Preparedness for when

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Actually, that might not be a very good idea, the MacInnits had a pretty rough reputation for brawling and thieving cattle, no wonder that ancestor came down to Engerland, probably had to leave home one step ahead of the thievees.

One of his descendants was nicking cars in Lunnon Town as a yoof. Only the details change <sigh>

Coming from one of the Riding Families, I'm well aware there's a long history of dishonesty and double dealing around the Scottish borders, but that's politicians all over - there was a bit of thieving and cattle rustling as well

mardatha wrote: »

Excuse me !! I'm a Munro and I ain't having all these damn McInnits up here on this hill - jellybabies or no jellybabies!
Vikings are ok though. Within reason.

I thought you had to be over 3000 feet to be a Munro?
(Sorry bad hillwalking joke)
Vikings could be almost as much trouble as the locals, you'd fit in perfectly

moneyistooshorttomention

GreyQueen wrote: »

And if I don't get them, the neighbours will, and they'll be sorry they set foot in Shoebox Towers.

Well there's always Henry d'Vac, SuperGran and Nursie for reinforcements if need be:)....and, if times get really hard and you need even heavier-weight reinforcements I can send you Wicked Witch of the West (aka my next door neighbour) and that should be more than enough to put the fear of God into them (must tell her to practice her best glowers on face/rude comments/wicked cackles/etc and I'll pack her off to see you on a one-way ticket - just to help out in times of need you unnerstand of course:rotfl:).

moneyistooshorttomention

nuatha wrote: »

No its not offshoring the public ownership, because its private ownership and anything else would be contrary to what the government want you to believe.
Of course they owners could sell where they wished (and there'll be new cables to the continent to facilitate the free flow of energy.



It is, how did you guess - stop peaking behind the curtains, the Wizard doesn't like that.
Oh, and drink the Kool Aid.

I really wish I could say my answer was just sarcasm, but we seem to have reached the point where the reality is too far fetched for any form of satire or fiction.

Now come on Nuatha - when they tried to take your head off your shoulders and turn it round (ie so that you were seeing the world backwards on and upside down) - you didn't have the nerve did you to remove said head from shoulders and place it back on again the right way round and up (so that you could see straight again)?:shocked::shocked::shocked: OOOH ...how naughty of you:rotfl::rotfl:

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

News last week is that the Bank of England is going to have to print more notes and make more coins as so much currency is being hoarded in people's homes. I'd like to think none of us would be so anti-capitalist and untrusting as to hoard cold hard cash................:whistle: The average home has over £300 in it, can you imagine that?

I had a check of my cash balances at home and have nearly double that already. I have little savings pots for all sorts of things and lots of bagged up change. Things like my lease renewal fee is not even included in that amount. In fact in the last month or so my savings of small change has shot up as I am collecting my parents news paper for them and so breaking up notes and them getting paid in small change so that is accumulating in small change very quickly. What ever is in my wallet when I do a top up is also put into another pot and that is adding up even if I raid it occasionally. In fact I have emptied my wallet today and off to get another top up. When my bank balance looks like it is shrinking I cut my spending elsewhere so my savings are continuing to accumulate and my debts continuing to shrink. At some point once my debt is cleared I will have to start withdrawing cash even more rapidly.

Karmacat

Frugalsod - thanks for the expansion you wrote about the crash, and Lehmans not being the first - I was being very lazy, and I appreciate what you wrote.

Volcanoes - there *is* one prep we can do, I researched it a couple of months ago: buy about 4 packets of clingfilm, so you can wrap your electronics up completely, and put them away for the duration of the fall (wrote about it at length on my prepping blog) - thats mostly for anything Icelandic that kicks off, bigger than last time.

Cash - I missed that announcement! Found it now, on a Daily Wail article. Really nasty, patronising tone: "Richard Jolly of the London Business School told The Independent: 'Human beings hate losing and when they do they behave irrationally. Keeping money at home is an absurd thing to do but it makes us really risk-adverse.'
He added: 'It is not rational, it might get stolen and it is not earning any interest but money is like a child's comfort blanket for adults. It might not ward off the monsters but it makes us feel better. It is an emotional feeling of being in control."

I'm an amateur genealogist, and I don't have any McInnits at all, so far as I can trace. I have a Scottish marriage in 1855, but thats between two Irish people, so I'm not sure it counts :rotfl:

thriftwizard

'It is not rational, it might get stolen and it is not earning any interest but money is like a child's comfort blanket for adults. It might not ward off the monsters but it makes us feel better. It is an emotional feeling of being in control."

Hahaha! Love it! Whatever is childish about wanting to feel that we have a little tiny bit of control?

ivyleaf

thriftwizard wrote: »

Hahaha! Love it! Whatever is childish about wanting to feel that we have a little tiny bit of control?

Exactly (10 characters).

jk0

Did you see what someone wrote in the comments?

It is not rational, it is not earning any interest and it might get stolen.... that's exactly how I feel about keeping currency in the banking system.

fuddle

I've been dabbling in the banking system myself this morning. I'm really annoyed to be fair.

Grandparents have sent birthday cheques down for my children, 11 and 7. He has put them in their names (which DH thinks it's because his dad used to spend any money he would get as a kid and doesn't want that to do to our kids. Really? Like I would! anyway.. ) so I can't but the cheques in my account which, yeah ok, I see why...

but I can open an account on my children's behalf and put the cheques into those. Queue rational argumentative side "so this bank will allow me to open an account in my name right now, deposit those cheques into those accounts right now, that is in my name, but won't let me put my children's cheques in my account. You see how silly? I understand why but do you see how silly?" No response other than a wry smile and some application forms.

So looking at the information on all 3 pages of each form and I see they want to know an awful lot of information about my children including what school they go to :eek:

Forms handed back in and I walked out of the bank. My kids do not need a bank account at all other than to get their birthday gift. Sod the system, we will give them money from our account.

I know it is unreasonable to expect to put a cheque into my account that isn't in my name, I really do... but the solution? Nope, I don't agree with any of it.

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FUDDLE when ours were about 11 we opened them a post office account and gave them an allowance each month rather than pocket money. The post office is usually easier to get to in opening hours and it taught both of them how to manage their money and save for some things and spend sensibly as they knew once the allowance was gone, that was all they'd have until next month, focuses young minds beautifully! might that be an easier option for you?