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Are you stockpiling for brexit?

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Downtroddenhousingass · 09/02/2019 18:55

I am, chest freezer is full and my kitchen is overflowing with dry food.

Seeing as how the shops were empty last year with two days of snow a best case scenario will be a few weeks of shortages. Or am I crazy?

OP posts:

BrexitIsComing · 10/02/2019 02:53

Yes. Started about 6 months ago. All of it is food we already eat anyway. The only "new" item I've bought is powdered milk, which I've been using in hot drinks, porridge etc, to see if I like it. Completely fine, & actually prefer it for making hot chocolate. Not tried powdered eggs yet, they sound a bit weird. And it would have to be armageddon before I ate a pot noodle. I do not trust the current government as far as I could throw them, they are a load of arrogant, self serving, myopic tossers. They shouldn't be trusted with a rubber duck, let alone the fate of the nation.

cantfindname · 10/02/2019 07:02

No. I remember all the scare stories about the millenium, when planes were going to fall out of the sky, ships get lost and the whole world would fall apart because all the computers would stop at midnight.

Needless to say it didn't happen and neither will Brexit be as bad as people imagine. The people exporting food to us will ensure a supply, they don't want their profits to drop any more than we want to starve.

What will cause problems is panic buying, which is what happens Every.Single.Time it snows.

Wendywoo1000 · 10/02/2019 07:44

No. Never crossed my mind to do. I have bread in the freezer and UHT milk incase i get snowed in.

bellinisurge · 10/02/2019 07:58

Another millennium bug post - more Brexit bingo in this thread than usual!!😂.
Boring bit: The millennium bug issue didn't cause problems because if careful advance checking, planning and investment. Which is the exact opposite of what we have at the moment.

JenniferJareau · 10/02/2019 08:00

Nope. I have extras of things anyway as I don't like to run out of my favourite items.

borntobequiet · 10/02/2019 08:08

HRT is the thing I’m most concerned about and I’ve been asking for prescriptions a few days early for the last 18 months so I have a bit of a buffer. It’s imported from Belgium and while I can manage on a restricted diet for a few weeks I don’t want to be in a state of permanent rage and misery while doing so.

GottenGottenGotten · 10/02/2019 08:09

@cantfindname I think you are right, I think the panic buying is likely to be what causes the biggest shortages.

Which is exactly why I have extra food in my house. So that when reality strikes, and the people that have not thought ahead start to panic buy, I won't be part of the problem.

Duckshead · 10/02/2019 08:12

Boring bit: The millennium bug issue didn't cause problems because if careful advance checking, planning and investment. Which is the exact opposite of what we have at the moment.

This with bells on.

Thecrown3 · 10/02/2019 08:59

I’m not a new poster just had to name change.
Sorry if I’ve made you all call house for brexit bingo I just see these threads weekly and decided to look at this one.
I’m not prepping tbh my food bill weekly is enough to tip me over into rage anyhow.
Haven’t got that much space either .
Either way, I’m not alone, some ppl are, some are not.
It’s ok by me whichever camp you sit in.

RedPandaBear · 10/02/2019 09:06

It's all very well stockpiling food - which I am in a very small scale way - but what about petrol?

Even if we have enough food for a month we still need to be able to drive to work to pay the future probably exorbitant food prices...

That's an essential and I haven't got anywhere to safely store jerry cans of petrol.

Same goes for the fuel for trains, buses, trams etc. Do they have a precautionary back up stash?

bellinisurge · 10/02/2019 09:10

Don't store fuel if you live in urban or suburban areas.
If you have a car, make it a habit never to go below half a tank.

HeronLanyon · 10/02/2019 09:16

Yes I have stocked up but recent busy patch at work and home has meant still have some things to get.
Just today had to raid Brexit boxes for coffee filternpapers and loo roll ! Surely first rule of Brexit box is don’t disturb the Brexit box !! Have been envisaging queuing for things or visiting multiple shops with plenty of item at home. Not sure I will time using stockpile well.
Feel this is yet another situation where those without money are shafted. It’s been expensive buying a few months ‘essential stuff’. Can’t believe this country is in such a mess.

