Hi! Thanks for having me! Have read the newbie stuff, but forgive me if I post the wrong thing in wrong section, I’m not the brightest on these things!!
Hope to drink from the fountain of your combined knowledge and gain a few tips!!
Cheers
Conz
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Welcome. Tell us a little about your interest? 
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Re: Long time listener, first time caller!!
Hi, and welcome into the light.
Of course, soak up the combined wisdom here. But your contribution will help too. Even by asking questions of your own, you can bring knowledge to the surface that is useful to us all.
Don't be shy. Share your ideas and knowledge. What's your current and anticipated prepping approach?
Graceful Degradation! Prepping's objective summed up in two words. Turning Disaster into Mild Inconvenience by the power of fore-thought
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
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Welcome to the forum, Conz. Yep, what they said 
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Hello and welcome to the Forum.
The only dumb question is the one not asked...... that and posting in the wrong section.
The only dumb question is the one not asked...... that and posting in the wrong section.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Welcome frim Merseyside! 
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Don’t have much/any approach as of yet! Looking at visiting the food bunker over in Wigan simply becasue its near me, and starting buying in some food, anyone know if its a decent place? Could buy online but wanna see a human and pay cash!!
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Buy what you eat eat what you store and rotate it.... No good filling a cupboard with spam and finding it tastes grim .... For example
Obviously pasta / rice will keep a long time if stored safely but again try and keep the stocks moving ...
Remember tins don't like the damp..
Mice like packets so be aware of where you store and keep checks in place for pests
BEWARE it's very easy to fall down a rabbit hole and spend a fortune on stuff you don't immediately need ...... add a few bits each week to your shop it's no good blowing your last £300 on rice and pasta then finding the car needs £200 in repairs to get you to work... you can't pay the mechanic in rice.... (yet)
An extra pack of rice a week or a extra bag of pasta .. a 4 pack of beans / tinned tomatoes after a few months you'll begin to build up a good stash without really noticing the little extra spends... Likewise additional kit a torch this month , a first aid kit next month isn't usually going to bankrupt you but just watch what you spend it's easy to sit on eBay after a few beers and fill a oversized rucksack with kit your likely to never use and I'll ridicule you politely if you do
You will see bug out bags all over the place but I'd rather have a hotel / hospital bag... Your more likely to end up in a hotel (gas leak / flood / ww2 bomb found in the garden 5 doors up or you end up in hospital with some ingrown toe nail that's got infected) than you are going to wind up trying to live off the land in a tent made of a survival tarp trying to light a fire with a flint kit hacking up branches in the rain attempting to light a fire to cook the rat you caught whilst fishing in the canal
.A change of clothes , list of family phone numbers , phone charger, some basics that lynx gift set, toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste a warm jacket a small wad of cash to pay the taxi driver and a book will be far more use to most people who wind up blue lighted to hospital at 3am
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Wot Andy said about the food and water and bug out bags/hotel bags.
And one very boring but useful prep in these times is an emergency cash fund. Even if you are broke and only able to stash a quid a week it helps if the unexpected crops up. If you can stash five or ten percent of your income in a separate account/bank you will soon be on the way to having the ability to go a month with no income (or if your usual bank's IT blows up and you cant get to your money) .
And one very boring but useful prep in these times is an emergency cash fund. Even if you are broke and only able to stash a quid a week it helps if the unexpected crops up. If you can stash five or ten percent of your income in a separate account/bank you will soon be on the way to having the ability to go a month with no income (or if your usual bank's IT blows up and you cant get to your money) .
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Yeah, a few hundred quid in used tenners distributed around the house/cars is a handy fallback in case of atms not working (eg extended power cut). I also regularly work hundreds of miles away from home and always keep enough fuel in the tank to get home without stopping and the spare cash in the car would also be handy if I did need to buy a jerry can of fuel off someone.
Also keep food, camping stove, water, tools etc in the car.
Also keep food, camping stove, water, tools etc in the car.