Preparedness for when

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MAR - I can't understand why people read in subject areas that upset them, surely it would be much easier not to read the thread in the first place. What comes across is a lack of sense of humour and tolerance both of which are here on this thread in abundance.

fuddle

It used to upset me and worry me (easy done though) but I'm blaze about it now and certainly don't feel the need to comment negatively about it. If it don't float my boat or I feel it's not relevant to me and my circumstances I read on till I find something useful that does. Kind of like the whole of MSE really.

Belnahua

I always said Mad Max wasn't a Sci-Fi film, but a documentary made ahead of its time! ;-)

Confuzzled

i live in fife too and whilst i haven't felt the weird buzzing thing i have definitely noticed an increase in flyovers (some way too close to the ground!) from leuchars airforce base

not sure what's going on, doesn't bother me much just dealing with my food stores, reading, practicing some very practical real life skills like fire building using a flint and steel (not easy!), figuring out how to use my ghillie kettle (very useful with power outages), dehydrating (great against hyperinflation since so many crops failed worldwide), getting fit (need to lose weight anyway) and generally enjoying myself

2tonsils

Can I ask if people on here are making any special preparations for this winter? I just wondered if you thought it might be a bad winter and might be making plans accordingly?

maryb

I'm a bit fatalistic about my chances if TS really HTF so I don't prepare for that. It's not that I think it could never happen, but I have chosen to focus on protecting myself against price rises and short term shortages, being as insulated as possible from everyday ie foreseeable disruption but also with the occasional longer term element.

So, for example, we have a woodburner, which is my favourite thing and I have built up a store of logs so that when I buy my logs this year they will actually be for next year. That way they have plenty of time to season, enabling me to pay a bit less for the logs but making sure I don't run out if there is a cold winter(hedge against increased costs). We will be warm and can heat water if there is a power cut (foreseeable disruption). And if Putin has another row with Ukraine and turns off the gas and all the other European countries hoard their gas supplies instead of selling them to the UK like good little open market trading partners, we will be able to ride out the disruption.

My DDs laugh at my Armageddon cupboard as they call it, but in fact I don't really go overboard except when I forget how much we have because I haven't organised it. Recently I realised that because there had been loads of good offers on loo paper I actually had enough for six months!! Normally I aim to buy when things are on offer so as to keep the average cost I pay as low as possible (protection against price rises). I let my stocks run down a bit in summer then tend to build them up again in the autumn so that if the weather is foul I don't need to worry (no need to worry if it snows for a few days). And it saves so much time just being able to pop down to the cellar storeroom when I have run out of something rather than having to go shopping. I don't really do any TSHTF planning but if there were to be a pandemic and we were told to stay indoors, we wouldn't starve though we'd be pretty bored with the food.

Just a couple of years ago we were given half an hour's warning that they were going to cut off the water to the road because of a leak and it could take a day or even longer to fix it. I've got some jerry can type water containers but I only keep one of them filled because they are very heavy and it's a pain. It was easy to fill the other containers with that much warning and we didn't have to join the scrum in Sainsbury's for bottled water. But if we hadn't had any warning, I would have had enough for a day with one container. So for me that is a good compromise. The empty containers would be useful if we had to go and get water from a supply point/neighbouring street

Belnahua

redruby wrote: »

Its probably the zombies working their way from underground to get us, seriously some of the posts on this thread begger belief, you really could not make them up !

It's the LHC firing up!

2tonsils

Confuzzled I thanked you for that post....I thought I might be the only one who enjoyed prepping, stocking up on food, lugging 15 litre containers of spring water down the high street and going into raptures because I found a storm lamp that runs on cheap olive oil for 3 euros!

Confuzzled

2tonsils wrote: »

Can I ask if people on here are making any special preparations for this winter? I just wondered if you thought it might be a bad winter and might be making plans accordingly?

i'm not doing anything much more than usual however i'm already on the preparing for winter thread and have been for the last few years so what i'm doing is sorta par for the course

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/55730567#Comment_55730567

you might like to start at the beginning of that thread for some basics it will get your mind thinking about what you can do that applies to you, the fleece linings for curtains and bubble wrap have been incredibly successful for me personally as well as loads of others on there, many have car kits etc and many have needed them poor things!

there is some crossover type talk there but it's pretty sedate and fair enough it's about preparing for winter not something unexpected but you might find it useful for both scenarios

Confuzzled

2tonsils wrote: »

Confuzzled I thanked you for that post....I thought I might be the only one who enjoyed prepping, stocking up on food, lugging 15 litre containers of spring water down the high street and going into raptures because I found a storm lamp that runs on cheap olive oil for 3 euros!

i have lamp envy now :rotfl: i also have serious multi fuel stove envy but so far i've not convinced any landlords to install them


actually i'm loving the dehydrating, we're really able to take advantage of the free bounty here now. the foraged fruit and rose petals have been amazing made into leathers and you can't get rosehip much of anything in the store so we'd miss out on that as without the dehydrator i wouldn't pick that many.

the dehydrator will make yogurt too so i need to try that as my daughter recently decided she loves greek yogurt and it's getting expensive!

our local scouts are also the kind that just play games so my daughter has thanked me for teaching her scouting type stuff as she enjoys it so much.

whilst i do sometimes think of dire situation, which actually makes me feel better having at least a vague plan in mind, i don't think about it constantly which is something those trying to belittle us should well consider!

if no one ever thought beyond today or tomorrow we wouldn't have half the things we find essential today and the world would be a very boring place. if prepping is fun, is in no way detrimental then what is wrong with that? if it's not for you fair enough but the thread title makes it very obvious what this thread is for so i find it incredibly rude and just plain uncharitable for people to come in here and tell us we're over the top or imply we've gone off the deep end.

most people here have very solid reasons for their concerns, a lot from past experience, me included. people talk about scaremongering but remember, tarring everyone you disagree with with the crazy brush is just as unpleasant and unnecessary and lets face it, given the thread topic, rude.