Preparedness for when

THIRZAH

siegemode wrote: »

I'd be fine about it if the prey entered the house dead, but they were usually very much alive and my god do birds make a mess when frightened. :eek: The most we got from our last male moggie was a few dragonflies and large moths:rotfl:

Our cat used to bring in dead mice and then dissect them in the hall-
I'd come back to a little trail of mouse organs.

He also used to toss them in the air. DH once found a dead mouse in his coat pocket and we got into the habit of checking shoes before we put them on.

I still miss my cat though.

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I'm also going to go through my books this morning and pull out a couple of them to go in the pile on the shelf. I've a small light one on using herbs and herbal cures in medicine and I'll put in Peak Oil Survival by Aric McBey as it's a practical 'how to' guide to the basics of civilised living and I've a small book on Food from the Wild which has good enough illustrations to allow me to identify the edibles from the non edibles I find. They are all pretty light but will be useful enough to us to justify their inclusion in the pack, Lyn xxx.

Frugalsod

paidinchickens wrote: »

I must still be tired I had to read that three times

I just think of all the years when the only news I watched was on the box and when you think there was only three channels when I was growing up that pretty much enabled the Government to control what we were told and brain washed us into what we believe.

The age of the internet must be shaking them in their Italian leather boots especially as other Governments around the world are being toppled on a more frequent basis.

PiC x

It all depends on whether they can get us to believe that it was the previous governments fault. Though after four years in power that no longer applies.

The real problem that the country is suffering is excessive private debt. Even zero interest rates are not having much of an impact in getting us to borrow even more. The sensible ones are actually clearing their debts. The real risks for everyone are that the value of assets fall faster than their debts, in a way that will wipe out equity in housing or shares. Then if deflation hits that the debt burden increases to the point that they have to go bankrupt. Deflation is prevalent in Europe but they are not counting it because it is asset values and so governments are misleading the public. Japan has suffered this for more than twenty years and it is still not recovering properly. We are following exactly the same policies.

Five years ago I said elsewhere that economies would be stagnant for three decades with the next decade would be turbulent and there will be civil unrest all over the place, and civil wars would happen. I had no idea where but we have had lots of civil unrest and lots of governments falling. This will continue.

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All the more reason then to become as self sufficient as you possibly can given individual circumstances. We own the house because we were lucky enough to be in a position and of the mindset to pay off the mortgage when He Who Knows was made redundant, many others who were also made redundant went on an indulgence spree and spent a not inconsiderable amount of cash payout on holidays and fripperies. We've worked hard, like many others of us on this thread to put in place alternative ways of living from the woodstove to the solar lamps and the garden and the allottment would provide us with most of our needs. We've both gone out of our way to aquire new skills that will not only give us a better standard of living with what we have available to us but enable us to make some sort of a living from bartering goods we have home produced and skills that others may not have themselves. We've pulled our expectations back to a sustainable but not uncomfortable place in life and we have no debt. I'm not a clever person, I'm practical and have my own vision for what I want in my future and I've now got the skills to be able to provide most of it for myself. We have collectively in the family most of the means and skills to make a good life for a changed future and we are all still keen to increase our knowledge and aquire new life skills, it's not rocket science is it?

mardatha

No pet, it's not rocket science, it's just commonsense

Frugalsod

I do not see the country falling into complete anarchy but it will get close. There will be riots and I expect many people here may actually support those in them because the way the country is being run. The issue is that we are being faced with increasing poverty and the only way to cope will be to reduce overheads so that we can live as cheaply as possible. I am not doing badly on that score. I am now using that excess income to rapidly clear debts and when that is through I will be able to cope with a significant drop in income, which is what will probably be the prospects for most of us. As long as we prepare for the worst if it does transpire then we are better prepared than those that have not thought things through.

Once debt free I will be making provisions for SHTF moments but in a way that can allow me cheap holidays ie camping and that will allow me to cope with unexpected problems like water shortages etc.

katep23

THIRZAH wrote: »

Our cat used to bring in dead mice and then dissect them in the hall-
I'd come back to a little trail of mouse organs.

He also used to toss them in the air. DH once found a dead mouse in his coat pocket and we got into the habit of checking shoes before we put them on.

I still miss my cat though.

I once put on a pair of slippers to find what I thought was some cotton wool inside it, however when I shook the slipper a dead shrew fell out - cue a lot of shrieking and a real Dr Seuss moment of me shouting to OH "there's a shrew... in my shoe!"

Butterfly_Brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJthzxpn7A

The banksters know that the s will hit the fan soon

elantan

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJthzxpn7A

The banksters know that the s will hit the fan soon

I thought that must've been old ...2011 to be precise ... The current thinking is away from bonds as they have topped out ...

Butterfly_Brain

elantan wrote: »

I thought that must've been old ...2011 to be precise ... The current thinking is away from bonds as they have topped out ...

Granted but it shows the crooked thinking of these banksters and nothing has changed