It is so lovely to join this group! Looking forward to getting tips & ideas.
I am a mum of two, that believes in being prepared for different possible situations - a small scale prepper for approximately 10 years.
Spent the past few days canning meats & making fruit syrups... I love to cook! after all Hubby and kids deserve a treat
As you probably gathered from my initial message I have a healthy stock of food, but I am now considering other areas of prepping that I have previously ignored. (Money, meds/health, security, etc).
Is anyone expecting issues with banks during/or soon after brexit? Perhaps keeping a little bit of cash at home for emmergencies?
Personally I suspect the whole brexit thing will be a bit of a damp squib however keeping a bit of cash in the house in various sized notes is always handy (if you manage to keep it for emergencies, which I struggle with!)
I also keep a few half bottles of whisky & vodka as I've found them to be very handy when asking a local farmer to move some timber or similar, their value would increase in the event of cash flow issues.
But again, I do struggle to keep them for emergencies!
Keeping a bit of cash at home is *always* a good idea, to be honest - think of how often you see in the papers now "payments at X bank (Barclays, lloyds, RBS, whatever) crash without warning".
+1 for keeping cash at home. I've got a money box with change that I bag up and take to the bank rather than the machines that take 10%, I've also got 400 quid sat in it for emergencies. Sometimes an emergency is having to pay for a take away but it gets replaced. We tend to have some other cash about (tin of £2 coins and my wallet) but if the banks aren't working it will let us fuel the car and pay for fresh stuff to supplement our stores. It could pay for a taxi if we're stranded (and convince the driver I had cash at home)... Or whatever other scenario I haven't even thought off, basically, its bloody handy and with interest rates being what they are, its not costing me that much to keep it to hand.
