Prepping for Brexit thread

DryTheRain

elona wrote: »

I have just ordered some more bars of soap, toilet rolls and deoderant as well as some batteries. The freezer is full and I have extra tea, coffee, tins of soup, stock cubes, torches and tea lights.

Having four DDs everything will get used eventually even if there are no disruptions to supplies of goods or shortages.

Seeing lists like this is such a good prompt, thank you! Am adding matches and lighters, and will see about picking up shower gels, hand sanitiser etc from Homesense.

I need to top up on ladies' products too, including EPO and ibuprofen. My skin is similarly pesky hormonal, so 2 x The Ordinary 2% retinoid'serums are on their way from lookfantastic, they're made in Canada and I really don't fancy running out :-/

Zentimes

Got another delivery scheduled for today - more tinned veg and fish, batteries, loo paper, stock cubes. Freezer is rapidly filling up, gave away some frozen berries yesterday to a couple of neighbours as they're taking up a lot of space and we'll have more berries in June. Also got some of my 'weird flours' arriving in another day or so - chickpea, tapioca, brown rice flours, plus coconut oil.

For some reason OH loves buying deodorants and shower gels so we actually have enough till the end of this Millennium I think! LOL.

I've cleared out a lot of space due to all this prep, which is great. Have taken old clothes to a charity shop or recycling.

DryTheRain

Mmm just admiring my delivery too, it's like christmas only with soap nuts and soy chunks. Who knew building your own foodbank could be such grim fun, it's a job to know whether to laugh, cry or pack your bags and go on a guilt trip. OK feeling better now I've turned the news off, put some music on... got me a brexit playlist called Apocahits, a tremendous comfort in trying times )

GreyQueen

I don't watch the news (no telly) and strictly limit my reading of newspapers. My MP was known to be a fool before B----t and has repeatedly demonstrated their foolishness many times in recent months. I shall remember all the details come election time.........


In living memory, folks have lived through the Suez Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, the Oil Crises and the Three Day Week and The Winter of Discontent. All of which make current matters look like tres petite bieres, ce n'est-ce que pas?:rotfl:


It's a trading block which is falling apart at the seams anyway.

mardatha

We were just talking about all of that today GQ. After the three day week and the power cuts in winter of 79 we can cope with anything!

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I don't watch the news (no telly) and strictly limit my reading of newspapers.

You know what, I like that! I think I do too much of that. Trying to think of a new setup - I have my new, quite small kitchen radio, I can play CDs in the DVD player and it gets radio channels too, and I have the personal CD player to play CDs as well. I do like to relax with a boxset of something, but I've tended to get stuck in looping between news websites and news channels. Not good. So thats a part of my new routine (after this weekend, I have a 30 year reunion of my counselling course coming up! The nice thing is that I was one of the youngest, so I still will be. I think ). Anyway, new routine - a walk in the morning, and less time spent on the news drivel. That's a really important prep in itself.

GreyQueen

You might want to have a read of this: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/


Raptitude is a most excellent and thoughtful website, which I've been dipping in and out of for years.


A lot of the news is not productive of anything other than anxiety and distress, yet we feel that we 'have' to watch/ listen/read the news in order to be responsible citizens/ proper adults/ properly 'informed'.


What is meant by 'informed'? Informed by whom, and with what agenda and for whose benefit? Most of the things which become news are after the event and poorly reported.


At one time in my life, I lived with people who read the Guardian and the Observer and I used to get their cast-off newspapers some 3-5 days after their publication. Even with quality papers, what quickly became apparent was that much of the news had been superceded with more current versions of the same stories.


The orginal stories thus stood shamefacedly as very seriously factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And these were quality broadsheets with serious journalists, not some grubby red-top tabloids.


It was a learning experience, to put it mildly.


I skim over a number of regional, national and international news sources online and manage to have a good understanding of what's going on in the world. I also know that what gets reported in my local online newspaper is a fraction of the really interesting stuff going on in my city, since I know of plenty which I hear first hand from friends and acquaintances which has never made an official media outlet, and which probably never will.


Extrapolate that nationally and internationally and know that the really interesting stuff isn't going to be on your News at Ten, Sky, Fox, C4 or whatever.:rotfl:

-taff

I completely agree refarding not watching news makes you feel better. I stopped doing that about seven or eight years ago because it just made me constantly angry about things I couldn't change.
Most people just want to be happy, and live their lives. Trying to do that while constantly being angry, or in despair, or disappointed is not conducive to a happy life.
I vote, but I'm aware that that doesn't necessarily change anything, I recycle, i am nice to my neighbours and I frequent small independent shops as much as i use the SM [although I do buy a lot of kindle books].
I've been mch happier since i stopped doing it, and that goes for all the depressing soaps too. Sometimes i wonder if people live their lives because they've seen how it's done on eastenders for example...

GreyQueen

If we think to how we humans have evolved to live, it is in smallish bands of inter-related families. Our ability to socialise tops out at about 150 persons, anything over and above than and our brains cannot cope.


Let's try to imagine how our ancestors lives would have been before the advent of photography, printing, this beast called The Media.


If you were well and happy, the children were thriving, the house cow in milk and the corn ripening on the ear, you probably felt pretty OK about your lot. Could be worse, with disease and armies trundling through, as it maybe had been in your grandsire's day, but you weren't spending every waking moment fretting about a whole load of stuff you had no ability to influence.

Karmacat

That link goes to a great post, GQ, thanks for that. I didn't used to do it. I mean, I did in my 20s, and then I stopped, for a long, long time, for exactly the reasons in that post. But as I got more and more tired and fell into CFS, I fell back into news watching. I've noticed it big time recently, as I'm getting the garden straighter. Time to redraw the boundaries the way I wrote yesterday.