Preparedness for when

southantrim3

So here we go. The EU (Germany) now seems to have won WW3 by stealth. They didn't seem to like the Cypriots negotiating with Russia and jumped up and down like a child in a huff. It looks as if they can now go to another European country and skim up 40% of savers deposits over £100,000 without their agreement. Once they try this experiment in Cyprus, how long will it be before they try it in another country, and another.

I think we need to realise that we're really creditors and not depositors. The money belongs to the savers, not the banks - yet the banks make their profits from our money which now seems no longer safe.

In addition, if they manage to digitalise money, then we no longer have access to our own hard cash at all and they will be able to skim from it as and when required.

Does any of this ring true - or am I just a major cynic.....:(

pineapple

Heard on the news today that Cyprus doesn't get it's money till end May? Also a task force is to be appointed to give 'technical assistance'. Imo this is political speak for 'you just lost your sovereignty'.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130325/world/eu-task-force-to-give-cyprus-technical-assistance.462839
Just waiting to see if there will be repurcussions from Russia.

Guess it sucks if you have 100,001 Euro in your account.

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Afternoon everyone, my prepping also includes a good stash of pharmacy goods. Most of the £1 shops have the offer of three packs of ibuprophen, paracetamol and asprin for £1 so I try to pick up three packets once a month wether we have used the others up or not. I also make sure to have in good stocks of Cold and Flu capsules and drinks sachets, antihistamines, antispetic cream, muscle rub, antiseptic disinfectant( like dettol), soothing cream, Loperamide (for runny tummies), indigestion tablets, plasters, dressings, cough medicines and throat sweets, burn dressings and even corn treatments and heel balm as your feet need considering too if there is no transport. I think it's as important to stock up on this type of thing as with food and lighting products. I have about 1 years supply in most things and there is little wastage as most of them get used up if not by us, then by the girls when they're home, Cheers Lyn xxx.

artichoke

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Afternoon everyone, my prepping also includes a good stash of pharmacy goods. Most of the £1 shops have the offer of three packs of ibuprophen, paracetamol and asprin for £1 so I try to pick up three packets once a month wether we have used the others up or not. I also make sure to have in good stocks of Cold and Flu capsules and drinks sachets, antihistamines, antispetic cream, muscle rub, antiseptic disinfectant( like dettol), soothing cream, Loperamide (for runny tummies), indigestion tablets, plasters, dressings, cough medicines and throat sweets, burn dressings and even corn treatments and heel balm as your feet need considering too if there is no transport. I think it's as important to stock up on this type of thing as with food and lighting products. I have about 1 years supply in most things and there is little wastage as most of them get used up if not by us, then by the girls when they're home, Cheers Lyn xxx.

are these all things you normally buy or are teh corn treatments and heel balm things you think you will need because of the new situation?

i have been thinking about pharmacy supplies and we don't normally use many at all and i have stocks of what we do use - plasters, nuerophen, stocks of arnica and a homoepathy first aid kit, but am now wondering if there are things we would need we don't normally buy?

We use herbs for many things SAGE drinks for sore throats, lavender oil for burns and scalds and have a good supply of fresh herbs growing as well as a herbal fist aid book and large bottles of lavendar, tea tree etc....



hum -I need to go and see what else i keep in my first aid stash...

Art

ALIBOBSY

I do grow quite alot of herbs and know some of the uses, but think I do need to get some kind of book to guide me. We usually have simular stocks to what others have said, plus we like to have iodine in as its pretty cheap and if the SHTF you really don't want to get infected wounds. I am a bit reticent to buy items we won't ever use unless things go badly wrong as I hate wastage.

Still finding the whole Cyprus thing worrying, they are announcing a deal like its all sorted. But as far as I can see surely they are just dragging out the suffering.

Given the number of EU countries with issues and those that are "on the brink" at what point do they run out of more money to lend.

TBH the MP's here have no idea, how they can possibly think keeping the old protect the housing market at all costs position, and trying to prop up prices/sales can lead to a recovery is beyond me. The opposition seem to have no ideas at all-except to critisise the gov line, so all seem useless.

