Prepping for Brexit thread

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The feeling of uncertainty is increasing week by week while the politicians play their own little games and the population are busy blaming each side of the debate for us being in this position now and none of it is going to be a jot of use if we do end up with Brexit at the end of March!

Being prepared for this uncertain future isn't just about how much food you've got stashed away or how many tealights it takes to boil a mug of water or who is to blame for the way they voted it's about looking to the future and putting differences aside and learning to live together and look after each other. We don't know what is going to happen, we can't know what will change in our lives we can only make wild guesses fuelled by fear of the unknown and resentment that life isn't the way we want it to be. The one known thing is that whatever we DO find we'll all have to cope with it and if we can find ways of working together for the good of all of us then the future will be a better one than a future based on blame and resentment would ever be.

cuddlymarm

Hi Mrs LW
We will cope with whatever is thrown at us. We did in the 70s and the 80s, I know this is different but since the powers that be can’t come to a decision I think that the clock ticking by is just going to decide for them.
I live in a small seaside town and they are a stoic bunch. We have homeless on the streets and it’s the oldies that make sure they are fed. They don’t give money, but food and hot drinks. This will be no different we will just get on with it. It’s not a romantic view of everything will be rosy and nice, but we don’t really have a choice. With both the main parties starting to fall apart they are too busy fighting among themselves to run the country as it is, never mind with added Brexit.
I will make sure me and mine are ok but I feel for those who cannot.
Anyway enough of my grumpyness
Keep well
Cuddles

[Deleted User]

Woohoo prepping for Brexit has made the mainstream BBC lunchtime news, an article where the interviewer was talking to some folks up in Yorkshire and many of then have begun to put in just a bit extra of things they'd not like to be without as we only have 5 weeks to go! some have decided to fill the freezer, some have decided on basics and the one linking thread throughout everyone was stoking up on Baked Beans, long the butt of ribbing when it comes to prepping. Maybe we're not quite as daft as we're considered to be then???

DigForVictory

It's when I see someone stocking up on bandages I wonder a bit.

And happily it's only in America (AFAIK) that you pick up ammo from the supermarket shelves.

Anyone remember that cartoon of a warehouse stuffed with anchovy paste as that was what the chancellor's wife had been seen buying the day before Budget day?!

Zentimes

Hello all I guess I should confess I found this topic due thanks to the BBC News report today! I admit I have been prepping for Brexit in a very small way, just an extra bag of rice or a few more tins here and there, over the past month. I've read the first 20 or so pages of this thread and have seen some pretty good advice so I decided to make a list of what I might need and go from there.


Worst case scenario - none of my prepping will be needed and I'll have a nice little stockpile for a rainy day, or if prices take a hike with Brexit (or lack thereof, who knows these days?).


Anyway nice to be here and hope to pick up (and even share) some prepping tips!

mumf

If it really does go South,then I think our next move here on this thread,will be to think ' around' problem,shortages and more importantly ,price rises.It will be like the 70' s all over again!

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And that M'dear is all prepping ever has been, alternative thinking to find solutions to problems and trying to have the solutions in place before the need for them is upon us! I remember the 3 day week and shortages in the shops very well and the power cuts and we all survived those pretty well but it was much easier if you had the open fire, the candles and the attitude to not be cast down by it. If you could actually make it fun by pretending you were camping in the living room well, that was even better.

GreyQueen

Welcome, Zentimes, glad that you've found the thread and are finding interest and value therein.


We're already in a time of stealthflation, with pack sizes getting smaller while prices barely move or stay the same, giving us an illusion that nothing much is happening. At worst, groceries and non-food consumables purchased now will protect against some of these negatives. You may rotate your preps into the future mealplan, should they not be needed as emergency food, and thus have some weeks where the grocery spend is lower than it would otherwise have been. Which can only be a good thing if you're having a bit of a spendy time.


If you're not overspend, you can cook with da preps and spend the money saved on slow horses and fast lads. Or gin & choccies.


Among other things of the boring nature (work) I have been doing a little rearrangment of my storage shed (so-called to differentiate it from my allotment shed) and now have some stashy places.


I think I shall add some more loo roll to the stash and I have purchased some more onion sets as £land have definately shrunk their pack size. Always used to be 300g of onion sets, latest ones are 50 bulbs. Not sure what they weigh but will get them on a pal's electronic scales any day now as I am darned sure it's less than 300g as the packs don't go nearly as far when I'm planting them.


Have mega plans for allotment harvests and will be leaning hard on the potatoes - 12 kg seed spuds going in 3rd weekend March.


My personal best harvest in 2016 was 7.5 kg seeds in and 134 kg out, but that was exceptional and my Dad said he'd not seen such a heavy harvest since 1966! If I get anywhere near that rate of return in 2019 I shall be a happy bunny.

cuddlymarm

Oh Mrs LW
I remember having toast cooked on a toasting fork on the open fire in the 70s. No toaster makes toast as yummy.
Cuddles

elona

We did not have a toasting fork so I used an ordinary one and kept scorching my knuckles. I remember being very pleased I found kosher candles in a delicatessen and also some in an art and craft shop when it was impossible to buy candles anywhere. I also found an old fashioned paraffin lamp which came in handy when we were in the kitchenette with the gas oven lit and the door open to provide heat and a portable radio with batteries.

My DDs think I am exaggerating when I talk about the three day week and food shortages etc.and tut at the things in the internal garage but are usually quite pleased to take back some shower gel, toothpaste, toilet rolls, laundry and dish washing liquid as it saves them time and money.