Prepping for Brexit thread

chirpychick

I will have to stock up on paper then as we homeschool and i need paper! No doubt schools and business!!!8217;s will have higher priority if there were issues.
Funny really as i was watching Anne with an E and they didn!!!8217;t have paper and i said to my husband can you imagine?

Whoever it was that asked about flour, i have my frozen. I was reading something that said freeze for 48 hours to kill the bugs but if you keep it in the freezer then it lasts indefinitely so that is where mine is staying.
Lentils will be stored in a glass jar.

My husband (who is 20 years older than me) told me that when he was little and his mum wanted to store things, him and his brother had to suck the air out with straws :rotfl:

I am actually currently sorting out my under stairs cupboard and turning it into a sort of pantry. Our house is so incredibly small. My sons room if our house was rented from the council would be bedroom tax exempt its that small. Our living room is used as a lounge, dining room and a classroom lol. We only have one kitchen cupboard for food and we store toilet rolls under the bed. Just to give you an idea. So we!!!8217;re being creative with our space and turning the cupboard into food and essentials storage. But finding home for the stuff in their already is proving challenging
I am however quite excited to have my very own pantry as sad as it seems. We have also decided to squeeze a 2nd freezer in there when we!!!8217;ve figured out the logistics of everything else.
We would have done this Brexit hash or not but it!!!8217;s motivated us to do it sooner!

I was doing my grocery shopping and it seems people have started panic buying already with many shelves stripped of long life products. This has concerned me.


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maryb

Chirpychick if my house is anything to go by just ask the parents of teenage daughters and they will gladly offload piles of refill pads of A4 file paper that have had a few sheets used. For some reason this makes them impossible to use for serious revision, it absolutely has to be a brand new unused pad. Mum of course doesn't use that much paper but won't waste it so after a few years of two daughters taking exams you end up with a pile of half used pads a couple of feet high!!

Wraithlady

lessonlearned wrote: »

People who truly cannot accept the results of a democratic vote with good grace should take a good hard look at countries where there is no democracy.

TBH I am far more concerned with the rise of religious fundamentalism. And not just Muslim......Christian fundamentalism is just as dangerous.

LessonLearned, I'm of the opinion that the problem is not religion, political allegiance, dietary choices - or pretty much anything really - it's about people Who Are Right. And because They are Right, you Are Wrong, therefore evil/stupid/ignorant and thus undeserving of basic human respect (or even rights).

Sib2018

I personally think a lot of it is main stream media fear mongering.

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If it is we'll all have a nicely stocked food and hardwares cupboard to see us through the warmer weather won't we? and if prices do rise for whatever reason we'll have made a good investment of cash that will help stretch what we have available from March onwards, no worries!

Throwaway1

Hi all, can I ask what amount of each thing you are stockpiling? Do you have say 10 tins of each thing (beans etc.), 50, 100, more? Just trying to get my head around it all really. We tend to buy big packs of things (e.g. teabags, loo roll) but we live in a tiny 1 bed place at the minute with no storage space AT ALL but we are moving to a 3 bed house with a garage soon so we'll have more room to store.

lessonlearned

Mrs LW. That's how I'm looking at it. If I have goods in and there are problems with either supply or harvests then I'm covered.

If the goods are available but just pricey then I will have made a good investment, stocking up rather than leaving money in the bank, earning pititful interest and not keeping pace with inflation.

Plus fewer shopping trips.

moneyistooshorttomention

...and that's another aspect to all this...

Interest rates - does anyone think there will be an impact on interest rates once we're out of Europe. Best guesses - at positive impact (ie they go up), negative (ie they go even lower - if that's possible:cool:), neutral.

mardatha

Throwaway, you have to look at what you eat. What your family like, and buy extra of that. Sit and work out what you eat in a normal week, and then work out how many weeks you want to stash. It could be 2 weeks or 2 months; 3 weeks or 3 months. So then work out how much extra you need to buy and do that gradually.
Focus too on multi-purpose foods, things that will give you more than one meal. Like porridge oats, they can be breakfast but they also can be flapjacks or oaty crumble or biscuits.
Bread mixes, cake mixes, flour. But watch how you store it.
Things that will make soup, like tins of cheap carrots and potatoes, lentils and broth mix.
It'll come to you, it's easy!

maryb

A recent tweet from Jack Monroe (a Girl Named Jack)
"If you voted Leave, and you're now scrambling round Aldi nicking all the herrings for your Brexit Bunker, you're an absolute as88ole of the highest order of as88olery."

This is because "stockpiling reduces available food stocks for those who live hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, food bank trip to food bank trip". And it will result in price rises.

Several of us have wondered how people reliant on food banks will cope and like others I intend to make a fairly hefty donation in March. However there are a lot more people who will have to buy their food on an as needed basis. I can't for the life of me see how it helps them if those with money to be able to buy early don't do so and are then effectively competing with them in March

According to Jack "Only rich people can afford to stockpile in any quantity"

I wonder what Elaine of Mortgage Free in Three https://mortgagefreeinthree.com/blog/ (aka Memory Girl on MSE) would make of that - having been left standing in the bank with 71p and three nappies when they froze her account, she built up what she calls her Armageddon Cupboard

The sad thing is, she could offer so much help and reassurance