I’m not a prepper but when I first saw rumblings of a new disease in China (before it was on the news here, real early days) I started adding a bit extra to my trolley in my weekly shop. Just a few extra tins of stuff, pasta, flour etc. Mrs and the cashier had a right laugh when she was tilling up, asked if I was building a bunker etc. I was an insufferably smug bastard a month later when people were fighting each other for the last packs of toilet roll in Tesco.
I’ve started growing my own root vegetables just in case something happens, and have filled up my freezers. I know it sounds silly, but I just don’t trust the general public to be sensible anymore, so I want to try and be more self-sufficient in case we end up with panic-buying again.
I just make sure I have enough medicine for three months (slowly built it up by ordering a few days in advance each time), have a couple of tubes of toothpaste in the cupboard in addition to the open one, and I used to buy my next shampoo/conditioner when the current bottle was half empty — I’ve discovered the salon size bottles now, so I use a bit more before buying the next. Shower gel I’ve got a small mountain of thanks to Christmas presents from relatives, where they buy stuff I don’t really like but don’t throw away.
Few years back these people would be considered nutters. Now it seems kind of smart
This isn’t ‘prepping’. This is simply having a larder with dried foods, tinned goods just as people always did before ultra convenience (expensive and wasteful throwaway) shopping.
As an old person I have always done this because my parents did. Crazy deranged headline appealing to crazy deranged doomscrollers.
I’m kinda of the opinion if things get to “prepper-wet-dream levels” of then I don’t want to stay on.
Live on MREs for three months in your basement just to get fucked up by the first guy you meet with a bigger stick (or Barry and his air rifles)? No thanks.
Stocking up on BOGOF beans however is a good hedge against inflation.
All I’ve done is buy some gas for my camping stove and a nice new whistle kettle so I can have tea in case of blackouts.
The downside of on demand global economy. One break in the chain and its a shitshow for the everyday people.
I made sure to know where all my local peppers live just in case we have societal collapse.
You never know when you need a few things 😜
Edit: grammar/spelling
Problem is UK homes have poor storage so limiting on prepping
At what stage do we take action and force this Government to call a general election? They have completely wrecked the place!
I met a bloke this week who keeps a stove, bottles water, tins of soup etc in the back of his car. It came in handy when he was stuck in his car for 5 hours in snow. Years ago I would have laughed at this guy, but instead I went home and found my old camping stove so i can start my own emergency car kit!
Not really a ‘prepper’ but I’ve been stocking up on extra tinned food in case of blackouts or shortages. I’ve got probably 2 cupboards worth of tins. It’s all stuff I’d use eventually but more than I’d normally get.
Pointless. If it escalated to that extent a few tins and bog roll won’t save you.
First rule of being a prepper. People shouldn’t know you are one.
Paints an awful big target on you if anything does go tits up.
My aunty now mid 80s has always had two full cupboard of tins, cupboard of toiletries etc. Basically enough to live on for 2 months at any moment. After years of us taking the piss, I can’t quite describe how smug she was at the onset of the pandemic.
Probably be downvoted and flamed for this, but many governments around the world recommend households hold some extra supplies in case of emergency. Anyone who disparages “preppers” is just a crazy conspiracy theorist.
I’ve always kept my house well stocked with essentials like loo roll, tinned food, dry food like pasta, a full chest freezer, gin, whisky, beer and wine.
When covid came along, and everyone was fighting over loo rolls and pasta, I was relaxing at home with a G&T.
Buying in advance is common sense with ever rising inflation. Buy as much as you can today with your money or invest in stable asset because your cash is losing buying power everyday.
If inflation is at 9% and you bought two years supplies today you’d save 9% at least. Because it gonna fall. This is just the beginning.
I was getting ready to type something along the lines of IF HAVING ENOUGH TINS IN YOUR CUPBOARDS TO LAST A FAMILY FOR SIX MONTHS IS PREPPING, MY MUM’S JOHN RAMBO …
… and then I got to the bit about the guy’s wall of guns. **MENTALIST**!
I think it’s important to point out that the absolute best prep for *serious systems failure* is “community”. Knowing your neighbours, having a good friend group in real life, learning who you can rely on, and showing that others can rely on you.
Having as many people with a decent pantry or food garden is important, true, but that’s just a buffer. It’s fine for minor troubles that don’t actually disrupt things permanently, but as it doesn’t replenish itself (and an urban garden cannot easily feed even a small household) – it only helps to take the pressure off while your community builds up a lasting solution.
The whole solo prepper thing is an unfortunate misstep – atomised consumers reaching an atomised consumer conclusion.
