My first step...revisited often but probably not often enough

I need to ask, how many of those flash lights do you still have? I went semi-manic yesterday when I opened the cupboard to get a flash light and there were only 3 in there. Three! There are usually a dozen in there. I have more in a bin but the usable stash had been used and not placed back in the proper place. I was giving a sermon on placing things back where you found them, someone was trying to blame the dog and the other was telling me to chill cause it was daylight out.

Yesterday was a good lesson. And today I realized I am an offender of not placing things back also. I took the solar radio out of the car yesterday while I was working in the yard. I didn't put it back in my car. I was very careful when I first started, I cannot afford to relax now. Sometimes I think getting in the beginner prepper mode again would be good.

 

We still have at least one in each room but a number of the "cheap bulk pack" were...well cheap. Not inexpensive, cheap. Battery holders that broke, caps that wouldn't screw back on after a battery change, I had a number that split down the side at the injection molding seam, it was pretty brutal.

All told, I think less than half a dozen (of probably 30+ ) are still around, no joke. Instead, I have slowly replaced them with better but still inexpensive models and am slowly (again) replacing everything with mag lights. I just can't bring myself to drop the coin on a FENIX in each nightstand yet. Eventually, probably, but the mini AA Mag Lights work great and the new ones are LED and seem to last forever.

In addition to every room (not just bedroom but bathroom and if it's separate, "toilet room" for lack of a better term, living room, kitchen, office, garage...every room), there are half a dozen in bags as well as the "pile" in the kitchen cabinet over the microwave.

 

And now I've looked online and Fenix flashlights are less than or the same as Mag lights now...*sigh*.

 

MUST be a "nurse thing". I have one here that does the same thing

 

I have shares of a Spanish land grant and would not have any idea how one would carve out a personal piece of property for oneself. The one I have shares in was given to me by my grandfather and dad and it is essentially a co-op. I get a very small check annually which I guess is my share of the profits from grazing fees.