with good big garden and well insulated and room for lots of fruit and vegetables. Fruit cage etc.
Solar power generator.

What's on your wishlist o

I think I have all that I'm prepared to pay for right now. Top priority was usb torches and power banks. Ideally we would have one of both each. But we have enough to share.

A solar charger.
Kelly burner but we have a fire pit.

I'm not really into end of world prepping and am using up my food preps. I have enough food in for at least a month now. Currently I'm working on having about £250 in cash to dash out for a larger shop. Even with covid there was notice it was coming. I always have months of washing detergent, rice, loo roll and pasta as we bulk buy from costco. Anything more and it's storage / rotation nightmare. I love my grab bag. That's got everything I need to a emergency hospital trip or a power cut. Keeping that ticking over is my level right now

@Legoandloldolls has hit the nail on the head - “I'm not really into end of world prepping and am using up my food preps”

The most important thing is to know what your particular ‘prepping’ is in preparation for .

On the top of the scale is fully fledged end of the world / zombie apocalypse, and the opposite side would be a couple of hours of the internet going down.

The most general need would be to cater for a power cut and for supermarket shelves to be empty.
In the modern world candles, board games and tinned food wouldn’t cut the mustard, we will want power packs to keep phones and tablets going, and solar to recharge the power packs.

Next that people discovered over covid & Brexit is that supermarket shelves empty at a moments notice - usually when there isn’t a shortage but just because social median says so (remember the almost worldwide toilet paper ‘shortage’ because of a supply issue in Australia ? warehouses were full of toilet roll but the panic buyers had raided all the shelves)
Therefore do you have enough of what you require or at least some alternatives for a few days/ bank holiday long weekend?

Then up the level of delay - what do you need if the shelves aren’t being replenished?

Once those are covered - what is more specific to your circumstances? Could you be cut off by flood, snow etc? If so what do you need for the time spent while waiting for an emergency response to clear the roads, put up an army bridge etc

Or are you on an island which could be cut off for longer in storms?
(As a child I failed to comprehend why my uncle kept plenty of long life milk on the basis that the ferry might not be able to get through with deliveries …. That made sense on the face of it, but not so much sense bearing in mind he had a dairy herd)

Im starting to think about what I might need to organise for an apartment ina European city centre rather than house on outskirts of a city. As I may be moving solo for a few years.

I'll leave some things for DH here. But I think I'd let him manage with the gas bb and I'll bring the 1 ring gas camping stove with me. Split the lanterns wtc.

But Ineed to have a think about how to make things work in a flat so no rain water butt for water, no garden to light a bbq in, no easy access to sticks for Kelly kettle (and could I light that on a balcony anyway?)...

So any thoughts on that, and anything that would be particularly useful, would be gratefully appreciated.

Or things to look out for when flat hunting...

@BiddyPop start a thread and I'll have a think. (Flat dweller)