My family didn't have a clothes dryer when I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, so clothes went outside all year round - I remember clothes items coming in from outside during the winter and being placed on another clothesline that was in our kitchen where they would finish drying over the woodstove - and, as you said, the smell of clothes drying or partially drying outside is fantastic :)
I remember my fads shirts coming inside and being stood up in the kitchen because they were frozen. Lovely fresh smell on line dried clothes. Hate tumble dried smell.
Hi Jane and Mike, We’re on a public holiday today in Sydney NSW (Labor Day). So I’m binging your channel and getting ready for summer! Having downsized to an apartment and facing kitchen renovations soon, there’s a lot to get ready for. My 12 yr old Jack Russell is supervising from the couch. It’s a gorgeous day here and I always find your calm good sense quietly inspiring. So here’s to a great day in both hemispheres. Mary
Wow what a great video 📹. Great smart frugal winter preparation ❤. Ajoy and pleasure to watch .clever way to live frugal queen 👸 and king 🤴.home sweet dream warm home 🏡 ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤
Good organisation and hopefully there are few winter storms coming your way. Thanks again Jane and Mike for an interesting video 😊 Pats to the pooches 👍🇦🇺
Ive hung my laundry outside for 46 years. I live near Phoenix AZ, lots of sunshine. Monsoon season here, July-Sept, sometimes knocks out our power. Over the years I have purchased solar lanterns, solar flashlights and solar phone chargers. Easy to charge and use. Now I'm saving for a solar generator.
Jane, I saw that Hurricane Kirk - a cat 5 storm - was making the turn to head up to Europe on the US weather news. I bet you’ll see it sooner than later, unfortunately! As for my winter prep, I live in an apartment in the Chicago area. We can get a lot of snow sometimes. I have bottled water, OTC meds, extra canned soup, and plenty of tea. I also have enough toiletries and household supplies to get me through the winter. I’ve been doing this for years and it works out well. I also have plenty of books to read. I just have to pull out my winter clothing and give it a wash.
Enjoyed the winter prep video. From someone who basically experiences tropical summer year round or just drops in temperature in cooler months. Our main prep would be for cyclone season.
Yep.... chainsaws, petrol, oil, spare chains and bars. Generator, petrol,oil extension cords Lamps, solar and oil LPG Gas bottles Water storage and 20 litre drums with a tap on the bottom, siphon hose for the big tanks to smaller carriable drums Tarps and ropes Star pickets and chains/snatch straps to anchor caravans, boats, trampolines small sheds Camping washing machines LPG gas fridge/freezer- a waeco type chest one Storm shutters Animal food and of course people food that doesn't need refridgeration It's forecasted to be a lively cyclone season on the east coast of QLD, Australia.
It has been raining for several weeks, (feels like months), and the last job that gets done is to take the canopy down. In the summer, it shades us and in weather like this, I put my clothes drying rack under there. Having a check list is very motivational, I find. Saves nagging, ha ha.
Thanks Mike and Jane. You made me haul out an extension cord and test my power station. I plugged in a phone charger, my laptop and a light. It said I can run those things for 65 hours. My light is flickering, and Mr. Google said the power load is too light, so I added an electric blanket to the mix as well. 133 watts total, time left: 12 hours.
You reminded me to do gloves, hats and scarfs. I did winter coats last week. Yesterday my husband filled our 2 firewood bins by our doors, so we are ready when the weather gets cool. We went to 29F here, but then back to 70F, and next week we will be 82F again. Our ever changing climate keeps us guessing. But yet we still prepare for the normally expected weather conditions.
Love this! I have my sensor lights all charged up, one is used all year round in case you need to get up in the middle of the night, it comes on automatically as soon as I open the bedroom door and turns off after 20 seconds if no movement. I have battery light switches in the hall cupboard and the bathroom (so that the fan doesn't come on and wake everyone up) I have battery powered magnetic light on the side of the fridge, one on the wall unit in the hallway near the door and one beside the beds. got my jars of fairy lights all primed with timers set to come on which makes it nice and cozy in the evenings, throws and blankets ready to sofa snuggle and my fleecy bedding will be on at the end of this month when it stars to get cold. Long sleeved fleecy night clothes in the drawer and checked all hottie bottles to make sure they are still safe to use. Camping stove and canisters ready in case of outage for cooking. enough batteries ordered to keep torches and everything going if we need to. I think I am ready!
