Starting line

The starting line

So I started today whilst in town with my children I picked up one or two things.
It's seems silly but I'm a bit excited.

So I have
A jar of honey , two jars of jam in different flavour each had until 2015 date ( I know they will last longer well especially the honey which has been found in ancient pirromids still edible.
I also got four tins of tuna and some rice packs. The tuna was 2014
As I have said before I am not stocking up for long term just enough for a couple of months.

I spoke to my mum today who has always had a full pantry since I was a little girl. I said I'm getting a stock together she said it was a good idea. As we chatted we discussed having enough to get by on.

Last month my husband hurt his sturnam and had to have in the end two weeks off work and because his work is manual and shitty he got very little sick pay. We got by and it is only because of my thriftiness and putting little bits of money away we could afford to get by.

It's not just food you should be stocking up on it is money too. Every little bit helps I am we'll a were that we can only get by because we have no depts or credit cards I will not apologise for this and would not disrespect other who did but even if you do have debt a pound in a jar a day wouldn't do you wrong.

So after two weeks off our savings is nearly empty again but we are starting putting it back in so if anything did happen we could pay our bills. Having a months bills/shopping in a savings account for just in case.

I now need to find some dry box to start packing our pantry things in. We haven't go too much room so I think I will stack them up on the shelves so we can use things as we need them just keep replacing them so there not just left.

I have seen that some preppers store watered too but I'm a little hmm about this. We live next to a canal and river so no water has never occurred to me. I may buy a few large bottles to put to one side but I won't go over bored.

Because I had the kids with me I couldn't really look through things properly in town but there is so much pounds shop things I could spend a fortune. Medical things I have been getting for a few years but never thought to have a stock of them. We get a bit complacent about things we have easy access to so my next step is to collect small amounts at a time of things. Such as badges plasters, medical cream, burn cream. Feminine produce, and personal higeen (no idea how to spell that and my spell check won't find it) so things like tooth past disposable razors ext.

I have again been looking at weapons I'm still on the no no type thing but I would love to hunt. I was to try rabbit but the butcher never has any and iv herd there bleeding excpencive which is strange. I would love to try my hand with a bow and arrow but really ones can cost a fortune. I saw some cheap crossbows but my husband things they maybe elligle. There is some hunting knives that I would need if I were to be catching rabbits.

I just wish we had a Cardenas we could raise our own and chickens I would love to have some hens for laying and eating too.

We have a little yard in the front off the main road we grow some veg but the snow has been terrible and killed all the seedlings so its a no no for us right now.

Will blog again soon