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Adventure ridge hammock, bugnet and tarp, all for £25 https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/adventuridge-hammock-with-shelter-000000000715644001

Ive gone down the many smaller pouches for making a slimemr nelt kit, and also for organisation i did have a kit in a tangia tin for a bit....makes an excellent tin, better than the british army ones in my opinion as has a decent lid, i get all my pouches off aliexpress now, so much cheaper...

https://www.youtube.com/@RangerSurvivalandFieldCraft This channel has loads of survioval kit videos, and I think he did a modern version of the lofty tin recently, keeping close to the tin and pouch but with modern upgrades

If its too big...you wont bring it... a metal container, a lot of the time in the past its been to make charcloth, to polish for signalling mirror etc. BUT manmade tinders have improved, you could always boil water in foil, make a foil cup etc, i would have thought potassium permangeante or...

Asia supermarkets can be awesome for bulk buying and getting hard to find ingredients, like large bags of MSG, we used to buy loads from wai yee hong in bristol, the skyflakes when they are cheap enough are wonderfull crackers, go great with noodles or with a spread.

Its interestings eeing otehr peoples meal budging plans... Out of interest, with the various hellofrsh hacks...what do you spend per week on hello fresh compared to otehr groceries, and what proportion of the week does hello fresh offer.... To be honest ive never seen the appeal of...

Buying anything in store does have benefits...my fathers just been to Living Homes to look at TVs to get a feel for the size...sends me the model number then I buy it online.... Theres lots of things that if they are out of stock, you can browse similar much easier than online.. Online is...

Supermarket pychology.... the fact that they keep rearranging is to make you wander past areas and search teh shelves, tereby impulse buying otehr things that you dont need Having instore bakeries isnt to make fresh bread...the aroma of the baked goods is to make people hungry and thereby buy...

It depends on whether you have to pay for parking, fuel whether you buy things on offer...whether you need to check vegetable integrity ive seen people pay for a taxi just to go to the local tesco in that situation, for the elderly especially, it makes sense... some elderly people especially...

Personally I would never used a food delivery sevice, for basic groceries, the cost to delivery, my wife needs to inspect every egg and every bitof veg , and then substitutions, not worth it. online food shopping for dry goods, thats completley different just bought a bag of sucralose...

I could never get the best before versus american expiry.. Ive seen quiet a few american survival videos on YT where people say to through out expired emdications every so often, ridiculous. ive got iodine straws in my kit...iodine is practically eternal... some out of date medication is...

Anotehr vote for https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/ also this is great soemtimes for small packet/individual/MRE type bits https://cheapfood.co.uk/

wife knows more but i think certain houseplants do better on distilled water....

Ive got a meaco air conditioner, its marvelous...never thought we would need one in the UK, but makes the bedroom sleepable in the baking days of summer have a little free standing dehunudifier which gets used on the bathroom when its cold, otehrwise window open the dehimudier helps get water...

ive got a flat that lived in and now rent it had/has constant damp, the tenants dont open windows to air out the neighbourhood its in, if you open windows- burglary, smell of drugs wafting in, pets escaping, and mostly excessive noise... when kitchen extension done building control said...