Getting ready for hurricane here in Tampa! Flaslights, thermos, water, non perishables and power pacs for our phones. This is going to be a rough one. Here 20 years. Never had one making a bulls eye for us. Expect to lose power for more than a few days. Have been lucky. The longest outage for us was only 7 hours. We've been lucky. Lucks running out! 😮
Good job 👍. We’re here in the mountains of Idaho and have been preparing for wintah 😅 as well. We measure our snow in feet so we use a plow on the ATV and a snowblower to clear our 80 meter long driveway . My wife Cindy helps with the snowblower along with quilting and knitting 🧶. Thinking about getting a larger generator, something around 8k watts and a power box maybe 500 to 1000 watt hours.
You are well prepared. It has been hot here longer than I can ever recall this late in the season. It was 89 F here yesterday. Usually, we're closing windows at night most of the way by now to sleep without being too chilly, but we're still running fans to cool things off for sleeping.
Nice - I have my furniture arranged just so I can get the wheelbarrow to my two log baskets easily! I hope for chilly weather but sadly it’s rare where I live in the UK. I have spent the past couple of hours chopping my kindling on my kindling cracker🙂
Here are somethings we do to prepare for winter. We drain hoses and put them away to be used next year. We put out mouse traps, because the mice try to come up from the crawl space under the house in the winter. Winter clothes are brought out and checked over. Mild weather clothes are put away. Our bedspread is washed and put away, and the comforter is put on our bed. We have a set of flannel sheets to put on our bed when the nights get down to the 20's, teens, and below. We check areas that need batteries and stock up. Cushions are off the porch and deck and stored away. Snow shovels and ice melt are put in places that are convenient for use. Lamp oil for kerosene lamps, candles, and flashlights are alway ready to be used. We checked the cars for good tires and windshield washer fluid. I make sure we have plenty of canned goods and paper products. The lawn tractor and hand mower is winterized and stored away. We have to periodically charge the small lawn mower. Window screens are removed and washed, then stored away. A rug is put down in the kitchen for placement of wet shoes or boots. Flower pots are stored in a shed. Some plants are trimmed back. Thank you for showing use your preparations.
My main to do this fall is replacing the weather stripping on the outside doors to keep cold air out. We go below freezing maybe 5 days a year but do get some colder nights in the high 30ies/low 40ies F. I have gloves but can't tell you the last time I had to wear them. I'm 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, near Charleston, South Catolina, USA
Thank you. This reminds me that I'm not quite finished getting ready for winter yet. Do you have any sort of winter kit for your car? The weather here can change very fast, and the car kit was one of the first things on the list every year.
Do power cuts affect your water supply? Here in the US if the power goes out and you have a pump (live in the country) the water is not accessible. I enjoyed the video and took some notes.
Good Morning Jane from Oregon US. Do you not heat your toilet rooms or bedroom? While i love to sleep in a cold room. I have pets whom i worry about leaving the heat completely off for them. And i know you have your darling dogs. Surely you do something to take the chill off in the room??😅
My family didn't have a clothes dryer when I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, so clothes went outside all year round - I remember clothes items coming in from outside during the winter and being placed on another clothesline that was in our kitchen where they would finish drying over the woodstove - and, as you said, the smell of clothes drying or partially drying outside is fantastic :)
I still do that
I remember my fads shirts coming inside and being stood up in the kitchen because they were frozen. Lovely fresh smell on line dried clothes. Hate tumble dried smell.
I love those vintage kettles.oh how lovely to see the girls playing in the snow 🐶🐾
Hi Jane and Mike,
We’re on a public holiday today in Sydney NSW (Labor Day). So I’m binging your channel and getting ready for summer! Having downsized to an apartment and facing kitchen renovations soon, there’s a lot to get ready for. My 12 yr old Jack Russell is supervising from the couch. It’s a gorgeous day here and I always find your calm good sense quietly inspiring. So here’s to a great day in both hemispheres. Mary
Thanks so much
Faveroutie and faboulous corners 🐶 baby puppies 🦁
Hi Jane and Mike - very interesting video and in the words of y wife - being frugal is hard work -lovely winter cuteys
@@johnwilliams6900 thanks John
Wow what a great video 📹. Great smart frugal winter preparation ❤. Ajoy and pleasure to watch .clever way to live frugal queen 👸 and king 🤴.home sweet dream warm home 🏡 ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤
So nice of you
Another great video. Lots of great information. Give the fur babies a hug.❤❤
Thank you! Will do!
Hi, like you I try and dry my washing outside all year round. Enjoyed hearing about your preparations
Awesome! Thank you!
Good prepping video. Stay safe. Have a great day! Thank you Dolly, Mary, Jane and Mike.
