How are you preparing for Brexit?

[jansman]

We are still straying off topic.

HOW ARE YOU PREPPING FOR BREXIT?

Last shout, or I lock it.

Sorry. I couldn't resist.

[jansman]

I am not being arsey when I ask for a bit of focus.Turn the news on and it's the same old ping-pong.Batting the same arguments back and forth.Whichever camp your foot is in,that's fine,but it looks like an economic sh#t storm is on the horizon ( globally,without the UK's unique situation).

On the news last night were folks moaning about the cost of a funeral.We have insurances to deal with that.One day we will die,so it's sorted.Next year,there is a strong possibility that my firm will shed jobs,I hear.So could others it seems.This is my main reason for ramping supplies and strengthening our finances.Another insurance.

So on the way home this evening,I shall call in at our local Indian restaurant and pick up the 25kg of Basmati rice he is getting for me for £15. And it comes in a plastic screw top barrel! That is that prep sorted.

[itsybitsy]

I am not being arsey when I ask for a bit of focus.Turn the news on and it's the same old ping-pong.Batting the same arguments back and forth.Whichever camp your foot is in,that's fine,but it looks like an economic sh#t storm is on the horizon ( globally,without the UK's unique situation).

On the news last night were folks moaning about the cost of a funeral.We have insurances to deal with that.One day we will die,so it's sorted.Next year,there is a strong possibility that my firm will shed jobs,I hear.So could others it seems.This is my main reason for ramping supplies and strengthening our finances.Another insurance.

So on the way home this evening,I shall call in at our local Indian restaurant and pick up the 25kg of Basmati rice he is getting for me for £15. And it comes in a plastic screw top barrel! That is that prep sorted.

I like the idea of that rice in a plastic screw top barrel, that's genius. My local Tesco Metro store (the really huge ones) sells all sorts of international foods in bulk and they are very inexpensive; I do have a lot of rice, and to be honest, I very, very rarely eat it white long/short grain rice - but it's cheap, it's filling and it can be jazzed up, so I store it - a lot of it and if things got hairy i wouldn't think twice about eating it every day if I needed to; but, if I never do, the entire stash (and it's well over 25kg) cost me about fifteen quid. i have got other types of rice - Arborio, CarnarolI and such, which I do use regularly, and is more expensive - I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to rice and pasta!

[mushroom]

Just got my Mogul Gravity Water filter set up and sorted and run a couple of lots of water through it... tasted my first glass this morning and it seems to be working a treat! Water has always concerned me as very few people have space to keep enough of it - and while I have purifying tabs / ways to boil it / ways to collect rain water etc... this takes a lot of the hassle out. I feel I finally have a clean supply of water in any eventuality, which is a major step forward for me.

I've managed to stockpile some of my asthma medication over a period of months, mostly by getting prescriptions in ahead of time by a little each time. But also my dosage was lowered but my prescription stayed the same which has proved VERY useful. I'm trying to encourage my elderly parents who need a lot of medication between them to do the same re prescriptions.

And apart from closest family, I'm keeping quiet about preps as usual. Anyone see that piece in the DM the other day about a woman in Cornwall prepping for Brexit - a pic of her, her hoard and even the outside of her house (also named her village)... talk about making yourself a target... I just don't understand why you would do something like that!

[korolev]

Sorry for drifting off track about house prices.....

Anyways, discussed with the Mrs and we are going to stash about a grand in cash in our safe in case of a run on the cashpoints or card problems. I would expect the banks to sort it fairly quickly but it doesn't hurt to have a pocket full of readies.
I'm not too worried about overall infrastructure, more localised problems.

[jansman]

The rice in screw top barrel is bang on.The barrel has handles either side too- and it is tough! Hussain told me that all the chutney comes in them too ( and they stack),so he will save them for me,as long as I wash them out.No problem there Of course,whilst there I booked a table for tomorrow night! Aside from storage,they will make good planters.I have half a dozen that I grow (successfully) courgettes and marrows.

On the economic front,I had my annual pension statement yesterday.That was a laugh.I have LOST money this time ( invested in high risk areas) I suspect that may be a trend over the coming years.Sooo...I am looking at more silver now,as well as changing the risk level of my pension.

[Stonecarver]

Medical issues seem to be...an issue.Food of some sort can always be found.Specific medicine cannot.My mother has heart medication,mother in law ,Thyroid medicine.Father and BIL,Insulin.By what I read,this could be a problem.

Just a thought here. If jansmans relatives were unable to have their prescription filled because of a shortage where they live would they be able to go somewhere else where form members can tell jansman their is no shortage to have it filled?

[Arzosah]

That's an interesting idea, stonecarver, if I understand what you're saying: that members on here could share information about what drugs are scarce in some areas, and other members could say if they're available elsewhere?

Prescription might be a problem still ... but being able to give the information to your own GP might help, absolutely. I've done that in relation to the address of a local clinic that my doctor had thought was closed.

This forum might be a bit too small to get full coverage, tbh, brilliant as it is. I'm wondering about something like reddit?

[jansman]

It is an interesting idea.Even if the information is relatively local.For instance,I live near Loughborough,pseudonym lives in Melton,and I know we have other members in Leicestershire.How would you go about it though? Would you ring round and ask, " do you have any Thyroxin? "

[jansman]

Couple of interesting links.Sorry its the Daily Mail!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/marke ... n-dry.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rexit.html

Looks like we are mainstream.The retailers are practicing OPSEC,but the 'Mums' are not though.