To think they shouldn’t be advertising that they’re stocking up for Brexit?

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So with Brexit approaching, some people (including me) are concerned about the possibility of food shortages etc afterwards.

One of my Facebook friends has started posting photos on Facebook of them stocking up.

Photos of crates and crates filled with a variety of tinned food, dried food, UHT milk, bottled water and other drinks, toiletries, medicines etc.

With comments along the lines of “we’re stocking up for Brexit, we’ll be ok”

I think they’re daft.
Not about the stocking up, I’m buying in extra stuff just in case too - but I think it’s daft to be telling hundreds of people on Facebook.

If things get to the point where shelves are bare and they’re reliant on their stash of food, then there’s now loads of other people who know they’ve got loads of non-perishable food stashed. People who might be very hungry.

AIBU to think that telling everyone about your food hoarding is a really bad idea if you’re planning for possible food shortages?

mobyduck

No why?

You really do have a very privileged life
And you have this information from what? Knowing me personally? Knowing how much money i have? knowing where i live?
Or taking a massive stab in the dark just because i gradually built up extra food over the last 12 years or so since having children.

*TheElementsSong - thank you!!
That's pretty much the first time I've smiled all day.

I feel really cross that I appear to be stranded on an island, surrounded by fuckwits who totally refuse to consider that, just maybe, some of the people who are paid lots of money to plan these things, might be correct, and there just may be some negative outcomes to all this.

I'm also hideously miserable as I see no end to the arguing about it all. This is our lives for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for lightening my mood

So why have you been so sneery about other people doing it with their focus on Brexit?
I'm a general prepper. It's my thing. I don't expect everyone to do my thing but I have given helpful advice where I can rather than sneering. It's not a bloody competition.

My local Co-Op sells British wine. It’s not bad for £3.99.

Maybe I should be patriotic and stockpile some?

I have told a handful of close friends and family because I've advised them to do the same and start stockpiling. However all of them have said 'jokingly' if things run out, we know where to come

So why have you been so sneery about other people doing it with their focus on Brexit?

Let me help you with that, bellini - I think it's something like this...

If you buy extra stuff because it's on offer and you're a thrifty person who is generally careful with money, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because there might be bad weather coming and you've been snowed in before, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because you're an old-fashioned organised sort who likes a well-stocked pantry and like menu-planning and batch-cooking, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because you're concerned about supply chain disruption in the wake of a No Deal crash-out Brexit, YOUR NEGATIVE THINKING WILL MAKE A BREXIT FAIRY DIE!!!!

(really poor areas) vans pull up and are suddenly surrounded by people looking a bargain. Have you never actually seen that?

Not ever seen. Is this the part where I confess to being foreign? I obviously don't hang out on the right street corners. Or I am outed as metropolitan elite. Would really poor people want to buy snobby food, or even lentils and flour??

(in my old neighbourhood, immigrant heavy) We had Travellers come to the door every year selling rugs, but no random vans discharging random stuff. Bangladeshi women went to their own Halal stores (amazing fish!) & rest of us went to supermarkets.

So why have you been so sneery about other people doing it with their focus on Brexit
becaus some people are putting financial pressures on themselves for no reason. they're also getting scared over something that will not happen

So why have you been so sneery about other people doing it with their focus on Brexit
because some people are putting financial pressures on themselves for no reason. they're also getting scared over something that will not happen

Quite. No Deal won't happen, MPs may be untrustworthy, but they are not suicidal.

PositivelyPERF he thinks it’s a good idea and says he hopes we don’t need it, but he thinks we probably will, even if it’s only to mitigate against increasing prices a bit.

"becaus some people are putting financial pressures on themselves for no reason. they're also getting scared over something that will not happen"

Which is why have been advising people to do it slowly and as is appropriate to their budget using 3days as their target. And as for "that will not happen", tell the MoD not to bother either.

