Preparedness for when

mardatha

Yep of course, but I wanted to try and stash for the winter weather as well, and needs to be stuff I can eat Tins of meat will do - thanks pet.

daz378

just put more important documents in my BOB, already had passport there but that was it.... checked my batteries loads of aaas but not aa s need to rectify that... late shift today then weekend off.... be wary of the recent economic growth......its the tories subsidizing housing market , so we all feel good near the election.... the Americans allowed their house pricing bubble to burst , properties devalued 40% , whats the betting our housing bubble bursts .. 6 month after the next election
might not happen ....not being political all parties dance around the middle ground just warning off a possible economic bump

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mardatha wrote: »

Am having a bit of a problem here, in that we've gone over to low carbing and I can't find anything to stash! Any ideas welcome please. All I can think of is dried veg for soup!

How about some coconut oil (they do large jars in Holland and Barrett) and a big bag of powdered whey (I used to get undenatured whey from myprotein)? That's the basic needs of fat and protein sorted! If you're feeling adventurous, you could get a full leg of dried ham, as I have at the moment - it was a gift but is keeping very well! Also things like tinned ham - I've seen the M&S ones recommended on here, or low carb hotdogs in jars. Also lots of meat in the freezer!

Once you've got your day to day low carb diet sorted, just buy more of what you're eating anyway

BTW, I think I've seen you on the (mostly american) low carb board - I lurk there too!

mardatha

I can't take whey it made me really bloated and queasy. I've lost a stone since the end of June, so am sticking to the diet though.
But yes to tins of meat, I need to get that sorted soon. Def feels like autumn is coming - although my buddleia isn't even out yet!
Every year in Sept I get this mad urge to start knitting socks and scarves so that will be the next job.
Are elect prices going up this winter (again!) - does anybody know?

jk0

mardatha wrote: »

Are elect prices going up this winter (again!) - does anybody know?

I'd be more surprised if they don't, in view of them shutting down three coal fired power stations.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Loving the posts today ! GQ - I needed that reminder. I got careless and opened a savings acc --EEEK! Will empty that out asap and save it in the house, like I always used to do.
Agree that preps isn't about money - I have been on prepper sites where it's one big competition to see who has spent the most and bought the fanciest gadgets/biggest knives blahblahblah. I think prepping is a state of mind

Quick, someone do that in cross-stitch and frame it. Never a truer word was spoken.

Mar, one thing I've remarked on as I travel through life is that a lot of blokes are "gear nuts". It's about the bicycle's spec not the bike ride, the horsepower of the car not the journey or destination etc etc. With infinite variations. *Yawn*

Dunno if it's one of those hardwired gender thingies (hey, let's have a bit of stereotyping fun just until one of the blokes comes in and sets me straight ) but it seems common enough from my observations.

FPK, resources most deffo off-site and in more than one place. If I can't get my wider family to be preppers, at least I can line up some resources for them to use in a crisis.

Have just finished the Orlov book Reinventing Collapse. Most excellent. It's slender, deliberately devoid of charts and graphs and written from the unique perspective of a Russian who emigrated to the USA while a teen, and who kept to-ing and fro-ing between family in the two countries during the whole collapse of the USSR and the convulsions which attended the end of the Soviet era, and up to present.

It's a fascinating book. It's specifically extrapolating a similar-style collapse for USA in the not-to-distant future. With the one remaining superpower collapsing for exactly the same reasons as the USSR, but from a different starting point and far less likely to have a soft landing.

I won't say too much more; you can read it or read reviews of it if you like. I shall re-read it again immediately, it's that good.

I was musing this afternoon about the changes I have seen in this city. I've lived here, with one or two brief hiatuses, for over 20 years. I used to come here as a child to shop. I've studied its history and even its geology.

When I first moved here to live in '91, there were several places I used to go to buy from factory shops. The factories were all but defunct at the time and closed down after a few years. The plots of land stand derelict or have been redeveloped for private housing.

The products of those factories aren't items which are no longer required. They're being made overseas, chiefly in China. To a poorer standard, less long-lasting, but cheaper.

At the same time, I've seen the discount stores and charity shops spread, alongside betting shops and the likes of CashC0nverters and the payday and logbook loans companies amd cheque-cashing and money-wiring outfits.

You cannot walk more than a few meters in the shopping streets without seeing We buy gold! signs. Some of them are premises who have opened to do nothing else but buy gold. They can afford city centre premises and even manage to continue in business with several of them within a few steps of each other.

Some of the gold-buying signs are very prominently in the windows of big jewellery stores who might once have disdained to advertise this service.

Foodbanks? We have several.

Charities offering support to people in various forms of distress proliferate like mushrooms in an autumn forest. I deal with them in the course of my work but even I have trouble keeping up with the sector. It seems that the logical progression will see each and every one of us either working as a support worker or a becoming a service user.

What this tells me, along with the amount of working people qualifying for HB, is that the economy is rotten. Not getting there, already rotten, and worsening by the month.

With real wealth slipping due to inflation and lack of pay increases, plus part-time employent where full-time is needed and wanted, a lot of people are very vulnerable already and this isn't going to get better soon.

If you add an economic crisis on top, people will really suffer.

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Ahem. Fancy working most of the day and coming home to write essays. I must be needing my head examined.

Oh, that's right, I have had my head examined by MRI. From the top of your skull looking down, your eyeballs look like hardboiled eggs twisted into thin white socks. You could have lived a long and happy life without that visual, n'est-ce que pas?

I am pleased to report that T0sspots Basics spuds have come back down from 25p to 14p since last week. They're in date for years, for those who care about those things.....

Love and peas, GQ xx

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ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Having stocks means being able to take advantage of best prices and bulk buying.

It also means you are eating at last month's/year's prices.

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FairyPrincessk wrote: »

I would also like a solar or wind up radio eventually.

You don't need to wait to get a wind up radio.

They're cheap as anything.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Quick, someone do that in cross-stitch and frame it. Never a truer word was spoken.

Seconded

Dunno if it's one of those hardwired gender thingies (hey, let's have a bit of stereotyping fun just until one of the blokes comes in and sets me straight ) but it seems common enough from my observations.

Says she who puts substantial research into her purchases and includes a surplus store as a source of preps
I will admit a fascination with some gadgetry, I'm a pro geek with steampunk tendencies so I'm not really in a position to argue that its not hard wired.
That said, most of my prepping isn't about gadgets, its about making the most of kit I already have from other uses and making sure we have sufficient supplies laid in to cope with our personal SHTF scenarios.
No matter how much money you throw at prepping there's always going to be a scenario that you haven't covered, learning to adapt what you have access to and picking up some basic skills which you can adapt, is more likely to help you then the fanciest gadgets. Meanwhile the same skills can save you a fortune in everyday life and improve the quality of life you lead.

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mardatha wrote: »

And 1000ft up, so no floods either.

I'm not quite that high, but I think I'm pretty safe at 510ft.