At our urban house:

Food stores are up to 8 months supply for our family of 4 with a ration of 1500 calories per day for the kids and 2500 per day for us adults. Plenty of room to ration and stretch that out longer if we have to, or if we're just not that active in a time of emergency.

Water stores are up to a full year with 1.5 gallons per day for each person or 2300 gallons.

I'm done with urban home prepping now. We're "good enough". The rest of my efforts go into improving and expanding at our BOL.

Fun addition this week - 83 unused axe and hatchet heads of various sizes and uses, bought at an auction for $30. Now i just have to get good at making my own handles!

CP Gear is having a 10 percent off everything sale until the 29th of October.

I'll be picking up some gear made in Canada.

http://www.cpgear.com/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPGear&utm_content=CPGear+28+October+2014

have been very gradually going through some boxes and storage tubs, beginning a purge of some obsolete and expired items.

Found a few things I had misplaced/forgotten about. Maxpedition FR-1 pouch for one.

Added a credit card sized battery pack/charger cable and a tiny boo-boo kit (2 reg, 2 small bandaids & 2 alcohol prep wipes) to my phone case/wallet

Had a good deal on some ammo as well as an oversize military style poncho - the kind you can wear a backpack under. Czech army I think it said. It was something like $8 so it's good to keep in the truck and if it's not great, then it was only $8...

purchased a small folding trolley.. with my heath issues i can't carry much weight at all... so I will load my "gotta leave in a hurry bag" (WIP) onto the trolley and have it ready to go.. at the worst I can drag/roll the trolley much further than I could carry the bag

Came upon several excellent in store deals at Costco over the last month or so, husband's favourite cereal being one of them so we loaded up. Bought extra cocoa powder and baking soda there as well. Ketchup ended up being within pennies the store sales unit price so I just picked it up there. It's all been sitting in my living room waiting to go to the fruit cellar but we had work to do down there first because we were adding a small 4 ft wide, 5 shelf commercial shelving unit to the fruit cellar/food storage room. Had to take all the food stuffs off the existing shelves, wipe the shelves and cans/jars/packages all down with bleach wipes. Packed all the food into boxes (we have the occasional furry visitor that gets past the terriers and the cat, ours is a very old house).

We rearranged the old shelves to fit and accommodate the new shelf. Loaded the new shelf up with all my cases of canning jars, freezer bags, the two Food Savers and our meat slicer (basically, all the preserving/dehydrating gear), reorganized the food storage from the moved shelves and restocked those shelves.

Put all the pasta/oatmeal/whole grain cereals into brand new clear heavy plastic bins so it's easier to see and remember to use (also organized the bins so the newest is on the bottom, oldest on the top).

Rotated the stock from the other shelves that didn't get moved and got rid of a few things that were either too outdated to bother with or had been deemed not to our taste and to be donated to the food bank. We really have been good about rotating so there was little to get rid of...less than a liquor store box of things and that includes the food bank stuff (I also checked my containers with all the vac packed nuts I'd done and only lost one small bag of sunflower seeds to seal failure).

Last week-end was a very busy week end.

Got one from CrappyTire and then also ordered another one of these from Amazon.ca
*Note you need to fill it up either 6 hours or 12 hours, comes with a filler cup. Uses Premium Lighter fluid, I haven't tried using Kerosene yet.
Its a bit tricky to light it up and get the heat going, but once you are used it then you will be fine.
- Suggestion, use a Butane Lighter Torch makes lighting this thing eezypeezy.

Dehydrated a bunch of green peppers and Poblano peppers that were in my freezer.
Dehydrated green peppers are curiously delicious as a snack...never would have considered them as a snack food 😉

Well, a few things :

3 pails + lids
a scope for my rifle
a bucket of Mountain House food
a life straw 0.02 Micron family purifier

Thank goodness for wicked black Friday / Cyber weekend deals!

Does subtracting count? I have gone through some of my gear and put together a lil stash for the unit block my parents recently moved into. It is mainly seniors and we had the worst hailstorm/thunderstorm in 30 yrs come thru last Thursday. My dad spoke to some of the seniors and some didn't even have a torch or a battery radio and were blacked out for 20hrs or so.

I've got 3 small lanterns, a AM/FM radio, a coupla 2AA torches, 3 dynamo torches, some keychain torches and about 20 AA batteries heading that way very soon. All from my overflow bin (well the batteries I got for a coupla bucks - good Duracell's)

I can't stand the thought of someone especially seniors not being able to at least see to find their way around safely.

Zippo hand warmer( saw it here first!!)
Lidocaine( ordered from ebay)
Tobacco cutter
More seeds
Spinning wheel

Ttiger - jealous of the spinning wheel - its on my wish list

I dehydrated 5 large cabbages 🙂

Yeh I've been looking for one for a while. Bought it in ebay for under $200. It's from the 1800's and needs a few things fixed but I'm up for it. It's my first one and hope to learn a few things in making wool and string, thread for knitting and crocheting. I know how to crochet a bit but gotta learn the knitting thing. Either that or find myself a good woman. Keep an eye out on ebay. You'll find one.

Yeh I've been looking for one for a while. Bought it in ebay for under $200. It's from the 1800's and needs a few things fixed but I'm up for it. It's my first one and hope to learn a few things in making wool and string, thread for knitting and crocheting. I know how to crochet a bit but gotta learn the knitting thing. Either that or find myself a good woman. Keep an eye out on ebay. You'll find one.

It is not that I could not go buy a spinning wheel, I made myself a promise not to bring anything else into the house until I declutter - getting rid of everything that I don't or won't use.

If you lived closer I could teach you needle work. I am suppose to be teaching a class next week to a young family that is new to prepping. 😀

oops - edit - I added the beginning of making of a how to manual for knitting an crocheting - samples mostly for making of the manual. Ordered several books on line for patterns for knitting all kinds of winter / heavy weight clothing for both males and females.

I know what you mean about clutter. I'm always buying something new. But the way I look at it even if I don't know how to use it when TSHTF and we gather together at least I'll have the tools to survive comfortably and hopefully within the group there will be someone that knows how to use it. But I do hope to learn to spin. It looks very relaxing. I'm trying to prep for myself but also for people that may end up with me.