Preparedness for when

ginnyknit

Oh GQ a millionairess at last:rotfl: Hubby has 20p coins framed in his room - from the olympics and those bu**ers will be liberated in a crisis mate. He also has a couple of hundred quid in small change stashed for me if he shuffles off the mortal coil but his plan has one glitch, how the hell will I get them to a bank ( 3 miles away). Im sure I will be a tad too busy to sort that one out unless undertakers take change

Thank you all for the info re - lack of eggs and cake making. previously I have only used the soya flour to make fishing bait for him but theres plenty left for baking as I lost the recipe for bait and really cant be *rsed to look for it :cool:

Our dear SHTF friend Wyre has posted me 2 of the 99p lamps that Bob tested out for us so am looking forward to playing/testing out their efficacy and adding to my preps :j:j

notjustlaura

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

WCS the specialist has mentioned methotrexate as next step but I am very reluctant. A friend/distant relative had Rheumatoid Arthritis and was put on methotrexate. The side effects nearly killed her :eek:- she was on life support for a while last year - so has made me very nervous of it. Would be interested to know if you had any side effects?

My mum's on methotrexate and, so far as I know, has no problems with it.

GreyQueen

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

Forgive me, I'm giggling because all I can think about when I see the first one is a bum! :rotfl:

And if you hold it up to the light you get to see a watermark of the most peculiar-looking bird. Sort of like a pigeon with a neck as long as its body, looking as if a child drew it. A very young child, prolly.

I know! It must be a Dodo!:rotfl:

I'm tickled pink with my new banknote. Strictly speaking, I would have been better to have bought 2 more FB pies for the stash, but I reckon that £2 for a regular reminder of the futility of fiat currency (and possibly talking-point and thought-stimulator in others) is £2 well spent.

My collectable dealer had a second one just the same which I wanted to buy as a gag-gift for the unbelieving, but he would only sell me one as the other was promised elsewhere.:o Still going to ask him to keep a lookout for a trillion note, too.

paidinchickens

Evening everyone.

DH has got the lottie bug. Not bad as he was adamant he didn't want one We have gone for an hour and stayed most of the day and the boys have gone a little bonfire crazy. We haven't got a clue what we're doing but we are certainly having some fun along the way.

Apparently a tramp used live in our lottie shed until he fell asleep with a ciggie and burnt it out so we spent most of Saturday doing runs to the tip with burnt remnants.

Absolutely right on the keeping quiet on what you have in regards to stash as when DD noticed the pantry was full she no longer goes to the shop and uses us as a local open all hours.

PiC x

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A 500 million dollar note GQ?

That's nothing.

Take a look at this.

GreyQueen

Show off!

My collectable guy had one of those a few months ago and I got to touch it but couldn't buy it because he'd promised it elsewhere.

I'll get one of my own, one of these days........they're worth about £2 GBP.

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I've got 4 on the way to me, right now.

A 10,000,000,000,000 Dollar note.

A $20,000,000,000,000 Dollar note.

A $50,000,000,000,000 Dollar note.

and, the aforementioned 100,000,000,000,000 Dollar note.

BitterAndTwisted

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

A 500 million dollar note GQ?

That's nothing.

Take a look at this.

Yep, and the only thing you can buy in Zimbabwe with that one hundred trillion dollar note is the pile of stones depicted on the front. Shouldn't joke really, there's real live people trying to find some way of feeding themselves in that hell-hole of a country......

GreyQueen

Yeah, when it takes 9 x 500 trillion dollar notes to buy one banana, you just have to stop using the currency and revert to barter. We have Zimbawean refugees in this city; I've spoken to a few of them. Many sad tales.

Not wishing to be mock the citizenry of Zimbabwe or their struggles but I think that it's worth noticing what happens to fiat currency in a worst-case scenario of hyper-inflation and this is only few years old and possibly more relevant to what happened in Germany between the wars.

To a lesser extent, money is losing its value here in the UK. The so-called inflation rate is a manipulated joke as everyone who has to buy groceries or other essentials knows very well. I've thought for several years that it's a few economic factors which allow many of us to live in relative comfort despite inflation and appallingly-low wages.

Think about the discount stores full of stuff made in developing countries, the clothes in the cheapy stores, the overflow of decades' worth of consumerism available as giveaways or near giveaways secondhand.

Heck, I have a couch bought in as new condition for 1/12th of the new price, and many similar things over the years.

These circumstances won't always pertain, and we could easily be forced to pay a more honest and realistic price for things. You'd feel a bit differently about a shirt which represented a week's labour to one which represented 30 minutes' worth of labour, wouldn't you?

I'm trying to get ahead of the curve by being ultra-thrifty and using things up, and recycling as much of the worn out item as possible. Am very chuffed with my pj bottoms which had a worn out waistband and now have the waistband formely on a pair of yoga pants, with rethreaded elastic. Very comfortable, looks good and extends the life of the garment possibly by years.

RAS

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

Forgive me, I'm giggling because all I can think about when I see the first one is a bum! :rotfl:

Given the reputation of some of the Zim Gov and friends, that is wonderfully appropriate.