Are you preparing for economic collapse?

lostinrates

lana22 wrote: »

I mean, who needs 10 tins of crab meat between Christmas and New Year when you already have all your meals planned?!

Someone who really likes midnight feasts of crab cakes or hates her daughters cooking and doesn't want to say?

tiff

Yes, and I'm preparing for that too!

lostinrates

tiff wrote: »

Yes, and I'm preparing for that too!

Which? crab cake midnight feasts or a daughter's bad cooking?;)

lana22

lostinrates wrote: »

Someone who really likes midnight feasts of crab cakes

No, it wasn't Nigella, I checked.

Lifeisbutadream

If everyone stopped spedning and 'prepared for the worst' then there would almost certainly be a worst.

Carry on spending where you can - keep local businesses afloat and we will all be fine.

Jennifer_Jane

bristol_pilot wrote: »

If there really is economic collapse, we can look to Zimbabwe to see what it would be like. No safe mains drinking water would be the most serious challenge.

Well, if the crunch comes, I'll do what the Zimbabweans have done, and go to South Africa!

Jen
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salan

Is this the standard of all the forums on this site? Even if you don't agree with the posters thoughts, does it really need such ridicule? I only have to think back to the flooding and the fact that water was off and people were trying to take advantage by damaging the bowsers (perhaps those people are on This forum). There are many GOOd reasons to have a 'well supplied stock room' and also have things incase of emergency. We get power cuts every so often here because the power is fed from over head cables that are old. We keep lanterns and stoves in as they can last for up to a day. My mum is disabled and lives alone. They have power cuts often and she is in an all electric house so she has a gas table top stove and keeps a good stock of food in. It is unlikely that we will have the total callapse of society, but I think that we will have pockets of civil unrest, and/or more failiure of the infrastructure. So I WILL prepare and no I don't have a nuclear bunker or any such thing. But I can also discuss things sensibly. Agree or disagree fine but don't mock!

mewbie_2

salan wrote: »

Is this the standard of all the forums on this site?

Nah, most of the others are rubbish.

StevieJ

mewbie wrote: »

Nah, most of the others are rubbish.

Behave

lostinrates

salan wrote: »

Is this the standard of all the forums on this site? Even if you don't agree with the posters thoughts, does it really need such ridicule? I only have to think back to the flooding and the fact that water was off and people were trying to take advantage by damaging the bowsers (perhaps those people are on This forum). There are many GOOd reasons to have a 'well supplied stock room' and also have things incase of emergency. We get power cuts every so often here because the power is fed from over head cables that are old. We keep lanterns and stoves in as they can last for up to a day. My mum is disabled and lives alone. They have power cuts often and she is in an all electric house so she has a gas table top stove and keeps a good stock of food in. It is unlikely that we will have the total callapse of society, but I think that we will have pockets of civil unrest, and/or more failiure of the infrastructure. So I WILL prepare and no I don't have a nuclear bunker or any such thing. But I can also discuss things sensibly. Agree or disagree fine but don't mock!

I don't think anyone, even the most foolhard of our fools in this forum, would deny the advantageds of having preparation for powercuts, weather extremes etc.

The point being made is that in times of civil unrest or failure of the infrastructure, food stores are of limit longterm benefit and possibly a source of liabilty if you are going to be stabbed for your tinned crab.

Some people here are very rude, but its been in the main smiley and good natured here in this thread