Preparedness for when

craigywv

my oh is the same only today did he come to his senses when the sky bill came in and i handed it to him with the lovely amount of 48 quid!!!!!!! extra added on ALL HIS football matches, films etc he sickened he thought i was going to pay it out of house wages but no sorry sonny all your doing so away to work disgusted with itself he never realised just how much he was spending till it was literally threw in his face , he is all os recently i dont know what posessed him to run up a bill like that .........well he wont be doing it again ,i have had 4 texts from him about it so far lol....he away to work less than an hr!full of woe for himself. i personally think hes ashamed well he can stew in it for a while . ALIBOBSY ..........its infuriating..they are children.

ALIBOBSY

OH ended up going to his Mum and Dads as he had promised to nip in this week to sort out his Dad's laptop and they owed him some money for some stuff we got them online-and they gave him some petrol money on top for his time and told him to read lists more carefully next time lol. So at least he came back with some cash in his hand rather than just a bill lol.

Looking at his reciept he has also added some reduced items and just chucked some other stuff in he fancied, so he REALLY didn't get the idea of price promise at all lol.

He also pushed some more leaflets for his business (he is self employed) so he obviously felt like he needed to make up for the money down.

Sometimes they just don't get it do they.

Ali x

Hillbilly1

I have been happily stockpiling food. Feel proud I hav resisted the peanut butter in my food store...

Well tonight I crumbled... and I have bought CRUNCHY peanut butter! I hate crunchy.... This is the OS thread so I need to keep it, and eat it ITSHTF!!!

ALIBOBSY

Also how come they always manage to go over their mobile phone/text calls limit at least once every so many months, I never do and even teenage son only did it once.

Still at least he doesn't moan about me having stores and is quite into prepping himself-although I have to rein in his spending on SHTF type gadgets and he can service both the cars so I suppose he'll do lol.

Ali x

craigywv

ok i have stock piled food to the max my home will hold, got shed full of rotating 17p tescos bottles of water, got candles in abundance,wind up torches bugout bags secretly hidden for the 3 of us all documents copied and in fireproof box buried in secret hidden location in back of garden ab no-one could find it without metal detector...i had probs finding it the other day! i have wind up radio, a enough batteries for the neighbourhood,all veg and some fruit is homegrown enough seeds to start a farm,warm blankets/clothes , sturdy walking boots and shoes for us all,cast iron cauldron grill and a metal chimnea grill 6 large bags of charcoal and lighting stuff, buckets of peat to burn also fields over here filled with the stuff i live beside bog meadows! metal cooking and boiling equipment. 4 man tent and camping stuff for us 3.car up to scratch good wheels etc and we all have bikes anyway and puncture kits ..............anything else i missing? forgot have medications loads of first aid , i have st johns ambulance, feel sort of secure now , dont know why i writing this just came as an inspiration to me to list my shtf list. im sure i have forgot many things i also have water purification tabs and books on survival and trapping also a couple of pellet guns these were my brothers years ago ...still work great also a catapult have it too. i think im going through bad nerves again and rambling as oh is in work tonight and son in bed and i very anxious over him being made redundant 2nd week in dec even though i have everytthing paid / up to date/ in for christmas...now im thinking survival sorry if i have rambled /melted brains or just annoyed people but just needed to get this down on paper as the saying goes to calm myself down sorry.

maryb

GreyQueen wrote: »

They always say that rats and cockroaches would survive TEOTWAWKI but I think ole Morris Minors would probably make it through..............:rotfl:

I remember reading somewhere that one of the few good things about Hurricane Sandy was that it has sorted out the rat problem in New York - the surge was so sudden it overwhelmed nearly all the rats in the sewers and tunnels

missrlr

Can I join the DH moan please? Mine just does NOT get it, money saving, OS style, prepping ANY OF IT. He has decided next year (read April) his effing car will need tuning, tyres, insurance, MOT and the suspension sorting. And I am supposed to magic this money out of the household bills account. It ain't happening, what is more likely to happen is me selling said car!
Oh and he won't do online shopping as then he can't wander round and get stuff he fancies .....

They should be banned from matters fiscal unless they can prove they get it.

grandma247

missrlr I know what you mean. In the end I gave mine an ultimatum. Either I dealt with finances or he could leave. He is still here decades later and is now very happy knowing car tax etc. etc. is there when needed and he eats well. I used to call him the unknown factor when it came to planning finances. I never knew when he was going to want unplanned spends or how much. I do get the odd curve ball but savings help me cope with that mostly.

I was very glad of my stores today. DD3 rang to say tax credits had not even started the ball rolling after she had a change of circumstances. She put the new claim in four weeks ago! She asked how she was supposed to feed her kids since her oh only earned £800 in the last four weeks and most of that had to go on bills. They sorted it there and then but it will be a minimum of two weeks before she gets any money.

I gave her enough food for a week for her,oh and four kids from my stores and freezer. i also went shopping for fresh milk and some sweets for the kids because they have not had any for a while and they were getting fed up. I also got her a stove top kettle from H bargains for £5.99. There was a pile of them on Friday but only two left today so a lot of people must be trying to save.

(((((hugs)))) craigy

nuatha

siegemode wrote: »

Thanks didn't see your post prior to my reply to hester

You're welcome.

GreyQueen wrote: »

The only place I know which meets this criteria is the basement of my neighbourhood hardware store. I once tried calling Mum with a query on something she'd asked me to get for her (my life as a shopbot for small town parents and country cousins) and I was baffled as my mobile (ADSA parasiting off the Vodafone network) has never failed to find a signal.

The assistant told me that no one can get a signal down there.

There is also a huge steel vault in the basement of the municipal buildings which would probably meet the criteria. Depressingly, it is full of old files not piles of banknotes. Real life can be awfully dull at times.

I'm not guaranteeing that it works in large accessible spaces. I've heard that lifts may well work, and recently read that microwave ovens will work - makes sense they are designed to prevent radiation leaking out and have the benefit of an earth connection (when plugged in).

The files may be regarded as more valuable.

I've read in many places that cars, provided the windows are up and I assuming excluding soft-tops, are safe in a lightning storm because even if they do get struck, the bolt will earth. But surely an EMP would totally fry the electronics in a modern car? I've thought you'd need to go back to early seventies auto tech to avoid these fragile components.

The effects of EMP on modern vehicles tend to be exaggerated by Holywood and the like, the most extensive tests I'm aware of suggests mainly nuisance problems at the more likely exposure levels - page 115 of this report though the same report suggests there'll be far greater problems from lack of fuel (service stations being unable to pump petrol without electricity) traffic control systems being disabled and on major roads multi-car crashes from the some engines stalling.
The increasing use of microprocessors in cars has been accompanied by huge improvements in shielding .

meme30

Craigywv:- I hope you are ok this morning. It's very hard not to dwell on possible bad news, so rant away if it helps. It sounds like you are very organised, and I'm sure all of your preparations will be utilised if the worst happen. That's what they are for, your own SHTF moment. It's awful living in fear of the future but I'm sure you and your family will come through. :grouphug: