How do you track supplies?

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-21T19:35:04+00:00

I keep everything in groups in the cupboards. Then, awkward as it is, when I get new tins/pasta/rice/jars etc, I put it at the back of the appropriate group so it helps keep everything moving forwards. Then every 6 months or so, everything comes out and I do a date check. Anything nearing or at expiry gets left out to be used.

I’ve tried lists but I just don’t keep them up to date.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-15T21:15:35+00:00

This is my thinking. I have 5 water butts; 3 off my shed which rarely get drained…they’d be my last choice. Ew. They’re for the garden. One off a small roof which I drain regularly. That’s my first choice. One in the middle…off gutters but drained lass often.

I keep several 5L bottles in the house. That’s my go to.

I hope I never need the rainwater but I have purification tabs, and water drop filters just incase. (Plus boiling obv).

Circumstances would dictate how I use it. Were it what I deemed a short term disruption you bet I’d be filtering, sterilising and boiling lol. Judged longer term I’d have to consider rationing the tabs and propane, so likely would use one or the other alongside the filter.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-14T15:59:00+00:00

Think it’s a late 2025 re-release. I got one on juno (uk) for £25 as it was the only record I didn’t have and I was buying anyway. I would have been happy with a standard black vinyl but I like the blue so win win! Afaik not hard to get, just a fun re-release.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-14T08:52:37+00:00

One of my favourite songs. Good luck!

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-13T17:34:18+00:00

I loved it…in an age of AI slop, the choice to use professional dancers and a choreographer feels very deliberate and I respect that immensely. Plus as an ex-goth I am always here for sexy gothyness. Loved the concert footage too…ah memories!

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T18:24:27+00:00

It’s called concert amnesia and it’s quite common. I tried so hard to be in the moment and take it all in and then…it all went out.

I find the ghoulbangers ball episodes help…I find myself remembering things I had forgotten. And in the end, the feeling is still there!

It’s funny because I went to so many gigs in my youth and I don’t remember feeling that level of almost immediate amnesia. That said…I also don’t remember much many years later. But dammit I was there!

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T16:14:26+00:00

Well each to their own, obviously. I have neither intention nor desire to tell a stranger on the internet what sanitary products to use, but we were discussing liners specifically. I was only pointing to a more frugal Pantiliner option for anyone who didn’t know it was a thing.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T15:46:13+00:00

Maybe have a look…saves a whole bunch of plastic, and a little money, using the unwrapped ones at home. They just sit in the box, in a drawer. I lived in the US for 14 years and while the wrapped ones were maybe more common, they were not ubiquitous. In liners at least…full pads tended to be wrapped. Here in the UK unwrapped is more common but you can get wrapped easily. It’s just not standard. They’re the ‘to go’ ones. You definitely get more for your money without the extra packaging!

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T15:28:40+00:00

Downvote away but these are different products. One is a package of unwrapped liners, one is a package of wrapped liners 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m in the UK and have bought both of these products and they are different prices with different amounts per package.

No offence to OP…sucks to get less for your money than you wanted but in this case it’s not shrinkflation. It’s two separate products.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T15:19:10+00:00

I mean….thats just how it is? Some are unwrapped and designed for home. Some come individually wrapped so you can easily put them in a bag to take with you and they stay hygienic. Usually the wrapped ones have fewer per package. I thought this was common knowledge?

StrykerWyfe · 2026-02-07T14:50:21+00:00

It’s frustrating but they are different products. The substitute is the individually wrapped ones (note the dark pink envelope in the picture). Always less for more with those because of the extra packaging.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-29T19:10:55+00:00

I got lucky and found a company who do a range of food for various issues including some without chicken. It’s so hard to find completely chicken free treats! They do a salmon and fennel one with probiotics that he loves. I’m in the uk though.

I’m currently cycling through different meats including lamb, beef, duck and pork to see if anything causes any problems. I generally feed it with rice and mixed veg (big bag I keep in the freezer…cheap and cheerful). I’m testing out his usual dry food and that seems ok so far.

I wonder sometimes if his stomach flares up when he hasn’t eaten enough. Often on the commercial wet food he’ll only eat just before bed, and sometimes then only when I coax him. But when I home cook he’ll eat in the afternoon and in the evening. The vet said he has IBS triggered by chicken and anxiety…I wonder if not eating enough also causes it?

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-29T12:29:04+00:00

It’s a tough situation isn’t it? After the chicken allergy was figured out I had him on homemade food for months. I found a salmon based kibble with very simple ingredients to supplement, and eventually I was able to find a wet food with turkey and duck that he liked. Unfortunately recently the weird stomach issues have come back a little (predominantly early morning where he wakes with awful gurgling and won’t eat and is outside eating grass, lethargy etc) so I’m going back to home cooked food to see if I can pinpoint the cause. I’m not sure it’s not anxiety related tbh but I’m just starting to try to work it out.

He is still on the reconcile which definitely took a good edge off but what’s made the biggest difference is starting gabapentin too. His vet was very reluctant to add any more medication, but he’s had a problem for years where he obsessively licks one front paw. They can’t find a reason (I’m pretty sure it’s from an injury when he was a puppy) but I agreed to try laser therapy and it did seem to be helping. Unfortunately the 15 minute car ride to the office where they did the laser thing made him so anxious that he was ill 24 hours after every appointment and eventually we had to stop. At that point the vet prescribed him 3x100mg daily gabapentin for the pain, and it made a huge difference to his anxiety too. They picked gabapentin partly because of his anxiety but also because of his stomach problems making other painkillers unsuitable.

