Preparedness for when

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbAl__y6mJw

This is a brilliant talk. If you haven't time for the whole 15 mins, enter at 6.15 and hear about how "your" money in your "own" bank accounts isn't "yours" at all. This guy has a brilliant speaking voice, so low that my desk is vibrating.

Listen and be very afraid. Why the heck don't they teach this in schools? Oh wait, that'd be because we'd never trust them as far as we could spit a rat if we knew the truth.

Just been talking to ma muvva who has spent the afternoon nose-deep in the Observer which is going on about Quantitive Easing in the USA. I think she thought I'd gone off into the far reaches of Tin Hat Country when I keep banging on about this - bygorry, I think that she starts to get it.............

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

You might find some of the links in my thread on Landlordzone interesting, GQ:

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?40982-EU-conceived-to-benefit-bankers

maryb

Sunday Times business section today had a piece about how the ECB is preparing for more bank bailouts (or should that be bail ins?) and said Greece could need another injection of bailout money by November. Wonder how long it will be before the lid that has been kept on everything pending the German elections blows off in spectacular fashion?

Independence Days is by Sharon Astyk. She had a blog for many years which seems to have fallen by the wayside since she is now busy with emergency fostering. A shame because it was very good. You can't even read the archived stuff because she seems to have lost the rights to the domain name (Casaubon's Book).

However she has a more recent book called Making Home which incorporates a lot of her writing from the blog. The theme is about adapting where you live to survive whatever the future has in store - the complete antithesis of bugging out

daftmummy

Very interesting reading re- banking etc. A lot of people just put their head in the sand and old pop out if TPTB say so or if its hyped up in media :mad:. Know I'm back tracking about Blackout but with something like that is food for thought for people who aren't thinking ahead. Yet if you ask oh what you think or did you watch it its "no it will never happen" or "far fetched!":mad::mad:
Is it just me? around me who is thinking ahead ( apart from present company ), I'm not looking forward for a crisis to happen to sit back and gloat about how prepared I am but I want to make sure my family is safe if we have to batten down the hatches so to speak. A SHTF situation I experienced was having surgery which left me unable to lift anything more than a half filled kettle or able to drive (ladies you know what I mean:o) I had no family support and two kids to look after as DH had to work. Having a store was a god send but so was the little treats like angel delight the kids made.

Oh on a positive note I've made a friend who is interested in making jam and learning like me, so this week we will put our stash of fruit and sugar and have a day of jam making!!:) She watched an advert for blackout and joked she would just put the kids in the car and head to her mother in law as she has a huge larder to keep them for at least 6 months lol
So who is it here then ladies?:rotfl::rotfl:come on fess up? I know its someone on here?:)
I'm very excited to have someone to share learning something new but would never say I'm into shtf prep as I like being just plain boring daftmummy. I like blending in but sometimes my life seems so different since I've had kids and became ill. I only have two friends from my past in touch everyone else is on planet motherhood but before I was ill I was so different and people are sometimes shocked I have a degree:o and the job I used to do. sorry wondering off topic.
Enjoying picking blackberrys have made some lovely sauce for porriage in winter and for puddings. Right off to do the kids packed lunches.

mardatha

Daftmummy- there is far more to life than having bits of paper to prove you've got a qualification, or passed x training course or sat y exam
You've achieved far more than that by just sitting back and thinking for yourself, by not following the herd, and by overcoming your own personal upheavals and learning from it.
To me personally I think the herd mentality shows fear, so they bunch together in a crowd or clique because they're scared stiff to stand on their own two feet. Unfortunate side effect is that they laugh loudly at anybody who's standing on theirs
I watch people, and they're all the same. I was once in Mensa and went to a meeting (a meeting, cos one was enough!) They were a herd of loud know it alls who jingled posh car keys and talked over each other desperately trying to sound clever. Then to work in a hospital, and there was the same group of in-people, nurses who had patios and dinner parties and great holidays, and looked down on their patients as unfortunate lesser forms of life.
They always remind me of high school kids, the ones whose mummies were half killing themselves to give them everything - (or who didn't care about them and just threw money at them to make them go away).
Don't ever envy them, much better to stay daft in here with us

GreyQueen

Morning all, quick visitoid before work.

Daftmummy, I think a lot of people believe that, as long as their beliefs are in line with those of the majority of others they encounter, that those beliefs are true, correct and proper.

Once upon a time, everyone knew the earth was flat and you were a lunatic to suggest otherwise. Only it never was flat, was it? I always tell myself that no one ever sat musing in their comfortable home about being in a refugee camp in two years' time.

Even everyday probabilities such as ill-health and job loss are too outre to be prepared for, to some people's way of thinking.

I was thinking about preparedness response. I work for the local authority. We won't be coming to rescue you in our vehicles.

