THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

DigForVictory

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

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

Bless you! Just as I was trying to persuade the lads of the virtues of prepping, you provided them with a quick visual guide. I foresee no problem getting an assistant to do the lifting & carrying, but will have to conceal where the stash is or all I will have prepped for will be Christmas Onset Type 2.

Having staggered back (Very long drive) from the funeral, all I can say is if those ladies are invisible, the local environs must be halt, blind & deaf. The devout churchgoer has a formidable network at her call, even if in turn she can't call her garden her own.

I'm not saying "take up religion" (I am not *that* big a hypocrite, or even cynic [a notion which will startle my family sideways]), merely observing that those who do, appear to get quite a lot out of it.

moneyistooshorttomention

I've noticed some "church-y support" going on here too and sometimes quite a lot of it.

Think I'll have to pass on that one - as the choice would basically be between not understanding the services anyway or a happy-clappy one.

Oh well...just as well that I'm not a Christian any more....

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mardatha wrote: »

We even burn our rubbish.

Such as newspapers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPzgq-_rqXY

mardatha

I'm reading around the net this morning and the saner newspapers. and I think 2017 would be a very good year to start prepping if you've never done it yet. Things are set to change an awful lot I think. PREP HARDER! :eek::eek:

moneyistooshorttomention

It's why I'm not waiting any longer to get my sofa and kitchen - get the goods whilst "normal service/goods in shops" still exists. Thank goodness for a secure income situation....

DigForVictory

Forgot to mention, whilst trotting around crooning over Lewis Chessmen (I whisked the lads off, or did they whisk me?!) we saw some very handsome bone and flint arrowheads & I yearned to pick up a couple of pocketsful for Grey Queen& I to play with! My husband looked at the bow & groused it was too short for him, so In The Event of zombie apocalypse, I know where I'm headed for weaponry.

GreyQueen

Prepping is always good, imo. What harm can it be to have some shelf-stable food on hand? After all, if you're alive, you've gotta eat, and if you die someone else can always scoff it. Keep your stores rotated and only buy what you know you'll eat.

I expect to see the EU mortally wounded by this time in 2017 and dead within 5 years.

Whether that will, in the great flow of history, be a good or bad thing overall, is probably not going to be visible in my lifespan. It will certainly be difficult, upsetting and disruptive for many.

Trouble is, life is already difficult and upsetting for many; stagnant wages, all this inflation we experience which isn't actually statistically visible, people's kids and grandkids unable to afford what they could afford at the same age, the whole nine yards.

mardatha

Bob I don't get any newspapers and I've got more sense than to put one in the fire lol, quick way to set the lum up as we say up here

mardatha

GQ we were talking to each other this morning (good day then aye!) and the RV was saying he can't understand how everything changed so much. In the 60s there was plenty work, both of us could walk out of a job one day and into another one the next day. There were foundries and ship building and pits and factories... he doesn't understand what happened to them all and neither do I. Because now we make nothing at all, we have a lot more unemployment and more debt, and everything comes from China. Doesn't sound like progress to me.

moneyistooshorttomention

Quite possibly correct assessment re the EU.....

I did note recent comments from Theresa May that, if need be, the whole Brexit processs will be fully triggered in 5 days - ie if those *** judges go against our democratic decision. Seems she really means it that "Brexit means Brexit".

Other things I'm expecting in the coming year include Le Pen coming to power in France and probably that Dutch equivalent in Holland and ditto in Norway. No value judgements made here - it's just my assessment of what I personally think will happen and I'm guessing that brings with it greater chances of those countries also heading out of the EU and ....bingo....there it was gone (well - well on the way to....). We'll see and time will tell - but I called it correctly that I thought it would be Brexit and President Trump. I'm not quite so sure whether the democratic vote will be allowed to prevail and Trump actually gets as far as being sworn in to the presidency (but, since that's what the electorate voted for = then that's what they should get. That's the thing about a democracy - sometimes "the other side" to what one wants personally wins).