Preparedness for when

ivyleaf

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My thoughts about prepping are a bit different than some. I think keeping abreast of political tides is paramount. There are many types of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, terrorists etc. But logically uncertainty of the financial future should also be talked about and prepped for...not only physically but mentally and emotionally as well.

Many are expressing how upsetting life after the EU looks to them. Wise voices are saying we have lived through great hardship and come out the other side. Don't discount these voices as irrelevant. They are standard bearers saying this can be done. They know, because they have done so during hard financial times. They are not the past. They are the lesson to be read and learned from.

Gardens, dehydration and canning (bottling) topics may be safer for the next few days but in the long run hashing out and understanding the best you can these historic events together, though you come from different walks of life and are different ages, is the greatest form of prepping. Be tolerant of each other and give grace to each other in your comments. You are a mighty group of intelligent people that I admire immensely. I say put you thoughts, concerns, fears and information on the table. Discussion in friendship (a safe place) is so very important at a time like this.

Please accept this comment as being just another way of looking at things as I do realize I am on the outside looking in...

And I had to replant some of my tomatoes as quite a few got blight.

What a lovely post mila thank you.

elona

Two of my four dds are worried their jobs and careers are going to be affected by Brexit and when I said that if TSHTF they could rent out their house and come to stay with me for a while. At least they would have a roof over their heads, food on the table and no worries about bills.

I said that went for any of us who needed it and got a bit of a funny look but I hope they understood what I meant. I did tell them some of the things that happened in the 70's and they looked quite surprised that my attitude was "I can deal with this!"

Once I get all the boxes unpacked I should be able to get things organised properly which will be a relief.

Cappella

Lovely post Mila Thank you.

mardatha

I think those of us who lived through the 70s with the three-day-week can cope with anything. And the 80s wasn't much better. But we survived.
Mila I'm with you - I think the biggest and by far most likely danger is our own govt. Learning how to live under the radar and within the system - making it work for you -instead of moaning about it or standing up and being a rebel

moneyistooshorttomention

Update - first attempt at dehydrating rhubarb = stage 1 (ie steaming it in the first place) being that if it takes 10-15 minutes to cook it for eating right now - then 5 minutes is probably the steaming time for dehydrating purposes.

Note to self time - do it with one layer worth of steamer pan at time and not two (as the bottom one cooked rather more than the top one).

Further note to self time - if steaming water is pink after the event then nutrients are in it (and a possible drink?). So make it minimum possible of steaming water. The next thing will be to add a bit of healthy "sweetening" to it (date syrup I'm thinking?) and I shall try that out for a drink later today.

Blue_Doggy

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My thoughts about prepping are a bit different than some. I think keeping abreast of political tides is paramount. There are many types of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, terrorists etc. But logically uncertainty of the financial future should also be talked about and prepped for...not only physically but mentally and emotionally as well.

Many are expressing how upsetting life after the EU looks to them. Wise voices are saying we have lived through great hardship and come out the other side. Don't discount these voices as irrelevant. They are standard bearers saying this can be done. They know, because they have done so during hard financial times. They are not the past. They are the lesson to be read and learned from.

Gardens, dehydration and canning (bottling) topics may be safer for the next few days but in the long run hashing out and understanding the best you can these historic events together, though you come from different walks of life and are different ages, is the greatest form of prepping. Be tolerant of each other and give grace to each other in your comments. You are a mighty group of intelligent people that I admire immensely. I say put you thoughts, concerns, fears and information on the table. Discussion in friendship (a safe place) is so very important at a time like this.

Please accept this comment as being just another way of looking at things as I do realize I am on the outside looking in...

And I had to replant some of my tomatoes as quite a few got blight.

Thank you for your thoughtful post, mila.

I too remember the hardships of the early 1950s, and was brought up on my Mum's tales of pre-WWII poverty (buying tea by the half-ounce, or eggs singly etc.). As well as stories of being bombed out of her home one night, finding new accommodation (rented room), going to work(shift work), and coming home to find that that place had gone, too.

We came through it, many bootstraps were pulled on, and making do and mending were the watch-words (which is why so many of us, of a certain vintage, spend time untying all the knots in pieces of string, and often have a box labelled "pieces of string too short to use" - because they can be tied together to make a useful length).

Anyway, I am away out to see if the dandelions have any leaves I can add to a salad.

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I think those of us who lived through the 70s with the three-day-week can cope with anything. And the 80s wasn't much better. But we survived.
Mila I'm with you - I think the biggest and by far most likely danger is our own govt. Learning how to live under the radar and within the system - making it work for you -instead of moaning about it or standing up and being a rebel

But where would we be without rebels? No suffragettes for a start!
As for the biggest danger being our own government - I would add 'or any big interest'. Or in fact, at times, each other. There that's covered all the bases - except perhaps, on a gardening theme - slugs :mad:
Ps If things got really bad, could you eat a whole one? :eek:

pineapple

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My thoughts about prepping are a bit different than some. I think keeping abreast of political tides is paramount. There are many types of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, terrorists etc. But logically uncertainty of the financial future should also be talked about and prepped for...not only physically but mentally and emotionally as well.

Many are expressing how upsetting life after the EU looks to them. Wise voices are saying we have lived through great hardship and come out the other side. Don't discount these voices as irrelevant. They are standard bearers saying this can be done. They know, because they have done so during hard financial times. They are not the past. They are the lesson to be read and learned from.

Gardens, dehydration and canning (bottling) topics may be safer for the next few days but in the long run hashing out and understanding the best you can these historic events together, though you come from different walks of life and are different ages, is the greatest form of prepping. Be tolerant of each other and give grace to each other in your comments. You are a mighty group of intelligent people that I admire immensely. I say put you thoughts, concerns, fears and information on the table. Discussion in friendship (a safe place) is so very important at a time like this.

Please accept this comment as being just another way of looking at things as I do realize I am on the outside looking in...

Sometimes I wish there was something bigger than a thanks button so we can flag up exceptional posts and this is one of them. Well said. :beer:

Blue_Doggy

pineapple wrote: »

... on a gardening theme - slugs :mad:
Ps If things got really bad, could you eat a whole one? :eek:

Not slugs (yuk yuk yuk) but I have the information about how to purge and prepare snails - or "wallfish" as they were once called.

Of those I have an endless supply, they just need a bit of fattening up.

They would come in handy as emergency rations, with some wild garlic.

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Or winkles/whelks/periwinkles on the seashore those are just aquatic 'wall fish' and were a very important part of the 'hunter gatherer' ancestors diet and still around in plentiful numbers today.