Thank you for watching
Good organisation and hopefully there are few winter storms coming your way.
Thanks again Jane and Mike for an interesting video 😊
Pats to the pooches 👍🇦🇺
Fingers crossed!
We are getting ready for our long hot summer. ❤
Ive hung my laundry outside for 46 years. I live near Phoenix AZ, lots of sunshine. Monsoon season here, July-Sept, sometimes knocks out our power. Over the years I have purchased solar lanterns, solar flashlights and solar phone chargers. Easy to charge and use. Now I'm saving for a solar generator.
That is awesome!
Enjoyed seeing your winter preps.
Doing some similar activities today yet for Hurricane Mitch - generator check, battery pack charging etc etc
Good stuff!
Jane, I saw that Hurricane Kirk - a cat 5 storm - was making the turn to head up to Europe on the US weather news. I bet you’ll see it sooner than later, unfortunately! As for my winter prep, I live in an apartment in the Chicago area. We can get a lot of snow sometimes. I have bottled water, OTC meds, extra canned soup, and plenty of tea. I also have enough toiletries and household supplies to get me through the winter. I’ve been doing this for years and it works out well. I also have plenty of books to read. I just have to pull out my winter clothing and give it a wash.
Great ideas
Very informative video
@@DebfromVa thank you
Enjoyed the winter prep video. From someone who basically experiences tropical summer year round or just drops in temperature in cooler months. Our main prep would be for cyclone season.
Yep.... chainsaws, petrol, oil, spare chains and bars.
Generator, petrol,oil extension cords
Lamps, solar and oil
LPG Gas bottles
Water storage and 20 litre drums with a tap on the bottom, siphon hose for the big tanks to smaller carriable drums
Tarps and ropes
Star pickets and chains/snatch straps to anchor caravans, boats, trampolines small sheds
Camping washing machines
LPG gas fridge/freezer- a waeco type chest one
Storm shutters
Animal food and of course people food that doesn't need refridgeration
It's forecasted to be a lively cyclone season on the east coast of QLD, Australia.
Gas cooking options
cast iron for wood fire cooking
solar shower bag/ camp shower
Portable/ composting loo
I really admire the hard work 18:15 you put into everything you do! I take a lot for granted!!!
Thanks so much
You're welcome😊
It has been raining for several weeks, (feels like months), and the last job that gets done is to take the canopy down. In the summer, it shades us and in weather like this, I put my clothes drying rack under there. Having a check list is very motivational, I find. Saves nagging, ha ha.
Good luck
Great job❣️ I hope you stay nice and cozy warm❣️ 😘
Thank you! You too!
Thanks Mike and Jane. You made me haul out an extension cord and test my power station. I plugged in a phone charger, my laptop and a light. It said I can run those things for 65 hours. My light is flickering, and Mr. Google said the power load is too light, so I added an electric blanket to the mix as well. 133 watts total, time left: 12 hours.
Thanks sue
Getting ready for hurricane Milton….
Same here. Tampa Bay area. Stay safe! 😬
Me too!
The latest NHC bulletin puts the center of Hurricane Kirk just off Brittany and then heading North East through the eastern Channel. Stay safe.
Yep! We're braced!
You reminded me to do gloves, hats and scarfs. I did winter coats last week. Yesterday my husband filled our 2 firewood bins by our doors, so we are ready when the weather gets cool. We went to 29F here, but then back to 70F, and next week we will be 82F again. Our ever changing climate keeps us guessing. But yet we still prepare for the normally expected weather conditions.
You're welcome. We are due a cold winter soon enough, we've had mild winters so far
Good luck 👍
Let’s get ready for winter!
Love this! I have my sensor lights all charged up, one is used all year round in case you need to get up in the middle of the night, it comes on automatically as soon as I open the bedroom door and turns off after 20 seconds if no movement. I have battery light switches in the hall cupboard and the bathroom (so that the fan doesn't come on and wake everyone up) I have battery powered magnetic light on the side of the fridge, one on the wall unit in the hallway near the door and one beside the beds. got my jars of fairy lights all primed with timers set to come on which makes it nice and cozy in the evenings, throws and blankets ready to sofa snuggle and my fleecy bedding will be on at the end of this month when it stars to get cold. Long sleeved fleecy night clothes in the drawer and checked all hottie bottles to make sure they are still safe to use. Camping stove and canisters ready in case of outage for cooking. enough batteries ordered to keep torches and everything going if we need to. I think I am ready!
You certainly are
We just stocked up on bottle water. We get a freeze every year and my loose power. I'm in Austin, Texas
Reminds me to laundry my sweaters in the dryer. Move down my boots. I'm in Texas still hot 90's until the end of the end of the end.month
@@gladyschandler6724 happy laundering
Oh i wish for some cool fall days. We are still using our AC and temps still in the mid 90 here in southern Oklahoma USA
Thanks for watching
Getting ready for hurricane here in Tampa! Flaslights, thermos, water, non perishables and power pacs for our phones. This is going to be a rough one. Here 20 years. Never had one making a bulls eye for us. Expect to lose power for more than a few days. Have been lucky. The longest outage for us was only 7 hours. We've been lucky. Lucks running out! 😮
I hope you're ready with alternative power too
Good job 👍. We’re here in the mountains of Idaho and have been preparing for wintah 😅 as well. We measure our snow in feet so we use a plow on the ATV and a snowblower to clear our 80 meter long driveway . My wife Cindy helps with the snowblower along with quilting and knitting 🧶. Thinking about getting a larger generator, something around 8k watts and a power box maybe 500 to 1000 watt hours.
@@jons5898 brilliant! You get serious winters there!
That was an excellent video. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great checklist review! 😘 💜
Glad you liked it!!
I put my wash on an ikea rack and put a fan on it. Dries thoroughly and conditions the air in the room
You are well prepared. It has been hot here longer than I can ever recall this late in the season. It was 89 F here yesterday. Usually, we're closing windows at night most of the way by now to sleep without being too chilly, but we're still running fans to cool things off for sleeping.
Thanks
Sad to say my winter prep is changing the car tires, furnace filter and seeing which clothes fit! And, I live in Canada...
I'd better up my game
Oh no!
Thanks for sharing...
👍👍👍
Great information and very organised.
Glad it was helpful!
Lots of great info and ideas❤
Thanks
Nice - I have my furniture arranged just so I can get the wheelbarrow to my two log baskets easily! I hope for chilly weather but sadly it’s rare where I live in the UK. I have spent the past couple of hours chopping my kindling on my kindling cracker🙂
@@alisonwheeler8929 love that!
Great prepping !❤
Thank you!
Here are somethings we do to prepare for winter. We drain hoses and put them away to be used next year. We put out mouse traps, because the mice try to come up from the crawl space under the house in the winter. Winter clothes are brought out and checked over. Mild weather clothes are put away. Our bedspread is washed and put away, and the comforter is put on our bed. We have a set of flannel sheets to put on our bed when the nights get down to the 20's, teens, and below. We check areas that need batteries and stock up. Cushions are off the porch and deck and stored away. Snow shovels and ice melt are put in places that are convenient for use. Lamp oil for kerosene lamps, candles, and flashlights are alway ready to be used. We checked the cars for good tires and windshield washer fluid. I make sure we have plenty of canned goods and paper products. The lawn tractor and hand mower is winterized and stored away. We have to periodically charge the small lawn mower. Window screens are removed and washed, then stored away. A rug is put down in the kitchen for placement of wet shoes or boots. Flower pots are stored in a shed. Some plants are trimmed back. Thank you for showing use your preparations.
Great preparation
My main to do this fall is replacing the weather stripping on the outside doors to keep cold air out. We go below freezing maybe 5 days a year but do get some colder nights in the high 30ies/low 40ies F. I have gloves but can't tell you the last time I had to wear them. I'm 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, near Charleston, South Catolina, USA
Thanks so much
A generator is on my list for 2025
Does Mike have a bit of an Irish brogue?
No, he's Bristolian.....with a cold
Thank you. This reminds me that I'm not quite finished getting ready for winter yet. Do you have any sort of winter kit for your car? The weather here can change very fast, and the car kit was one of the first things on the list every year.
@@jankarel6454 we rarely (once every 20-30 years) get bad snow. So we get ice occasionally and just stay home until it thaws
Do power cuts affect your water supply? Here in the US if the power goes out and you have a pump (live in the country) the water is not accessible. I enjoyed the video and took some notes.
Not personally, our water is gravity fed
Good Morning Jane from Oregon US. Do you not heat your toilet rooms or bedroom? While i love to sleep in a cold room. I have pets whom i worry about leaving the heat completely off for them. And i know you have your darling dogs. Surely you do something to take the chill off in the room??😅
Our stairs are open so the warm air flows upstairs and into the bedrooms and shower room
Lol..do you have enough matches And/or lighters to start your fires?it just occurred to me I needed more...
@r.p.9829 we have four refillable lighters, thanks for watching