THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Mrs LW as usual I agree with you, it's obvious plenty of so-designated influential people are spending their spare millions on bunkers, remote farms, helicopters etc. That will leave the rest of us coping as best we can amid the S left behind when they withdraw. Being aware, thinking ahead, learning skills, and not being upset by nastiness will be part of coping.

I'm amused about the super rich buying refuges etc. Perhaps they are about to suddenly master the arts of domesticity and defence, of farming and livestock rearing, of building maintenance and engineering, of sailing the superyacht and navigation?

If you have shedloads of money in a functioning economy, you have possibly the greatest force magnifier you can have. The key words are functioning economy because, if there is no such thing, how will the wealthy person command the services of the technically-skilled, the practically-minded or the physically imposing? Who will look after a billionnaire post SHTF? What would be their motivation?

I can see a superyacht's crew jettisoning the rich old man overboard and sailing off with the party girls, the bodyguards realising they haven't been paid and will never be paid, and putting a bullet through their captain of industry, the entitled ending up having to bring something genuinely useful to the party or being regarded as so much ballast (or even as long pork)

A pal of mine working for a FTSE 100 company has droll tales of the ineptitude of members of the board, seemingly incapable of doing the most basic tasks without minions waiting on them hand-and-foot. While the stock market rides high, they are persons of importance, but all things end.

mila!!!!!!! How lovely to "see" you. We wondered if you and your family were okay. So sorry to hear about your friend's daughter, but glad it wasn't even worse in the end.

Thanks for letting us know, mila - concrete examples help all of us.