Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

I was reading an article this morning that made a good case for a Referendum could even happen this year on the EU. It seems to depend on whether the House of Lords plays for time opposing it. If the House of Lords does so - then it will happen anyway next year by the look of it.

mardatha

It's starting to look like war between us and England. I might need to stock up on sweeties in case there's a shortage!!! :eek:

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

It's starting to look like war between us and England. I might need to stock up on sweeties in case there's a shortage!!! :eek:

We grow sugar beet in Englandshire. With sugar innit. We could withold supplies of the white stuff and bring Scotlandshire to its knees in no time......:rotfl:

This week I have eaten the last of the hg potatoes and have thus moved onto the planned use-and-replacement of the tinned spud stash. The oldest tinned spuds have a BB of May 2015, funnily enough. Not that one needs to worry too much about BBs on tins, anyway.

I shall also rotate through part of Mount Penne, the part of the national pasta mountain which is in my personal custodianship. Should be back on the hg spuds come mid-late July nomnomnom.

I am also moving towards having some precautionary dentistry work done to some iffy back teeth, going to talk to my tooth-wrangler about it tomorrow. Don't want to be coping with toofache if SHTF.

Steadily prepping away in the background, with an ominous sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Frugalsod

One reason why things could get bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINbQGgVEN8

Best of all at around the 24 minute mark find out what estate agents described was as a 40 minute walk from central London.

Frugalsod

General tip for motorists do not steal parking spots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzsJ7SbjXCc

moneyistooshorttomention

Frugalsod wrote: »

One reason why things could get bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINbQGgVEN8

Best of all at around the 24 minute mark find out what estate agents described was as a 40 minute walk from central London.

I had to stop watching that - for the sake of my blood pressure:cool:

I've certainly seen stuff before now about homes in London being bought as investment vehicles by foreign investors and, every time, I think of the fact that my best friend is from the East End of London and wouldn't have a hope in heck of moving back if she wanted to.

I do worry about whether this phenomenon might spread outside London too and maybe this is first indications of that. In fact, it has already spread out right around Britain (by knock-on effect) as Londoners look further and further afield for places they can actually afford to live and "knock out" people from those places and they in turn have to move from their own areas etc etc (puts hand up in air at that point to say "...and me..."). So the ripples in that particular circle have already spread nationwide.

What puzzles me is how London doesn't implode onto itself - as, no matter how dear the housing is there, lower-paid workers still have to live "somewhere". Hence it puzzles me how London still expects to be able to find people to do those low-paid jobs (now that even professionals are wondering how to manage to live in their own city).

moneyistooshorttomention

On a different tack - with the background to this being that its illegal in Russia.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MsKP6stdBM

Doveling

Have a few of us been stunned into silence?

We are "comfortable" and with the help of this site I am trying to make sure that we stay that way.
But I have been on the "other side of the fence" when I was younger . Maybe you know the scenario, looking in every pocket and down the sides of the sofa to make up the price of a loaf with loose change.

I know we need a strong economy and I am not clever enough to offer any solutions but we seem to be heading backwards as a society.

Societies can be judged by how they look after their old, disabled and needy.
Things are not looking good and I feel very uneasy.

No smilie faces in the above.

However, this isn't the place for politics, religion or Kale

I must have had a premonition the other day as I think a dog may have found us!:D
We are going to have a look at him on Saturday morning so fingers crossed that it is mutual love at first sight - watch this space:D

thriftwizard

We are "comfortable" and with the help of this site I am trying to make sure that we stay that way.

I doubt whether my rellies would describe us as "comfortable" here but by the standards of the vast majority of humanity, we're very well off - a roof over our heads that doesn't (currently) leak, enough money coming in to eat & pay the bills & keep the cars on the road, access to decent medical & dental care and a short walk from all the facilities one really needs. We don't have many square feet per head, and there are times when it's hard not to snap at people, but there's hardly a day goes by when I'm not profoundly grateful to have been born into this time and this place. I have enough, and that's actually a huge blessing. I too have hunted down the sides of the sofa (usually for money for school trips) and still feel I have to buy 50p veg and YS bargains to make the most of what we do have coming in, but now they're for the icing on the cake, not the cake itself.

Contrast this with my mother, who has a big & gracious "retirement" flat all to herself now in our county town. She's lonely... and bored. Her eyesight's bad, as she was unable to have her cataracts sorted out when caring for my stepfather. Her hearing's gone downhill. At 89, she's not top of anyone's list for urgent treatment. Her friends have either dropped off the twig or are no longer able to go out visiting, and in the posh retirement ghetto people "keep themselves to themselves" because that's the polite thing to do. She's spent most of her life very broke, trying to keep up appearances on a pittance, and now she's finally financially secure, it's turned out to be a bit of a miserable place to find herself. And even she's worried about the future; she can look out of her window into the co-op car park and see the dossers nicking cardboard from the bins to make themselves a bed in the shrubberies round the corner. "They're mostly soldiers, they're shellshocked; why isn't anyone helping them?!"

I still don't know anyone - except two innocent & deluded young men, who will hopefully grow up eventually - who will actually admit to having voted for the party currently in power, even in this prosperous little corner of Englandshire. Yet our new MP, who looks like he should be studying hard for his "A" levels somewhere in the Home Counties, not staying up all night debating, apparently trounced the popular, hardworking local girl he was up against.

Hope you have finally found your hound, Doveling!

elona

Doveling

We were "comfortable" too but helping three daughters through university (youngest in final year now) was expensive.

Now I will be on my own unless youngest stays with me after uni
and DH's pension will be halved and this house and garden is just too big. I am looking out for an easily managed bungalow that will be affordable and cutting my cloth so to speak.

I remember the too many days in the month when I had meals like stuffed mushrooms and chips, homity pie, lentil soup and home made bread and DH's favourite pea and ham soup. He used to ask
"Are we economising again because the food is better now?"

Glad we saved as much as we could into pension and he took early retirement as we have happy memories of the last five years despite illness etc.

I don't feel good about the future cutting of services either and I agree with you about having a decent society which helps rather than demonises the vulnerable.