THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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I'm sure we all understand the importance of having some high energy emergency food supplies, which are instantly accessible and require no preparation.

To this end, I felt I should bring to everyone's attention, a source I became aware of this morning.

A box of 40 for £2-50, which is just 6.25p each.

Stockist is Morrisons.

Needless to say, I bought two boxes.

Strictly for my emergency stock, of course.

pineapple

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've come to the conclusion that many people (and...yep...that included me) havent the faintest idea that "life is lived differently" in some respects in some other parts of the country to their own. I think we all just assume "our" way is how things are nationwide.

But I thought multifuel stoves were the new 'in thing' - even though open fires are probably a disappearing breed.
I actually found the response quite shocking - you would have thought I had said we were still sending kids up chimneys...
The nearest I've come to it was over 30 years ago when the ex and I visited some of his relatives. I was astonished at their house. The loo was like a night club.cloakroom. His young cousin had a whole room devoted to her clothes and shoes. There was a hangar in the grounds for their plane. I remember having to explain the concept of a semi detached house.
Even within our small country, there are some very different worlds. It makes you realise how divided we are - should things ever go belly up.

GreyQueen

Like a rich man in mixed company, hearing a young lady referring to her estate, asked her if she kept horses there?

He'd never heard of a housing estate, apparently.:rotfl:

Guys, if you could place your hands together solemnly for just a moment; I am now placing the very last FB pie from stocks into the oven. A momentous occasion and all that sort of stuff, an era is ending.

What a weekend it's been, first Fidel, now the last pie. Gosh.

ivyleaf

The last FB pie??? Gosh indeed!

When I saw the news of Fidel's death, I thought it was just as well his brother had taken over some time ago!

moneyistooshorttomention

Multifuel stoves are actually just starting to be on the "out" list I suspect...

Two reasons - with everyone else and their dog getting them has meant many of the "first adopters" are no longer able to source as much free scrap wood as they once could (as lots of other people are after it too). A friend of mine here has one actually and tells me she is having to be more and more "resourceful" because of this factor.

The other one being - try reading a (full page) article in today's Daily Mail newspaper and it is saying about the research that's starting to come out proving it's health hazardous (the emissions affecting those in the vicinity - as well as the users). I suspect they are going to go the way of "of course diesel cars are the new 'green' " and they've been proved to be even worse than other cars. I coulda told them that - courtesy of finding their fumes even more obnoxious than those of other cars. Duh!

I've been on the astonished end of seeing JUST how flash some peoples accommodation is and I'm not sure they get my modest little house at all. I certainly recall going out with a rich boyfriend years back that seemed to have absolutely no concept whatsoever of just how little income I had (even though he'd seen the grotty bedsit I was living in at the time). I don't think it crossed his mind. Hence one of the reasons I chucked him - as I didn't want a husband that had so little empathy with how life was for me personally. Looking back - I honestly think he thought that I chose to live like that:eek: - if indeed he thought at all:cool:

There are some very different worlds indeed - even for people on the same level. Cue for the fact that I've spent some time in the last week "translating" conversations between two friends at similar financial levels - as I could see the local one was about to be offended by the incomer one in all innocence. I managed it successfully - they're now both convinced what a good friend they are to each other:). Result:T

pineapple

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Multifuel stoves are actually just starting to be on the "out" list I suspect...

Two reasons - with everyone else and their dog getting them has meant many of the "first adopters" are no longer able to source as much free scrap wood as they once could (as lots of other people are after it too). A friend of mine here has one actually and tells me she is having to be more and more "resourceful" because of this factor.

The other one being - try reading a (full page) article in today's Daily Mail newspaper and it is saying about the research that's starting to come out proving it's health hazardous (the emissions affecting those in the vicinity - as well as the users).

Unless you have a cheap source', they are really expensive to run on logs so I get solid fuel. But I do hope the stuff I get is better than my neighbour's. She was told it was 'semi smokeless'. Yeah right. Loads of smoke and a nasty sulphuric stink. I can't bear to be outdoors when she lights her stove and have to close all the windows :mad:

thriftwizard

I'll swear they thought I was making it up
I'm actually shocked at the surprise! This has been the norm where I've lived over the last 15 years. In fact every other person I know has a multifuel stove. Maybe it's a northern thing

Plenty of them down here too. Ours is multifuel, but we only ever burn wood, partly because we can still source it free (our own garden produces a fair bit) and partly because we like to use the ash to enrich our garden; coal ash is NOT good for plants, wood ash is. And you only get the merest wisp of smoke exiting the chimney, if you're burning at the right temperature.

