Preparedness for when

lovefullshelves

Hello everyone:) I've been reading in the background:)Been dehydrating, supposedly for storage but I seem to have eaten alot of tomatoes and apples!
BB - do you have the powder I remember you had to have with the NBC suit? Fullers earth I think. I'm intrigued, do you have a gas mask too? I've got 2 (but they are vintage)
Hope everyones happy
Here's a question...if the economy collapsed tomorrow..or there was a fuel crisis and no food in the supermarkets..how many people do you think would turn up on your doorstep?
I've been thinking about it.
I know I'd get my DD and her partner, my best mate and his dog. My drinking buddy and her daughter and partner and my mate from the pub(but he's a prepper). (and thats ignoring OH's step kids, partners and 8 kids)
Thats 7 more people to feed.
Just a thought. How far can we stretch?

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LOVEFULLSHELVES I guess the answer is too many!!! I suspect I'd get both sets of neighbours in the short term plus my dog walking pal and our friend in his 80s from the allotment so 7 adults and 2 teenagers ibut I think I would stop answering the door after that as I couldn't feed the whole village. Undoubtedly in that situation the allotments would be stripped bare and probably we'd lose the produce from the garden too. After that we'd be on defensive duties to keep what we had left in store for ourselves. I wouldn't stay in situ if it got that difficult I'd try to get out before that stage with as many useful things as I could carry and find safety out of the built up areas in a place with fewer people, Cheers Lyn xxx.

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lovefullshelves wrote: »

do you have the powder I remember you had to have with the NBC suit? Fullers earth I think.

No, but then I wouldn't be leaving my home for quite a while, so wouldn't have fallout to remove.

I'm intrigued, do you have a gas mask too?

No, just filter masks and goggles.

lovefullshelves wrote: »

Here's a question...if the economy collapsed tomorrow..or there was a fuel crisis and no food in the supermarkets..how many people do you think would turn up on your doorstep?

Probably nobody.

I haven't got any family living close by (and those family I do have, don't know I'm a prepper), and I don't know my neighbours very well (and they don't know I'm a prepper either), so there's no reason for anyone to come to me.

thriftwizard

Hmmm - there'd be quite a few on our doorstep, I think! The Offsprings' assorted friends have a tendency to turn up here & weep gently round my kitchen table whenever TSH their personals Fs, as it is. One or two have ended up staying with us for some time. But I'm kind of prepared for a few extra; there's spare bedding & plenty of room & food as long as they're not all expecting a bedroom each & room service. And they are all slowly learning to stand on their own two feet, whether in terms of surviving in the current economy or by learning forgotten but important skills; one young chap has had some fleece off me this week to wash & card for making his own batting for a quilt.

I've been training up my neighbours too, though, and many of them have got into the habit of keeping some extra food around, and/or keeping a handful of chickens, some herbs and a few fruit bushes, just as the original inhabitants of these little Victorian/Edwardian houses did. I used to think I'd be stuck feeding the entire street if TSHTF, but they are gradually waking up (without me doom-mongering at them - people just switch off or write you off as a loony) & taking a bit of an interest in their long-term future. With one or two notable petunia-growing, be-decked & patio-heatered exceptions, of course!

BessieBooBoo

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

BTW anyone spot the prepper on the one show tonight, interesting that they allowed him to point out its not just if the world ends its prepping for all sorts of possibilities that can and do happen. Mr Allbright almost seemed converted by the end of the interview .

Ali x

Hello AB:)

Yes! Seemed a sensible, thoughtful chap. I thought it was very brave of him to let a journalist loose, and show people some of what he was doing, as he knows he may well get some stick for it.

The one phrase he said when asked why haunted me:

It all started from Hurricane Katerina... 1800 (?) people waiting for help that never arrived...

It just struck a chord with me and OH, we just looked at each other remembering that terrible devastation, and heartbreak...

And this from a supposedly wealthy superpower, whose government sat back and did nothing until the world condemned them.

It just reinforces the fact that we need to be more self-reliant. I can see the public services eroding more, year on year, the safety net is disappearing, (or the holes in it are so far apart now that a lot of people are falling through).

I hope that it inspires more people to prepare for something, even if they prefer not to believe TSHTF anytime soon.

Take care all, keep honing your skills, learning, and prepping!

BBB
OH
Bacon Bessie

thriftwizard

Just in passing, a bit of good news on the trainee-daughter-in-law front - where she was working, they have sacked her utterly incompetent & rather nasty line manager, she applied for the job herself and has got it! Very, very pleased for her, & my opinion of the company has wavered upwards very slightly.

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THRIFTWIZARD that is the very best thing I've heard for a long time. Justice is always nice to experience and I hope this gives your lovely trainee daughter in law her confidence back and makes her hold her head just a little higher in life, because she so very much deserves to do so, well done her!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

:T Oh well done the trainee DIL (love that term). Seems like the company have finally seen sense. More power to her elbow.

Hmm, peeps turning up at mine. I haven't got family in the city, they're in various villages and the home town about 45-60 mins away. If they turn up here, I'd have to stack them like cordwood but we could share some grub. Space would be more of an issue than food.

Friend and neighbour SupeGran has a key to this flat and a help-yourself invitation in a crisis.

Otherwise, I keep a very low profile in terms of prepping as am tucked into the heart of the city and some of my neighbours are lovely but some are in and out of the slammer as it is.

The thieves and junkies will have to fend for themselves, and better not try foraging my my home. The good people ... a little discreet help. The scuzzer who kept me awake most of the night last night can take a long walk off a short pier.....:rotfl:

Went to a bootsale this morning and came away with a lot of pillar candles at 50p a pop, all totally unburned and several with 100-hour promises on their labels. Result.

I have a theory that if we move into a period of powercuts, and they become the new normal, candles won't be available anything like as cheaply as they turn up secondhand now. Hence stashing the stash against that eventuality.

Went ooop town with the wally trolley just before lunch time as needed some heavy things. My goodness, aren't shopping trollies popular now? Every third woman and some older men were trolleying along and there were so many variations of size, colour and pattern that no two were alike.

Laid in some more tinnery and moved some tommie soups from the underbed rolling trollies into the food cupboard and then restocked the trolley. For newer arrivals, my larder is horizontal not vertical and lives under the bedstead.

This works pretty well, with the tiled floor and the window always ajar unless it's bitter cold or very noisy out. Have decided to swab the floor under there so have some trollies out, floor drying, will move the others over and repeat and reinstate later.

My horizontal larder is kept track of in an A4 notebook. I write stuff in pencil because stuff fluctuates in amounts. The BB dates are written on the tops of the tins and where I have mixed tins, there's a letter so I don't have to poke among a whole load of things to find the soup among the tinned peaches.

A vertical larder would be better but we have to work with what we have, don't we?

thriftwizard, interesting to hear that some of your neighbours are moving towards a cottage economy, at least to a modest degree. I think there is a sense of unease in a lot of people, people who would never in a million years consider themselves preppers.

A feeling of precariousness. A lot of things are rotten in the state of Denmark and I think it's like the elephant in the room in many peoples' lives; they're walking around it and studiously pretending that it isn't there.

Righty, got a quick trip up the road again to see a man about a dog...........lateers, GQ xxx

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and maybe I am, but I just invested in one of these, for my Orange Pre-Paid Mastercard.

Also on my list (to be purchased before my, long awaited, holiday next year) is one of these, for my Passport.

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And this is one of them.