I've not heard anyone say they are suffering financially due to preparedness. Where have you heard that? Most people are adding a few bits here and there over time so anything from an extra tin of beans to a stocking the freezer with veg. No ones mentioned loads of meat or fish. It's all been relatively cheap and cheerful store cupboard and freezer items. Some weeks I'm better off than others and I buy more but I've certainly not put myself under any financial pressure to prepare.

Sorry themoomoo, I worded that badly. I only mean in the sense that you can trust your neighbours.

lljkk Why would any of that even cross my mind? You’re being a little sensitive. I live inNI and maybe the few areas I’ve seen these vans are more common than where you live.

Ninoo25 it really helps if you’re supported by your husband, otherwise you’d have to lock yourself in a room, eating it, while he stares forlornly through the window.

Let me guess.... y'all live in places where there are dodgy guys down t'pub selling cases of baked beans for £2.

Well I don't live there any more, but I have been asked if I want to buy cheese and meat from dodgy guys in the pub.

(What? Apart from the fact it's obviously stolen, you've been storing it inside your hoodie for god knows how long! No, thankyou.)

I hope all these preppers keep their username in future one way or another, but I doubt they will.

I'm a remainer and voted unlike some on here, but I am turned off by the ill educated shite spouted by the vocal remainers on here.

Why not keep my name. I'm ready to come on and say I was wrong. Egg on my face is a small price to pay if there is stability of food supply and general positive economy

I hope all these preppers keep their username in future one way or another, but I doubt they will Why wouldn’t I?

but I am turned off by the ill educated shite spouted by the vocal remainers on here

Thankfully I don’t a flying fuck what you think.

I hope all these preppers keep their username in future one way or another, but I doubt they will. I'm a remainer and voted unlike some on here, but I am turned off by the ill educated shite spouted by the vocal remainers on here.

Either a bizarre threat, or, nah, just damn weird

Say, for the sake of discussion, there's no disruption whatsoever post Freedom Day, goods and supplies flow seamlessly and effortlessly as they did before the crash out and nobody detects any difference in daily logistics. All "forward purchases" are thereby rendered unnecessary. What do the fervent anti-preppers imagine will happen to the prepared goods in that joyous instance? Ceremonial immolation? [confusion] Or, just maybe, the stuff will just get eaten gradually anyway? And, correspondingly, a period of time of lower shopping bills.

I mean, you do understand that it is only sensible to purchase stuff you're actually going to use, yes? (This means, for prepping newbies, DO NOT buy 3000 tins of pickled sea urchins unless you like sea urchins).

A further note for aliens:
This applies to other precautionary behaviours too. If you have secured your seatbelt and you do not experience a car crash, or if you have purchased a fire extinguisher and your house does not burn down, or if you have home contents insurance and you are not burgled, it is not considered essential to be so ashamed of your negativity that you have to assume a new identity.

DO NOT buy 3000 tins of pickled sea urchins unless you like sea urchins)

discreetly covers tins with sheet

People talking about stockpilers being embarrassed later seem not to get that food costs increase over time generally. If you buy all the tinned and packet food you'll use for the year in January, it'll probably cost you a bit less than it would if you bought it as needed throughout the year. Even in the absolute best case scenario economically, ie cancelling Brexit and staying in, that would probably still be the case. Slightly cheaper annual food spend than if you'd not prepped is a win.

I change my name most weeks incidentally, so I'll be enjoying my cheaper shopping bills/brave new world with a different moniker whatever happens.

discreetly covers tins with sheet

I used to roll eyes at Brexit prep. But then I remembered that people are stocking up for christmas when shops are closed for 1 day with 5 4pint bottles of milk and 5 loaves of bread. For ONE day closed...
Now I just wonder where did that habbit come from?

*My local Co-Op sells British wine. It’s not bad for £3.99.

Maybe I should be patriotic and stockpile some?*

After VAT, duty, logistics, are taken into account, with a £5 bottle of wine you get 37p worth of wine, with a £20 bottle, you get £7 worth of wine. That Co-wine is worth about 30p.