Beans, Bullets, Bandages & You
Beans, Bullets, Bandages & You
Episode 46: Make sure your storage remains fresh
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Hello, everybody.
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Good morning. Afternoon, Evening. Whichever it happens to be where you are Listening to the podcast. Welcome to the big Show three B. Y. Podcast. The show of note for the Best Forever website with the name Beautiful Bandage. And you
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were absolutely the best website with that name out there.
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Welcome to show the big show. Get some information to share with you today. And, uh, it's all about getting old. Not you. That what we want you to get old? Yes, but
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getting old beats the alternative. Ladies and gents,
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when it comes to people not necessarily drugs,
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what we're talking about here is maintaining the perhaps you've got keeping him up to date. I know it's not an exciting topic. It's not exciting. Do. It's kind of annoying. It's not exciting
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for us to talk about, but
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it's absolutely essential if you want things to actually be ready when you need him. Now, a lot of the props don't need a whole lot of maintaining, and that's part of the beauty of it. You buy those big buckets of food that are supposed to be good for 30 years, 50 years. Okay, You set him somewhere and they're good for 30 years. 50 years? But if canned foods, a party, or perhaps they're not good
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forever in some foods last longer than others in the camp food, certain types of canned foods that that don't last nearly as long as I understand peanut butter. Isn't that what you call it? Can people? You can get it, but it doesn't have nearly the shelf life of sake and a corn.
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Things with high oil content. Yes, don't last as well. Things that are more acidic or more likely to rest their cans and don't last as well.
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We actually bought. I bought a military surplus can of peanut butter. Uh, it was, ah, was a 10 ounce care 10 number 10 cameras a bigger than normal can. And we have it sitting on the shelf it in our stores. This was many years ago and, uh, kind of forgot it was there well, over time and it probably set their what, 10 years? Something like that. We cleaned out that the back of that cabinet, which was way you know, it's one. We just don't get anywhere near, um, it exploded.
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It's not good.
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Literally exploded and exploded. Rancid peanut butter is not something that is a pleasant snatch,
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your favorite. So we keep as, Ah, much peanut butter as we can rotate through and still have be fresh when we get to when we get to the one we bought rotated through the Siri's and it's still fresh. That's the right amount of peanut butter.
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Yeah, we use the system. We keep about 10 jars, Pete, about a great high calorie I high nutritional value,
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and we'd enough underwear that weaken rotate through it and get to it before it gets bad. It's got to think about that.
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And there's also food that you could be that to other people and uses a condiment on other types of things that you have. So peanut butter is great, but it does not have a hugely long shelf life. So you just you have to root a lot of things with tomatoes, have a long shelf life, her ass sitting where something like can't core canopies. Peaches
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don't stay good. Canned peaches don't stay good as long as other fruits do. I don't know why.
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I know pineapples don't either. So is that they're pineapple, very high acid. So yeah, it's just
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foods. Not the really hard part, though, because most people kind of think about that a little bit. Drugs? Yeah, you should have. Ah, some reserves of those, at least in your three day bag. Whatever. Whatever initials of the week you want to use to call your three day bag, but the stuff you can just pick up and go when you need to go You oughta have your prescription meds in there if you take any and a commonly used or really important when you do need them like anti diarrhea ls
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very, very critical property.
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But not all drugs have very good shelf lives. And you have, especially if there are exposed changing temperatures. The ones I. But I got keeping the car. I have to swap out the meds own. I do it at least twice a year
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to
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make sure that they're
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especially the high heat, Really, But it's not. It's the variation in temperature that really gets. It's bad on them, too. Now I will say most drugs are safe, Most personal. I am not a pharmacist. I'm not giving farmers pharmacological advice in any way, shape or form. I am not a pharmacist, but I'm gonna tell you most drugs are safe if they're over aged and they'll get you just lose potency. But there are some you'll have to You have to do the research, done it up that actually become quite dangerous of the And I know a couple of the couple of the Cody drugs are like that. They get really unstable and don't want to have anything to do with them. If they're, you know, a couple years over their time, they need to go away.
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Now they're things that don't last long, right? Full or so. You know, for a year or so after each time we've had surgeries, we have had the higher potency painkillers among our preps. But then we just toss him because we don't even want to be tempted to take those suckers. If they are older than we, they ought to be taken him
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there. We end up taking them to the local prescription drug disposal place. Yeah, you don't wantto The
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pharmacy will take them back and get rid of them safely
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with ours. It's the sheriff's office and just going there. Drop him in there saying But honestly, if we have, if we have an injury that we have some painkillers for, we do keep them around in case we should leave them or other because there are prescriptions and they're perfectly legal for us to do that.
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But not once they get too old.
