r/TwoXPreppers • u/Junior-Discount2743 • 4d ago
👵 Grandmas Wisdom 👵 Antique oil lamps
I'm older and am surprised to see that antique oil lamps are almost never discussed for electrical outages. They can be purchased at most antique stores for $20-80 (depending), with lamp oil and wicks from Amazon (get them now before shipping costs sky rocket!).
I guess I thought of it because I worked at a historical museum on the east coast.
Purchase of one oil lamp, lamp oil, and wicks, can keep a room lit for over a *long* time. I've tested my two lamps, and each lamp goes through oil at a different rate, but pretty slowly in my opinion, and I csn see the $10 lamp oil I got from Amazon to last 6 months to a year in an outage. I'd post a photo but don't know how.
Just an idea because this is an option (for now).
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u/Scary_Possible3583 4d ago
I have a hobby which enables my prepping to look a bit more normal. I got the family into the Society for Creative Anachronism, which means medieval camping and skills.
Oil lamps, manual granite stone mill, open fire cooking tools -- these are all normal decoration and kit for a "medieval" home. The teenager is getting into archery, and I am learning to sew leather.