I’m going to take some pictures soon and show you what my food storage area looks like. (maybe I’ll tidy up a bit first.) I’m really kind of proud of it. It is a great room - perfect size for me and my family with room to grow. I don’t want to show you to brag, but more to give you ideas. Look forward to that soon…
I also want to confess that I cannot think of anything else to tell you about storing water. I know we should do it. We can live without food, but not without water - so it is really, really vital to store water. (Now my real confession:) I prefer to purchase a rotating supply of bottled water. That way I know it is good for drinking, it was processed and bottled correctly. I worry about how I bottle my water sometimes - not adding chlorine, or not boiling it before I stick it in storage. Not that we have dirty water, I just think it tastes really funny and can hardly bring myself to drink it if I store it in a semi-washed (empty) 2 liter Sprite bottle. I do continue to store water that way, because it will be good for flushing toilets and taking care of some of those necessary, hopefully available evils.
p.s. I just thought of something… you should use juice and soda pop containers to store water in. Using milk cartons to store water is not a good idea - something about the milk protein never really gets washed out of the container and contaminates the water. How is that for a tidbit of wisdom I learned somewhere?
May 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Let me tell you about water storage! We actually had a problem with the water in our valley this week (a main broke) and one town was without water for 2 whole days! We were without for only one. But on that one day, I had to use the bathroom a lot. I was so glad that I had saved water so I could flush toilets! Another idea that I heard was that you can save water in laundry containers and use it to wash hands in, or whatever. I would much rather flush toilets than worry about washing hands (we used baby wipes a lot).