Preparedness for when

NewShadow

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

You can not build a big stash up of the pill, plus yes have a small stash of medication, BUT be realistic. Your stash of whatever medication can go out of date, plus its putting extra unnecessary financial strain on the already NHS which is on its knees!!

The various implants can last 3 - 5 years (plus have the added bonus of stopping monthly bleeding, so one less item to stock).

moneyistooshorttomention

CTC

It helps to read posts carefully - I commented on having a low boredom threshold. AFAIK my pain threshold is perfectly standard.

I don't want children because I don't want children.

I would have got sterilised anyway because I don't want children. It was an added bonus (and part of the reason for a "once and for all" solution) to know it didn't matter to me personally what Society subsequently got up to in regards to supplying the Pill. I would have made personal decision to give up sex if Society had no longer made it available - but I know some women are married to "men I wouldn't contemplate" that would selfishly insist on it regardless anyway. Some women get raped by even more selfish men. Giving up sex isn't an option some women would decide on. It is an option that might get over-ridden by the worse types of men.

I am quite an active former trade unionist and legally-minded - hence I choose every word I use carefully to be the correct word I mean. Though I wonder why I bother whenever people read me as having said something different to what I actually did say.

Frugalsod

NewShadow wrote: »

One thing I'm really not getting - and forgive me if this seems ignorant or racist (I don't think it is, but might be wrong) - Why are we treating the people coming here like migrants?

Why don't we treat them as refugees?

They are not all Syrian. Many are Afghans and there are a lot from Africa, some are economic migrants but that would also apply to all our expats working abroad.

We really need a system for economic migrants to work legally but do not accrue long term rights to stay here. Many countries have such systems.

There are many genuine refugees in there and these should be supported but the problem is that politicians would need to support these people for some time especially if they arrived with children. When you have government after government failing to build enough homes for locals during the previous couple of decades there will be significant resentment when genuine refugees are housed over locals needing social housing. In this country this has been policy since the 1980's and now the time bomb of lack of housing will probably blow up in the governments face and lead to an exit from the EU.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Newshadow, I think this going to be a subject that might divide opinions.

My personal view is.... We need to look after our own first. The country is having major cut backs, and loads and loads of people are struggling. With cut backs really hitting the vunrable in our communities.
What I don't like about it, they get furnished houses, food etc while we have people living in hotals b&b etc waiting for a home of their own, and for their family. And they can be iwaiting a very long time.

Plus if they don't like something they are very vocal about it. And seem very ungrateful for the help we are trying to give them, but yet you see them walking round using the latest iPhone etc..

It also the extra strain on councils, schools, healthcare, plus the extra costs of interpreters etc..

We give billions to humanitarian aid every year.. , but yet cutting billions from our welfare budget etc and yet our deficit is still rising out of control...

There is only so much we can do.

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It would be back to 'a womans lot in life' the way it was in all the centuries before contraception and freedom of choice became the modern norm! There are more means of contraception than just the pill and it has been mentioned many, many times before on the prepping thread that if we're ever in the situation of having intermittent power supplies and without the electronic entertainments and diversions that we've all become accustomed to, humans being human by nature then long dark evenings would inevitably lead to the need for contraception. Even the pill isn't 100% effective and people are not very good at 'self control' so perhaps the overall birth rate would go up however, if the modern health services and pharmaceuticals were no longer available as they are today I suspect that the death rate would also go up to become on a par with what was normal before we had the NHS?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

ouch!!!! pineapple. no - i am a VERY cautious little soul - so wouldn't be likely 2 do that.

will check out bio oil.

i know i have reverted to being plain again now i am older:( - but still don't want scar. friend that caused accident is mortified i know. i had better leave contacting her for a few days - as i am still very upset about it - though i accept she is mortified and full of apologies. no-one has ever caused me an accident before - hence i am very upset and brandy and tissues now to hand. i have also had to have first injection since childhood - ie anti tetanus. note 2 others - it is possible 2 do it in a different way - that is lot less painful. they certainly weren't going 2 be allowed 2 do it the standard way. i think they realised that.

i think they realised i really do mean it when i said that i literally really wouldn't care if i just carried on bleeding and finito - as long as it wasn't painful. i have never cared whether i live or die - as long as i don't have any pain basically. hence the virtually pain free injection. they can think i am odd if they like for thinking that way:rotfl:i hate pain and illness with a passion. i have seen my family go through 6 shades of hell with it and back again and found it far 2 upsetting even as an observer - tho i do what i can 2 help them with theirs. my family are all dreadfully ill - with loads of killer stuff. hence personally i have the views i have.[/QUOT

I don't see the word boredom , and with a post like this, then I think a low pain threshold is a good word to use

Diff people have diff threshold of pain.. I think you also made a comment about childbirth, etc

moneyistooshorttomention

Some people aren't very good at self-control that's true. The phrase "knowledge is power" is apt here, ie "If you don't exercise that self-control - then we will tell you the full possible consequences of that (lack of) decision".

Personally - my mother had a point (ie she married in the 1950s and just "didn't" before marriage). She knew that "good girls didn't" and, much more to the point, "nice men didn't expect them to". She only wanted a man that was both "strong" and "nice" as a husband - so what was the point of bothering with any other type of man? Strong, nice men just didnt expect women to have sex in unsafe circumstances in that era and that would apply if that era "revisited us". My father wouldn't have dreamt of it - until my mother said yes (ie, in her case, because she had that wedding ring on her finger first). He wouldn't have dreamt of it latterly if Society had "gone wrong" and she had to say no again.

If Pill/abortions hadn't been around come my reaching adulthood in the 1970s - then the exact same reasoning would have applied. That being - why would I want a man of the more selfish type? I wouldn't - therefore men would be platonic friends only or forget it if modern Science hadn't come along.

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Anyway - on a very different subject and bit of good-to-know info:

www.buymeonce.com/

A website for goods that are "as stated on the can" - ie only having to buy them once - as they have been made to reasonable quality. I'm perfectly prepared to pay £35 for a pair of leggings (instead of £20) for instance - knowing I wouldn't have to replace them ever. That would save both my money and the Planet's resources:T

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Newshadow I would also add a bottle of your favourite tipple , puely for medicinal purposes of course ( I used to like jack Daniels until I tried Danzy Jones, its a bit like jack, but alot smoother, and its welsh!!)

thriftwizard

Re the ex-pats registering to vote: I've been fretting about what happens to them if we vote to come out of the EU. I know it's self-inflicted, but the likes of my step-mama-in-law, who has lived in Spain for the last 30 years whilst only learning a couple of phrases of Spanish, and who have always believed they could just "come home" if in dire medical need, will be badly hit. I doubt she's paid her stamps in either country; like me, she hasn't worked in the formal economy for a long time. But I make sure to pay my stamp.

I hasten to add that she won't actually want to come home; like most ex-pats over there, she believes that her blood will thicken if she tries to live in the cold for any length of time, and that that will kill her. (There may be some truth to this as my uncle got put onto Warfarin within a couple of months of returning here from the warmer bits of France.) But she's always believed that she could and taken her life decisions accordingly. There are more than a million Brits living out there...

[Deleted User]

I hope she's still got a house over here to come back to Thrifty, the current price of housing would be enough to put most people off the idea altogether. If there is no choice but to come back to the UK and those Ex Pats don't have a home there is going to be an awful lot more pressure on local authorities for housing in an already vastly overloaded system, doesn't bear thinking about does it?