Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

I still don't believe they will be an overnight "one day normal, next day chaos", even when the next financial crash comes.

I enjoy reading the arch druid report and believe the scenario he suggests of a long slow decline is much more likely. Things may well happen differently in different areas as well.

I am hopeful that living semi rural on the edge of a small town that we would fair a little better than those in inner cities but who knows?

Meanwhile will get head down boiling water (grrrr), collecting eggs from chickens and harvesting from the garden. Anyone else got a little pea fan lol, my 7 yr old keeps wandering in with handfuls of pods and gobbling them up like sweets-she even snaffled a load of my dads yesterday on a visit.

Ali x

Frugalsod

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

I still don't believe they will be an overnight "one day normal, next day chaos", even when the next financial crash comes.

I enjoy reading the arch druid report and believe the scenario he suggests of a long slow decline is much more likely. Things may well happen differently in different areas as well.

I am hopeful that living semi rural on the edge of a small town that we would fair a little better than those in inner cities but who knows?

Yes a slow gradual decline is what I expect as well. If it were more rapid then we can expect overthrown governments galore. Though if things can get out of hand then it could happen more rapidly.

It was the final straw of rising food prices that triggered the Arab Spring, and if governments flood the banks with more money again I suspect that they will go speculating in food again causing problems in Africa, Latin America and Asia. So we could see even more migrants in Europe.

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We're all as prepared as we can be, we are all aware of world happenings, we are aware of what might/is likely to happen and as long as we have a power supply we have the combined support, savvy, experience and knowledge of ALL of us, which is an amazing amount and will be of immense value in and problems that might arise. If we don't have the ability to chat and share we all have our own knowledge, experience and resourcefulness to fall back on, we're streets ahead of most of the population, this years harvest looks to be a particularly good one, if there is public unrest we'll have the wherewithall to keep our heads down, if we have to move out of home for any reason we'll likely be able to find each other and form some sort of group. We stand a very much better chance of coming through problem times than most of Joe Public, keep your nerve pals, we'll be OK if any group can!!!

moneyistooshorttomention

On the other hand - I doubt that many people would move out of their home whatever happened (certainly if its their own - rather than rented).

Hands up those who own their own homes and just wouldn't move (all that waiting and working for it straight down the drain = no way Hosea at the thought of losing it after all that):eek:

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I'd rather be alive!!!

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'd rather be alive!!!

Ditto but I think that the risks of that are very low. My plans include camping kit so I can have cheap holidays, and act as a back up if necessary to leave home. It is also a very good back up when you lose your home. Remember until you clear that mortgage you are only really renting from the bank. If you are unable to repay that mortgage on demand or find some other organisation willing to take the mortgage on you could be repossessed. In the US there are millions homeless and some tens of millions of homes still in negative equity even after the recent price increases. Longer term I think homelessness is the main threat facing many of us not rampaging mobs.

Butterfly_Brain

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fuddle

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

On the other hand - I doubt that many people would move out of their home whatever happened (certainly if its their own - rather than rented).

Hands up those who own their own homes and just wouldn't move (all that waiting and working for it straight down the drain = no way Hosea at the thought of losing it after all that):eek:

From a private renter's point of view I would say that I would seek to hunker down in my home and wouldn't venture out if I didn't have to. Personally, if it came to needing to leave I suspect the overwhelming need to survive would outshine any desire to protect bricks and mortar that had been paid off.

Any decisions to leave or to stay would be based upon the chances of survival. Would protecting property outshine protecting life and living when it really comes down to it? I can't even begin to accept that the instinct to protect wealth would be greater the the instinct to survive.

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Even though we DO own the house and all that's in it, if there was more chance that defending my 'castle' would end in my death I'd abandon home and goods over that without having to think about it. If I have the clothes I stand in and the knowledge in my head to use I'd still be as rich as Midas, things aren't important in that scenario, life IS!!!

I too don't think it would easily come to the point of having to bug out, if it did however come to that point it would be less than sensible to stay and lose your life, if you left and stayed alive there is always the possibility that your home would still be there for you to come back to when things settle again. You might have lost posessions but I know what my priority would be and things definitely aren't it!

boultdj

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

My first line of defence would be drenching them with a hosepipe whilst they were still in the garden - but I do have a knife (never used I hasten to add...) or could take a swing at someone with a walking pole. Add that I've got one or two pretty lethal-looking long-handled garden tools.

Ya' know - I much prefer looking up appropriate laws/rules and regulations/etc and using them to defend myself if need be:rotfl:The thought of living in a society where I constantly felt the need to defend myself - rather than just Getting On With My Life - is not one I'd go for personal.

Like GQ, I'd rather go down the line, than 6 feet under, plus it's not just myself to defend, my OH is disabled, so make's him the slower of the 2 of us, fasties of us all is furry owner, and if she think's your taking her tuna and not letting her have some you end up wearing a 'cling on' that bite's round the back of the leg:eek: