I would like to share some information about clean water that I have not seen anywhere else.
First, I want to tell you why I learned to do these things. One reason is chlorine. The other is fluoride. Both are added to tap water in cities all over the world. When you turn on that tap, you are getting chlorine and fluoride, whether you want it or not. I do not.
Both chlorine and fluoride make me sick and I hate the smell and taste of chlorine. I don't want to drink chlorine and fluoride. I therefore get them out of my water before I drink it. The method I use now does not remove all of the chlorine and fluoride, but it gets most of it out. That helps a lot.
There are lots of sites that explain all about the dangers of fluoride and chlorine. I do not need those sites because my body tells me clearly that chlorine and fluoride are not good for me. I don't intend to go into much about that here.
Fluoride was used in the German concentration camps during WWIII to pacify and control prisoners. There is a lot more than that, but I think that is enough for me. If that doesn't do it for you, I suggest you do some research.
Chlorine can be used in small amounts to kill bacteria. It is fatal to just about everything in larger doses. One drop per ten gallons is considered enough chlorine to sterilize water to bathe burns patients. Burns patients are very vulnerable, so great precautions against infection are used for them. One drop per ten gallons is one of those great precautions.
All of the above paragraph should tell you that we have way too much chlorine in our water to be healthy for us. If you can smell it and taste it in the tap water, there is more than one drop per ten gallons. You are drinking poison, a lot of poison.
Chlorine is pretty unstable so boiling gets a lot of it out and so do carbon filters. Neither of these does squat for fluoride. I gather that the main ways to get fluoride out of your water are reverse osmosis and distillation.
Reverse osmosis is very expensive, so that leaves distillation. I am fairly chlorine free, but am still drinking much more fluoride than I want. I am working on a reasonably easy and cheap way of distilling my water.
I currently use a Mr. Coffee coffeepot and permanent filter with a carbon filter to go with it. That is supposed to take out 97% of the chlorine from my water. It is enough so that I can really tell the difference between tap water and my purified water.
I don't like to drink hot water so I cool it before I drink it. I use metal cooling bowls. They are stainless steel. I suppose I will post on not using aluminum in your food preparation stuff.
I drink too much water to wait for it to cool off in the coffee pot and coffeemaker that I reserve especially for water. I don't like insects doing a kamikaze in my water bowls, so I made covers for them. Even if you are fine with your tap water for regular use, you might want to have cooling bowls for your preparedness water and covers for them.
I guess I am going to have to do a post on how to make the cooling bowl covers for your preparedness water. I feel that other posts are more urgent, however. Besides I am going to have to draw pictures to show you how to make the cooling bowls and that takes a lot more time. You'll have to wait.
Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Serious Storage For Your Emergency Preparedness
If you are really serious about getting lots of storage for your emergency preparedness there are some ways to do it. The one that takes the most commitment is making a new floor that is on top of your existing one and using the space between them to store your emergency preparedness essentials. There are a lot of problems that come up with this storage solution, like tall people hitting their head on lamps and being able to open doors, etc.
You can pick one area and only raise the floor in that area, to start with. I think a living room area is one that works ok that way. If you have carpentry skills, you can do it that way, or if you don't know much about carpentry or you only want a temporary arrangement, you can use storage crates or cinder blocks to hold up your raised floor.
I got old doors for free to use for my raised floor.
If you can not find old doors, you can use plywood or particle board. If your old doors are hollow core, you will probably have to use plywood or particle board anyway, because recently made hollow core doors are paper thin and won't hold much weight.
If you need to do this on a very low budget, you can start by making your living room furniture or beds from crates or cinder blocks with plywood or doors on top of them. You can store a lot under a bed. I used mine like a day bed, so it was a couch during the day. I put it against the wall and made large pillows that leaned against the wall.
I used doors for a desk as well and put boards from a fence above it for shelves. My cats liked to sleep and play up there as well, so it also served as a cat playground. You can use crates and fence board and doors for more shelves to hold books and disaster preparedness supplies.
If you have enough money and doors or boards to do the whole thing at once, you can do a sort of conversation pit with storage benches around it. You can cover foam cushions for seats and put pillows on them for backs.
I made a skirt to go around the bottom of the couch so that the things underneath would not show and it will look nicer. It is also better that not everyone know that you are prepared for emergencies so you don't have someone wanting to rob you during a disaster. Looting during disasters is common and the efforts of law enforcement to keep order are often overwhelmed. Keeping a low profile is much safer and less distressing.
You can pick one area and only raise the floor in that area, to start with. I think a living room area is one that works ok that way. If you have carpentry skills, you can do it that way, or if you don't know much about carpentry or you only want a temporary arrangement, you can use storage crates or cinder blocks to hold up your raised floor.
I got old doors for free to use for my raised floor.
If you can not find old doors, you can use plywood or particle board. If your old doors are hollow core, you will probably have to use plywood or particle board anyway, because recently made hollow core doors are paper thin and won't hold much weight.
If you need to do this on a very low budget, you can start by making your living room furniture or beds from crates or cinder blocks with plywood or doors on top of them. You can store a lot under a bed. I used mine like a day bed, so it was a couch during the day. I put it against the wall and made large pillows that leaned against the wall.
