Preparedness for when

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Hello SUZIBLOO, anyone who can make fudge is coming with us , even if we have to kidnap them!!!!!!! Welcome to our own individual take on normal, nice to have you aboard.

GQ you should see my soap and toothpaste stash..... then there's the shower gel, the shampoo, the candles, the tealights etc etc etc. What is normal anyway?????

The light in my case was a sunnan solar lamp from I*ea!

fuddle

Oh suzybloo, would you mind sharing how to make tablet

Whole family have been in prep mode tonight. Heading on up to Bamburgh Castle and Holy Island in DH's work car, picnic in tow. Everyone has done their bit which leaves me to fill the bag with 'stuff' just in case blankets, first aid kit (its not your average travel size) spare water human, dog and car, wellies, change of clothes, extra water proofs, cheese scones as emergency food (as cash flow problem at the moment) torch plus DH's work credit card incase of work car problems. The array of products is sun cream, waspeeze, antiseptic cream and a barrier cream incase if chaffing. Spare glasses.

Think that's it. All very sensible I think but I envisage a tut accompanied with 'do we really need all this?' Yes dear, drive dear.

lovefullshelves

Gosh I do love this thread, you've given me such a big grin
Sad old day today, we're taking my dad's tractor to a vintage rally this weekend, but this year we aint taking dad So OH has been tinkering instead and I've been walking around all sad, talking to the tomatoes and dad's dog, and to a butterfly and I made a 'dad' scarecrow :S.
I may have gone mad...its the isolation!
If you like you can all come live with me on the farm Its only a little farm but there's lots of places to sleep (if you like sheds, dust, shepherds huts and cats!!) (alot of cats)
My DD thinks I'm mad for thinking the government won't always look after us, then again she's i phone generation and doesn't believe anythings wrong with the world!
i phone blindness?!

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I think this SHTF prepping is getting to me.

I find myself imagining potential situations/events, then buying things to carry with me, to deal with said situations/events.

beaujolais-nouveau

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GreyQueen

lovefullshelves wrote: »

Gosh I do love this thread, you've given me such a big grin
Sad old day today, we're taking my dad's tractor to a vintage rally My DD thinks I'm mad for thinking the government won't always look after us, then again she's i phone generation and doesn't believe anythings wrong with the world!
i phone blindness?!

I think it's a matter of generation and a matter of temperament. Dunno how old your lass is, late teen/ early twenty-something?

I remember talking to a bloke who is now in his early seventies. His dad abandoned the family, left his mum on her own with several young children, all homeless. They went to the council and they wouldn't house them. They sat outside on the steps for days but TPTB didn't relent. So they went away again. The children were farmed out to the extended family, dotted here and there; no one had the room to take the whole lot. It was some considerable time before his mum managed to get a new home together and all the children back under her wing.

Nowadays, a homeless mum with dependant children turning up at a council would be in emergency accomodation that same night. As would have been my grandparents, burned out in a housefire with a toddler and a babe in arms. You went to family because there was no government help. There was no expectation of it, in many cases.

I suspect it will be that way again and gawd help those without kith and kin that they can rely on in an hour of need.

I've come across several people in the UK who have been raised in countries with little or no social welfare provision. There's a difference in their attitude when hardship bites. Their first actions aren't to ask What am I entitled to? but to ask themselves What can I do to help myself? This might be flogging some of their belongings, hustling around for extra work, calling contacts to see what they can do, just generally shifting for themselves. Only belatedly, and sometimes with prompting, do they recall that they've paid their tax and NI and might be entitled to some help.

I guess I've always had a slightly dark and untrusting attitude to life, insomuch as I have a disbelief in The System's goodness. No system is any better than the people who run it, and I look at politicians and I am not aglow with faith in their decency and capability; it's very much the opposite.

I consider self-reliance to be a key trait. By this I mean anticipating that you may face spells of unemployment and to have squirrelled cash and grub away to help you over the hardship. To look after your belongings, to make them last. To shop secondhand and own your goods and chattels outright. To treat debt as anathema, something which enslaves, and try to free yourself as much as possible.

The more vested you are in any system, the more you have to lose when it stutters and fails. If you bumble along blithely thinking that you'll always be OK because the government will catch you if you fall, you're risking your future wellbeing when the goalposts get moved at short notice.

Cornucopia

All this talk of emigrating has got me thinking about this kind of thing again...

http://www.frenchpropertylinks.com/frenchpropertyextradetails.asp?property=PI15308

Scarily possible.

lovefullshelves

DD is 24, lives in a flat, only has enough food in her cupboards for a couple of days, she's average i guess, like the general populous. I have tried to show her what can happen but she thinks its all conspiracy and as its not on mainstream TV or news its not on her radar.
I lent my friend "last light" and "after light" to read, and it made her think about what food she has in the house. She thought she could feed her family for a month. When I asked if that was everything including water, milk, power to cook etc she figured she had maybe a couple of days. I'm proud of the fact I've thought of my family and friends and could provide for at least 3 months stored food, can grow everything to make that stored food stretch( can seed save and stock alot of seeds) including grains and beans, have stored water and an off grid filter system and enough gas to last 8 years. It's took alot of planning and time to get to this stage. (little and often and learn to love sensible things for presents! )
And I'm incredibly lucky to have been born a farmers daughter, and now I'm the farmer:) so I try to spread that luck with my neighbours and always charge half the price of supermarkets for my veg. Share the love
We should in fact all feel proud that we've took out our own kind of "personal insurance" in the form of tins, toilet roll and toothpaste, because it shows we really do care about the future wellbeing of the people we love!

daz378

was taking photos today of various places in the locality for work, i.e clients frequently visited places, client doesnt talk , so pictures were a communication aid that staff could use to help him in his daily activities....should have seen the funny looks i got..... anyway all weekend off .... going on precinct tomorrow with my sports bag and doing a proper prep shop stay safe

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LOVEFULLSHELVES just love the idea of the 'Dad' Scarecrow going on the tractor, that's so lovely, have a really nice day at the event, Cheers Lyn xxx.