Preparedness for when

daftmummy

Thank you weastcostscot I hope so too. We have been living off our stores and having a few lean weeks but we're ok xxx

siegemode

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Have been clearing the loft also and came across pretty much the whole set of self sufficiency/home farm magazines - do you recall them? They came out around the time of the John Seymour's book and are full of practical ways of living cheaply and self-reliantly - at least the early ones are.

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I would love to get up into or loft for a good old sort out and a bit of a clear out, but I fear it would be more sort and less clear:rotfl:a bit like our spare room (anything that's spare gets dumped in there) The only magazine collection I have in the loft are the first 5 years of Kerrangs collected during my Biker/rock days. Don't think they'll help much now, although one or two may well be collectable with a value by now. OH won't let me up in the loft:( says I'm too precious and clumsy, house insured for accidental damage, but not me.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Yes, I think there is something incoming, and it will hit hardest on those least able to cope, as it always does.

I mean, why coin the term "austerity riots"? After all, there have been plenty of cuts achieved without rioting, and the poor seem to have been convicted in the court of public opinion as responsible for all our economic woes. Divide-and-rule is working just fine. We haven't had any "austerity rioting" yet, so merely mentioning it seems to indicate to me that TPTB intend to do something(s) bad enough to provoke mass civil unrest.

And they intend to put it down very hard, and probably ram new policing measures through on the back of it, intending that a frightened population will allow them to get away with it.

I'm highly-suspicious that a lot of chickens are about to come home to roost, economically-speaking, in the USA and Western Europe inc UK. And that there will be a Middle-East war provoked to distract attention from the economy going belly-up like the rotting fish it is. And when it gets bad in the ME, you could easily be looking at another oil shock.

And all this joy without the usual round of natural disasters to which the planet is heir, and to which our complicated societies are hghly-vulnerable.

If you have an ounce of sensitivity to the nuances behind the headlines, and eyes and ears open IRL to what is going on, you can't help but feel a growing sense of unease.

Totally agree, well put and this is exactly how I think and couldn't of said it better.

Have cleared all debts other than mortgage but it's an interest free one up for payback in a few yrs. Trouble is without a means to do so due to a number of life hiccups over the years. Can't switch to a repayment without jobs so just paying interest. Feeling trapped by health and circumstance, but figure that if we move north we may get a v small terrace without further mortgage. This would however present other problems and issues though as we don't want to live in an urban area or for that matter be far from elderly parents. Definitely interesting and anxious few years ahead for us. At least we may hold on to something though who knows. There are so many out there worse off than us and with no hope or for that matter with no idea of what is about to hit them.

I worry most about having a roof over our heads and how we will cope if joe public turns feral.

jk0

Zerohedge has been the first to use the expression 'bank run':

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-24/bank-run-fears-continue-hsbc-restricts-large-cash-withdrawals

Reading the comments there was an interesting link to this page:

http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking

I'm sure most of you know the stuff about fractional reserve banking. New to me was this about securitization which explains a great deal:

Securitization allows FRBs to withdraw from the market the credit they have created and lent out. It reduces the money supply by the amount of liquid assets used to purchase the asset-backed securities. Therefore, it hides the increase in the money supply, i.e., inflation. It makes the economic environment appear less inflationary than it should be, given individuals' growing indebtedness to banks. Securitization portrays a bank-credit driven boom as noninflationary, savings driven growth. Also, securitization insulates lending activity of banks from the central bank's monetary policy. It contributes to the widespread illusion that more factors of production are available than in reality, and so becomes a factor in the generation of the boom-bust cycle.[5]

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katep23 wrote: »

and had no manual can opener until reading this thread made me rush out to buy one

Only one :huh:

£land sell three for £2.

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pineapple wrote: »

Fortunately this is not something I have to worry about

Nor me.

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Hollyberry wrote: »

Also cooks well over an open fire in case of a power cut. (70s child here!)

Same here.

I well remember a kettle of water, and a pan of soup, sitting on the coal fire, while we lit the LR with candles.

As for toast, on a fork, over a coal fire, is THE way to make it. :cool:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

We should all aspire to flat bottoms, WCS.

Do flat bottoms make better Dutch Ovens :huh:

Personally, I find a spicy curry, and half a dozen pints of mild, works best.

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katep23 wrote: »

On the subject of fires, does anyone have any suggestions for cookware which can be used on an open fire? It's not a very big hearth.

You should definitely have a stove top kettle, ideally all metal.

It'll double up for use on a gas hob, either domestic or camping.

Witless

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Only one :huh:

£land sell three for £2.

How much dp they charge for the four?

BigMummaF

What's happened to the 'weather lady', lived on one of the islands in the Mediterranean or some such & had a spring running through the house? She was virtual friends with storm chasers & extreme meteorologists...


Muvva has a light fitting in the lounge with 3 separate bulbs & shades, & one blew the other evening. Trouble was it also tripped the breaker but I found out that the front hall & kitchen ceiling lights plus the cooker, are all on the same ring so every cloud & all that One of the grandsons called in on his way home & was able to replace the fuse wire so we only had to use candles (on & off) for about an hour at most whilst getting a bite to eat for tea.
I could have done it myself but I'm not allowed to touch lecktrix cuz I'm not a male :mad: (my mother is really beginning to show her mother's side now, with ever-increasing victorian values ) so played Debbie MukGhee to the electronic repair man instead.