Preparedness for when

lillibet_dripping

Just off to school now ...... AND STILL SINGING!!!

GreyQueen

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

Just off to school now ...... AND STILL SINGING!!!

It had me humming along as well.

Proof that devastating political comment can be delivered in a bouncy singalong way entirely appropriate in front of pre-schoolers. Be great to have a Brit version, wouldn't it? :rotfl:

pineapple

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

Were they the same ones who said the general public were too stupid to use borax in a home setting?

Borax must be the reason I have two heads and glow in the dark then. When I was a kid we had a little blue pot of a commercial mouth ulcer preparation - borax and honey - in the bathroom cabinet. My mother had never bought honey - all I knew was that I loved the flavour. So I used to sneak in there and help myself with an occasional dab on the finger. Mmmmm......

craigywv

pineapple wrote: »

Borax must be the reason I have two heads and glow in the dark then. When I was a kid we had a little blue pot of a commercial mouth ulcer preparation - borax and honey - in the bathroom cabinet. My mother had never bought honey - all I knew was that I loved the flavour. So I used to sneak in there and help myself with an occasional dab on the finger. Mmmmm......

reading your post I was sent hurling back 30 years ago I also remember a bottle of milk of magnesia that was in the cupboard for the entirety of my youth I detested the taste of that. I think my mum never threw anything out:D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I have asked this question over on the daydream thread, as I am getting worried about price increases etc.

I am in my mid to late 40's, and hubby is 51 in 2 weeks, with food, energy prices going up in huge jumps, was just wondering in peeps opinion, do you think this will start calming down, or do you think this what the future will be be? do you think it will start calming down? or do you think it is something that is here to stay?

I can remember going to the local shop for my mum with a list, and the prices next to it, and my mother would give me the exact money for those items, and it was like it week in week out, ( in the 70's) if there was a price increase of 1p on something, there would be uproar.. as prices never seemed to go up. now there is no way you could do that now...

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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

A hot woman would be a good thermal insulator

Are you volunteering?

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maryb wrote: »

What were the other catchphrases?

There was "You stupid woman".

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Oh dear CTC sorry to be pessimistic but I don't think the price hikes have even got off the ground yet with where they're likely to go in the future. The best preps for continual price increases would be things to take you out of the market a bit like a woodburner so you could stay warm and even cook without gas and electric. Maybe some solar lamps so you can have light in darkness without it costing so much and maybe doing the food growing and preserving by non powered means, i.e canning and drying etc. We're all going to have to adapt in the future m'dear and it is going to be jolly hard too, Lyn xxx.

pineapple

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The best preps for continual price increases would be things to take you out of the market a bit like a woodburner so you could stay warm and even cook without gas and electric.

My solid fuel stove will burn either wood or coal. I gave up on the wood as I found it more expensive than the coal. I don't think it's cheap fuel unless you have a cheap non mainstream source. As for the coal I just ordered a bunker full of Excel and it's gone up - again! :mad: :mad: :mad:

thriftwizard

I am in my mid to late 40's, and hubby is 51 in 2 weeks, with food, energy prices going up in huge jumps, was just wondering in peeps opinion, do you think this will start calming down, or do you think this what the future will be be? do you think it will start calming down? or do you think it is something that is here to stay?

CTC, I'm a little older than you, and remember watching the assistants in the new-fangled little supermarkets rushing around trying to keep up with the price rises in the early 70s, when for a little while inflation positively galloped; for my widowed Mum, raising two children on a tiny income, it was very scary and many were the nights where beans on toast or scrambled eggs (neighbours kept chickens) were the only options. This was caused by a sudden spike in the price of oil, known as the '73-'74 oil shock.

My opinion is, sadly, that we ain't seen nothing yet. The reason isn't just greed & profiteering; it's because the substance - oil - that has made all this exotic food cheap & easily available is inexorably getting more expensive, as it gets harder & more expensive to find & produce it. Oil goes into petrochemical fertilisers & weedkillers (without which most modern crops will flounder) and runs the tractors that make it possible for one man to plough a 50-acre field in a day. Oil runs the big combine harvesters and the lorries, ships & planes that take the produce to market. It runs the power stations that power the factories that turn the produce into marketable commodities, then takes them to market. It powers your car to the supermarket, and runs the tills, and helps you carry it home. It runs the power stations that mean you can cook the stuff at the turn of a dial.

And they're not making any more of it, but there are lots more of us, and more every day, all wanting our share. So yes, prep, prep & prep harder, but try to do it in such a way that it reduces your household's dependence on oil one way or another. Just stockpiling stuff will see you through a short-term problem, but planning to move to a way of life that needs less energy altogether is the only real way to go.