THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

jk0

Living_proof wrote: »

What about Exchange Control? In my youth we could only take an absurdly small amount of money abroad. I can't remember the details but it was hard to do a family holiday on the amount allowed to be taken out of the country....

Presumably people must have found a way round it though? What was to stop someone writing cheques while abroad? Would they have been dishonoured when your hotel paid them in?

GreyQueen

Si_Clist wrote: »

:shocked: What!!??

You mean that a decent tailor no longer quotes a chap in guineas when he wants a new hacking jacket?

'pon my soul!

What is the world coming to ...

Yeah, and it means that a fabulous phrase, describing someone dressing a guinea an inch , has no resonance in the modern world.

It is a sad, grey world we live in and no mistake. Why, if it gets much sadder and greyer, I may have to give notice to my milliner, my cook and the game-keeper and become the kind of woman who actually knows where her own kitchen is kept.:eek:

Quelle horreur, as we gels used to say at Roedean.

elona

I remember decimilisation as I had a favourite nail varnish priced at three shillings and sixpence. A day after the change I went to the same chemist shop to buy the exact same product --- price was now 35 pence!

It was not till I got outside that I worked out that was seven shillings in old money - a doubling of the price in a few days.

The same with books from America - if the original price was five dollars we would have to pay five pounds and so on. I eventually worked out it was cheaper to buy certain books from am**on USA and pay the postage.

milasavesmoney

Received a great water filter for Christmas. Psyched!

Jazee

Morning Preppers.

I don't normally make new year resolutions but I am making one now as I had an accident last night and have badly hurt my ankle so am out of action for a few days, hopefully just a few days. So, I will listen to you preppers and I will buy a torch to keep in my bag, or may be a few torches. One could have stopped me hurting myself.

Another thing I will do:

Keep £1k cash in the house for emergencies. I said I would do this last year when the floods in York meant the cash machines and shop machines didn't work but never got around to it.

What I won't do:

Over stock on food supplies. Even though I am now housebound for a while, there are online deliveries. If something really really bad happened I wouldn't want to be around anyway.

Enough from me.

mardatha

Unless the unions get sick of the Tory govt Jazee and we have an all-out general strike and there are no delivery drivers...
I can't wait for tonight and am so glad it's Hogmanay, next year must be better than this one. What 2016 gave me I couldn't prep for and am still struggling to adapt to. But I'll hit the bells tonight still strong, determined, and still prepping! :D

Jazee

Oh gawd Mardatha, I hadn't thought of that. Will have to make do for now then with my stash of Pr1ngles.

pineapple

Jazee wrote: »

So, I will listen to you preppers .

Hey what's with the 'you'? It sounds as if you are are already a qualified member of the club. Wear your Batty Badge with pride! :T
PS sorry about your accident. You could add an extra New Years Resolution
'Take more water with it'. :rotfl:

ivyleaf

Hi there mila! Good to "see" you again. Hope you are okay and that you and your family had a happy Christmas

jk0

I was interested in how Americans specify cents on their cheques as fractions of a dollar, so I googled it. This page came up which seems to be tips for Indians moving to America.

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/writing-a-check-tips.html

However, I wasn't sure if this was a joke website when I read the following:

It is absolutely fine to write a check for small amounts, like $2. Most people in the U.S. carry little or no cash with them.

Not sure how helpful that advice is. Maybe Mila can confirm.