Preparedness for when

sniffles

I am going to deal with all this tomorrow too. However, being the eternal pessimist, I fear that devaluation of the pound will be so bad that it won't be worth it's place in the toilet.

My plan is to buy sugar, salt and tobacco.

Worrying times.

craigywv

A scary but true way of life gq, I could write a book about what I see daily and I don't like it.pensioners going cold so they can eat,kids going without food yes I can say I don't take my car out as much due to petrol costs so am in the house more and am using what groceries,clothing making do with what I have,ebaying juniors clothes etc...wishing my life away for spring to come to get garden sorted out for growing my f and v in.started out as yeah getting back to olden days thought it was a phase seems to be more a way of life now.i can't complain I got food on the table and shoes on our feet but for how long ?feeling a bit. Scared again but sure as they say if it doesn't kill you can only make you stronger,I'm sure we will all still be here in many years only a lot tougher and ruthless, my dear mum has even developed a liking for the chazzas ...........dander herself into the village she lives in this week to hairdressers.......woman's a shameless hussy no pond shop dyes for her ,comes home 4hours later my fathers hair near pulled out with worry in she comes hair perfect and in possession of 2 newish lovely winter coats and a pair of slippers grand total of 9.50 hair got done in pensioners special with cup of tea and a sandwich for 8 quid she in her element. My mum never would have done that ever,going shopping on her own into chazzas,she not a snob by no means but she's converted now could have plunderd away ll day.so my mums even on the bandwagon and she's a retiree who thought work all my life and pensions etc will take care of themselves ,obviously not. Me I plan on growing my own what I can,baking,being frugal to a point......I say writing this on ipad so not too frugally.i always was a chazzas shop person and have already got half of next years Christmas presides bought in sales for next to nothing. As last year we had oh redundant thankfully back in work now . And I just want to shuffle. On without being robbed blind by my supermarkets so hoard and store and prep. Pond shops are great for prepping.

GreyQueen

There are a lot of good teachers out there who are very frustrated by not being able to resolve these problems themselves and not getting anywhere when they refer these things to the correct agencies. The teacher who had that convo IRL was the head of upper school and she couldn't get SS to stir their stumps.

Friend and neighbour SuperGran (retired nurse, church lady and all-round take-no-prisoners stander-up for the right thing) virtually growls when you mention Adult Soc Services.

We have had (and still have) some neighbours with very severe mental health issues. Of such seriousness that, prior to "care in the community" they would have been hospitalised. They manage with varying degrees of difficulty and sometimes things go very wrong here at the Towers, with some poor unfortunate acting in a way which means that they are putting themselves in grave danger, such as throwing themselves into the traffic in the midst of an episode. Or screaming inside their flats against demons and that they're going to kill themselves.

SG will call Soc Services and tell them help is needed. The ninny on the other end of the line tells her they can't discuss cases, as if SG has never heard of the DPA. She tells them she doesn't want to discuss Mr or Miss X's case, she is telling them what's going on, and that they need to help now .

SG will play hardball, including taking names and assuring Soc Serv that if Mr or Miss X comes to harm, and that this ends up in the coroner's court, SG will be there giving evidence and telling the Coroner whom she spoke with and they can account for their (in)actions. And she would do it, too.

Sometimes even SG at her fiercest can't get the emergency teams out and the Polis have to come. If a neighbour is wigging out in their flat and won't open the door, there's little they can do, but they have taken people having psychotic episodes on the landings and in the communal areas up to the psychiatric hospital.

katep23

Paid for something with my Lloyds debit card this afternoon with no problems but, thanks to this thread, I had cash if it was a problem

dragonette

GQ - that made me cry. And made me so angry, both for the children and the teahers who are expected to stand back and just watch

Reminds of a story my great-aunt told me. She was born in 1925 and remembers a primary teacher she had who would cut down her own clothes so the poorest children had decent clothes to wear. She would alter them, the cut or the buttons etc so the other children wouldn't realise and tease them. And when on a school outing would buy ice cream for all the children, so they could have a treat. It upsets me that I know people are going cold and hungry in my own area - a deprived part of Glasgow.

I've slept under piles of clothes on my bed due to cold and not being able to afford heating, gone hungry but never to that point. My work, though professional, is low paid and zero-hours. I had to sign on this week. One thing I won't do again is go hungry, I have a small but well rounded store cupboard thanks to this thread and some decent cooking skills. Had my heating on maybe 10 times in 8 months, a small plug in heater has to do. Luckily I have warm clothes

bluebag

We are in a depression, not a recession. Kids going hungry, folk unable to heat their homes, young unable to leave their parents homes, the list is long.

The gov would have you believe all is well.

Most of them are from privileged backgrounds and have no real life experience of poverty or any kind of deprivation.

They see spreadsheets and reports, statistics and balance sheets, forward projections and percentages.

They never see an empty food cupboard, a gas meter that's reading 0 a bank balance in the red, a child with no bus fare to school, shoes with holes in or the panic and despair when a person loses their job.

They breathe rarified air and I don't think they will ever understand. The only thing that scares me is that they do know and it's all going down and they are telling the band to play on.

GreyQueen

dragonette, a kindness goes a long way to an impoverished child.

My mum spent 10 months in a children's home after being taken into care to get her away from her own Mum (tally of Mum's sibs was one dead of neglect, one abandoned and Mum taken away at Police's request as in grave moral danger). She was only 7 years old and very neglected. The malnutrtion-caused sores took over a year to heal.

One of the staff at the Home was the soul of kindness to her, even posting on a gift of a little plastic tea-set to her at her foster home. Mum's in her early seventies, that nice lady will have long gone to her rest, but the memory of the kindness remains.

Always do a little kindness when you can; it resonates across the years.

A pal who was a psychatric nurse in the last days of the big old institutons told me about a colleague who would seek out nice clothes secondhand, launder and iron them beautifully, and give them to residents in the most low-key ways imaginable. Because so many of them didn't have family or friends looking out for them and thinking that they needed a new nightie or a cardigan or whatever it was.

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I can hardly believe it but, my 9 LED torch is still putting out some light.

TeaCake

I'm creating a folder of 'useful information', stuff like how to use bleach to purify drinking water, how to build a hobo stove, basic first aid.
Can anyone think of anything I could add that might be useful reading for a non prepper if found in a shtf situation.

kezlou

Were expecting a huge rise in council tax and rent in april.
More cuts are.in store, local council is closing even more buildings, more join losses. But guess what the big wigs won't go, the person who gets £60k to sit, while the £12k housing benefit officer will lose they job. Or the dinner lady who doubles as a carer, cleaner and child minder all rolled into one.

We had a visit from the housing officers and when were filling out income details. before I even spoke they had us down for jsA, and found out my partner name wasnt on the tenancy. So had to change all our details and were extremely shocked when I replied my partner is self employed full time and yes we live together and we recieve a very small amount of housing benefit. they just looked dumbstruck, so I replied is they a problem. They didn't know what to say when I also asked if we could keep back boiler instead of a combi. they its absolutely nothing wrong with the boiler its relatively new, very clean and we love having a gas fire. They have been a lot power cuts so I really don't want a, rubbish electric fire.

I've been looking at more cheap and filling recipes while providing healthy diet at the same time. Its blumming difficult when you have allergies and awkward tastes.