Alexandra, reporter for Rebel News Australia, may find the concept of reusable menstrual products offensive, and sure, the Melbourne council may be going “woke” in contributing to the “war on women” as the problem has come to be known elsewhere around the world, but there is a voluntary move toward reusable menstrual products already, perhaps just not in Australia. Spoonflower had an article last year by a lady in the UK who taught herself a method of creating reusables that I decided to try, and there are also how-to’s out there for things like liners etc. I’ve put my own “pattern” together to make reusable liners, and my reasons have nothing to do with environmental “go green” initiatives!

 

Instead, there is a much bigger issue on the near horizon that will make the Melbourne reporter’s concerns about pests in wealthy neighbourhoods the least of their concerns. . . that is the distribution/supply chain problems that string pullers are deliberately exacerbating! Transportation of goods by container, truck, plane and train are all being deliberately hampered by contrived fuel problems, “vaxx” mandates across national borders, and by the sporadic shutting down of various ports. Sporadic lockdowns in key cities and regions responsible for the creation and export of various products is not going unnoticed either!

 

Since late 2020, I have tried to get people to consider what they use every day, what the supply chain is to get that into their hands, and ask themselves what stages of that supply chain they can do themselves. In the case of menstrual products, we have absorbent cloth, stretchy cloth, sewing thread, needles, scissors, straight pins, water, electricity, and a washing machine.

 

The absorbent cloth I am using is currently not something I could make on my own, that I am currently aware of. The stretchy cloth is a cotton knit, not a petroleum polyester product of any kind. That is theoretically creatable by me, just need the yarn. I don’t know how to spin fibers into yarn or thread. So already I either need to learn how to spin fibers into yarn, or find someone local to me who does.

 

What about things like needles and pins? They say the local natives used to make needles and pins out of long thorns of various bushes of the rose family. That would take practice to figure out. Other native groups around North America made needles, pins and other tools out of animal bone. Plains natives were known to take sinew from buffalo and use it to sew garments and bags. You can buy artificial sinew these days, but this is a great example of using as many parts of the animal you kill for food, for other aspects of daily life just as God did for Adam and Eve when they sinned.

 

Ok, cutting tools. . . a) learn how to sharpen the cutting tools you already have. Buy a sharpening steel, or a whet stone, or both and learn how to use them. Those who know how to keep a tool sharp have often crowed about keeping their great grandparent’s tools in tip top, very useful shape long after said grandparents passed away. Learning this skill will help you take stones and hone their edges too as tools if stores are no longer accessible.

 

What about the washing machine? Well. . . the absorbent material I have says to hand wash or wash on gentle, and with menstrual stuff, I use hot water for hand washing, and our washing machine’s normal cycle is a gentle cycle already. We tumble dry on low or hang dry for part of the year. If a cyber attack takes out the electrical grid in your area, knowing the basics of hand washing is a good idea.

 

Access to water in older days used to be at a creek or along a river bed or hauled up from a well. A few drops of iodine will keep water drinkable for up to 15 years, just shake to re-air-ate (sp). So if you don’t have any iodine tincture in the house, it may be time to go out and buy a bottle or three.

 

The point here is staying viable in a world changing to a deliberately less-accessible form of business and if you don’t plan to remain part of “the system” known as The Great Reset, you will need to learn some skills you never needed before, and/or connect with others who have the skills you lack in your area.

 

Turning up the nose at what is going on won’t help once the fur hits the fan.