What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

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Organising my medical supplies - and writing a list. Bit of a question: things like surgical spirit, witch hazel, they have expiry dates on the bottles. Some things have "use by", most are "best before" - anybody know anything about that?
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Arzosah wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:06 pm Organising my medical supplies - and writing a list. Bit of a question: things like surgical spirit, witch hazel, they have expiry dates on the bottles. Some things have "use by", most are "best before" - anybody know anything about that?
Just like food Arzosah. Use by is just that. After that date that product will not be effective. Best before: ok to that date, but after that it may lose colour, texture, smell etc.

Hope that helps.
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jansman wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:18 pm
Arzosah wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:06 pm Organising my medical supplies - and writing a list. Bit of a question: things like surgical spirit, witch hazel, they have expiry dates on the bottles. Some things have "use by", most are "best before" - anybody know anything about that?
Just like food Arzosah. Use by is just that. After that date that product will not be effective. Best before: ok to that date, but after that it may lose colour, texture, smell etc.

Hope that helps.
It does, thanks - I'd have guessed the answer, and got it right :) but this is stuff you use when you're below par, after all :) ta muchly.
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Finally got my food stocks up to a point I'm happy with, only wish i had the skill and space to grow edibles but hey ho.
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preppergb wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:49 pm Finally got my food stocks up to a point I'm happy with, only wish i had the skill and space to grow edibles but hey ho.
Have you got any outside, even a balcony?
https://balconygardenweb.com/easy-conta ... gardening/

Gardening is a skill, you need to practice it.

I'm just at the "stick seedlings in a container and water when they're dry" level myself
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Pulled in four barrowloads of good topsoil from my neighbour today. I riddle it out , mix with sharp sand and homemade compost, along with fish, blood and bone and boom! Good Innes potting compost. To top it all Ian, the neighbour is digging drains ( he is a builder who has put two bungalows in his garden) and he has said he will pay me a ton a day for labouring as he knows I have no work right now. Of course, I have to contact HMRC first! ;) ;) 6 am start tomorrow it is!
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jansman wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:12 pm Pulled in four barrowloads of good topsoil from my neighbour today. I riddle it out , mix with sharp sand and homemade compost, along with fish, blood and bone and boom! Good Innes potting compost. To top it all Ian, the neighbour is digging drains ( he is a builder who has put two bungalows in his garden) and he has said he will pay me a ton a day for labouring as he knows I have no work right now. Of course, I have to contact HMRC first! ;) ;) 6 am start tomorrow it is!
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Awesome :mrgreen:
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izzy_mack wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:24 pm
jansman wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:12 pm Pulled in four barrowloads of good topsoil from my neighbour today. I riddle it out , mix with sharp sand and homemade compost, along with fish, blood and bone and boom! Good Innes potting compost. To top it all Ian, the neighbour is digging drains ( he is a builder who has put two bungalows in his garden) and he has said he will pay me a ton a day for labouring as he knows I have no work right now. Of course, I have to contact HMRC first! ;) ;) 6 am
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Good for you, jansman!

My preps have been less preptastic. I was up early to collect a click and collect order from my Sainsbo - literally the first food thats come into the house since the delivery 3 weeks ago, so I've been managing pretty well. I laid everything out at the front door so I could wash the chill and frozen stuff in really soapy water, bunged my clothes in the washer on a hot wash, got a shower and washed my hair. Might be slight overkill ... okay, yes, it is, I didn't even need to go inside the store, they do click and collect orders from a van of their own parked in the car park. I was seeing the queue to get in when the store opened - most people in masks, observing distancing, but you have to wait for a long while - I'm going to wait as long as I can before I need anything else - lots of lovely wild garlic in my garden, the lemon balm has gone crazy (so have the nettles) and the rhubarb looks beautiful.