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Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - NorthernRaider - 31 March 2014 Over the winter months from around the end of September I have not been paying close attention to the stores issues, EG if I wanted Kitchen Roll or Laundry detergent I just yelled at junior to bring some down from the big cupboard. This morning I shout to the spoilt brat and ask him to bring a 4 pack of kitchen roll down and a bottle of domestos. "Dad we haven't got either"!!!!!! was the reply. Trots upstairs and inspects both cupboards, gallops back down and checks under the stairs and under the sink, anxiety grows and goes out to garage with check lists in hand. Shit,since Sept 2013 we really have depleted our stocks, below is just some of the stuff we have ran down to very low levels, or ran out of. Kitchen roll Toilet Paper Baby wipes Domestos both 1 litre and 5 litre bottles Flash liquid surface cleaner Detol Bin bags !!!!! I thought we had hundreds of them!!!! Stardrops Comfort fabric cond ( I like soft skivvies ) Disposable razors Sanex hand cleaner Coffee mate Bread flour Powdered eggs Cooking oil Apple juice !!! Has the little sod been bathing in it ? Tinned pies (ok my bad ) Hell there is even only two boxes of compo rations left and I don't trust the dates on them. Petrol Engine oil semi synthetic WD 40 De-icer Screen wash 4x2 plywood boards Cold & Flu Caps Gaviscon Colofac Paracetamol I an genuinely shocked and surprised just how easy it was to get through so much gear and not notice, I need to pay more attention in future, I hope the same cock up does not apply to you folks. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - bigpaul - 31 March 2014 since we were snowed in for nearly 4 weeks a few years ago, I have increased the stocks so we DONT run out of anything, we do a "top up" shop every week and a "big" shop once a month. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - NorthernRaider - 31 March 2014 Mind you I have just realised that it is nearly six months since I checked the stocks !!! what a maroon I am. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - bigpaul - 31 March 2014 6 months?? bloody hell, I check the stocks every WEEK but then we haven't got the amount of stores that I know you have NR, we don't keep the large stock of chemicals that you do for instance. as for tins etc this is rotated on a date basis, using the oldest first and replacing with fresh stock.a lot of our food is used FRESH-in a normal week we would only use maybe 2 tins of stuff, we eat fresh meat from the farm shop and grow a lot of our own fruit and veg, we don't like processed food its not good for health reasons and most of our tin stock will only be used in a SHTF situation. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - Skean Dhude - 31 March 2014 On the plus side you know how many you had and therefore how much you have used in 6 months so if you want to prep for 12 months or 18 months worth you can do the calculations. If you need help just shout. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - NorthernRaider - 31 March 2014 Normally its only stuff like cleaning materials we keep crazy amounts of like Kitchen roll, Domestos etc cos we only buy it if we see it on really good offer at Makro. Grub wise we probably only normally have 3 / 4 months worth at sensible calorific values. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - bigpaul - 31 March 2014 just been talking to OH about stores in general and she said " if imports stopped-for any reasons- how much of what you store can you obtain locally??" a lot of the medication comes from abroad. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - Lightspeed - 31 March 2014 This household had a similar problem of depleted stores We've now completely separated day to day living stuff from preps. Preps are in sealed boxes and kept separately from day to day stores. That said, we still had an unexpected shortfall on LPG stock after one of our number helpfully swapped out a 13Kg Propane cylinder without telling anyone. It was only discovered after I swapped the cylinder last week only to find the replacement empty. Helpful person has been asked to refrain from such helpfulness in future... RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - Scythe13 - 31 March 2014 (31 March 2014, 11:23)Lightspeed Wrote: We've now completely separated day to day living stuff from preps. I didn't know the 2 were ever kept together in the first place?!?! If the wife ever says 'the house is low on food' I can't help but smile. Truth is, there's LOADS of food stashed away, but the cupboards she's looking at are not too abundant. Having a few days worth of food and equipment is 'empty' by her standards now. When she goes upstairs and finds the extra stuff hidden away...she'll understand why I smile quite as much as I do when she says that the house has no food in. RE: Logistics-taking your eye off the ball - Midnitemo - 31 March 2014 i live in my partners house and rent(well he's a lodger really)mine to a friend, i keep a bedroom for my bits and pieces locked, its becoming a regular little alladins cave for preppers but i am rapidly running out of room lol. |