Should we be Prepping in case there's WW3?

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It wouldn't hurt to get a few extra food supplies in (of the non perishable sort). Would it?
Or is it being ott.

I bet the shops love people like me

The problem with stocking up, as someone has already pointed out, is it just makes you a target. Rather than beans or tinned nectarines, you'd be better off with 100Kg of those red Quality Streets that nobody ever wants.

Nope i have no wish to be role playing a character in 'The Road' thank you.
In any case i dont have the room for stocking up😀

Hoarding stuff is all very well but even medical stuff goes out of date after a few years. Do you keep throwing stuff out and replacing it?

Now if we are talking zombie apocalypse then bring it on and anyone messing with kids and I can just look at the flowers 😁

her

well, it's not something to be advised, right?

Plus, we obviously had several rifles. (well, like everyone else in our tiny little village.)

Think of all the raping and pillaging that will be going on.

You just need to look at the news when the power goes out in some cities - the raiding and looting.

Anarchy will rule. Law and order long gone.

Hardened criminals will likely fare the best.

My problem with stockpiling is use by dates. I can hardly keep up with some long lasting items at home, let alone making sure a huge stockpile doesn't spoil.

Lweji

You need a schedule (is that the English word? I know that I misspelled it, but I don't know the right spelling... Oh well.)

It's actually quite easy. Buy in bulk. Label the dates clealry. Make a tabel and keep using it before it goes off (and then replace it).

I don't intend to suffer from a nuclear bomb landing on our house. I am going to shelter under the table with a saucepan on my head.

I think use by dates are why American preppers stockpile things like MREs that can last 10 years or so? And there are specialist food manufacturers that supply bulk huge tins of stuff for prepping that have long expiration dates.

Yes! Cakes

We used to have similar things. (I used to love them as a child).
But seriously, as long as everything is in order and you dedicate about a day each semester it isn't that difficult.

I just looked and some of it has 25 year shelf life! (The USA suppliers)

what had got them through the siege was working together to survive, psychologically as well as physically - not stockpiling tinned tuna and dreaming up fantasies of how to fight off next door's eight-year-olds

Hurrah for the voice of sanity!

Hardened criminals will likely fare the best
indeed, those with weapons will just raid all the preppers

Family Julia would be ok-I've just pricked out 100 bastard cauliflower seeds. And that's only half the seed tray.

Haven't read the thread. We live in Inner London. Chances of surviving a direct hit are zero (I hope). Accordingly, I can see no point in prepping whatsoever. If by some awful chance we didn't die immediately I'd want to go asap after that.

I suppose I could gather together a weeks food. But what about water? As a family of 6 we can't store a months water. Or probably even a weeks. What happens then?
And I agree with the people that say you will get targeted. There would be mutiny abd people with guns at your door. If it gets to that stage we are all fucked.

All the worst murderers, rapists and paedophiles will be spilling out of the prisons that can no longer hold them...... apocalyptic indeed!

Mes

You could purify water (well, depending on what's in the water).

Well, tbh. The safest bet (I'm not talking about a nuclear strike btw. I hope we would go quickly, preferably in our sleep) would be to get out of the city ASAP, right?

As for the weapons... Well, we do have hunting knives and cricket bats (because of DH. not to be uses as weapons). Still no chance against guns. Which in the UK only criminals have...

We have a custom built underground bunker with secret access from a bookcase in the drawing room. It's stocked out with 12 months worth of food, water, toiletries and medical supplies for 5 people. It has a filtered air, water recycling system, electricity, heating, bathroom, bedrooms, small gym, oh, and of course board games and books. Once a week we all practice our drill of evacuating to the bunker in less than two minutes. Yay! We're prepared! Er... as long as we are all actually in the house when the nuclear war heads are on their way... And we haven't quite figured out what to do if there are any visitors round...

Morals will be out the window. We’ll be shagging each other left right and centre trying to make ourselves feel all vital and alive. Mr Perkins from No. 17 who used to nag you about the bins will transform into an object of major desire.

‘Let’s make tonight count Mr Perkins, for who knows what tomorrow will bring’

Mr Perkins from No. 17 who used to nag you about the bins will transform into an object of major desire

LOL!

I'd rather die immediately, with my ideals and civilised way of life as my last memory, rather than drag out another few weeks or months in a Lord of the Flies world, watching my loved ones suffer before we all die anyway.

Small emergencies I'm prepped for

Ww3 though (or zombie apocalypse) and it'll be the shitload of morphine and a bottle of gin.

There's not much inhabitants from Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have done, apart from flying very fast before hell started. I'd take a direct hit any day over radiation sickness, and that's not even going to the list of over horrors you can be contaminated with.

I read somewhere that you should learn some sort of traditional craft. You are then useful/ valuable. IT will be useless, but spinning thread......

I think i'll try and learn flint napping then