Preparedness for when

jk0

I just came across this video made two days ago. Scarey stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lX-ZkbUIA#t=15

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Would that be your inner Saxon Peasant or your internet service provider? From the context, it could be either:rotfl:

Hehe! Start the day with a belly laugh and get it over with; it was the I(nternet) S(ervice)P(provider). My Inner Saxon Peasant spits on such effeteness.

jk0, good to highlight the issue. Money never was safe in the banks, it's just that when the ponzi scheme is running well, we are decieved into thinking that it is safe.

I keep a pretty low balance in the old bank account these days, just enough to cover the DDs with a safety margin. I wouldn't leave more in there that I was prepared to lose control of in the short term (i.e. a government-ordered bank holiday) or kiss goodbye to in the long term (bank collapse).

Obviously, I'd spit tacks if they lost any of my money, but better for me if it's a little than a lot.

Have turned some cash into foodstuffs with a long shelf life this week. The cheapest UHT milk I've found is a 12-case at £5.75 at F Foods, which equates to 48p a litre, which is fractonally better than 2 for £1 at £land or 55p each at Icelandia, but not worth going out of one's way for.

mardatha

Thanks for that GQ, I'm just writing out a list and powdered/UHT milk is on it.
I suppose I've got an ICP then. Inner Celtic lol

pineapple

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

That's the wrong way round.

The BBC treat people as "guilty until proven innocent", but the law says you are "innocent until proven guilty".

That's what gets to me too.
I expect a lot of people would be indignant if they were badgered on account of not having a fishing licence! Though the numbers of those legally requiring a TV licence are presumably a lot higher, to me the moral argument is the same. And this is why I will never invite a stranger in to look round and check - even though it might make life easier.
'Principles is principles' as they say.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Thanks for that GQ, I'm just writing out a list and powdered/UHT milk is on it.
I suppose I've got an ICP then. Inner Celtic lol

Remember, some of my people used to steal cattle in your part of the world, back in the day. Vicious brawlers, too, apprarently. Nice to know one comes from the top drawer, what-o.

F Foods have tinned pies but they wanted £1.19 for the FBs so I'm going off-piste with the Pr*nces brand lookee-likee ones at £1. Same size and equally stackable.

I shall now disappear into this thing called RL for a few hours to do some allotmenteering and foraging in c.s. My ISP will collect manure from the common and be delving in the ancestral sod with cold steel (they don't like it up 'em).

Parting is such sweet sorrow, dear ones; have a preptastic day and see ya laters. GQ xx

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Hi
Would love to join the discussion if that's ok.
Oh and I live on a smallholding in the North Island of New Zealand and have been learning and practising self sufficiency skills for over 20 years so are fairly well placed to cope with most SHTF scenarios.

But am totally confused about GreyQueens comments about mass public revolt, could you please elaborate?

thriftwizard

Oh gosh, I am completely bewildered as to what stock my inner peasant comes from... hailing mostly from good yeomanry from the western fringes of the South, with a hefty dash of cross-channel genes from my mother's side, not to mention bits from North of the Border, a couple of hundred years up on The North-West Frontier - my uncle spoke Pashtun before he spoke English - I don't know whether to try to grow oats or dry apricots!

Think I'll just have to have an IP, rather than an ISP. Though then I'll need to wear an Add Dress, won't I?

mardatha

I'm pure Celt. Scots Spanish and Irish. And I'm wee, dark, and ratty We could start a peasants revolt! REVOLTING PEASANTS R US!

westcoastscot

:rotfl:

Mar I'm too busy being a peasant to revolt! got up this morning and one side of the stove door has cracked in half and fallen in. Just having a wee look and it looks like £50 plus for a replacement bit! I see them a bit cheaper on ebay, but as usual they don't deliver this far north - really annoys me as we have royal mail same as the rest of the UK - prices are (at present) the same wherever you live! blatant profiteering is what it is!!!

So, am burning coal/logs today with the doors open - have to admit I'd forgotten how nice it is to sit by an open fire, we usually run it with the doors closed except when the dutch oven is in it.

WCS

ALIBOBSY

jk0 wrote: »

I just came across this video made two days ago. Scarey stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lX-ZkbUIA#t=15

The reality is you aren't "saving" your money in a bank, you are "lending" it to them. Unfortunately like any other "investment" this means you can lose some or all of your money. When times are good the illusion TPTB want you to believe-that banks are safe places to put your money, is easy to produce. When things go wrong, the truth comes out.

I reckon this type of event al la Cyprus is probably the most likely of the big prepper type events that can happen. Looking at how unconcered TPTB and RBS seemed to be when they had the system failures a short time ago, I can't see they would have any issue with closing banks and limiting cash access for fairly long periods. In those sort of situations those food stockpiles are a god send. It definitely helped us when our current account was frozen by RBS during the IT "glitch".

GQ-love watching the chickens and how they are with each other. Our "old lady" yesterday was positively strutting up and down the run, shouting a challenge to the new girls lol. Like a scene from braveheart :eek:.

Only one girl had a go and that was all fluttering wings and claws at each other for a couple of seconds, no more. The other newbies all got a couple of pecks till they started to respect "Rocky" and all is quite this morning.

Ali x