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Publius

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If you have an Ice Chest/Cooler you can use that. You can scrub it out with a little bleach or use salt and water on a clean washcloth and rinse and salt won't hurt you if some get left behind and ends up in you're drinking water. Also the Ice Chest is portable.
 
joyfulheart

joyfulheart

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Yep, bought two of the waterbobs. I'm alot less stressed about water.... (assuming I will be able to fill them up! LOL)

Good idea of the coolers. I'll fill those too! Why didn't I think of that? (knocking myself on the forehead! haha)
 
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Publius

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m.anderson said:
The drain plug things leak.

The ice chest doesn't hold 65 gallons of water.
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No, it does not, but depending on size of the Ice Chest its that much more Example; 48 Quarts=12 Gallons, I have a few and one of them is a 120 quart and thats 30 gallons. A 48 quart with a lid on it would be handy to have in the kitchen. You may be surprised just how much water you can go threw. For many it's learning to conserve and use less of it.
 
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Double_A

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Get yourself a waterbob, it's a storage bladder also and I believe it is heavier material. Concept is not new, but using your tub to support a 65 gallon water bladder keeping the water clean is a great idea. Unless your in Earthquake country were you don't have warning of a quake.
 
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TerryK

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Trash cans lined with contractor bags.
Cheap and easy, and I checked and they say they do not contain repellents or insecticides.
If it worries you, just use for washing dishes and yourself.
 
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Satanta

Satanta

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We'll get at least one water bob.

When the hurricane was heading our way I filled 7 5 gallon plastic buckets with water, three five gallon folding portable bags including a solar shower. A bunch of two liter bottles and such but it was seriously not a good prep plan.

Been working out some other ideas and a water bob would help.

Having stuff sealed with five cats and two dogs is a good idea.
 
Satanta

Satanta

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TerryK said:
Trash cans lined with contractor bags.
Cheap and easy, and I checked and they say they do not contain repellents or insectisides.
If it worries you, just use for washing dishes and yourself.
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Flushing toilets and stuff as well.

I'll have to remember the contractor bags.

Frankly the wife has a small port-o-let made with a bucket of cat litter.

Need to put a seat on it I think.
 
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TerryK

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Satanta said:
Flushing toilets and stuff as well.

I'll have to remember the contractor bags.

Frankly the wife has a small port-o-let made with a bucket of cat litter.

Need to put a seat on it I think.
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5 gallon buckets are the universal tool.
Store food, and water in them, use them for a toilet (many places sell the seat), use them for a washing machine.( cut a hole in the lid and use a toilet plunger for an aggitator or buy a special one from emergency essentials)
I use them to mix thinset mortar for tile work, cement for small jobs, haul various things in the garden.
Buckets are great.
 
Satanta

Satanta

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TerryK said:
5 gallon buckets are the universal tool.
Store food, and water in them, use them for a toilet (many places sell the seat), use them for a washing machine.( cut a hole in the lid and use a toilet plunger for an aggitator or buy a special one from emergency essentials)
I use them to mix thinset mortar for tile work, cement for small jobs, haul various things in the garden.
Buckets are great.
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Absolutely...got one marked for making saurkraut and another for making pickles. The rest are flaoting around or stacked up for various uses.
 
Rastech

Rastech

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I have enough of these H2GO bags put away to hold at least 400 days of drinking water for three people http://www.amazon.co.uk/Planit-Prod...95UW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323672536&sr=8-1

I do like the look of that water bob, and may get one, though I think 400 days should see things come good enough to refill from my local spring, or pump from the borehole again, or even start catching rainwater (where I live, 400 days without heavy, air cleaning rain would be pretty unthinkable, and if that happens, it's time to think about moving probably a very long distance).
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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Topusaret said:
I've had two of these:

http://www.waterbob.com/Welcome.do;jsessionid=2DD47863137DC8C5E97D46DD36BB7125

for years. Equivalent product, though this one claims a capacity of 100 gals. YMMV.
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They do indeed hold 100 gallons ... depending on the tub's size and shape. I had to trouble getting to 100 gallons in one tub but did in another, smaller one. I've got four in my supplies. You can also put them in large storage stubs ... not the cheap thin walled ones but the heavy duty ones ... and they'll work fine if you have a way of filling them up.
 
vessie

vessie

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I have the Waterbob for each tub in my home and I keep them right in the towel cupboard for if the time comes, I don't have to hunt them down. They carry up to 100 gallons of clean drinking water as opposed to the Aquapodkit which says that it carries up to onlly 65 gallons of clean drinking water.

No matter which you choose and no matter where you live, I think these are essential to every home's emergency kit. I sent some to my mother in-law in Tn. to and she keeps them close at hand in each bathroom. I hope we never have to use them though. V
 
Kaydee

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Double_A

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One thing brought up in this thread is in a crisis no water is ever to be wasted.

If your washing clothes that water can be used for toilet flushing and certainly if your washing vegetables that dirty water can be poured back into the garden.

This requires plenty of buckets and pails to use to accumulate and store dirty water as part of your preps.
 
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