To be a bit jealous of the Doomsday Preppers?

[slatternlymother]

Watching a show about it on National Geographic.

They are SO prepared.

I want a secret Doomsday Shelter in the country, with stockpiles of food and water.

I am seriously considering stockpiling tinned beans and bottled water when the next offer comes on in Sainsburys...

I know! If a neighbour of mine went on Preppers I'd have their house marked on the the OS map immediately, and have memorised a route there (both by road and cross country), and perhaps staked the place to find the best entry point! Bloody dipshits

Squeak, I loved WWZ! Not read 50 shades but I'm willing to bet that it could have been improved dramatically with the introduction of zombies chewing on Annie and Christians' faces.

Chandon, your mum must be an exceptional woman. If I'd lived through the hunger in the Netherlands my entire house would be filled with beans, for the rest of my natural life. Hat's off to your Ma

please tell me this is a joke thread...

Chasing that is my theory.
Let someone else do the stockpiling....

My big fear is that someone's done some sums wrong and we will one day just run out of oil. I think civilisation will collapse in a couple of weeks.

I think in these days of terrorist threat,riots,recession, and ever rising fuel costs and cost of living specialsubject I think everyone should give some serious thought to a possibly less comfortable future in our life time.

Hope I am wrong.Chances are I'm wrong. But a bit of planning as a 'security blanket' can't hurt anyone else,surely?

Plus I'm not entirely certain that zombies couldn't roam the earth.....

Of course not, specialsubject. With that sort of attitude you're bound to die first. The rest of us shall be feasting on your beans.

My mum also says it is essential to always have a very warm very good winter coat.

I must say I get nervous if my kids have grown out of their coats and I have not got a new one lined up! incidentally we spent 3 days last week without heating, we just walked around wrapped in our Primark fleece blankets (only £5 and ACE! Thick and soft). It was still a bit miserable.

I have always dreamt of a fur coat. I know it is not ethical, but it would keep me warm if we had no fuel for a year, it is someting I seceretly hanker after...

DH thinks I've gone mad... So, how to prep in secret without his knowledge?

I'm thinking of prepping in secret, then telling him once I've bought all the stuff. He won't be able to stop me then

I definitely think it's not A Bad Thing to have a few canned supplies, just in case.

I shall aspire to your 3 month supply though, sonofaradia

very see, this is what I'm thinking. DH just doesn't know what's good for him

We have 2 big corner shops round the.corner and we could access their storerooms from our back yard. So my prep is done for me we would just get what we needed from the shop!

And how do you 'seal water' so it doesn't go all rancid?

I have always dreamt of a fur coat. I know it is not ethical, but it would keep me warm if we had no fuel for a year, it is someting I seceretly hanker after...

DW has one of those from her Ukarianian granny. She daren't wear it over here, but it might come in useful some day.

Ukarianian? Dear god, I just invented a country. I meant Ukranian of course.

I am feeling rather alarmed by this thread, or rather my total lack of preparation or even thought to this!! I generally shop local every couple of days and have absolutely no food back up supplies or anything.
Do I need to prepare?

"And how do you 'seal water' so it doesn't go all rancid?"

You can get large (10 litre+) bottles of water that will keep for a year or so.

slatternly my DH is the sort who is resigned to the fact just trusts that whatever the eventuality I will have a plan to cope.
That holds true whether its having a tissue in my pocket for the kids snotty noses, or having a compass,torch, and the means to light a fire in my bag.

toomuch don't worry, I'm the same. Not prepping for the end of the world so much as a fuel shortage, so Tesco wouldn't get their deliveries etc. Just enough to last 10 days or so, I guess.

It makes me chuckle actually when some of the preppers on the tv are totally tied up on just one doomsday scenario.

Not a lot of point having lots of yellow suits,face masks,and a spotless germ free home in the event of all out thermonuclear war ....

toomuch it's really a case of a few basic supplies to cover a few basic scenarios.

Don't have nightmares

I am actually worrying, hopefully no nightmare though!
I am going to do a mini stock up of tinned goods and toilet rolls tomorrow!!

slat, good upbeat point, i hadn't thought of it like that, being a glass is half empty kind of person (your comment about neighbours coming together to form communites and help each other, i like that). re bottled water, i don't store that as a/doesn't have a long shelf life and b/i don't think even within its shelf life a good thing/tastes strange. i recommend investing in a water purifier/purifying tablets etc..

I loved the one with the bunch of hippies in the old nuclear missile silo.

They'd be buggered if the world ended,but what a cool place to live in the meantime.

Just discovered this thread and am now feeling panicky and completely unprepared, mind you watching films and programmes like the road, 28 weeks later, and the walking dead I'm not sure if i'd want to survive tbh!

I'd rather be dead than survive.
I know, that sounds awful.

I have some stock in for about a week. But I'm not planning on surviving a zombie apocalypse.

I watched a bit of it in December last year and I didn't get it. If the world is going to end, then no amount of hoarding pre-packed food is going to save you.

I also thought the lady I watched had a mental illness. She bought her house specifically over the road from Capital Hill, just in case, and got her friend to teach her how to use a sniper rifle .