Preparedness for when

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Right you are MAR if you're lighting the open fire and cooking soup,stovies, doughballs, rice pudding and sponge pud with custard then I'm coming up to live with you!!!!!

PINEAPPLE - dobbin balls please, nothing so ordinary as plain horse balls for Ikea, you is wicked!!! Long may it continue. If the guy predicting economic chaos wants to be in the UK when it happens, surely that says the UK would be the sensible place to be, heaven knows what that says about the chances of the rest of the world, yes?

ALIBOBSY you are right, I think we would have to be a lot more self sufficient in this country and the lifestyle we have now would be long gone. It would be much much harder and we would loose all the exotics that we currently have come to take for granted. There is also a much larger population in the UK as whole now than there ever has been so the standard of living would be much less. I wonder if all the economic migrants would return home if the situation here was no better than thier home country? We would have to tighten our belts in every sense but we might just be healthier for doing so, along with the manual work we would have to do just to keep the wolf from the door, 'Interesting Times' it certainly is. Cheers Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

couponchaos wrote: »

Just had a read through of the article too, definitely thought provoking stuff. My OH thinks I'm a bit bonkers due to my interest in prepping, might get him to read it too. I definitely don't think we've seen the worst of this recession yet. :eek:

Your OH will thank you for it if he suddenly gets his cards and there's no money in the bank to buy groceries. Heaven forfend it comes to that at your house, but I do know people who were catapulted from serene and stable into OMG! territory in a single day.

short_bird wrote: »

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

Yeah, that's so not happening. I'm a long way from being a high net worth individual, but I figure keeping an eye on the money (even if it's other people's money) can be helpful. Some rich people just happened to be born into the right families but some are as crafty as all come-out and could bear watching..........

pineapple wrote: »

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....

They've got earthquakes, tsunami risks, active volcanos.......... trust me, it's beautiful in parts but it's a long way from livin' the dream for anyone on a low-ish income. Been there, talked to a lot of locals, been going rotten for over a decade.

I had kittens in the late seventies when doing my economics O level when I realised that the whole banking system is a confidence trick. The confidence goes and the trick stops working, you're left holding a lot of pretty pieces of paper which will do nothing for you. Assuming that your bank allows you to get them back.

My considered response to the article I read before work? Went and got (some of) my wages out after work and added another bottle of cooking oil (gone up 100% in 4 years, I reckon) to the stock-cupboard. Plus 2 tins of tosco basics rice pud, gone up 3p recently (20%).

I shall be reviewing the stocks, particularly the candles and matches, and seeing what else I use which I can lay in as a hedge against devaluation of the currency. Blinking trouble with food is that it's not immortal.

Whereas toilet paper...........:rotfl:

maryb

The family have forbidden me buying any more loo paper for a looong time. I feel so anxious!!!

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Attagirl GQ the voice of common sense - take in the scare, digest it, make a sensible decision and buy rice pud!!!!! Why aren't you in charge of the country petal? it would be running so much more smoothly if you were, Oh well, we can dream!!!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

Rosemary_Jane

maryb wrote: »

Rosemary that's an interesting article (as in "May you live in interesting times":eek:)

As a matter of interest, what was the forum you found it on? I used to have a few economic forums I followed but they've gone off a bit recently. It happens - there are usually a few well informed people at the core and if they start posting less often, because life gets in the way, then things do fizzle out. So I'm always glad to get pointers to new ones with like minded people

Hi Mary,

It was on a thread on the Motley Fool forums
http://boards.fool.co.uk/end-of-britain-12755132.aspx?sort=whole#12755626

Some of the boards on there are better than others - this one's a bit doomsterish, but some interesting links get posted on there.

I have always liked that old Chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times' and like the idea of a little spice added to life - I just don't know that I'd actually like it in reality!!

Rosemary

pineapple

No one can say I'm not a gal who knows her priorities
Have just emailed James Whale on LBC with advice on the pronunciation of 'gone'. He always says 'gaaarn' and it's bugging the hell out of me :eek:
I'd be awful to share a bunker with :rotfl:

pineapple

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

nothing so ordinary as plain horse balls for Ikea, you is wicked!!!

In fact I was consciously avoiding juxtaposing the words 'horse' and 'balls'.
I thought it might give the wrong idea! :eek:

maryb

Thanks Rosemary. Off to have a look. Nothing wrong with being a bit doomsterish when it's called for - and I'm rather afraid it is

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

The family have forbidden me buying any more loo paper for a looong time. I feel so anxious!!!

Ignore 'em. When the S hits the F some people will have a stash of cushti quilted bonzo gilded t.p. and some will be out looking for some reaalllly big leaves. Know which I'd rather be!

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Attagirl GQ the voice of common sense - take in the scare, digest it, make a sensible decision and buy rice pud!!!!! Why aren't you in charge of the country petal? it would be running so much more smoothly if you were, Oh well, we can dream!!!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

Ach, I'd have to get us all on board, the OS Preptastic Kitchen Cabinet, with a sub-committee of goggies to make sure all the important issues were covered.

pineapple wrote: »

No one can say I'm not a gal who knows her priorities
Have just emailed James Whale with advice on the pronunciation of 'gone'. He always says 'gaaarn' and it's bugging the hell out of me :eek:
I'd be awful to share a bunker with :rotfl:

I'm Proud to be a Pedant and was biting my lip in the express line at Tosco this aft wanting to yell It's 5 items and fewer, not less, you fools!

And you wouldn't have wanted to have taken my blood pressure in there last year when I saw the new cardboard signs hanging over the aisles; Cereal's.

It's a good job my old English teacher knows my auntie and is thus confirmed as alive and well, because she'd be spinning in her grave otherwise.:rotfl:

craigywv

BUTTERFLY mentioned seeds as stockpiling, well i have actually been snooping about today on the web as i was wanting to know more about storing them and apparently they can be frozen withtheacceptance of parsnips , something about they wont germinate.................there you go thatsmy bit of info for today xxx