Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

katep23 wrote: »

We (might!) be moving before Christmas and are therefore running down stocks; I have 17 cans of baked beans on the premises (down from over 100 at the peak!) and am feeling distinctly jittery at this!


My colleague buys food every 2 - 3 days from M&S and doesn't keep a single tin of beans in the cupboard - such strange behaviour I cannot comprehend!

:eek: I wonder how old your colleague is? To someone like me who can remember the 1970s very well, this smacks of irresponsibility. Have they no sense that M & S might not always be stocked?

Branston Baked beans are on offer at £1.29 for 4, which is as good as it's got for the past 2 years, so will have some more of them and rotate them into stock. I keep 4-6 examples of each product I use regularly in the proper food cupboard, which is a double, but very narrow, wall unit, and restock that from various caches hidden around the place, mainly under the bed.

I bethought myself yesterday, whilst tidying, that I'd have to do a major run down of supplies pre a move or take up bodybuilding.

BigMummaF

The Offspring were always [STRIKE]moaning[/STRIKE] casting opinion over my stash but since being left to their own devices for most of the day, they have realised just what mummykins accomplished with minimal effort One called me at grandma's cottage to bemoan there were no baked beans to serve with their meal..I chuckled as I glanced toward the growing store I've been slowly building for muvva & I, & said that next time, perhaps The Offspring would care to belt up as I rebuild the reserves

I know soopa maquets are crafty & start to remove budget brands from the shelves around this time of year, but thought a household brand would have been different. Me muvva's diabetic so we have any reduced sugar foodstuffs we can find but hindz tommy k seems to have been zapped to who-knows-where MrT's version used to be just as good, but is now a watery shadow of its once tasty past... why oh why do they have to keep "improving" stuff ... if we didn't like the one before, we wouldn't have been buying it would we :mad: (Kadberry take note: CDM is NOTHING like it should be, so givvus wot we like )

DawnW

Broomstick wrote: »

Dawn, do you have camping kettles (this kind of thing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gelert-Stainless-Whistling-Kettle-2lt/dp/B0010AFES2 ) or proper cast-iron ones meant for stoves and agas? Mojo, is your kettle like this Gelert one as well? I'm wanting to experiment with a kettle on top of our woodburner for the same reason as you both and don't want to waste money on something that is wrong for the job. It would be ideal if a camping kettle like this would do because that would work on our table top gas stove as well and be cheaper. I've had one of these kettles in the past and they've worked fine on a camping stove.

B x

I don't have camping type kettles but neither are they proper cast iron ones. One is a copper kettle (well tinned inside - this is important) and the other an old enamelled one. Both came from car boot sales

I did buy at one stage a lovely enamelled cast iron one from a posh French brand. It looked beautiful but the water had a horrible taste. I put it down initially to it being brand new, but even after many boilings the taste was still there. I sold it on ebay for almost as much as I paid for it. The ones I use now do not look at all pretty (I never polish the copper one so it looks dull, and the enamelled one is a bit chipped here and there) but water boiled in them tastes fine. If they spring a leak, I will probably replace from junk shops or car boot sales again.

I am not sure that camping kettles would work very well on the solid metal plate of a stove, as you really need something with a more solid base that conducts the heat better. But it doesn't have to be an expensive cast iron model

Frugalsod

Karmacat wrote: »

One of the prep-related things I wonder about, in relation to that, is when a panic will start in about house prices for houses that are near sea-level. Not that the houses would be any less safe, but just like a flat having a short lease being difficult to sell, a house within 5' of sea level might be difficult to sell in 10 - 20 years time? What do people think?

I think that longer term you might need to think about what will have any value, especially with sea level rises. 5 feet might seem a lot now but considering that the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will mean sea level rise of more than 60 meters are inevitable, because the current generation cannot limit their greenhouse gas output. I suspect that the rise in sea levels will be far faster than governments will even project because as global temperature rise they will cause cascades of other problems in a positive feedback look that will make it inevitable. For example deep water hydrates will boil and they will release massive quantities of methane which is 20 times more effective a greenhouse gas.

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Mojisola

Softstuff wrote: »

That's very similar to what we have/have had. With that though, I'd want to pay in full or in a few monthly installments, rather than pay a set amount for life. Though, given my luck, paying a set amount for life would guarantee I'd live to 120 :rotfl:

I can't understand why anyone would pay an amount every month for life.

moneyistooshorttomention

Mojisola wrote: »

I can't understand why anyone would pay an amount every month for life.

I wouldn't want to contract to pay a monthly amount personally, as that would rather tend to imply that I would always be able to afford an extra monthly bill and, if you are beneath pension age there is always the risk the income might go down (if only on a temporary basis).

I'm guessing that people would only add a regular extra monthly bill of that nature to their expenditure if they had got to pension age and their income just consisted of pension/s and was therefore secure.

Mojisola

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I wouldn't want to contract to pay a monthly amount personally, as that would rather tend to imply that I would always be able to afford an extra monthly bill and, if you are beneath pension age there is always the risk the income might go down (if only on a temporary basis).

I'm guessing that people would only add a regular extra monthly bill of that nature to their expenditure if they had got to pension age and their income just consisted of pension/s and was therefore secure.

But you could end up paying several times the cost of the funeral if you live to a good age.

I think most of the funeral plan companies have a pay monthly arrangement (that's how my parents paid for theirs) but you stop paying once the funeral plan has been paid for.

There was a poster on here recently who had taken out some kind of monthly payment which would have to be paid until they died even though the payout would only cover the cost of the funeral.

merlin68

A basic cremation with no service is just under £1000. the funeral grant will cover this but you have to be on a means tested benefit. ie pension credit, working tax credit or income support.

THIRZAH

It's not just the younger generation who don't keep supplies in, GreyQueen. Last time I stayed with my Father and Stepmother there was hardly any food in the house. They have pub lunches most days and then just a snack in the evening.

They can afford to eat out but I do worry what will happen if DF can't drive for some reason. I doubt if either of them could walk the mile to the village shop. They don't have the internet and I'm 200 miles away. They would have to ring friends most of whom are quite elderly too or I'd have to do an internet shop for them. Of course if the weather was really bad the van probably wouldn't get through the country roads.

fiftyeighter_2

My life insurance is pay monthly for life. I didn't want to do it like this but I'm an idiot and didn't have one till I was 60 and then never had a choice. At the moment I'm paying £13 a month but it continues to cost more each month till it reaches £25 per month. How I will manage this I do not know. But manage this I will. I cannot bear the idea my children would have to deal with it.
It's bitterly cold here today and it never stopped raining all day yesterday.
Who thinks we are really in for a bad winter? I can cope with the snow and cold but not the rain.