Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

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

I hide stuff all over the place. In food tins, in the freezer, in book safes and I have hundreds of books. Behind basin pedestals, above ceiling tiles if you have them. Inside toilet cisterns. The list is endless.

short_bird

GreyQueen wrote: »

I wouldn't say I'm cheap but I'm currently enjoying the light from the streetlamps outside, paid for by my council tax, as I reason it. That, and the luvverly glow of a CRT monitor is plenty.

When you have to get a flat screen monitor, you'll be amazed at the amount of space where the CRT used to live. Can even wall mount them and save desk space. Oh, silly me, wrong thread :rotfl:

daz378

wintertrax ....spikes to affix to shoes to stop sliding in ice.... bought from timpsons.....surprised they cost 14.95

midnight_express

mardatha wrote: »

Never seen them up here for less than £2 odd

They are £1 in Tesco.

westlothianlass

Hi all
Mar icel@nd have fray bentos pies at one pound just now, think there's one in Hawick and gala if that's any help.
I've been playing online looking at Dutch ovens (I do love a bit of cast iron :rotfl:). Hubby and I have decided to buy the bits and pieces we think will be useful over the next year or so
rather than have money sitting in the bank. Think I will include some wool blankets (thankyou for the reminder mar).

I've been mulling over recipe ideas Mrs LW will post any ideas soon, but brain is slow today.

Perplexed_Pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

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

Random burglars don't work that way, but someone who knows there is cash in the house might well look further. I think if I had enough spare cash to keep it in the house (not too much chance of that at the moment) and certainly if I had enough to keep in a safe, I'd have a secondary decoy stash somewhere not too obvious. You would also want anything to be reasonably accessible if you had to get out in a hurry - not like that Irish chap who left behind 200K euros hidden in his bath last year.
I can't really see the point of hoarding substantial amounts of fiat currency anyway - the value will be destroyed by inflation. JayneC I like your idea of buying woodland - that's a pretty permanent asset that can't be taken away easily, although in a worst case scenario property rights would be hard to protect.

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Doesn't have to be just recipes WLL any old fashioned tips will be useful like heating up a clean brick in front of the fire and then using it wrapped in a cover to heat a bed if you have no hot water bottle (apparently works with stones too but don't think they'd be comfortable to use) or to put under your feet if you are in a cold room reading etc. or to keep milk cool and fresh in a hot summer if you have no fridge stand it in a bowl of cold water and cover it with a wet terracotta flower pot, evaporation will keep the milk carton cool, you'd have to keep an eye on the water level and top up if needed. Things we might lose if they aren't shared with the younger ones who might need them in the future, Lyn xxx.

paidinchickens

Evening everyone.

I hope your all going to have a most excellent weekend

The water cannon story has set my mind racing ......... what have they got up their grubby little sleeves indeed?

PiC x

GreyQueen

paidinchickens wrote: »

Evening everyone.

I hope your all going to have a most excellent weekend

The water cannon story has set my mind racing ......... what have they got up their grubby little sleeves indeed?

PiC x

Grubby little armses, I bet (said in an excellent Gollum voice).:rotfl:

Fuddle, there's an article on the money pages of The Guardian's website today about pensions. About how the grubbyment have just back-pedalled from their stated intention from last autumn to Do Something About Them.

The potted version is that you will be enriching a lot of the financial services industry and doing very little for yourself. You may want to think obliquely at the problem and look at working towards owning a productive asset rather than thinking about investing in a pension fund because of the high fees and restrictions on accessing your own money, and because how your pension is funded will be largely dependant on how the stock market performs and that is looking like heading for a fall right now.

I have lucked onto a load of vegetable oil reduced to 75p a litre at the supermarket, dated until Jan 2015. I got 6 of them for the storecupboard, as that's a regular expenditure reduced by 50%.

Funny about FB pies being the subject of the thread; I defrosted a cooked one last night and have half of it in the bain marie above the steamer. I never pay more than £1 for them. They turn up, and also the lookie-likee Princes tinned pies, at £1 regularly. FF, Icelandia, 99p Store, occasionally Liddly.

I think we'll have to send a care package up to Mar.

mardatha

I don't eat a lot of pies, its ok lol. We have heavy snow forecast here for sun-tues WHOOHOOOOOOOOO! AT LAST!