Preparedness for when

daz378

yea money is a medium of exchange ... but it as to be a trusted medium of exchange ..... saves you having to swap 4 sheep for 2 oxen and getting them to market...... the monetary system as evolved so every one understands basics of any given transaction especially value. my microwave as just kaplunkt...... new one will probably cost me about 40-50 quid ....400 years(off top of head ...can correct)ago similar transaction would have been 5 chickens ..for cooking pot

im hoping the banking system will hang together a bit longer......as a collapse would also hurt societies elite.... they might kick the can a bit further

Frugalsod

daz378 wrote: »

yea money is a medium of exchange ... but it as to be a trusted medium of exchange ..... saves you having to swap 4 sheep for 2 oxen and getting them to market...... the monetary system as evolved so every one understands basics of any given transaction especially value. my microwave as just kaplunkt...... new one will probably cost me about 40-50 quid ....400 years(off top of head ...can correct)ago similar transaction would have been 5 chickens ..for cooking pot

Money was created to solve the problems of barter. If you had too many chickens already why accept more chickens in a barter deal. It also allowed you to save up for something bigger like an ox instead of sheep.

daz378 wrote: »

im hoping the banking system will hang together a bit longer......as a collapse would also hurt societies elite.... they might kick the can a bit further

I suspect that there will be a number of attempts to kick the can further. The Greek deal this last week was just such an example. I have absolutely no idea what could be the trigger for a collapse or what will trigger it but will use the time to prepare for it. It might take a few more years yet.

davidsdesire

BHB wrote: »

I have just realised that I would be stuffed when SHTF unless I get some reading glasses to put in the store cupboard...


I couldn't tie a fish hook, I couldn't thread a needle, I couldn't use my phone .... blind as a bat .....


I have only one pair of multifocals and if I broke these or lost them that would severely hinder me.


Now where do I get some cheapies to put in the car, in the store, in my pocket ..... DO poundland sell reading glasses? They don't have to be prescription ones for emergencies.


I wonder if you could use the lenses to light a fire? I do have a magnifying glass which works a treat.


Keep up the interesting thread everyone - a thought provoking read.




BHB

there was an episode of the Twilight Zone where all a man wanted was for people to leave him alone and let him read. Something happened and everyone did disappear (or die or something) and he was ecstatic...until he immediately broke his glasses!

moneyistooshorttomention

Kicking the can further down the road is something I anticipate will carry on for a while yet personally.

It doesn't make any logical sense in some ways, but on the other hand it gives time to prep. That being whether we regard prepping as acquiring knowledge, paying off debt or whatever else.

My own take is working on getting financially straight (as in house finished, etc) and expecting to carry on living life pretty much as normal even IF...with the back-up plan of that bottle of whisky (or, in my case, bottle of champagne) if normal life was no longer possible.

One thing I do wonder is whether very harsh expectations as to Society disintegrating drastically come from having had it harsher than most people earlier in life (ie wondering if the next meal was actually going to be on the table come mealtime) and maybe thinking that Society could become that harsh as a whole - whereas the knowledge that every meal has always been there on the table okay (whatever else hasn't been!) means taking that fact for granted and the prepping is in order to make sure that Life Continues As Per Plan as far as possible, rather than a "how to manage at survival level" basis. I tend to think that probably many of us think "The worst it could be is the worst it has been for me personally in my life so far" and we can't tell whose personal perception of The Harshest It Could Be for us personally would come to pass until the time iyswim.

That's the thing, ie we are heading into uncharted waters. The ship has set sail from familiar shores and I feel its not possible to tell whether it is heading for an iceberg on the one hand or there is another (but different) country just over the horizon and we will reach that shore and life will still be okay (but different to Our Personal Plan).

I don't anticipate the hugely harsh financial outlook that some do on the one hand. However, I do think there is a real possibility of Britain no longer being the liberal/secular society we recognise at some point and that point could even be in my lifetime (hence relief at being at an age where I would remain regarded as a person and freedom to get on with life as normal and continue wearing normal clothing, rather than as a woman and therefore second-class citizen - as we notice is happening in some countries). So my personal puzzlement is why people don't include that possibility amongst their prepping (if I were younger, for instance, I would be looking out for a nice/liberal man to "marry for the sake of a protector", a huge collection of music and radios capable of picking up very far-flung radio programmes (well...that's what I would have needed if I'd been living in one of the Middle Eastern countries - with their bans on women going round freely and music).

jk0

Hmm. The trouble is that us nice liberal men don't have the chiseled looks that our more testosterone filled brethren have.

Thus mother nature encourages reproduction of more aggressive males (well equipped to fight), and us kind agreeable men don't get a look in with the ladies.

moneyistooshorttomention

Your time might come soon then jko:rotfl:. Personally, I never used to go for the great "He men muscle" types. A man could put me off by just walking along the street in front of me with his arms sorta held chimp-like and I'd instantly start visualising him in a rough type pub and not take a second look.

The nicest (and longest on the scene) boyfriend I ever had was the one who wouldn't blink at things like that. I came back from a few days away one time to find he'd gone through my cookbooks and decided on a special meal to cook me and it was on the table when I arrived back to find him there, when I hadn't been expecting that. He would do the "protector" bit if he thought I needed it though - as another thing I found when I got up at crack of dawn to head off elsewhere in the country for a national demonstration was he had got up even earlier and was waiting outside my front door to come with me just to make sure I was okay (though he didn't favour the cause concerned himself).

Doveling

Sorry just went. Brother had heart attack. Will come back to read and thank soon as I get chance.

Karmacat

Woah, doveling - your light's turned red already, so I'm guessing you won't be reading this for a while, but I'll be thinking of you and your brother, and hoping for a positive outcome.

All the best.

BHB

davidsdesire wrote: »

there was an episode of the Twilight Zone where all a man wanted was for people to leave him alone and let him read. Something happened and everyone did disappear (or die or something) and he was ecstatic...until he immediately broke his glasses!

:eek:


Be prepared ..... as they used to say in the cubs ....or was it scouts?

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DOVELING so sorry to see your post about your brother, hope that all is on the way to being well and that you are all coping with the stress. Thinking of you all, Lyn xxx.