Preparedness for when

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've long taken the Govt's so-called guarantee to cover your savings up to £85k per institution in event of a bank failure with a pinch of salt. There's no way they could bail us out.

Imo this can't be stressed enough. I am astonished to see, even on these boards, blind faith in this promise. That promise will go by the wayside in extraordinary times - it has to. If you, me and the family dog have a panic and all rush to get our cash out over the same period - with the best will in the world, it can't happen.
Of course one might well get issued a sort of 'promissory note' but by the time it pays out (if it does) the pound in your pocket may well buy only a fraction of what it does now .
Anyhow on the subject of money - today I began the journey to find cheap dog food. The kindly butcher brought out of the back room a load of --- No I'm not going to go there - suffice to say it's enough to turn one into a vegetarian :eek: (I'm sure he thought it was for me on hard times). Anyhow he trimmed and cut it up - it's quite lean and now looks almost good enough to eat! :rotfl: Got some slow cooking now with unpeeled spuds and dog friendly veg (must start saving veggie peelings and get that pressure cooker).
At £1.89 a kilo I'm not complaining. Other countries eat this anyway and we might yet come to that over here.

mardatha

TY for that re the solar lamp Mrs L, was up in Ikea this morning and had a look at them.
OMG panic mode over Basics teabags! :eek::eek::eek: I was up there this morning too! Good job I didn't see the tea shelf or I might have had a meltdown in the shop!!
Will go and read the article now, I do like a good horror story..
Re hard times and panic - it seems like a good few of us in here can remember the 50s/60s/70s. At the time, it didnt seem hard. We just accepted how things were and got on with it. The powercuts of the 70s were a wee bit different because of the circs. But the point of this waffle is -
You can do it. It's not the end of life as we know it if you have to switch the central heating off and sit in the livingroom round a fire. If you have to cook big pots of cheap filler-uppers like soup, stovies, doughballs, or rice pud and sponge with custard.
Adapt and survive ladies!! :T
Apart from Basics teabags. That is SERIOUSLY BAD!

pineapple

While in Ikea, why not pick up a tasty Swedish horse meat ball or two...
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/02/25/horse-meat-found-in-ikea-swedish-meatballs/

boultdj

Agree with the tea bag situation, don't the fool's realise we need 'em!
I can remember going without thing's in the 70's, but cant remember the power cut's.....
And in my case it would be sit round a candle:eek:
, the rotter's at the council took out the fire place and put in a electric fire[no gas supplie to village] before the last tenent moved in and they won't let us change it:mad:

Butterfly_Brain

Cheapskate wrote: »

I've dipped into that article, too, thanks for the link. Slightly scary reading! :eek: Do we go back to hiding cash under the bed again? Stock all available space with ambient food/loo rolls/water? How much of it's hot air, how much real prediction?

I've long thought society's got to change drastically, but not this much, so fast - it's like science fiction brought to life!

I have friends and family in the USA, Canada, OZ, and Europe, and all of them have noticed big price rise in food, petrol, etc., uncertain markets, more low-level social unrest... maybe that article IS worth another read!

A xo

This makes interesting reading
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-2283902/Inflation-cuts-value-money-67-30-years--prices-everyday-goods-like-bread-milk-beer-rise-far-faster.html

AND

The utility profiteers are at again:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283973/British-Gas-owners-face-backlash-reports-suggest-announce-15-surge-profits.html :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Popperwell

Another article on food banks which are to some extent what our own food stores are...now if they were added into the equation, many more people would be included in the research...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/24/food-banks-increase-defra-inquiry

Butterfly_Brain

Max Keiser has been predicting Economic collapse for years.
Don't bother with savings, they will be worthless, buy food, seeds, pay of debts open up fireplaces, protect your property and get as many candles as you can buy, we are in for a very bumpy ride.

short_bird

It's just unfortunate that that article scared the bejasus out of us then said "Buy our magazine..."

ALIBOBSY

thriftwizard wrote: »

Alibobsy, continuing MrsLurcherwalker's theme of restoring the canals etc. - how about running boats/ships how they used to be run - by direct wind power? I believe there's a lot of work going on (albeit by a few far-sighted individuals) in that direction - see the Sail Transport Network's site.

I live in a town that was once powered by its two rivers. There are dead watermills all around, mostly now posh housing or "industrial" units. There's even one that has been "restored" by the National Trust, but sadly they didn't make it actually workable, only so that it looked correct. Our park was once a giant fabric factory, employing most of the population, hence this place remained relatively prosperous once "The Buttony" came to an end and much of the rest of our county starved. But when we were trying to get a Transition movement up & running here, there was a total lack of interest in the possibility of using the waterpower that's already available & basically free for the taking; people really did want a technological magic bullet rather than use what's staring them in the face! But basically, they were only interested in a solution that would allow them to keep all the lights & heating on, all day & all night, at whatever expense, not something that meant they'd have to use less. Ah well...

I think you are right about the sailing ships, but it will mean I think the end of the current situation where much of the stuff we buy is made on the other side of the world and sent on big container ships to get to us. It will become more cost effective to build stuff here again so maybe it will actually improve the economy in some ways lol.

Ali x

pineapple

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Max Keiser has been predicting Economic collapse for years.

He's saying this is the year and the reason he is in the UK is that he wants to be here for a ringside seat when it all goes down.
But does he say this every year? :huh:
Edit: I've checked and it seems New Zealand is choosy and won't have me. Otherwise....