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Box of Last Resort
This is a clever little tactic that will save you a great deal of stress and grief at inconvenient times of the day and night when you are running out of something crucial. Get a medium sized box with a lid and before you hide it away from other members of the household for safekeeping, put inside small sample sizes of things like the following (depending on who is in your household and what you usually need to ensure you have a supply of). Promise yourself faithfully that if you use anything in this box, you will replace it the next day, otherwise the box will lose its magical ability to reduce your stress. Also there’s another advantage. Having a stash of these items will also help your resilience, in that if you have to evacuate your property with practically no notice (for example if there is a flood or nearby explosion), you can scoop up the box on your way out, and it will contain quite a lot of the things in it that will make your life easier as you spend an enforced night in a school sports hall or whatever. It may be paranoid, but it’s reassuring …
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Austerity Housekeeping 