Preparedness for when

siegemode

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

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...

I remember visiting nan and granddad in the early 70s and listening to mum and nan discussing prices and how sugar had gone up a penny. They were really cross and it's stuck in my mind since.

bluebag

I was a young housewife in the 70's , no sugar, no bread, no spuds, no buses, power cuts, 3 day week , bins not emptied. Everything going up by the week it seemed at the time.

Oh not a lot of fun..

mardatha

Me too Bluebag. Potatoes were like gold dust.

fuddle

What was the cause of the 3 day weeks?

VJsmum

bluebag wrote: »

Watcha needin' holes in the tuna can fer?

get an air flow - isn't that what is meant in the buddy burner thingies?
Also cant' you do a rocket stove that way?

VJsmum

fuddle wrote: »

What was the cause of the 3 day weeks?

Coal miners strike and the oil crisis. Oil shortages and reducing output of coal put the price of coal up, unions felt wages should go up in line, government didn't. Strikes meant that there was not enough coal to maintain the electricity supply and electricity needed to be conserved so a 3 day work order was introduced, meaning companies could work 3 days in a row (to ensure continuity) but then not for the rest of the week.

bluebag

mardatha wrote: »

Me too Bluebag. Potatoes were like gold dust.

LOL I was really lucky, I had a local grocer I was a loyal customer of before all that stuff started. He would put 5 pound of spuds under the counter for me .:)

bluebag

VJsmum wrote: »

get an air flow - isn't that what is meant in the buddy burner thingies?
Also cant' you do a rocket stove that way?

Slightly different principle with the buddy burner, have used mine just as a plain tuna can with coiled corrugated cardboard, coil the cardboard into the tin so you can look down the cardboard 'tubes' if that makes any sense, fill with melted candle wax.

Rocket stove more complicated with an insulating core of gravel and stones. Side feeding tube.

Might be useful you having a look at some backpacker hobo stoves or a bush buddy. All can be made with tin cans with holes if ya like playing. (utube)

A good drill will do holes in any stove or a nail with a hammer.

Simplest stove is a cat stove, will burn alcohol or meths or vodka if ya desperate! Empty cat meat tin with holes punched around the top rim at regular intervals, pour in meths and light... away ya go!

I love stoves, can ya tell?

VJsmum

Thanks, that's really helpful

ALIBOBSY

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You are yolking?

ROFL. Dad still moans that they were told they would get a box full of samples to help in the design stage and they got a box of wooden replicas instead of chocies lol.

Also did some work for fredericks ice cream on their production line-but did get some "proper" samples from them .

Dad travelled all over and worked on a wide range of things.
Ironically given my prepping thoughts he worked quite a few power station, he worked for shell at one point, then later BNFL so has done safety systems for Nuclear power plants.

He once had an argument with Mum who asked him to peel some spuds whilst we were out and came back to an empty pan as he said he couldn't work out how many to do so did none. When she complained he shouted back when you can understand the safety systems on a Nuclear Generator, then I'll bloody peel your spuds:rotfl:.

Strangely although he did some interesting work and often it was on safety systems, he actually wasn't paid as much as you might think. He certainly was never a higher rate tax payer whilst I was at home and he only hit HR in the last 10 years before he retired and that was contracting.

Ali x