Preparedness for when

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Personally - I can't comment on things like that - as I won't buy cookware that has one of those non-stick coatings on it basically. Mine is either stainless steel or I've bought a cast-iron thing recently and I won't get anything with aluminium in either. Between those two things - I'm astonished to find that rules out much of the cookware currently still on the market.

Herself insists on a non stick frying pan, I use my grandmothers cast iron skillet (80+ years old) which is more non-stick than anything coated in teflon or the like (and doesn't need replacing every few years). It does weigh a significant amount though (and is overdue having a new wood handle turned for it) which does make it more difficult to use. All of my other cookware is stainless (apart from a set of enamelled spun iron casseroles and a spun iron wok).
I've never found it a problem finding replacement or additional cookware - but I do spend more time than I should in cookshops (and more money, the decent stuff isn't cheap but it does last)

boultdj

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

FUDDLE I've had mine for ages and I can't find an enamel one with a rack but online searching shows you can buy a separate rack that will fit the enamel one for

I got one about a month ago from Al*i, with a rack incleded, so might be an idea to keep an eye on their website.

jk0

Just eating my toast looking at MSE, I bit down on something hard. I couldn't get through it, so fished it out of my mouth to examine. I was just about to tell you guys to look out for plastic in your bread flour, but I just realised what it is:

It's the piece of plastic you have to press in to open the salt container.

Grr. I'll buy a different sort of pack next time.

mardatha

I don't suppose many in here will read the National (daily paper up here)- and you need a subscripton to see it online - but there's a worrying article in it today all about Osbourne and what he's up to. He sacked the head of the Financial Conduct Authority in July for doing his job too well and announced over the Xmas break (when MPs were on holiday and couldn't ask awkward questions) that the acting head of the FCA had pulled out as well.
Apparently he wants to ease the regulations that were put in place after the 2008 fiasco so he can attract more Chinese money to the UK.
Presumably so that it can happen all over again. Which anybody in here could see coming years ago eh.

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

I don't suppose many in here will read the National (daily paper up here)- and you need a subscripton to see it online - but there's a worrying article in it today all about Osbourne and what he's up to. He sacked the head of the Financial Conduct Authority in July for doing his job too well and announced over the Xmas break (when MPs were on holiday and couldn't ask awkward questions) that the acting head of the FCA had pulled out as well.
Apparently he wants to ease the regulations that were put in place after the 2008 fiasco so he can attract more Chinese money to the UK.
Presumably so that it can happen all over again. Which anybody in here could see coming years ago eh.

Oh bleep. I keep an eye on Zero Hedge, as most people on here do, and I don't like the sound of whats coming at all. Even The Guardian had a piece about 2016 being a dark year: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/09/2016-world-tumbles-back-economic-crisis

moneyistooshorttomention

...and someone like that Christine woman in charge of the IMF....:cool:

It was a while back on this thread that someone (probably jKo???) linked to a YouTube clip of her giving a seriously weird speech. Goodness only knows what that speech was actually supposed to be about - but she just kept on and on and on again weaving the speech around one number (seem to recall it was the number "7") for some reason.

That "speech" of hers was seriously distinctly odd....and didn't make any logical sense whatsoever...

Frugalsod

Karmacat wrote: »

Oh bleep. I keep an eye on Zero Hedge, as most people on here do, and I don't like the sound of whats coming at all. Even The Guardian had a piece about 2016 being a dark year: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/09/2016-world-tumbles-back-economic-crisis

The thing is that most of us are still living with the knock on effects of the crisis of 2008. What ever TPTB say they have not fixed the banks and banking is not safe still so minimising your exposure to risky banks is paramount. Keeping a stash of cash at home is about as safe as you can get, as long as no one knows about it. Though since most people are probably a pay cheque from disaster they have little scope to mitigate their risks.

We are probably looking at a couple of decades of stagnation while people fix their personal balance sheets. That is the really good news. If the wheels come off the wagon then it will be nasty. The fact that the banks have lent even more since 2008 means that the risks of a calamity are bigger now than ever before is something that we should all be aware of.

If there is another financial crisis gold will collapse in value as there is simply no demand for anything. Remember that most commentators on Zero hedge have said we should be suffering hyper inflation by now and gold would be $50 000 an ounce. I said a couple of years ago that deflation was the real risk. There is nothing out there that would indicate that hyper inflation or rampant gold price surge is anywhere on the horizon.

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My 99p shop has the 3 x small tins of evaporated milk for 99p offer on again, worth the outlay for not having to open up a big tin and wasting some perhaps.

GreyQueen

I was reading various online newspapers whilst having breakfast this morning and that infamous hotbed of conspiracy theory - the Daily Torygraph - was featuring an article delaring the nigh inevitability of a major UK residential property crash this year.

That would hurt a lot of people, and be very good news for another chunk of people who haven't got any property of their own and would quite like the opportunity to try buying some at a reasonable multiplier of income.

If property prices slip even 10% expect to hear wailing from all sides, the gnashing of teeth and declarations that the End of the World is Nigh.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

If property prices slip even 10% expect to hear wailing from all sides, the gnashing of teeth and declarations that the End of the World is Nigh.

Well since it fell 15% after 2007 then I would expect a similar fall this time around. The fact is that property is well out side the range of first time buyers who will need significant help to get on the property ladder and without rising wages rents and property prices have less upward pressure than estate agents and lenders will admit.