Prepping for Brexit thread

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Better by far if that's the case to have stocked up before the last week of March and avoid being caught up in the hysteria, panic buying and crowds of apprehensive shoppers who will get increasingly cross with each other as stock levels decrease. Better and more sensible to have your plans made, stocks purchased and put away at home and be out of the public eye and domain until things settle afterwards.

GreyQueen

The media are low-lifes always looking for something to make a fuss about which is why I mostly ignore them and get on with my own affairs.


Experience tells me that when there is a temporary interruption of supplies/ of business-as-usual, price-gouging and sneaky permanant price rises happen.


I can remember when a can of peeled plum tomatoes cost 7p. The price had been static for years.


Then there was a bad summer of tomato growers in Europe and the price jumped to 11p-13p and up. There have been about twenty harvests since the bad one which drove the price hikes. As a gardener, I know that the majority of them would have not lead to a dearth of tommies. So, it's funny how things which go up in a bad time somehow never manage to drop back down in a good one...... if you can get tommies at 25p a can these days, you're doing well.


At the very least, we're going to be looking at food price inflation, so eating tomorrow's grub at today's prices is a smart move, imo.

Zentimes

Well, this weekend I've been clearing out space for my supplies. We've had a fair bit of renovation done on the house last year so furniture and other items have been moved all around to clear space as needed. OH has put up wall cupboards (taken down from elsewhere) again so I'll be using one or two of those, plus have cleared out old clothes for charity making space under the bed.

Today I'll be clearing the kitchen cupboards of anything past its use-by and also getting the freezer more efficiently organised. We have quite a lot of soft fruit stored from last summer (we grow raspberries, blueberries and redcurrants).


With my dietary requirements I've ordered in more of my 'weird and wonderful' products like coconut oil, chickpea, rice, tapioca and millet flours, gluten free baking powder and some essential vitamins I need to take like B12. OH eats everything so I need to get stuff for him as well, I can make bread (learned as a teen) but can't eat it myself, however that doesn't mean I can't make it for him. Will see how the Brexit debate goes this week in Parliament before buying flour, if we end up with a delay looking likely and an extension to Article 50 then I might hold off on the wheat flour, otherwise full speed ahead now with prepping, because no matter what, prices are bound to go up.


I really, really hope there's no panic buying as we near the deadline because those supermarket shelves will be picked clean in no time at all and that's really unnecessary and will end up creating what we're trying to avoid!

northwest1965

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Woohoo prepping for Brexit has made the mainstream BBC lunchtime news,

Ah the good old Brussels Broadcasting Company

[Deleted User]

I assume it was on all the other channels news programmes too? would be odd if not ! It was certainly in the newspapers!

sunset_gold

Have been stock piling for about a month now and today will be moving our camping gear from the small camping shed to the attic, OH is going to put up shelving and our pile will be sorted, date arranged and listed for future use when (if) it all goes south. Have some plastic storage boxes with lids in the attic to use for box/bag items (damp, little creatures etc) in the shed too. Should have a good picture of what we have and what we still may pick up over the next couple of weeks. Then that is us done, sit back and watch the show (drama, thriller, horror or comedy)!!!

GreyQueen

I think that's it in a nutshell; do the stuff and sit back and watch. If nothing untoward occurs, you're good for shelf-stable groceries and non-food consumables for a while. Fewer trips to the shops is a benefitical concept in most people's lives.


It does go towards the shape of the pear, you've removed yourself from the scrabble and freed up resources for others.


I don't think it'll go Mad Max but there are probably going to be upsets and inflation. Even if one avoids sitting in traffic jams and possibly having a supermarket carpark prang, it's all good.


In the next hour, I shall be heading allotmentwards where I'm prepping the ground for the potato crop for later this year. It's shared with close family who do not live in the same household. Unless there's a severe drought, I can look at providing them with organically-grown spuds for approx 5 months, typically beginning August to end Jan, based on other years. This makes all of us happy.


Politicians come and politicians go, but a sack of spuds in frost-free storage is always useful.;)

[Deleted User]

I'll second that, it's sensible sound thinking and planning towards a period of unknown outcome and potential disruption to normal life. Whatever you think at a personal level the outcome of the referendum should have been, it is what it is, currently, and some individuals are neither polite nor civil in their attitude towards preppers who are assumed without any actual knowledge to be those who support leaving with gusto! Preppers are those who can look ahead in imagination and perceive where that attitude will probably be taking half the population at the end of March and it isn't likely to be tolerant or good natured I feel particularly if people do last minute panic buy, I can't rule out civil unrest with any certainty. Being up to date with things in all aspects of life and having good equipment, stocks, and being able to become invisible indoors for the time it takes for the dust to settle might, only might, be a sensible move.

singlestep

Lots of great advice and attitudes to aspire to here. I'm perhaps not as ready as I could be in the event that something does go amiss. I have bits and pieces put away for me and a family member in no financial position to do so for themselves. I've dropped hints over the past few months in the vicinity of those less likely to think to organise themselves.

Living somewhere quite far from ports and towards the end of delivery chains, it sets my mind at rest to have a stock of essentials and treats. Things get bad enough when there's bad weather elsewhere in the country and not necessarily where I live.

I won't have to sharpen my elbows. It's some breathing space, common sense and nothing that might not be needed anyway.

At the very worst, it's some future food bank donations.

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

Politicians come and politicians go, but a sack of spuds in frost-free storage is always useful.

And again I can feel my fingers itch to print a T shirt...

I shall ignore the domestic lone voice, source kestrel (probably online now) and plan a series of short rabbitholes. Should there be results, they can indeed stay safe until The Candidate is released from the Hall & can be handed a shovel.
(What is the commended tool? Hand trowel & riddle with my luck, as I recall impaling might-have-been-decent spuds with a garden fork decades ago).