I went out and bought myself some tinned soup and beans. And added more and more when my father died so if anytime anything happened I have some 25p beans to save me. This winter I went and got tons of beans, soup, and spaghetti tinned and have a cupboard full. I don’t have much space but yeah. If I ever can’t get to the shops or whatever I got At least something.
I like how in the states peppers are weird libertarians with mile deep bunkers living in fear of the secret son of jfk launching nukes.
And here it’s like oh yeah there’s a realistic chance of food prices tripling and folk may go hungry.
Like sure us peppers are nuts but I’d rather have it be kooky than just boring and depressing
Can confirm, have a shelf full of canned items and 4 soon to be 8 5lts bottles of water.
Bought it when Russia invaded Ukraine because I tought the world was going to stop again.
Over the past months I’ve been adding to it, other items such as hygiene products and the likes.
To be honest this is something I wanted to do decades ago and kept postponing it.
It’s very simple folks.
If when covid struck you rushed to the store to buy toilet paper, that isn’t prepping, that’s panic buying.
The preppers had toilet paper stocked already so didn’t need to go to the store.
I have a ‘prep’ room in which I keep 1 months supply of food, emergency supplies and other useful things .I put it together a few years ago designed for a situation in which I need to squirrel down. Luckily I live in a house with two entrances and I can secure both quite well. The most annoying thing is having to cycle through the food once a year.
I also have a ‘bug out’ outfit and bag ready to go.
That has enough (just for me) for one week and contains things like water purification tablets, heating sources and personal weapons (no firearms – this is the UK). That is for the hot to get moving situations and would be able to leave the house within 5-10 minutes with everything I need.
Pre pandemic, there was an offer on the cushele toilet paper, where it was like, 8 quid for 32 rolls. And we thought “Might aswell stock up” and bought 64 rolls of toilet paper. Again, this was pre pandemic, but not by much.
We still had a good 50 rolls of toilet paper left when everyone was wiping their arses with 1ply rolls that cost 8 quid.
We also didn’t go to the shops for the first month or two of covid, we just emptied the fridge and freezer. Was quite nice, gave it a clean.
Made me realise how much nicer it was to have options in the freezer, and to just have enough things to go “Well we used that, but it’s ok, we have some left”
OK so lets say the shit truly hits the fan and you have loads of supplies. Then what? You’re stuck on an island with 60m+ people and many of them want your supplies.
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I’m not a prepper but when I first saw rumblings of a new disease in China (before it was on the news here, real early days) I started adding a bit extra to my trolley in my weekly shop. Just a few extra tins of stuff, pasta, flour etc. Mrs and the cashier had a right laugh when she was tilling up, asked if I was building a bunker etc. I was an insufferably smug bastard a month later when people were fighting each other for the last packs of toilet roll in Tesco.
I’ve started growing my own root vegetables just in case something happens, and have filled up my freezers. I know it sounds silly, but I just don’t trust the general public to be sensible anymore, so I want to try and be more self-sufficient in case we end up with panic-buying again.
I just make sure I have enough medicine for three months (slowly built it up by ordering a few days in advance each time), have a couple of tubes of toothpaste in the cupboard in addition to the open one, and I used to buy my next shampoo/conditioner when the current bottle was half empty — I’ve discovered the salon size bottles now, so I use a bit more before buying the next. Shower gel I’ve got a small mountain of thanks to Christmas presents from relatives, where they buy stuff I don’t really like but don’t throw away.
Few years back these people would be considered nutters. Now it seems kind of smart
This isn’t ‘prepping’. This is simply having a larder with dried foods, tinned goods just as people always did before ultra convenience (expensive and wasteful throwaway) shopping.
As an old person I have always done this because my parents did. Crazy deranged headline appealing to crazy deranged doomscrollers.
I’m kinda of the opinion if things get to “prepper-wet-dream levels” of then I don’t want to stay on.
Live on MREs for three months in your basement just to get fucked up by the first guy you meet with a bigger stick (or Barry and his air rifles)? No thanks.
Stocking up on BOGOF beans however is a good hedge against inflation.
All I’ve done is buy some gas for my camping stove and a nice new whistle kettle so I can have tea in case of blackouts.
The downside of on demand global economy. One break in the chain and its a shitshow for the everyday people.
I made sure to know where all my local peppers live just in case we have societal collapse.
You never know when you need a few things 😜
Edit: grammar/spelling
Problem is UK homes have poor storage so limiting on prepping
At what stage do we take action and force this Government to call a general election? They have completely wrecked the place!
I met a bloke this week who keeps a stove, bottles water, tins of soup etc in the back of his car. It came in handy when he was stuck in his car for 5 hours in snow. Years ago I would have laughed at this guy, but instead I went home and found my old camping stove so i can start my own emergency car kit!