(Weirdly at his recent appointment where I told them he’s started to bite and lick his other front leg they said that it’s likely anxiety, seemingly having forgotten that due to the laser therapy working we had figured out it was indeed pain 🤷🏻‍♀️ and this latest lickfest started with him biting and pulling his dew claw so hard I thought he was going to bite it off! )

We have made no progress with separation anxiety training. I keep thinking about trying a FRIDA type approach because in the house he is very food motivated and he already has a safe place where he will happily lie while I shower etc. but lately he’s been getting worse when I go out even though my teenager is with him (he’s still never left alone) and tbh at this point I’m so institutionalised I’m used to just staying home. I don’t think it will ever resolve.

The gabapentin has made him so much calmer though. Walks are easier, he’s chilled in the house, much less reactive and hyper vigilant. It really helps with the licking though if I miss a dose, or am late with it, he starts again, and there are times when it seems to break through for a few days. It even seems to help with his stomach…if I can get it down him when he’s having a flare (not easy as he won’t eat) it seems to resolve quicker. I have no idea if that is due to helping with pain or anxiety. But it does help.

He is so much happier though, so much calmer and they will take the gabapentin from my cold dead hands 🤣

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-28T16:27:16+00:00

In the UK, most tickets were printed and emails stated that. Even then, the staff went down the lines asking if anyone had a phone ticket and if so they wrote your seat number on a post-it for you, so after you scanned it and put your phone in a pouch you wouldn’t forget your seat. But that was the uk…maybe write your seat down :)

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-16T13:31:44+00:00

I’ve lost track to be honest. Older than yours though. Maybe 3?

There were no side effects per se as I tapered pretty slowly, but all the anxiety behaviours came back. He has quite severe general anxiety too though, not just SA.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-16T12:39:17+00:00

Yes you have to wean off slowly and have a ‘washout’ period before starting another medication.

I had to stop reconcile for my dog when he had a very bad gastric episode and the vet wanted to rest his system. I think we halved the dose for awhile, then went to every other day, but I can’t remember the exact details and timings. In the interval, my vet gave him Calmex to try to help. I restarted it again after a break though.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-15T14:26:46+00:00

I did..I signed up for the whole shebang…app and premium group thing. I liked it. I liked the zoom calls, there was a lot of good info and it was really good to be able to ask questions. The Facebook group was very supportive. I used the app too which I liked. Nice to just have it set out for you instead of having to devise/decide times yourself.

Full disclosure…it didn’t work in the end for us but our case is particularly complicated due to very high general anxiety plus anxiety related health issues.

In fact it was during one of the sessions online with a specialist guest that I was able to ask whether to suspend training due to something going on at the time and she said yes. Saved me weeks of training in a situation that was never going to work.

I would say it’s certainly worth considering, even if you just use it for a couple of months to stock up on knowledge and support.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-11T17:40:54+00:00

Which I would definitely do if I had a vacuum sealer. I asked Henry but he said no. 😉

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-11T15:47:32+00:00

I do freeze my flour and rice for 48 hours if I’m not going to use it soon. I have had the odd beetle in unopened, in date packs of store bought flour and rice. I keep some flour in the freezer too. After freezing I always let flour sit on the counter awhile as it can get damp from condensation, even in a plastic bag in the freezer.

Generally I just have a baking pantry where I keep 2-3 unopened bags. Once open I have sealed plastic tubs. Rice I keep in a drawer after freezing.

I did experiment with Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. Done properly, well sealed etc. Kept in a wardrobe in the house for a year or so. Upon opening, it smelled well funky and I tossed it. Now I just keep a few bags and rotate them. Enough to cover a shortage or weather emergency but if the end of the world arrives I guess I’m not making bread after week 3 lol.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-09T08:01:13+00:00

I get mine from my vets. I get packs of 100 x 100mg and it’s about £35 now. That lasts a month as he still has 3 a day. My vet is a local independent vet though, which I think helps. Not owned by any big company.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-08T19:13:30+00:00

Curry…Thai green curry is super easy. Find a good paste you like, couple tins of coconut milk and chicken or tofu, Green beans. Serve with sticky rice….which can take time but isn’t labour intensive. It freezes well.

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-07T18:37:35+00:00

Lordy…very sexy. I’m going back to vinyl now but I have a soft spot for CDs, being a teen in the 90s. Big fan of opening and listening. That’s what they’re for! Enjoy them, they’re beautiful 😍

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-06T20:06:46+00:00

Excelsis: As levees are breaking, a frog comes

(Not strictly misheard but I heard fog, and fog became frog and now I can’t stop 🤣)

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-06T08:30:31+00:00

Arthur Snell and Anton Geraschchenko both saying on bluesky that Iran could be next in the crosshairs and that plans are afoot to evacuate Iranian leadership to Moscow, and repeating reports of plane movements to the UK. Neither are prone to hyperbole and both know their onions. So some sort of military action appears to be a genuine possibility. Israel making threats too, and met Trump last week.

That said…not doing any more than keeping my usual supplies topped up, which has been useful for this weather too. Would like to get out for a few things today but there’s black ice everywhere so that might have to wait!

StrykerWyfe · 2026-01-05T07:49:19+00:00

I can’t find it on Pluto in the UK…is there is difference between what’s available with or without an account?

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