Preparedness for when

daz378

bought a new pair of a catterpillar boots... cos they usually last a couple of years and just as happy with the box ...as it means i can move conspicuous Tps from my shelves....started buying more shoes....think of imelda marcos....only me its driven by prepping rather than vanity

vivatifosi

I'm now imagining Imelda Marcos in Timberlands. It's a very strange mental image.

calicocat

Just watching the 'Blackout' film that's on again and it made me think of this thread...it's making me think and I should be sorting a proper store etc instead of talking or thinking about it.

Tomorrows mission (or today looking at the time) may be to put festival stuff and tent etc up in loft , so I can use that space as the emergency store area. The temp there stays fairly constant and will be fine for canned goods and bottled stuff.

NinjaSavingKat

Calicocat I finally managed to see a bit of it as well. It annoys me that I live in rented property mainly having to move so often due to the whims of my landlord ( getting married / selling up / moving partner in etc) and can't prep properly. I have moved three times in two years - can you imagine taking multiple cans of food etc everywhere I go.. yes I can prep per household and should really do it now but it's hard as you never know how much space you will have in the next place. Its bad enough trying to find somewhere that will accept my cat ..

Yes I would love to buy a house. Caravan might be more apt on my budget....

Must watch it all when I can on YouTubular... got caught up with work so couldn't watch it all....

calicocat

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

Calicocat I finally managed to see a bit of it as well. It annoys me that I live in rented property mainly having to move so often due to the whims of my landlord ( getting married / selling up / moving partner in etc) and can't prep properly. I have moved three times in two years - can you imagine taking multiple cans of food etc everywhere I go.. yes I can prep per household and should really do it now but it's hard as you never know how much space you will have in the next place. Its bad enough trying to find somewhere that will accept my cat ..

Yes I would love to buy a house. Caravan might be more apt on my budget....

Must watch it all when I can on YouTubular... got caught up with work so couldn't watch it all....[/QUOTE)





I totally understand the renting problem as until recently did it for the last 12 yrs or so after a break-up. I would still be renting now if it wasn't for my dad passing an inheritance to me plus my savings...so I do feel fortunate. However, if the Shoite really hit the fan I don't suppose it would matter if you rent or own to be honest as I reckon all bets would be off... and what you have could be stolen anyhow.

But I do agree trying to build a store is more difficult renting especially if private and on short tenancies...however in the future I think we will become more like other countries and give longer ones...which is good as will give more stability to folk.

Would you qualify for social housing? To give a bit more stability for now.

Edit....i would worry about it too having a cat (or any fury) , you must have a cool cat, mine when younger would have gone ape about moving. That is the one thing that really worries me about having to up-sticks if I had to...but now have collapsible pet 'tent' that can also be pegged down as a house if outside. ...just need to train said cat to do as she is told.........I may die before this happens.

calicocat

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've purposely avoided clicking in case I couldn't get back. I've not heard good things so far sadly.

Can I ask what is this?..I don't see most things doing it on my mobile.

Do I need to know?...or can I just ignore it.

Thanks.

NinjaSavingKat

Calicocat - Social housing no. Not even possible. I just never bought as I was not intending on staying in London for this long (since 2001) and have only got debt free last year... buying is becoming nigh on impossible for us youngsters...(she says with tongue in cheek approaching her 31st)... Back home ( Norn Iron ) one can buy a house in my home town for £45,000..:eek:

However that doesn't help me in London now does it.

Mumsy and Papa however have a lovely house in a remote area. I bought a piece of land beside them (with my Pa) to double the size of our homestead and cement my claim on a larger portion of the inheritance:rotfl:.... albeit Pa has turned half of it into an oasis of every tree imaginable and Mumsy is threatening divorce every time he comes home with another "oh it was on sale" tree, the place is a veritable haven....

The half acre recently paid off through my debt busting game (please see personal thread if you would like to be bored to tears) is being turned into a massive veggie patch, with fresh water pond (dug by my Pa's own fair hands) and already planted and sprouting fruit trees - 24 in total. A plastic heron was placed on the side of the pond to wind up my brother and stands proud in a somewhat (so far) still barren field.