I used doors for a desk as well and put boards from a fence above it for shelves. My cats liked to sleep and play up there as well, so it also served as a cat playground. You can use crates and fence board and doors for more shelves to hold books and disaster preparedness supplies.
If you have enough money and doors or boards to do the whole thing at once, you can do a sort of conversation pit with storage benches around it. You can cover foam cushions for seats and put pillows on them for backs.
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| Home made couch with storage for emergency preparedness supplies. |
I made a skirt to go around the bottom of the couch so that the things underneath would not show and it will look nicer. It is also better that not everyone know that you are prepared for emergencies so you don't have someone wanting to rob you during a disaster. Looting during disasters is common and the efforts of law enforcement to keep order are often overwhelmed. Keeping a low profile is much safer and less distressing.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Cheap Storage For Disaster Preparedness
Finding extra storage for preparedness supplies can be a challenge, especially if you live in an apartment. There are people who spend all their work time thinking of and designing extra storage. Some of their storage can be expensive, but there are still lots of ways to make your own. It doesn't hurt to look at the way professional storage people make extra storage and learn from them.
An often neglected area that can provide a lot of storage is closets. That is above the top closet pole on closets that go all the way to the ceiling. Even if there are shelves above the top closet pole, there is usually extra space up there that you can make use of for your preparedness supplies. Plant or cup hooks suspended from the closet ceiling can allow you to suspend a lot of disaster supplies up there.
You can use bags or baskets to hang supplies from your closet ceiling hooks. They are not good places to put things that you will need in a hurry unless you are tall enough to reach up and take them down fast. This is not a good place for go bags, for example. It is fine for shelter in place preparedness items, however.
Built in drawers such as for kitchens often have space underneath them that will allow you to store some preparedness items and still allow clearance for opening and shutting the drawers. Some drawers also have space behind them.
If you can afford to buy storage, hassocks, ottomans, or footstools are made that open up to storage inside them. Instead of a coffee table, you can purchase a footlocker or chest with storage for your preparedness supplies.
Bookshelves are great for storing preparedness food. They allow you to use them like a pantry and are easy to rotate your food and keep track of what you have or still need.
Instead of a headboard for your bed you can use a bookcase or a set of them for a headboard and footboard. You can then use the bookcases for storing preparedness supplies.
If you are using cleaned out plastic soda pop bottles to store water for your preparedness, they will fit under a lot of couches. You may have to lay the soda pop bottles full of water on their sides to fit them under your couch. If you need to do this, make sure to tighten the caps extra so they do not leak. A slipcover for your couch that goes to the floor will hide your preparedness supplies there.
It is a good idea to put labels on your water bottles so that you will know when to empty and replace them. Every six months is a common suggestion by experts. I water my plants with the water I have stored for preparedness. You could rotate it into your daily drinking and cooking water to keep it fresh also.
Most of the ideas for storage in this post apply to water, but you could use them for other supplies as well. You and your family are the ones who need to decide what will work best for you.
There are endless ways to find extra storage for your disaster preparedness supplies. I will keep sharing some of them with you in my posts. I hope that you will take care of your safety and that of your loved ones by being prepared for disasters.
An often neglected area that can provide a lot of storage is closets. That is above the top closet pole on closets that go all the way to the ceiling. Even if there are shelves above the top closet pole, there is usually extra space up there that you can make use of for your preparedness supplies. Plant or cup hooks suspended from the closet ceiling can allow you to suspend a lot of disaster supplies up there.
You can use bags or baskets to hang supplies from your closet ceiling hooks. They are not good places to put things that you will need in a hurry unless you are tall enough to reach up and take them down fast. This is not a good place for go bags, for example. It is fine for shelter in place preparedness items, however.
Built in drawers such as for kitchens often have space underneath them that will allow you to store some preparedness items and still allow clearance for opening and shutting the drawers. Some drawers also have space behind them.
If you can afford to buy storage, hassocks, ottomans, or footstools are made that open up to storage inside them. Instead of a coffee table, you can purchase a footlocker or chest with storage for your preparedness supplies.
Bookshelves are great for storing preparedness food. They allow you to use them like a pantry and are easy to rotate your food and keep track of what you have or still need.
Instead of a headboard for your bed you can use a bookcase or a set of them for a headboard and footboard. You can then use the bookcases for storing preparedness supplies.
If you are using cleaned out plastic soda pop bottles to store water for your preparedness, they will fit under a lot of couches. You may have to lay the soda pop bottles full of water on their sides to fit them under your couch. If you need to do this, make sure to tighten the caps extra so they do not leak. A slipcover for your couch that goes to the floor will hide your preparedness supplies there.
It is a good idea to put labels on your water bottles so that you will know when to empty and replace them. Every six months is a common suggestion by experts. I water my plants with the water I have stored for preparedness. You could rotate it into your daily drinking and cooking water to keep it fresh also.
Most of the ideas for storage in this post apply to water, but you could use them for other supplies as well. You and your family are the ones who need to decide what will work best for you.
There are endless ways to find extra storage for your disaster preparedness supplies. I will keep sharing some of them with you in my posts. I hope that you will take care of your safety and that of your loved ones by being prepared for disasters.
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