Preparedness for when

armyknife

Quote: Originally Posted by armyknife
A couple of points:

Coppers do arrest innocent people.
Innocent until proven guilty?

So they could still be nice people, possibly in need of help/support.

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Explain this if you will

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-seize-possessions-of-rough-sleepers-in-crackdown-on-homelessness-8631665.html

:Blinks: :Scratches chin:

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

In a previous life I used to research trivia (I suspect this may be GQ's dream job :cool:) and worked on a book on the paranormal and conspiracy theories. This was one I wished we could adopt for politicians. Particularly if we could also use genetic testing to screen for them at birth...

I suspect you could be right! When Trivi@l Pursuit was the fashionable board game, I could never get anyone to let me play a second time. I'm what might be called an info-vore; it's a magpie-like condition where you collect randon information which may or may not have some application further down the line.

It's a terrible way to live but it keeps me entertained, and occasionally helps some random peep online or in RL. It also once caused my Mum, not a lady prone to swearing, to turn to me in her sitting room where the family were "playing" University Challenge against the TV and demand how the hell I'd known the difference between diploid and haploid cells.........

A. Because I'd just been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy, Mum.:rotfl:

nuatha, yes, very cheap, I only have a gas cooker on the meter and use about 1 unit per month. Which is pretty amazing to me as I have the tea kettle on there and I loves me cuppas. My CH and hot water is coming off a communal system for which I'm billed £30 pcm in with the rent. Haven't got any way of controlling that figure, but that means that I should be all the more careful with what I can control.

GQ, inforvore, control freak, tea addict and gardener. Tragic, innit? *

* Wanders off to pour a cuppa whilst laughing like a loon.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

I suspect you could be right! When Trivi@l Pursuit was the fashionable board game, I could never get anyone to let me play a second time. I'm what might be called an info-vore; it's a magpie-like condition where you collect randon information which may or may not have some application further down the line.

It's a terrible way to live but it keeps me entertained, and occasionally helps some random peep online or in RL. It also once caused my Mum, not a lady prone to swearing, to turn to me in her sitting room where the family were "playing" University Challenge against the TV and demand how the hell I'd known the difference between diploid and haploid cells.........

A. Because I'd just been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy, Mum.:rotfl:

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GQ, inforvore, control freak, tea addict and gardener. Tragic, innit? *

* Wanders off to pour a cuppa whilst laughing like a loon.

Just bear in mind that you now KNOW that you have an alternative career option in freelance research. Or as a fact checker... (yes, there is such a job, non-fiction publishers need them).

pineapple

The strangers I met in a field recently while dog walking said they were spreading accounts, holding cash at home but most of all using it to buy goods they need now.

mardatha

Just now I'm focusing on (is that how you spell focusing? it doesn't look right!) on keeping warm. Buying jumpers and cardis in wool & cashmere blends instead of acrylic. Buying sheepskin stuff for the bed. This month's money is going on good thermal lined curtains and cosy boots.

daz378

good day..... finally a day off.....fray bentos pies still a pound each ...at least in salford and local environs ... in farming food shops.... big sister visiting from america next month....today its operation mini torches and them grips stop you sliding on ice.....take care

mardatha

Never seen them up here for less than £2 odd

Perplexed_Pineapple

pineapple wrote: »

The strangers I met in a field recently while dog walking said they were spreading accounts, holding cash at home but most of all using it to buy goods they need now.

That's a bizarre thing to disclose to a stranger met in a field - particularly about the cash at home. We don't keep much cash in the house but certainly if we did it would be under strict opsec :rotfl:

mardatha

There are many many places in a house to hide money, not just under the mattress. There are floodproof fireproof home safes which can be hidden in cavities in walls, under floorboards, in attics, hidden in shed and gardens. You'd need to demolish a house to find some people's stash and burglars don't work that way

fuddle

So very useful. I'm at a cross roads myself now that I'm earning. I don't know whether to sink it in a pension or savings account or quite literally save in the home.

I want to provide for our futures but not sure how safe any of it is by any method!