To be disturbed by the "Prepping" board.

[TheoriginalLEM]

Is this a thing now?

Is there really a need to be stockpiling food, medicines and creating a bolt hole?

Am i missing something? Seriously (this is not a light-hearted thread), i suffer from anxiety and this is really disturbing me.

Hopefully people have just been watching too much walking dead.

LEM, you don't have to open threads, you can hide whole topics (ie the whole of the 'Preppers' board) in customise.

As can anyone else who doesn't like the topic.

I don't generally post on the prepping board, but I do browse out of curiosity. Some people on this thread are far too alarmist. If the preppers threads bother you, hide the whole board. It's not difficult.

I don't understand what makes you feel that you have the right to decide they are not allowed to discuss it. They're minding their own business, discussing something practical. If you don't agree with it or it makes you anxious, then take steps to avoid it. Hide the board.

Posting here that you don't think they should have their own board is effectively saying that you feel that you have a right to stifle their discussions based on your feelings alone because you don't like it. They're not doing anything illegal, they're not doing anything wrong. They are not scaremongering at all. That's like walking into a cinema showing of a horror film and complaining that you don't like horror films. So don't walk in! They're not forcing their opinions on you. They're not even bringing it to the main boards! (You did, of course, so you have nobody to blame but yourself for this thread!) They are sitting in their own little corner, minding their own business.

Bringing it out onto the main board and then encouraging everyone to think that they're "thick" or "nuts" or "scaremongering" and insisting they shouldn't have a board of their own (when you don't want to see their posts anyway) is nothing short of bullying by trying to silence them and ridicule them.

So many threads for such a niche topic?
So there are people interested enough to create lots of threads in their designated board, so many that others are feeling paranoid and anxious.
I was one of those that wanted a preppers area, it's something I'm more interested in than handbags at a thousand or more pounds.
Imagine how much foodbank stock one of those could provide funds for on ebay.
Just hide it.
I hid the primary education board because it was filled with inate witterings that annoyed and stressed me and made me grumpy. Please do the same with threads that make you anxious.

Having a plan of what do to if there was no power for a few days or you were snowed in is perfectly sensible. And having a very organised nature, I can understand the sense of pleasure having a stocked 'emergency' cupboard could bring.

A lot of the preppers topic goes way, way beyond that. Talk of having many months worth of food stockpiled, hunting for food when you run out, how to seal windows so no outside air can get in...

I don't think the op is saying that the preppers shouldn't have a board but just that the fact that there is a call for a board, that enough people are prepping, worries her.

I agree and hid the topic BUT you can't just tell " hide it!" If people are trying to debate whether mumsnet should be promoting (or letting happen) this kind of semi hysteria that most people would think is odd.

'I thought it was a board to talk about prepping good for Xmas or something

Like how do you store your pre cut carrots or whatever they do in advance '

I suggested that as a thread on the preppers board, considering how hysterical so many get about a fortnight of food and presents and the ettiquette of when to take the muzzle off the MIL.
Those of you that started shopping and fretting in the January sales about the next Christmas and who stockpile from October.

No I think it's the fact that mumsnet think it's a valid topic is very strange.

Anyway if the topic is still active in six months I'll eat my hat

Possible topics for the Prepping board:

Home fire practice: Do you practice getting out the building? Some children choose to hide from fires. Do you teach your children "Get out. Stay out. Get the Fire Brigade out"?

Power Cut Kits: What's in your's? In my cupboard just as I go in is my camping stove, kettle and lighter. I used to have a torch in a certain place but my phone does that now. I've also got a little gas heater. As I camp a lot, most of my camping gear would come in handy, but as I'm in a town my power cuts are only 3 or 4 hours long anyway.

Floods: If you live in a flood area do you know what to do? Are your un-replaceable things like photos kept upstairs?

Car stuff: Can you change a tyre? Do you have jump leads? Tyre sealant? sleeping bag?

Or do you think I for gods sake this is very unlikely to ever happened to me and go and have a cup of tea and a piece of toast

I'm not a worrier but the thread did make me think. We buy fresh food every 3-4 days and really only eat eggs, fruit, vegetables and meat. I think it's more likely that an inch of snow will cause panic buying than any flu pandemic/apocalypse. I've started to but a few bits that I wouldn't normally such as baked beans, bread mixes, powdered milk as a little precaution.

