Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I buy in bulk (as in half a dozen 9 roll packs of TP), but I always buy in store, rather than online, and always with cash.

In many ways buying large amounts with cash looks dodgy. Though I have no problem with what people do. I have seen people but loads of junk food at the supermarket but that is their choice.

GreyQueen

I like to do all my shopping with cash and not to do anything which will attract comment. I was a little taken aback last year when a Liddly cashier commented on the next visit, that I had bought a lot of one particular product on the previous visit. So that person noticed and remembered.

I wasn't offended and laughed it off with some comment about making a lot of potato salad for a BBQ (was tinned spuds) but it did make me think if a cashier in a very busy store notices, who else might notice? And what are they thinking about it? So I try not to buy more than 2-3 of a long-storing item at a time.

There is also the valid point that if you buy tins or pkts by the trayful, and there is a defect on that batch, you could lose out in peaceable times by being out of pocket, or up the proverbial creek if you needed them in a crisis.

A lot of things can be sourced 2nd hand at, f'rinstance, boot sales or private sales and leave no footprint, and this may be the best way to get hold of stuff. My archery supplies were bought cash, although the sports store seemed a little taken aback at handling sales totalling nearly £400 in used twenties, but I prefer that rather than it showing up on my bank statements.

Trouble with grubbyments is that they get to make the rules and break them when it suits them and could choose to interpret perfectly innocent activities and meaning you're part of some mythic group which mightn't have their best interests at heart (clue; they're called UKIP ).

For us as private citizens just wanting to smooth the bumps in life's road, both real and potential, it makes it difficult to know how to keep the lowest profile. Maybe you're buying a year's worth of TP because you have a voucher and a special offer and hate dragging the stuff home on your pushbike? It's none of their business but they could choose to make it so in the future.

My preps tonight shall comprise of eating and lying on the sofa. I shall be wearing my camo-green lounging pajamas and Rambo headband, of course, because that's the kind of woman I am. One must be prepared at all times for the zombie apocalypse.:rotfl:

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Frugalsod wrote: »

In many ways buying large amounts with cash looks dodgy.

Maybe, but as they don't know who I am.

Right now, it's 92f outside, and 77.7f in my LR.

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

And what are they thinking about it? So I try not to buy more than 2-3 of a long-storing item at a time.

I apologise if this has already been posted but there was a recent story in the news about a man who was buying trays of groceries at Aldi and who was made to put them back. Apparently it was messing up their stock control. He said he was buying it for Syria though maybe they suspected a business enterprise?
I thought to myself - that could have been one of us!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2699797/Aldi-staff-told-shopper-trolley-spending-money-tinned-food-children-Syria.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOLs_mPoSw

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pineapple wrote: »

He said he was buying it for Syria though maybe they suspected a business enterprise?

Why would they care, if he was buying it for his business :huh:

Why would it bother them, if he's paying more that C&C prices?

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If you have a large garden, I guess you could always keep some of your stores "on the hoof" as it were.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Maybe you're buying a year's worth of TP because you have a voucher and a special offer and hate dragging the stuff home on your pushbike? It's none of their business but they could choose to make it so in the future.

As I do not have a car it makes sense to minimise my orders and bulk buy. I might get a years supply of many items mainly because I know I will not have to pay for another delivery for a year. Bulk buying when there is a shortage is another matter. Though I have not face that personally. As I bake my own bread I do not cause shortages in the shops when it is snowy etc.

2tonsils

I stock up on things when they are on offer or when they are selling them off at discount. I don't go out looking for particular things usually, I just buy what we find edible when it is on offer. However, in this country we have to save all our receipts and the food is listed by item on them. It will no doubt be kept on the store computers as well as the food lists are computerised here, as are most purchases. Give me the table top and car boot sales anytime, where no one logs what you buy. We have had to save all receipt for the past few years as the tax man can ask you to prove all the purchases you made and the money you spent in any given year, up to ten years ago.

nuatha

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

This doesn't make sense.

FEMA advise people to store 72 hours of water, per person, and to stock up on emergency equipment, while DFHS is asking people to grass on people, who are doing just that :huh:

Damned if you don't, damned if you do.
There's always been some serious inconsistencies in US law (not saying UK law is much better) but preppers have increasingly become a target for US authorities - I suspect there is someone in the hierarchy who really doesn't see any difference between survivalists, preppers and militias and probably sees LDS members as legitimate targets as well.
Given the popularity of Costco and Sam's Club among others, bulk buying is far more prevalent in the USA than it is in the UK, not to mention canning produce, unless the Government has decided to target a substantial part of its population then this is likely to be a non starter in terms of useful data.

jk0

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

If you have a large garden, I guess you could always keep some of your stores "on the hoof" as it were.

Oh, poor Buggalugs. Does she know what's in store for her when TSHTF?