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I'll start the ball rolling with Army Surplus Boots. For a number of reasons.

1) People are going to have to walk more.

2) Roads and paths will get rougher as they wear out.

3) Cows are expensive and leather is best.

4) Armies are subject to cost-cutting, they might have to keep their boots longer.

5) Population is increasing, everybody has feet.

6) People need boots to work land, to grow food.

Army surplus in general - especially cold weather stuff

Spectacles - used to be expensive, then got relatively cheap especially online. Get a lifetime supply now while you still can.

A decent funeral/smart suit. Can still get a quality 2nd hand suit at a good price.

Wool blankets

Hand cranked sewing machines (just bought one for each of my daughters!)

Shoes

Waterproof clothing

Bras, socks and knickers!

Stainless steel cookware .....

Definitely shoes. And boots. Tough/thermal gloves. It always amazes me how cheap gloves are, and, well, look after your hands (I learned the hard way!)

Dutch style bicycles.

Hub gears, hub brakes, full chain guard, top end puncture resistant tyres, aluminium / alloy frame and levers and wheels leather saddle. Mud guards and hub dynamo powered lights. Make sure all the nuts and bolts are corrosion resistant steel.

Will last 50 years with minimum maintenance.

If you can get one, a Pederson will absorb potholes the size of Wales.

Here you are - a snip!

http://www.velorution.biz/shop/category/bikes/page/5/

Keela wrote:Bras, .. and knickers!

Do I have to?

JohnB wrote:

Keela wrote:Bras, .. and knickers!

Do I have to?

Some-one might love you for them sometime! Better buy all sizes just to be sure they'll fit!

Soaps and detergents (lots and lots)
Towels (lots)
Sturdy boots (several)
Socks (lots and lots)
Warm headgear and gloves

No need for additional trousers or shirts; I've still got lots that used belong to the smaller men that lived my life.

Shoes and boots
Wool blankets
Sheets and towels
Hand tools, especialy those that wear out such as drill bits and saw blades.
Clothing in general, not forgetting underwear, overalls and foul weather gear.
Spectacles.
Batteries and more importantly the means to make simple ones.

Catweazle wrote:I'll start the ball rolling with Army Surplus Boots.

If you can't get them, just get some old tyres and cut a sole then strap it on. Simples.

Keela wrote:

JohnB wrote:

Keela wrote:Bras, .. and knickers!

Do I have to?

Some-one might love you for them sometime! Better buy all sizes just to be sure they'll fit!

And don't forget tampons, John!




For all the young ladies in your life of course!!

If you're passing through southern Europe, stock up with boxes of broad-spectrum antibiotics. These are available over the counter (unlike here in the UK) from chemists, and are somewhat cheaper too.

Incandescent light bulbs.

Yes, incandescent light bulbs.
I would avoid such for everday lighting on account of the energy wasted, but they are preferable for certain specialist uses.
I purchased large stocks some years ago, I have no intention of using these for everyday lighting, nor of supplying them to others for such use.

At present they are still available, but I suspect that production may soon cease. At the very least they will be made in small numbers in small and ineffecient factories and therefore become an expensive niche product rather than a low priced commodity.

200 watt GLS lamps are now more expensive than low energy ones ! as should be !

I started using some clf bulbs just after they were first brought out and most of those Philips manufactured bulbs were still working when we moved out of our last house.

My experience of Chinese manufactured clf bulbs has been disappointing and expensive. Since extensive rebuilding, extending and refurbishing work on our present house, most of the lighting is now low energy.
In the last three and a half years, I’ve had to change:-
Both in the outdoor lights, the utility, two in the bathroom, all of which are dedicated low energy fittings, one kitchen light and a hall light.

I’ve left inherited incandescent bulbs in two bedrooms and a storeroom; they’re still going strong. Of the four incandescent bulbs in our bedroom, two inherited originals are still going strong but I’ve lost count of the number of PRC bulbs I’ve replaced in the other two lamps.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the Chinese products are not only rated in Chinese watts, they are also rated in Chinese years.