Are you preparing for economic collapse?

Harry_Powell

tiff wrote: »

Nothing was wasted, I use it as I go along. We didnt used to use powdered milk before I started this, but now we have got used to it, when we run out of fresh I can always make up a jug of milk for the morning and the kids use it no problem.

I dont feel foolish at all, although my husband was not made redundant so we havent had to rely on the stockpiled food. It just means that I can afford to not go shopping for weeks and just eat from what we have. It wasnt an over reaction, it just felt like a sensible thing to do at the start of the recession, when we were in debt and with the threat of redundancy over us.

We keep a couple of long-life milk cartons in the back of the cupboard for times when we run out.

Looking back, do you feel that increasing your food spending in order to stockpile food was a better strategy than using that money to pay down debts or to increase savings? Say what you like about the welfare state, no one will starve in the UK, whereas many people can be made homeless if they default on their debts and mortgage.

tiff

Yeah, I am not as worried about things now as I was a year ago but glad that we have almost paid off our debt, have some savings and plenty of food in the cupboard. The worst that has happened is that we are now better off financially.

Really2

tiff wrote: »

Yeah, I am not as worried about things now as I was a year ago but glad that we have almost paid off our debt, have some savings and plenty of food in the cupboard. The worst that has happened is that we are now better off financially.

:beer: good nice to hear.

Yoshua

Things are not all that bad.

I do have a bug out bag ready and food and water stored in safe place my family can run to.

I have a revolver and couple of hundred rounds, but only for defence if Im forced to use it.
Its better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

I dont think things will go mad max here in the UK but they could in the USA and other parts of the world.



The is a high chance of a crisis the next few years that will make the last credit crisis look like a tea party.

Cleaver

Yoshua wrote: »

I have a revolver and couple of hundred rounds, but only for defence if Im forced to use it.
Its better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

Most studies show the exact opposite and normally demonstrate that people who have a gun in their house are far more likely to be shot either with that gun or another gun than people who don't keep a gun in their house.

Yoshua

Cleaver wrote: »

Most studies show the exact opposite and normally demonstrate that people who have a gun in their house are far more likely to be shot either with that gun or another gun than people who don't keep a gun in their house.

true but no one knows !

Expept the unfortunate person who trys to take food or water from my family and gets a round in his leg!

drc

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Cleaver

Yoshua wrote: »

Expept the unfortunate person who trys to take food or water from my family and gets a round in his leg!

If someone came to my place desparate for food and water I'd like to think I'd help them out as best I could, not shoot them in the leg.

Harry_Powell

Does anyone remember that UK teenager who was fooling about with a gun his mum had for 'self defence' and ended up shooting his little sister in the head, killing her?

That girl would still be alive if her mum didn't have a gun. So much for self defence.

JonnyBravo

Yoshua wrote: »

true but no one knows !

Expept the unfortunate person who trys to take food or water from my family and gets a round in his leg!

Then what you going to do?

Presumably if they are so desperate for food all of society has broken down etc.
With no hospitals etc, are you shooting them in the leg and then going to look after them? You might as well come clean and say you're going to shoot all-comers in the head.

Or how about he's armed, and a better shot, and decides to shoot you and your family just to be sure he won't be shot at?

Muppet.


Use your best asset, it should be your brain, not a gun.