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But no, no, no. You gotta get rid of those things. Those are dangerous. Yeah, but things like aspirins and, uh, most nonsteroidal pain relievers just lose potency on something really just good for some. Things are just like, I know I had to get a a dental procedure and I had to get the aural light. A cane. Yeah, I'm talking the pharmacist that he said, you know, keep us around for for dental painting, It's just it's a or a white cane. It's not a big thing, he says. It'll just lose potency over time. So don't worry about it. If you have any preacher pet, gentle pain, you put it on their teeth. It's a doctor, really. About all it was good for was dental pain, so it's not a big deal, but it's something to keep in mind food and there's algo things, too,
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things that really you might not think about so much. If you've got bags for kids, for example, and you packed him a year ago. Do the clothes still fit?
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Good question work,
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dear clothes still fit
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or, you know, it's a cotton. And you backed him five years ago. Are they still in one piece? Because cotton deteriorates over time,
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the elastics even worse than the cotton. If you got elastic waistbands and stuff the first time you try and use him E had some stuff I had. Oh, leave this set of biking shorts in the car. So if I ever forget mine when we're going on a biking day, I could just grab those out. First time I grabbed him out and pulled the band to put him on. It was correct. Crack, crack, crack crack.
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Now, to be fair, those were short sheeted like lost.
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It wasn't, but it was. It brought it to my attention that you have to keep in mind of the things we, uh, refresh one of our big water barrels this summer it was, should have done both of them, but didn't get around to both of them this summer. The water been in the barrels for a while and it was good water, and it was good barrels and they were protected from the light. So we felt fine leaving him for a few years there. But it came to be time, and we took the water out and put it in the water barrels that feed the garden for the drip irrigation system. And just, uh, we had to rinse the barrels out, though, because there was nevertheless some sediment down in the bottom of it.
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Yeah, these have
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been some change.
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I want to be clear. We don't We don't put like, oh, that expensive stuff in there.
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We don't put stabilizers and we just use tap safe water.
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We're gonna go. Yeah,
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we gotta Burkey. So we pull that stuff out to use it. We're going to run through Burkey
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household goods, such as beach bleach, especially, has a very short shorts.
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Hell, yeah. We can't even stock significant amounts of leech because we don't use much of it, and it'll go bad. You're years. All you really get a whole fleet,
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which is bad. So which is it is a problem. Um, if you could get it in the like pool shock version. It's not nearly as short life span, but since we don't have a pool, the only thing we use it for is cropping. We don't have a lot of that around. And you have to have a foursome with pool shock. You have to know what you're doing is if you get people pull shock to purify water, you have to make sure you get the right one. You need the Corinne only version of it. So and there's other things too. Like anything with the pressure vessel. Well, you don't have a pressure. Well, sure, you do anything like a fire extinguisher has an expiration date. And you really don't want to let your fire save If you need a fire, you need that dog. I think that work. I mean, it's gotta work. So you really don't want to go too much into
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your battery stores?
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Batteries? Yeah. Okay. Rule number one. Never, ever, ever, ever leave batteries in your devices, most there with Liam's, and you could get away with it. But if they're not lithium Ziff, they're like alkali. Take him out of your device even here, only leaving it in there for months. Remove the batteries
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and don't just dump them all in a bag. So the positives of one can come in contact with the negatives of a number of bad things can happen.
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Yeah, actually, scene You get really hot. You do that, you know, destroy your batteries too, so and have plenty of batteries. And I built with long shelf life batteries. That's fine. But don't even if it you can have five years left on the shelf life of a battery and still have room. You electronics. It's so if you're gonna put your you something pulled out.
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So this is kind of like a homework moment to go, especially to your short use crab and go bags and make sure everything's really ready. I also personally looked through my car stuff twice year to make sure that my winter stuff in there at the beginning of winter and things have not migrated away and make sure I've got water in there throughout the summer.
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And water is another. One of those things were don't want toe. You don't want to leave it sitting around forever. And if you get bought water in the rigging, a milk jug style water. Those things will do curate on you and just start leaking. So you don't want to do that, either. You want to get them if you're going to store water like don't use the milk jug stink for storing water, use something harder like a two litre pop bottle or use uh, the actual harder plastic.
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And even if you do use those, they don't last forever. Are some of our very first, perhaps many, many years ago was to just fill some two leaders with extra tap water. Seal him up good, stick him somewhere nice and dark in the basement. That way we had a boil. Order something. We had a little water on hand. We didn't have two nickels to rub together, but we could afford to do that. And I I saw some of those down in the in the dark corner of the basement a while ago, and the poor little things were all shriveled up because enough of the water had evaporated away around the threads of the cap. That though volume went down and it just sucked the whole two liter container into a kind of mangled new Age sculpture sculptor.
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Well, this this little podcast is just nothing more than a that kind of, ah, thought exercise. So go ahead and start giving it a thought about very super stuff you
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have whenever your prescription meds change. You wanna think about what you can do about the backup she got in your bag,
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so I'm good.
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Good by me.
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All right. So we'll catch you next time. Thank you for joining us.