I was one of those that wanted a preppers area, it's something I'm more interested in than handbags at a thousand or more pounds.
Imagine how much foodbank stock one of those could provide funds for on ebay.

How the hell is that at all relevant? As I said earlier, imagine how much food bank stock the preppers could provide without involving eBay.

Oh Christ. People are freaking out a bit it on here now. Fuck off to the topic

Anyway if the topic is still active in six months I'll eat my hat

Make sure you have at least 2 weeks of hats in stock.

I find it unbelievable that people spend extravagant amounts of money on fripperies like handbags and fancy make up, and who pay to have their hair coloured on a monthly or more basis to hide their grey. But it's their money, their lifestyle choices and they are free to do so.
I don't run up and down Style and Beauty with a metaphorical flaming torch screaming 'You are damaging women and setting back the Feminist movement for decades with your shallow choices and it's making me stressed about my grey hair and £20 bag'
Yes, preppers could donate to Foodbanks and many of us do. Likewise giving to charity and campaigning for certain causes that need bringing to the attention of those whose lifestyles mean they are unlikely to ever be touched by basic needs not being met.
We've seen how much care for the poor in society the rich and powerful display when there is no crisis.
It's one little board for a small group who are interested in being prepared for flood, storm, fire, wind or Zombies. Why the feeding frenzy amongst those that aren't?

There are more people on the Preppers board complaining about the Preppers board than there are Preppers. Fucking ridiculous (and pretty arrogant) I think.

There are very few 'serious' discussions about prepping for longer than 72 hours/couple of weeks. There are hardly any discussions about the 'ZA' 'End of the World' except from those people that are complaining/moaning/taking the piss.

There are people on MN that gasp live outside the UK and even more gasp live in 'the wilds' where prepping is a serious and very real and sensible thing. Not for a ZA but for being snowed in for a month or more, or living in the midst of a drought - are they not allowed to post on MN because one of it's members think their concerns are 'strange' or 'hysterical'?

Having lived in a house less than three miles from a fucking huge outlet village and still managing to be completely snowed in with no water supplies for a full week leading up to Christmas in 2010, and living in a village that was completly cut off during the floods of 2006, oh and now living in another village whose access roads are regularly cut off by snow and flood (albeit only for 24/48 hours at a time) I can see quite clearly why it is sensible to be prepared.

There are some people on MN that maybe need to think outside their little Ocado comfy bubble and realise that biggest gasp of all not everyone lives in the same situation as they do.

#handbag

I think Dallas, that everyone here has acknowledged that being prepared for being snowed in etc, especially if you live in the countryside, in very sensible behaviour.

Being prepared to ignore next doors starving toddler because it's their parents fault for not preparing is the action of a twat.

As is assuming that everyone but you sits in their city house waiting for their Ocado delivery. Other people gasp live in the sticks too.

And there are twats in the world of every persuasion. Why would Preppers be any different? It doesn't make all Preppers twats.

Being prepared to ignore next doors starving toddler because it's their parents fault for not preparing is the action of a twat.

If we banned all twattish behaviour, we'd have very little MN left. Certainly no AIBU left at all.

Just a point, but demanding to silence a small group of people who are posting on their own board, minding their own business, is also the action of a twat.

Can you not just leave us be to play with our torches and stack out tins?
Why feel the need to start a
'Squash the paranoid preppers, no of course we're not out to get you, we just want your tiny corner annihilated and then we'll all feel safe' thread.

I wonder if there'd be the same outrage if the response hadn't involved a toddler but a MIL?
What people say online and what they'd do IRL are very different.

I so agree with what GingerIvy wrote -

I don't understand what makes you feel that you have the right to decide they are not allowed to discuss it. They're minding their own business, discussing something practical. If you don't agree with it or it makes you anxious, then take steps to avoid it. Hide the board.

What more is there to say. Just leave them alone ffs!

I had no idea there was a preppers board! This is awesome! I just lost an hour reading through everything and finding links to zombie proof houses and all sorts.

Thank you, OP!

misses point entirely