I wonder if it is they can't and won't face the truth that this is not a down that will turn back to a boom again as the oil fails so will our economies and the more we delay and borrow now, the worse it will be later. Plus we still see talk of all western countries on average wasting a third of all food-crazy, crazy times.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Afternoon everyone, my prepping also includes a good stash of pharmacy goods. Most of the £1 shops have the offer of three packs of ibuprophen, paracetamol and asprin for £1 so I try to pick up three packets once a month wether we have used the others up or not.

We stick to Aldi where the packs are around 20 ish pence (23p and 28p last time I think) so you would get more like 4 packs for your £1, but obviously no point unless you are shopping there anyway lol.

Ali x

Shropshirelass

Here in north Shropshire we still have temperature of 1 degree, a foot of snow, and perishing wind, same forecast for most of this week and maybe next week. Main roads are cleared (so shops getting supplies - that's OK then!). Our brave bin lorry came round as scheduled this morning! Schools have re-opened, no longer a lot of working-age men hanging about playing sledging and snowball fights with their kids.

But .... the veg and herb seeds I planted last week are showing not a sprout, those I planted earlier have come to a full stop. Nothing will grow in this cold. It will set gardens back a good few weeks, and worse, the farmers are frantic, they cant get their tractors out into the fields. The growing season will be shorter, are we heading for another record low yield summer?

I keep thinking of Cromwell's advice 'Trust in God and keep your powder dry', by which I understand, 'prepare in every practical way you can'.

That's what we're good at

artichoke

ah yes - iodine - we have spray cans as its used on lambs navels..

The book i use for first aid is Natural First Aid by Mark Mayell and it has a chapter on putting together a Natural First Aid Kit which includes, herbs, homeopathy, flower essences, essential oils, vitamin supplements, as well as food and household items that work for first aid...eg activated charcoal, baking soda, garlic, vinegar.

the book is also a basic first aid book, so is a good general all round book that has earned its space my shelf.

I have just noticed that Part one of the book is called Preparing for an Emergency.

Art

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Hi ARTICHOKE we do keep both corn plasters and heel balm in all the time as He Who Knows suffers a bit with his feet and the heel balm stops cracking and leathery dry skin. We both walk the dog a fair few miles every day and it is specially useful in the summer when you tend not to wear socks.

ALI thanks for the heads up on A*di prices but our local branch will only sell you 2 packs of pain killers of any kind at one shopping trip, with the £1 shop I can get 3. Wilkos will only sell 2 of any product containing paracetamol etc. Including cold cures, and drinks sachets, I know why they are limiting sales but it's useful to have a ready stock of things at home, Cheers Lyn xxx.

elaine241

Hello All, hope all of you who are snowed in are keeping safe & warm.I heard of a family who were living on a farm in Wales (not me!!) who had to burn their furniture to keep warm! IMHO they had no business living where they did and being that badly prepared! !!!!!!!! I live in a similar situation and it is normal life to keep logs in the shed, more loo roll than you will ever need, a huge stock of food etc you get the point! We have a lot of people moving to the country who have no idea what it is really like to live here. It is lovely but can also be noisy (tractors), smelly (muckspreading) and very isolating, you can not usually nip to the shop or order a takeaway to be delivered! We had a couple move locally ( solicitors) whose first community activity was to complain about the chicken smell from the neighbouring farm and to complain about the speed and noise of the tractors on the lane. We were making hay and going like hell as it was always threatening to rain and if we dont make fodder it is not economic to keep farming!

Anyway rant over!

I am proposing a Doomsday book club! Split between fiction and good reference books that we all have found or have read and recommend. I have recently read Last Light and After Light by Alex Scarrow both I recommend to make you think!!

I have just got John Christopher The death of grass , Cormac McCarthy The Road and Kingsley Dennis After the Car, after these I will probably be more paranoid as my OH says!

I have got Ray Mears Wild Food and Country Foods a green guide to cure,smoke,preserve food,make cheese etc that doesnt need electricity. I havent had a chance to look through them yet. I did look at Alys Fowler's Thrifty Forager which was quite informative especially for plants etc you can eat from an urban landscape.

Anyway keep prepping and building your skills and knowledge you may never need it in a SHTF situation but it is thrifty and interesting to have the skills anyway!