It's a prepper's dream. A secluded small-holding with it's own water supply. I just need to bribe The Manor to start stock-piling tins of treats. Mumsy is already after a wind up radio - maybe she knows something I don't. Gonna search the place for a hidden bunker when I am home next.........

Moggy is resilient. She has to be. She has no choice.

Will return to lurking. Sorry for the intrusion....

calicocat

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

Calicocat - Social housing no. Not even possible. I just never bought as I was not intending on staying in London for this long (since 2001) and have only got debt free last year... buying is becoming nigh on impossible for us youngsters...(she says with tongue in cheek approaching her 31st)... Back home ( Norn Iron ) one can buy a house in my home town for £45,000..:eek:

However that doesn't help me in London now does it.

Mumsy and Papa however have a lovely house in a remote area. I bought a piece of land beside them (with my Pa) to double the size of our homestead and cement my claim on a larger portion of the inheritance:rotfl:.... albeit Pa has turned half of it into an oasis of every tree imaginable and Mumsy is threatening divorce every time he comes home with another "oh it was on sale" tree, the place is a veritable haven....

The half acre recently paid off through my debt busting game (please see personal thread if you would like to be bored to tears) is being turned into a massive veggie patch, with fresh water pond (dug by my Pa's own fair hands) and already planted and sprouting fruit trees - 24 in total. A plastic heron was placed on the side of the pond to wind up my brother and stands proud in a somewhat (so far) still barren field.

It's a prepper's dream. A secluded small-holding with it's own water supply. I just need to bribe The Manor to start stock-piling tins of treats. Mumsy is already after a wind up radio - maybe she knows something I don't. Gonna search the place for a hidden bunker when I am home next.........

Moggy is resilient. She has to be. She has no choice.

Will return to lurking. Sorry for the intrusion....

Wow....what you have sounds great! My problem is no land, therefore scope to grow my own stuff, my garden is titchy.


You are clearly more of a pepper than me as i'm fairly new to the idea. I will also return to lurking.

thriftwizard

You are clearly more of a pepper than me as i'm fairly new to the idea. I will also return to lurking.

Oh no you don't, Calicocat & NinjaSavingKat! We NEED input from those who are newer to the idea of prepping; you'll think of things that have never occurred to us for whom it's a well-worn groove.

GreyQueen

Hey, less of this lurking business, you two, I'm enchanted by the homestead tales and other stuff. And I've often thought that if I have to move, there will be some major heavy lifting of tins to accomplish.

Vivatifiosi, I'm a redhead with the typical lily-white and easy-burning skin. I can get a bad sunburn in 10 minutes even in a British summer and am beyond paranoid about keeping the moles on my arms covered anda sunhat on. Shorts? No way, Jose. Paranoia helped by living in Scotland in the 1980s when they had major public education campaigns on. My mother has also been treated for a non-cancerous skin cancer, the kind popularly known as 'rodent ulcers' which can cause a lot of tissue damage if left untreated.

A handful of years ago, I was in my pottery class and the next lady over, a very pales-kinned woman in her sixties with a lovely complexion, had her sleeves rolled up, as did we all. There, sitting in the middle of her forearm was a classic example of a malignant melanoma. It was large and irregular, it was purple in parts and scarlet in others, and even crusted in one area from a slight bleed.

I'm NOT medically qualified but it ticked all the boxes and it was all I could do not to scream. I asked her quietly if she'd ever shown this mole to her GP? She said she hadn't. I suggested quietly but very very strongly that I thought she should show it to the GP without delay.

That was the last class before the Xmas break and when I saw her again it was several weeks later. She told me she had thought about what I'd said and about 2 weeks after, had gone to the GP. He'd taken one look and sent her straight up to the hospital. They'd taken one look and cut it out (at the point we were having this conversation she had a deep conical wound in her forearm where the mole had been).

They'd tested it and it was malignant melanoma and she was going to go back in for a secondary surgery to take out a large oblong chunk of her forearm. We lost touch about that time (we were only acquaintances) as I stopped doing the class. I just hope that they got it all and she didn't die of it.

So, I applaud your sig line and anyone who'd denigrate it is, IMO, being ignorant. If it looks suss, take it to the doctor. And if you're still suspicious, take it to another doctor.