Store cupboard - in case of emergency

Gothicfairy

No I don't but I am starting to for the move.

I am building the monster of all lists of things to take should the worst happen and it is to be honest turning into a bit of the old end days stuff.

valk_scot

Some of these US "survivalist" sites are prepping for WW3, remember. And often live a 50-100 mile drive from the nearest big town, over rough country. A tad excessive for the UK, unless you're in the more remote regions.

I live in a small town and can walk to the supermarket in ten minutes though. I don't specifically stock up but I have torches, batteries, candles and matches to hand, about a months worth of foodstuffs excluding milk and eggs, never let my prescription drug supply go under 2-3 weeks in hand and I have a full set of camping gear for summer use anyway, which includes stove, gas, battery lamps and 4-season sleeping bags.

So I'm probably better prepared than most for any food shortages due to the weather and for power cuts. I'm also old enough to remember the 3-day week and shortages in the 70's so I know it can happen....but that was 30+ years agoand I can't think of a time since that I've ever really needed all this stockpiled stuff. I can also remember "Protect and Survive" in the late 70's....now that was scarey. But tbh I don't think my stockpile of cheap Herbal Essence shampoo is quite what they were recommending ......

picklepick

Haha valk-scott i went to the war museum in manchester and they had the videos of 'Protect and Survive' playing and they were nothing short of hilarious. Things like telling you to 'hide in a doorway' if a nuclear blast comes. Likes that gonna save you!!

Also having a fall-out room in your house. Short of lining it with lead and having enough food for 25 years im not sure how that would help either!

Generally we have torches, candles, matches etc. We also have a camp stove but probably no fuel for it!

zarazara

depends on how paraoid
i am feeling......................its out there and its going to get you

mardatha

Yes I'm a prepper

Penelope_Penguin

picklepick wrote: »

Haha valk-scott i went to the war museum in manchester and they had the videos of 'Protect and Survive' playing and they were nothing short of hilarious. Things like telling you to 'hide in a doorway' if a nuclear blast comes. Likes that gonna save you!!

You may mock :rotfl: if a building is falling down, standing under a doorway might save you, as the doorway is stronger than the ceiling, so standing there prevents bits of masonry falling on your head

Rikki

I suppose yes. I live in an area that has regular power cuts and get cut off when it's snows heavily. I have tins and dried foods that I can cook easily on a gas hob when I have no electric or need a hearty meal to protect me from the cold. No electricity no heating.

Candles and batteries in abundance.

I have a well stocked wine cellar too.

7roland8

There were lots of lists about when people thought the millennium bug would strike - i recall Richard Madeley had a cupboard of stuff ferreted away.

I always have some tins of stuff and bread in freezer.
Also always keep a drawer or two of candles and we have a two ring camping stove in case of power cuts.

After Xmas last yr decided I wouldn;t do a shop for a while and would eat what we had - then the snow struck and I thought I'd made a serious mistake - but we never ran out of things.

I think once you start going down the 'survive a war' thinking you'd need a fortress to keep it all (then you'd have looters after your stuff - better not to think of it!!).

Forgot - just remembered I have a wind up thing if my mobile abttery dies - never used it but might be useful!

picklepick

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

You may mock :rotfl: if a building is falling down, standing under a doorway might save you, as the doorway is stronger than the ceiling, so standing there prevents bits of masonry falling on your head

If theres a nuclear blast, there will be no doorway left.....

rosieben

I remember a WVRS lady coming to our school when I was 14; gave us a lecture about what to do in the event of a nuclear blast; it terrified the life out of me and gave me nightmares for weeks but there was a very real threat of nuclear war then. I seem to remember that the first thing to do was whitewash the windows

I don't stockpile for the end of the world scenario but I do like a good store cupboard for all sorts of practical reasons, strikes, fuel shortages (no deliveries to stores), bad weather, illness etc and I've been very glad of it many times in the last few years

I do love those american sites though, there are some amazing pictures of their store rooms, how organised do they have to be to stockpile food for the year! but then people like the Amish do that as a matter of course, that's how they live.

eta- and I had it figured out that if an nuclear blast was imminent I would get as close to GCHQ as I could and go out with the first blast!