We still have a milkman... and we can have all sorts of things delivered, if we're willing to pay a bit over the odds; coal, logs, organic veg & meat, wine, and even the newspapers - OH couldn't live without his sports pages! I was amazed to find that his brother living in Essex hasn't had that option for many years; paper rounds don't pay enough for adults and the local schools object to kids doing a round before school. When our kids did them, we'd get a letter from the school (who have to give their permission for your child to be employed - no-one ever asked for parental permission!) warning us that they'd better not be tired in class, but nothing beyond that.

mardatha

We have a coalman and a milkman, but we have to go a mile down the road to collect our newspapers that are left in a bus shelter lol. We even have a huge library van that reverses right down my narrow steep wee cul-de-sac to stop at the gate of the 90 yr old lady over the road!
I never did get the idea of buying a woodburner- as soon as they caught on I knew the price of logs would go through the roof. A multifuel burner is much handier. We even burn our rubbish.

moneyistooshorttomention

We've still got a paperboy here (and it is a boy too - I've never seen a girl do it:huh: - though I've noticed several changes in "personnel").

I don't have my papers delivered either - courtesy of the fact I read my "nationals" online (strict balance - the Guardian and the Daily Mail - and then I get both basic points of view). So I just buy the "locals" I've decided on when I'm out and about anyway. I've rather decided perhaps I should read "The Times" too and....darn it....can't manage to read that online these days....so guess I'll have to fork out for that then...

I could buy fish from a van if I wanted to - but wouldnt want that sort of quantity (even if I wasnt in two minds about whether to buy it or no these days - in view of microbeads going into the ocean).

I have to buy a noticeable amount from Amazon that I've been used to just buying from a shop whilst I was walking around. I've even had to buy a sofa over the Net and phonecalls that I've got en route to me at the moment. Fortunately I know what their sofas are like - having gone into one of their showrooms several times - but their nearest showroom to where I am now is impossible to get to unless I pay a "home visit". Cue for a very long study of their website, followed by a very long phonecall and crossing fingers it'll be okay when it comes. I'm functioning (apart from everyday things) pretty much with a combination of Amazon/other internet shopping & phonecalls for larger items/keeping a shopping list of smaller goods to buy during "home visits".

I am a bit stumped on how to get large garden containers. There is a very limited choice here and they're too heavy/big to lug back from "home visits". Any suggestions welcome on that - other than trying to learn pottery and do them myself (I've tried learning - and let's just say it was quite obvious who was bottom of the class at that skill...).

moneyistooshorttomention

On a non-goods and services front.

Other differences I notice here is a huge emphasis on family here (guess that's what happens in farming-based communities throughout the country?). I've been astonished (trans. not best pleased:() to notice how some regular weekly activities don't happen in school holidays. I've had to change things round to "That's when I use that time to go off on trips exploring" for instance - ie in lieu of my normal activities.

There are one heck of a lot of social things round here that emphasise they are for "families".

I also notice that middle aged women and elderly women are less "invisible" in a social sense. There still seems to be a very noticeable element of elderly people expecting (and getting....:eek:) respect just for being elderly. I've not figured that one out personally and carry on treating every person as a Person - regardless of age (no ignoring/expecting the elderly to "fade into the background" on the one hand OR "giving 'respect' just for being elderly" on the other hand). I'm near enough to elderly that I wonder if I adopted that "respect for age" attitude I'd then find I was getting it too when I get to that age - which is a thought that had never crossed my mind to expect it. I suspect that will have died out before it's "our turn" for my generation to get it though....

It feels harder to get male friends somehow - and currently male friends is still just meaning = being friendly with friends husbands (thankfully - they "loan" them to me for odd little DIY jobs:)).

The other "social" thing I notice is its commonplace for workmen to be unreliable - not giving quotes, not turning up when they say they will, etc. I'm told it's called the "Pembrokeshire Promise" - ie they promise to do it and then don't being regarded as normal here and I've experienced a noticeable amount of that myself since moving here. I think the most I ever had of that before was a couple of times having to ring up at around 9.20am because a workman hadnt turned up at 9am - and he then got round to me by 10am. But basically they did as arranged.