Preparedness for when

mardatha

I'd put honey on it herblily.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I'd put honey on it herblily.

I'd rather have it on toast.:p

Goldiegirl, I'm :rotfl:at the idea of you needing to show the brass how to do sums. Often the way, isn't it?

Right, going to put the pooter to bed and then chill with a book.

:T I have just read a great book by James Lovegrove and am about to lay mitts on his United Kingdom, which of the post-apocalyptic meme. Redlaw RedEye is deffo an interesting riff on the vampire genre and full of surprises. Wonder if he's done werewolves...............?

Bonne nuit, preppers and lurkers, checking back in termorrer. If we're spared, as the pious oldies used to have it.;)

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I'd put honey on it herblily.

Just catching up on the posts in reverse order. I must admit this advice had me worried till I got to the septic finger! :eek:

thriftwizard

GQ, a woman whose entire life is either pre-loved or bought on a yellow label.........and I'm a happy little bunny. Life with more money would feel so strange.

Laughing out loud - you & me both! I'm probably the only person I know who thinks that winning the lottery might actually be a bit of a nightmare, rather than an unalloyed delight. I did try to explain this to an American once; poor bloke was completely baffled as the idea of not wanting vast amounts of money was complete anathema to him & against everything his culture had ever taught him. But imagine hiding behind locked doors all your life, afraid that everyone was after your money, that no-one wanted to know you just for your own self, that people were only nice to you because you were rich - I've known as many people cursed with too much, as with too little.

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

Laughing out loud - you & me both! I'm probably the only person I know who thinks that winning the lottery might actually be a bit of a nightmare, rather than an unalloyed delight. I did try to explain this to an American once; poor bloke was completely baffled as the idea of not wanting vast amounts of money was complete anathema to him & against everything his culture had ever taught him. But imagine hiding behind locked doors all your life, afraid that everyone was after your money, that no-one wanted to know you just for your own self, that people were only nice to you because you were rich - I've known as many people cursed with too much, as with too little.

And I'm a third.
I used to work for a guy who had serious money. His daughter didn't go anywhere without bodyguards, never knew who to trust. Not the way I'd want to live.

daz378

hitting the jd coke tonight , big sis bought me for my birthday last month, bought dad shoes from clarks for his birthday... watching 90s anthems on mtv would have preferred 80s but will do ... another tin of salmon off dad and a tin of beetroot... all goes to prepp

VJsmum

I was always a 5 balls and a bonus kind of girl - that would be a nice sum of money. Not too much but a nice bonus. Not that I do the lottery.

Well it isn't so much SHTF as vomit hits the pan here as DD has norovirus. Been awake since 4.

Poor OH - it's his birthday today too

pineapple

Just seen the news about Texas - terrible (whatever the cause). Thoughts with our American cousins. Thankfully a rare event (well at least till recently it was :huh: ). Reportedly evacuating for 2 miles around the incident with the possibility of further evacuation if the wind changes. Yet one more reason to have a grab and go bag (in my case GAG applies rather than BOB).

craigywv

just read that pineapple there now terrible thing to have happened. i agree about graband go bag we have 1 of those as well as a bug out we central in the city so if shtf i want to have in same place both all our documents etc and our basic bug out bag.believe it or not for us to live in center of town for us to drive half way up a mountain to reach safety is 11 minutes i timed it by car, granted if we running/walking withour BOB it would take us around an hr and 15 mins...still not bad if shtf.thats getting us right the way up as were i live we at the bottom of several mountains all have freshwater streams and wooded areas so we could manage for a while if situation broke out.

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Put me on the list for pre-loved and YS living too please, I've just delved to the middle (the bottom is unavailable) of my biggest chest freezer looking for a pack of cooking bacon and realised that everything I moved had a reduced sticker on it apart from the home grown produce, is this a record? You can also put me on the list of folks who would hate to have serious money, I can't think it would add anything meaningful to our lives, we're quite happy with things the way they are. We have enough, not masses, nor masses of extra available but we live our lives as they are and are quite, quite content with them. We have a roof over our heads, we have a warm coat, we have enough to eat, can keep warm with what we have available and a sound pair of shoes. We have our stores and equipment, mostly donkeys years old, but it still works, we just don't NEED anything more, oh and we have the lurcher for entertainment so in my reckoning we're richer than Paul Getty and his pals, lucky us Cheers Lyn xxx.