Preparedness for when

daz378

bought a water carrier 5ltr from poond land.... seems a bit flimsy... but eh only 1.50 ...also earlier in year bought a 2 ltre one ..which seems a bit sturdier..... lovely weather here today..... a bit on tomorrow before work wednesday..... haircut pay rent and a trip to town.... need a sweatband ..to stop dripping in eyes...... stay safe

rebeccalb

Frugalsod wrote: »

I suspect that the ones that will suffer most from a pandemic will not be the working classes but the elites. the working classes might actually have better immune system than the middle classes with their antibacterial and sterile lives.

When you think about it this has probably been replicated in the current economical crisis. Not saying it's applied to all, but some from a working class have been able to adapt to the pressures of the crisis due to there more realistic views of the world. Whilst the elite have perhaps a more disillusioned view that things will be sorted by someone else. Again not saying it applies to everyone, but to some.

My family, well mainly my dad and I, have faced the issues of less money and jobs about. I had to quit uni 3 years ago due to my health (hopefully now resolved with an operation 3 weeks ago), then had to go self employed on the markets, after no luck finding work after 18 months. Now the markets are starting to suffer, so dad is trying to teach me carpentry (it's a slow process with only one good eye :rotfl:) so we can build things to hopefully support some of the outgoings between 2 households.
I'm lucky that I have a close relationship with my father so that we can support each other, I know many don't and I'd hate to think what my life would currently be like without that support.

Wow I think that's the most I've every written for a post

Living_proof

Rebeccalb I would just like to wish to success in what you are doing with your father. Think outside the box, and who knows what will happen....

GreyQueen

rebeccalb wrote: »

My family, well mainly my dad and I, have faced the issues of less money and jobs about. I had to quit uni 3 years ago due to my health (hopefully now resolved with an operation 3 weeks ago), then had to go self employed on the markets, after no luck finding work after 18 months. Now the markets are starting to suffer, so dad is trying to teach me carpentry (it's a slow process with only one good eye :rotfl:) so we can build things to hopefully support some of the outgoings between 2 households.
I'm lucky that I have a close relationship with my father so that we can support each other, I know many don't and I'd hate to think what my life would currently be like without that support.

Wow I think that's the most I've every written for a post

:T And very well written; too.

I think the key to success in life in general is flexilbily. And by success, I don't mean buying lots of fancy gear and lording it over others, I mean having a life which is as good as you can make it, with the resources you have, and where you can be fully-engaged and happy.

My family is very firmly working-class and I'm not to proud to do factory work, delivery-driving, fruit-picking, cleaning, whatever is available when I need to earn cash. I encounter some people of my own age (nearly 50) who, incredible though it seems to me given the economic situations in the past 30-odd years, have never been unemployed since they left school. Some of them have been with the same employer all those years. To say that they are shell-shocked and ill-prepared for unemployment is an understatement.

Mum's the carpenter in my family (Dad's cack-handed) and has taught me a few things, including how to use a pole-lathe, although there is more I could learn from her if we didn't live 30 miles apart.

I've provided part of my living costs by buying-and-selling around the bootfairs in the past, something which is severely limited these days due to no transport, but I love the life and using my wits. What do you trade on the markets, if I can be so nosy?

One of the best things I heard recently was about a young lady from Florida who, from the age of 14, used to collect from the kerbside furniture which had been abandoned by householders and sell it on Craigslist. By the time she was 18 she had amassed sufficient money to buy into the bottom of the housing market there and become a homeowner. Respect to that girlie!

mardatha

I'm doing a lot of reading just now, as the ME is bad. On my second book about people's lives 1900-1920. One thing I did notice was how people took to their beds with a bad cold. We don't do that now, we stuff ourselves with FluPlus and NightNurse, go to work or college and spread it. They knew it could easily go to their hest so they stayed in bed and kept warm. Had to take illness a lot more seriously then and we might do again.

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REBECCALB you and your Dad are our future, but being and doing now in our time. You represent just what is best in the human spirit my dear having been dealt a rough hand by life you've not rolled over tamely and given in but you've dealt with your problems, thought about what is now achieveable and thought out a productive life to live in the here and now and started living it. Well done to both of you, you're the inspiration that is needed in these very trying times, more strength to your collective arms, and thank you!!! Lyn xxx.

Frugalsod

Overall I think in terms of prepping we only have to be better prepared than the masses. If things continue to deteriorate then it will be the masses that bring about change. It is like the bear analogy, you only need to be faster than your companions to avoid getting eaten by the bear. The fact that people here are actually discussing ideas is actually a lot more than the vast majority are doing.

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I've just made 5 jars of Bread and Butter Pickles, 4 jars of Redcurrant Jelly, 8 jars of Blackberry and Raspberry Jam and I've got apple pulp dripping through the jelly bag to make Spiced Apple Jelly later on today. I must be bonkers!!! and I guarantee that with this much spready stuff it will undoubtedly trigger a bread shortage this winter, Phew, phew and phew again. Plus....... we've been given an entire silver birch tree in big chunks to use on the logstove so I've been trundling wheelbarrowloads of the smaller stuff to stack in the woodpile and He Who Knows is hacking and sawing and axeing the bigger bits of trunk into manageable sized chunks so he's bonkers too BUT come the winter I think we'll be smiling then!!!

Memory_Girl

Just back from my week in the Highlands in a caravan with the kids.

We decided that we would take our thermal bag to experiment with - wanna see some of what we ate?

We took a lot of beans and grains with us inside the thermal cooking pot - and cooked them up for some fabulous salads eaten in great places like watching wild Dolphins on the black Isle or on Culloden Moor.

Made for VERY cheap food over the week.



Spag Bol for the first nights dinner - half frozen to make Chilli later in the week.



Barley and Roast Veg Salad



Beautiful white beans cooked overnight



Became Tuna and Bean Salad for lunch.



Then Turkish Piyaz salad the next day



Puy Lentil and roasted butternut squash Salad was a hit



Super easy chilli for dinner



with plenty of fluffy rice to soak up the juices



Pinto bean salad with lime.



and three bean salad in salsa with chilli and corn



Nice to know that the bag is useful for making summery dishes too and not just the usual slow-cooker dishes.

MG

the_cake

MG Wow! What a terrific spread of healthy food. Must look into making a bag myself..... fantastic.