Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

They have just cut the banking compensation from £85,000 to £75,000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33384284

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11715807/Banks-to-cut-protection-on-deposits-to-75000-from-January.html

That is because of the strength of the pound against the euro. It could change back just as easily once the pound weakens.

Though most people are nowhere near this level at the best of times.

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1Tonsil wrote: »

I would not bother messing about roasting the hazelnuts though, it would be too easy to burn them.

Roasting your nuts is a most unpleasant experience.

Trust me, after you've done it once, you'll not stand close to the fire again.

Frugalsod

1Tonsil wrote: »

well, the rumours go around every so often and nothing may happen of course. How many times have we been warned about impending doom and nothing happens . I no longer worry about things, but try to be prepared for whatever life may throw at me..

I think that the fact that it is continuing is because people inherently do not feel things are getting better. Right up to the crisis there were very few people warning of a problem.

Greek austerity was never going to work yet they carried on. Even now after the most draconian austerity in the world it still has not worked and they are still proposing evermore austerity and debt shows that TPTB have not learned.

While I am much less optimistic about the UK because of the debts and the banks I do not think we will be like Greece for quite some time, maybe many years, but a decade of stagnation will destroy the social fabric of the nation. Which will create the opportunity for an extremist party to take over.

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Just remember the Mayan calendar and the end of the world in 2012 before you start worrying yourselves about things over which no one has any control at all, that's the way to ulcers and unhappiness! I prep for the things that might happen that I can't stop but that we have some chance of surviving through. I can't build a wall of tinned beans to keep me safe from a comet strike, but they will keep me going through strikes, power outs, banks being closed etc. No point in worrying about world changing things, they'll happen whether you do or don't worry about them won't they?

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Just remember the Mayan calendar and the end of the world in 2012 before you start worrying yourselves about things over which no one has any control at all, that's the way to ulcers and unhappiness! I prep for the things that might happen that I can't stop but that we have some chance of surviving through. I can't build a wall of tinned beans to keep me safe from a comet strike, but they will keep me going through strikes, power outs, banks being closed etc. No point in worrying about world changing things, they'll happen whether you do or don't worry about them won't they?

Comets and the like make most preps useless, unless you are rich enough to have a massive bunker. Though if you have stocked up on booze you can at least party the end of the world away.

It is as you say a matter of preparing for things that are likely and survivable and make life tolerable as possible. If that is not possible grab your pitchfork and protest.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I can't build a wall of tinned beans to keep me safe from a comet strike

Correct. You need tins of spaghetti for that.

jk0

This might interest you guys. I saw my mother today, (the one who ignores all I tell her about prepping ) and she told me about her trip to Lidl this week.

Mum & sister loaded up their trolley with £90 worth of stuff, and tried to pay with Mum's Santander 123 debit card. They tried six times but it wouldn't work. Eventually they told mum she would have to provide cash, so she had to drive up to a cashpoint and then go back to Lidl to retrieve her trolley.

Anyone else had trouble with a Santander debit card this week?

1Tonsil

jk0 wrote: »

This might interest you guys. I saw my mother today, (the one who ignores all I tell her about prepping ) and she told me about her trip to Lidl this week.

Mum & sister loaded up their trolley with £90 worth of stuff, and tried to pay with Mum's Santander 123 debit card. They tried six times but it wouldn't work. Eventually they told mum she would have to provide cash, so she had to drive up to a cashpoint and then go back to Lidl to retrieve her trolley.

Anyone else had trouble with a Santander debit card this week?

Interesting question....here in Greece folks have been okay using their credit card but have not been able to use debit cards at times in Lidl and other supermarkets.

1Tonsil

It seems that Santander had issues in the past with debit card systems crashing in countries outside the UK....maybe it was a glitch in the system?

DawnW

jk0 wrote: »

This might interest you guys. I saw my mother today, (the one who ignores all I tell her about prepping ) and she told me about her trip to Lidl this week.

Mum & sister loaded up their trolley with £90 worth of stuff, and tried to pay with Mum's Santander 123 debit card. They tried six times but it wouldn't work. Eventually they told mum she would have to provide cash, so she had to drive up to a cashpoint and then go back to Lidl to retrieve her trolley.

Anyone else had trouble with a Santander debit card this week?

Our Lidl often has trouble with accepting cards (any cards), so much so that it is always worth having cash to pay, as it is a long way from a cashpoint. Might it be their system rather than the cards / banks themselves? I have a Santander 123 debit card and I used it today to get cash out. It worked fine.