Rainy day preps.....144 to a box
 

144 double rolls of Northern to a box....about a year's worth around our household. Plywood box 19x19x43, lined with plastic, then wrapped with 6mil like the one on the left, then set up in a shed.

Critical item when you're as full of crap as I am......and the fact it's NORTHERN is simply icing on the cake...... :haha: :haha: :haha:

http://www.digistash.com/data/026a39...3_p114621.jpeg

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I'm prepared in that department too.:bath:

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Call me crazy, but I use wet-wipes. Every time I go to Target or Wallyworld, I check to see what wet-wipes are on sale. I've got about a years supply too. Ya feel cleaner, and it takes up less preps space.

Be warned though...once you start cleaning back there with these...you will not go back to TP......

Interesting read when googling for wet-wipes pics....:D ....

http://www.poopreport.com/Consumer/C.../wetwipes.html

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Northern Quilted, great stuff.

LOVE the plywood box idea. Great storage suggestion.

LOVE the wet wipes idea. I will steal as many ideas as I can.

thx

jim

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Love the plywood box idea! I think I need one out of steel...with a padlock! To my dismay I found that all those rolls of TP my husband had allegedly been buying at the grocery store were really from my storage stash in the basement! (Probably serves me right for not checking those big blue plastic bins more often!) Now my non-prepping husband and I are in a ridiculous battle of wills over toilet paper! He's all for the food storage, mind you, but for some reason he just draws the line at my storing toilet paper (I should point out here that he thinks we're all nuts...ahem, we're all "compensating" for some vague whatever). It's pretty weird, really. He's oblivious to most of the preps. The gasoline jerry cans are apparently invisible to him. He has no idea there's a geiger counter in the closet. He lived with me for 14 years before he realized that I have....let's say over 2 dozen and leave it there...guns (he apparently couldn't tell them apart and thought all the "black rifles" were one rifle, etc...when he finally started going shooting with me, he was stunned ). I don't think he's ever noticed there's a crossbow under the bed. He happily bought me a chainsaw for Christmas (and didn't blink and eye when I took it back for a bigger one). The toilet paper, however, makes him crazy. I have the stuff stashed all over the place. I'm sure my co-workers stroll by my truck in the parking lot and wonder why I've had a 72-roll package of toilet paper riding around in the back of it for 6 months...

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Along the lines of strike anywhere matches, you can still get napthalene mothballs at the dollar store if you look around.

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Strike anywhere matches.

Walmart
Lowes or Home Depot
Ace Hardware

I've even seen them sold at an Office Depot. Sometimes you have to ask, as for some reason some retailers hide the matches with some of the oddest excuses. I think it's a theft issue mainly, as you can slip a box of matches in a jacket pocket easy.

I used to get them at either Safeway or King Soopers fairly cheaply. Prices have risen. I found a dollar store that sells them 250 for fifty cents. I buy them two or three 'flats' at a time, depending on how many they have on their shelves.

These matches are not strike anywhere. They are strike on box. But for the price, they are steal.

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QWAK,Down Under, REAL MEN would NEVER even think of using WET WIPES!

http://thissiterocks.com/vids.htm?video=654

:elefant: :tongue: :banana: :haha: :rofl:

the DUCK

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IF I wasn't already married to my sweetie of 35 years, I'd fight you for her !

ESPECIALLY if she has a bass boat and motor !

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Aww [*blush*], and I didn't even have to tell you that I reload my own ammo and used to dance in a professional belly dance troupe. :laugh:

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Ah, now you've gone an done it Maddie :wink: You don't want to get these guys started.

Oh well why not, it would be more entertaining than watching the PM markets which is as exciting as watching paint dry.

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Personally, I'm a "Charmin Ultra" man myself.

Re wet wipes: I've tried them, but can't use them. They irritate my 'sensitive skin'. Folks who haven't used them should maybe test, before buying "mass quantities".

Ummmmm, I can't resist asking Maddie: Can you reload ammo while belly-dancing? See, I have these, uh, maybe 5000, cartridge cases that need reloading, and I was wondering......

Best to all.

d

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Unless you have some kind of skin condition, I seriously doubt that your skin is more sensitive than an infants. Therefore, I'm assuming you've tried the wrong thing. DO NOT use the ones made for cleaning your hands. Basically don't use anything with alcohol in it.....

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Wyldwil, howdy,

I used the baby wipes I got at Wally, the house brand. I figured I was sensitive to some chemical in them, so stopped using anything other than a (water) damp Bounty. No problemas since.

Best to all.

d

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What? Balancing a sword isn't good enough? Hmmm...must confess I've never tried reloading ammo while dancing, but something tells me shimmying is incompatible with accuracy in weighing powder.

Wet wipes are great! We should all test products before buying them in large amounts, though. You never know what you or someone in your family will react negatively to. I always worry, as evidenced by my many posts on it(!), about people who buy cases and cases of freeze-dried food without having their whole family try it first. Lots of people can't eat the stuff.

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This bit of trivia will be of little concern to
the great majority of you. I use Charmin Ultra
in my workshop, one sheet at a time, hundreds
of them, day after day. I use them to wipe
excess adhesive off parts after assembly.
Charmin Ultra because they are so absorbent,
I usually don't also have to use a solvent. But
here's the thing: Tearing off a sheet creates a
great cloud of paper dust to hang in the air.
I first noticed this when low angle sunlight
backlit the area where I was working. Since I
do this often, I now turn on a fan to blow the
stuff away, and I wear a 3M #8511 N95 dust
mask when doing this task. I buy the "respirators"
by the box because I use them so often for
other tasks too, like when I pick up dozens of
moldy oranges that have fallen off our trees.
They also would be handy if bird flu mutates
and becomes pandemic. Theoretically viruses
are too small to be filtered by cheap N95 masks,
but they usually hitch a ride on something that
will be stopped. More importantly they keep
wearer's hands from absent mindedly touching
their mouth and nose.

dtnwn

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That all depends on how HUNGRY they get!

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Yep, after many years since last taste
on a camping trip, I bought a couple of
MH dinners at a local sporting goods store.

Yhuck!
But, they didn't make me actually sick.
I'd eat them again, if necessary ........

dtnwn

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I have to tell you, Andy, I got a real chuckle of of your thread title.

The first thing that entered my mind was that you were going to tell us you've started to squirrell away great big "party pack" boxes of condoms.

Now that's a rainy-day prep! :eek:

Not a bad idea, but there are much more important things to focus on first, huh?

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Well, yeah, they could eat them, but what I meant was that the modified food starch in them triggers migraines or gastric distress in some people. For some, that's just an inconvenient headache, but people who get the really heavy-duty type of migraine can end up incapacitated for hours or days...probably not a good thing in a SHTF situation. Because the vomiting and dehydration can be severe, even life-threatening (due to electrolyte balance), a constant diet of MH could be a very bad thing for the health of a migraine sufferer post-SHTF.

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Yup, that's true too.
Some months ago, my Honey suffered
a bout of extreme vomiting/dehydration,
and fever. At the clinic, they put her on
IV drip for much of the evening, plus
antibiotics, in case it was a diverticulitis
event. She has had many tests, we still
don't know what caused it. She is
experimenting with special diets.

Only food I can't eat is crab, .. very allergic,
at least I was :bawling:
Sometimes food allergies go away on their
own but I am afraid to chance a test of crab.

dtnwn