Not really a ‘prepper’ but I’ve been stocking up on extra tinned food in case of blackouts or shortages. I’ve got probably 2 cupboards worth of tins. It’s all stuff I’d use eventually but more than I’d normally get.
Pointless. If it escalated to that extent a few tins and bog roll won’t save you.
First rule of being a prepper. People shouldn’t know you are one.
Paints an awful big target on you if anything does go tits up.
My aunty now mid 80s has always had two full cupboard of tins, cupboard of toiletries etc. Basically enough to live on for 2 months at any moment. After years of us taking the piss, I can’t quite describe how smug she was at the onset of the pandemic.
Probably be downvoted and flamed for this, but many governments around the world recommend households hold some extra supplies in case of emergency. Anyone who disparages “preppers” is just a crazy conspiracy theorist.
I’ve always kept my house well stocked with essentials like loo roll, tinned food, dry food like pasta, a full chest freezer, gin, whisky, beer and wine.
When covid came along, and everyone was fighting over loo rolls and pasta, I was relaxing at home with a G&T.
Buying in advance is common sense with ever rising inflation. Buy as much as you can today with your money or invest in stable asset because your cash is losing buying power everyday.
If inflation is at 9% and you bought two years supplies today you’d save 9% at least. Because it gonna fall. This is just the beginning.
I was getting ready to type something along the lines of IF HAVING ENOUGH TINS IN YOUR CUPBOARDS TO LAST A FAMILY FOR SIX MONTHS IS PREPPING, MY MUM’S JOHN RAMBO …
… and then I got to the bit about the guy’s wall of guns. **MENTALIST**!
I think it’s important to point out that the absolute best prep for *serious systems failure* is “community”. Knowing your neighbours, having a good friend group in real life, learning who you can rely on, and showing that others can rely on you.
Having as many people with a decent pantry or food garden is important, true, but that’s just a buffer. It’s fine for minor troubles that don’t actually disrupt things permanently, but as it doesn’t replenish itself (and an urban garden cannot easily feed even a small household) – it only helps to take the pressure off while your community builds up a lasting solution.
The whole solo prepper thing is an unfortunate misstep – atomised consumers reaching an atomised consumer conclusion.
I went out and bought myself some tinned soup and beans. And added more and more when my father died so if anytime anything happened I have some 25p beans to save me. This winter I went and got tons of beans, soup, and spaghetti tinned and have a cupboard full. I don’t have much space but yeah. If I ever can’t get to the shops or whatever I got At least something.
I like how in the states peppers are weird libertarians with mile deep bunkers living in fear of the secret son of jfk launching nukes.
And here it’s like oh yeah there’s a realistic chance of food prices tripling and folk may go hungry.
Like sure us peppers are nuts but I’d rather have it be kooky than just boring and depressing
Can confirm, have a shelf full of canned items and 4 soon to be 8 5lts bottles of water.
Bought it when Russia invaded Ukraine because I tought the world was going to stop again.
Over the past months I’ve been adding to it, other items such as hygiene products and the likes.
To be honest this is something I wanted to do decades ago and kept postponing it.
It’s very simple folks.
If when covid struck you rushed to the store to buy toilet paper, that isn’t prepping, that’s panic buying.
The preppers had toilet paper stocked already so didn’t need to go to the store.
I have a ‘prep’ room in which I keep 1 months supply of food, emergency supplies and other useful things .I put it together a few years ago designed for a situation in which I need to squirrel down. Luckily I live in a house with two entrances and I can secure both quite well. The most annoying thing is having to cycle through the food once a year.
I also have a ‘bug out’ outfit and bag ready to go.
That has enough (just for me) for one week and contains things like water purification tablets, heating sources and personal weapons (no firearms – this is the UK). That is for the hot to get moving situations and would be able to leave the house within 5-10 minutes with everything I need.
Pre pandemic, there was an offer on the cushele toilet paper, where it was like, 8 quid for 32 rolls. And we thought “Might aswell stock up” and bought 64 rolls of toilet paper. Again, this was pre pandemic, but not by much.
We still had a good 50 rolls of toilet paper left when everyone was wiping their arses with 1ply rolls that cost 8 quid.
We also didn’t go to the shops for the first month or two of covid, we just emptied the fridge and freezer. Was quite nice, gave it a clean.
Made me realise how much nicer it was to have options in the freezer, and to just have enough things to go “Well we used that, but it’s ok, we have some left”
OK so lets say the shit truly hits the fan and you have loads of supplies. Then what? You’re stuck on an island with 60m+ people and many of them want your supplies.