We don't have any bar the civic coach in the museum. A scant handful of leased fleet cars, the smallest and cheapest hatchbacks, and that's it. Our contractors have vehicles but they are mostly highly specialised things like dustbin lorries. I've ridden in them; the cabs seat 3 inc the driver. You could maybe pack another two on the floor in an emergency but that's it.

We have a large teaching hospital with an A & E. It's regularly overwhelmed each Fri and Sat by drunken idiots. No way could it handle a major outbreak of infectious disease or people having a lot of injuries caused by a catastrophe. It has to close wards every winter because of noro.

Yes, there are the voluntary organisations but they are a drop on the ocean of need. If things go badly wrong, even for a few days, a lot of people who haven't made the most basic provisions such as spare food, water, torches and medicines will suffer unnecessarily.

Part of being an adult is accepting responsibility for your own wellbeing whenever possible. We can't give ourselves open-heart surgery but we can run a first aid kit and try to keep ourselves from harm.

Little things, added together, can stop us becoming part of the problem in a crisis and can lead to us freeing up resources to help others, and sharing our resources with others.

[Deleted User]

Morning all, today is Jam and Jelly day and the blackberry and apple jelly is in the preserving pan ready to go, then it's processing the 8 lbs of gifted pears for something new, which is Pear Ginger according to the recipe you make it like conserve and bottle it like jam and then use it as a dessert with cream or pour it over ice cream as a sauce. What appeals to me most is the first instruction which is Do NOT peel the pears, oh yeah, it's a winner already!!! I've peeled and chopped for England over the last week or so and my blisters now have blisters but, when I look at the shelf in the store, it's all so very worth it!!!

DAFTMUMMY we're a bit thin on the ground us folks who don't leave life to chance, and don't believe 'THEY' will sort out whatever the current 'IT' is. Us Humans, we've become so conditioned to obeying dictates and instructions and so cocooned from the effects of real life that it's easier to NOT think in most cases, or at least not consider that things might change and all the taken for granted, comforts and services and goods might not be available ad infinitum. People can't comprehend the fragility of the current 'just in time' nature of our supply chains or that there is only a finite amount of everything on this earth and when it's gone, it's GONE for good. No no far easier to keep partying and using to excess because it will always be like this no? No, categorically NO, as most of humanity is likely to find out in the not unseeable future if things continue the way they are now. Being prepared hurts no one, is responsible behaviour as it means one less family to need bailing out and rescuing, is insurance against the vagaries of life, long may it continue as a tiny thread of common sense in a very silly world, Cheers Lyn xxx.

Butterfly_Brain

Start of the Food storage made easy challenge today:

You just learned that a family member is very very sick so you are going to stay at their house for one week to help them out. Times have been tough so your family has been eating out of your food storage. You must leave behind “ready to cook” meals made out of your food storage for your family to eat while you are out of town.
Goal: Plan and prepare easy meals using your food storage
Today’s Tasks:

• Put together seven complete DINNERS for your family to eat for a week (either compile long term storage ingredients into a ziplock bag or mason jar, or put together canned goods into a bag to make a complete meal)
• Make a list of breakfast and lunch ideas that your family can choose from and place the ingredients all in one spot for easy access
• Ask your spouse or one of your kids to cook one of the meals for dinner tonight

Today’s Limitations:

• For this day, and ALL days of the challenge: no spending money, no going to stores, and no restaurants
• You must only select items for your meals that are shelf stable (don’t need to be refrigerated)

Advanced Tasks:

• Actually compile the 7 breakfasts and 7 lunches (either compile long term storage ingredients into a ziplock bag or mason jar, or put together canned goods into a bag to make a complete meal)
• Your flight leaves soon, you only have ONE HOUR to complete this task

REMEMBER, TOMORROW’S CHALLENGE WILL BE DIFFERENT.

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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

You must leave behind “ready to cook” meals made out of your food storage for your family to eat while you are out of town.

As I live on my own, I don't need to leave anything for my (non-existent) family to eat.

I just need to leave half a dozen tins of cat food (currently in the cupboard) with the neighbour, who will be feeding buggalugs.

Butterfly_Brain

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

That's.

As I live on my own, I don't need to leave anything for my (non-existent) family to eat.

I just need to leave half a dozen tins of cat food (currently in the cupboard) with the neighbour, who will be feeding buggalugs.

Aww bless

Possession

GreyQueen wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbAl__y6mJw

This is a brilliant talk. If you haven't time for the whole 15 mins, enter at 6.15 and hear about how "your" money in your "own" bank accounts isn't "yours" at all. This guy has a brilliant speaking voice, so low that my desk is vibrating.

Listen and be very afraid. Why the heck don't they teach this in schools? Oh wait, that'd be because we'd never trust them as far as we could spit a rat if we knew the truth.

Ooh GQ what a voice! I had to listen to it twice as I got a bit carried away ...