RedPandaBear · 10/02/2019 09:17

I'm not going to store fuel full stop but when my job involves me commuting up to 4 hours a day, half a tank isn't going to last that long...

Would just be nice to know what precautions the petrol stations have etc.

reallyanothername · 10/02/2019 09:17

I have enough for a few days (thanks Bellini) but don't have the resources for more - it worries me, I did finally buy my extra freezer just before Christmas but in reality if we were eating only from that it wouldn't last that long - I have a lot of dependants

FriarTuck · 10/02/2019 09:24

Tie up your camel
Bugger, I'd forgotten to get a camel! And I'm sure it could be stored safely in the garage, leaving me room indoors still for food & bog roll. Might be a bit obvious to the neighbours though...

FriarTuck · 10/02/2019 09:25

in reality if we were eating only from that it wouldn't last that long - I have a lot of dependants
Simple solution - kill off your dependants, freezer their bodies, eat them roasted or casseroled over a period of a few weeks.

reallyanothername · 10/02/2019 09:31

Friar

ChakiraChakra · 10/02/2019 09:32

@FriarTuck 😁

I have a brexit drawer. We won't starve, might be a bit bored of rice.

ArmchairTraveller · 10/02/2019 09:44

When my children were small, I couldn’t drive and family lived all over the country. So we did thousands of miles by train and bus. I prepped for every journey; food, water, clothing, meds and nappies. I could have relied on promised trains turning up, provisions being available and it not raining, but I always felt better being prepared even if I didn’t use some of the stuff I backpacked round England.

RedToothBrush · 10/02/2019 09:47

Ah good it's not just me, I'm slowly building it up.

Thanks to MN DH affectionately calls me a 'Brexit Wanker' (after a poster said that's what she was called in the supermarket for buying tins).

He thought I was made until his mates told him they had been 'forward purchasing' for months and had far more. Now he isn't bothered and even saw my hidden box and under draw stash this week as we were clearing out stuff. He simply said 'you need to put the flour in a tub so it doesn't get bugs'.

I guess those are Brexit bugs.

ReginaldMolehusband · 10/02/2019 09:52

Boring bit: The millennium bug issue didn't cause problems because if careful advance checking, planning and investment Isn't necessarily true though, South Korea and Italy invested little to nothing in Bug preparation yet had the same negligible problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money.
Not quite as cut and dried as some would like to portray.

Uptheapplesandpears · 10/02/2019 09:55

Yes, decided to get some extra supplies in as there'll be a certain amount of disruption if we get a No Deal- because unlike the Millennium Bug, there hasn't been oodles of proper planning done.

I don't think we're all going to starve to death or a zombie apocalypse or whatever, but personally my trigger to take a few extra precautions is a bit lower than me and my kids stand a good chance of starving. So some extra tinned and non-perishable stuff and a full freezer. If there are no supply chain issues, still a win because things tend to get more expensive over time anyway. Food has definitely become dearer over the past couple of years.

But I do worry about disruption. I know the government said all lorries would be let through if there was no deal, but then there's been all that nonsense with ferry companies losing contracts too. There's just been no proper planning and I'm not willing to place my trust in people who conspicuously don't know their arse from their elbow and what's more, haven't even bothered starting to try and figure out the difference.

bellinisurge · 10/02/2019 09:55

Yes, those economic power houses in the late 90s

Uptheapplesandpears · 10/02/2019 09:59

If you can't get any supplies in because of money and/or space well, nowt to be done about that. Hopefully in the event of any short term disruption, people having stashes will mean the shops are a bit clearer for you and you will have more chance at getting what you need.

prettybird · 10/02/2019 10:27

Can I be bothered explaining again that if just the one sector I worked in in the 1990s/2000s - telecoms - hadn't put in the work it did on Y2K, then not just people's landlines and mobiles would have stopped working, but so banking, trains, t'internet, TV, radio, traffic lights, the power grid would have also experienced interruptions/stopped working?

Just as well the telecoms companies didn't think it was just panic mongering!

And yes, I have bought a few extra supplies over the last few months, so my family will be ok. And if a deal is agreed which isn't actually a deal but is just an agreed transition period so there might still be a cliff edge in a couple of years' time then it simply means my food bills go down in the following few months

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