They are brilliant at two things: Saving storage space: Processing gluts and yellow sticker bargains. You can literally fit a sack of produce, dehydrated, into a litre mason jar. Suck out the air with a 5 quid brake bleed pump and you have a long term stash. Even if you don;t suck out the air, you can keep your food for MANY months without wasting precious freezer space. Can 'canning' save volume like that?
Cool! You can detect hedgehogs by sitting quiet and listening. They are usually flea infested and you will hear the poor souls scratching themselves.The night vision glasses realistically will be used to see if we have hedgehogs,
And that is the exact correct first question! Consider a few scenarios, Rank them in likelyhood and solution and try to find ideas that cut across them. E.g. A well stocked pantry might help in case of hurricane, flood, power outage, unemployment, pandemic etc. A tent or crossbow might not be so universally useful. Go for max bang for your buck. And have fun. If you ever wanted to buy some solar powered torches or a backup supply of Merlot, indulge yourself.How do you plan to be prepared when there seem to be so many things to need to be prepared for?
Oh. we are hard core alright. Just much more pragmatic than our US cousins with their multi acre homesteads, deep cellars, and deadly criminals.So relieved this isn't a site of hard core preppers. My idea of roughing it is a 3* hotel and bugging out could either mean extra mosquito repellent or a delicious Ozzie BBQ. Just aiming for me and mine to be OK until normality is resumed. In case of a SHTF moment look me up, my emergency bag has merlot.
We might be stuck in a small council flat with a window box and the odd invading mouse.
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Again.... Share your own ideas. Share for example links to cheap night vision specs