Hi! New Member from the North East!

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GazBrown85
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Hi! New Member from the North East!

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Hi people!

My name's Gary, I'm from Stockton-on-Tees (It's North-West of Middlesborough and is where the first ever railway was built, Stockton to Darlington and also where the friction matchstick was invented too. Tony and Ridley Scott were both born here too, a little history there for people who've never heard of Stockton! ;) ) I've been interested in prepping/survivalism for a few year's now.

I have a few item's, but not much. Army surplus foldable stoves with hexamine tablets. Plenty of candles, matches, iodine (I need to obviously get a few other different forms of water purification! A Gerber lock knife, a few cheap multi-tools, I'd love to get get a Gerber or Leatherman multi-tool, but I have cash problems at the moment. I have a single man survival bivvie I think it's called, it's not a tent, but a tarp that you sleep under.


My family and friends don't know I'm interested in it at all or am prepping, the reason being is because they'd say things like "You're paranoid!", "You're stupid!" and "Stop wasting your money!".

I need a decent bag (B.O.B.), all I have is a Adidas backpack, probably 30 liters which wouldn't help much! I only heard of a Get Home Bag (G.H.B.) three days ago! :|

I found this site via google, I'd typed in something along the lines of "Bug of bags UK" and this came up, I thought I'd have a look as the majority of survivalism sites are American.

Anyone wanna know more or chat just message me! :)
preppingsu

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Post by preppingsu »

Hello and welcome.
Sound like you have made a good start. There is lots of information on here so take time to read.
Any questions just ask.
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welcome to the forum
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northern bloke
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Welcome from another northerner.

Don't worry about what others say I just look at it as though I'm not wasting any money collecting stuff for a hobby like camping and buying food that can be stored before it gets even more expensive there's nothing stupid about that.
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Hello and weclome to the Forum.:)
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Hi and welcome
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Ferricks
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hi and welcome :)
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Hello there, welcome to the forum.