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Are you doing anything to prepare for a second wave?

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Emlou07 · 31/05/2020 02:16

Historically we are going to get one. Seeing pictures of places rammed is scary.

So if so, what are you doing to prepare? If only to make another potential lockdown a bit easier.

I've been picking up a couple of extra tins a week and some UHT milk. I've also put some bits aside for the kids to keep them entertained.

OP posts:
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 31/05/2020 10:39

@lynsey91 yes, some are and you appear to be one of them.

YahBasic · 31/05/2020 10:40

Definitely more yeast - DH makes incredible pizzas and we’ve been struggling to find any.

Depending on when the second wave is, probably baby clothes. We are hopefully going to be, what people are cringely calling, Quarantine Parents. It seems like multipacks of babygrows are out of stock in a lot of places.

YahBasic · 31/05/2020 10:42

@MilkTrayLimeBarrel are Milk and More now taking new customers again?

I have a lot of friends who were wanting to use them but they haven’t been able to get an account.

Truthpact · 31/05/2020 10:42

You don't need to prepare ffs. It's threads like this that send people in to panic mode and that only leads to chaos. Buy what you need, then the shops don't run out.

That would be the case, if everyone followed that. Unfortunately no one did last time, and they won't this time either. They will buy what they want, not what they need, and we will see people yet again leaving shops with 6 packs of 16 toilet rolls, if the stupid shops let them.

So yeah I'm going to stock up slowly. A few extra tins now and again, make sure I have enough food for the cat, getting some extra food in the freezer if the fresh food runs out again, enough toilet roll for when the idiots clear the shelves again.

lynsey91 · 31/05/2020 10:45

@frazzledfatty yes anyone that doesn't already have a good stock would have to start buying quite a bit extra.

I have had a good stock of food for years, probably 30 years or more. I just like to know that we have food if anything happens - illness, snow, flood, car breakdown, or short of money one month. Not long after we got married we got snowed in and didn't have an awful lot of food so that was one of the factors that made us decide to have a good stock. We lived in Kent at the time and not even in a village so that shows it can happen

I don't have a larder. I only have 3 wall cupboards in the kitchen for food but you can get quite a lot in them. I do have 2 freezers (well 3 if you could the 1 for dog food) but, again, have always frozen milk, bread, home made soup, meals I batch cook.

Things like shampoo, loo roll etc I keep under the bed. We do also have a garage we could store things in but have never had to use it for food

lynsey91 · 31/05/2020 10:46

*@PinkSparklyPussyCat * but you are one of the posters talking about "buying 2 weeks worth of food in one go" aren't you? That is not what the prepared and organised posters are talking about is it?

Howaboutanewname · 31/05/2020 10:49

My cupboards and freezer are full and will remain that way. I have started rotating food so it doesn’t get left. I am more than ready for there to be supply problems or empty supermarkets or difficulties in getting a delivery slot!

LovingLen · 31/05/2020 10:50

DS was swapping jigsaws but they all ran out of ones to swap, I foolishly didn’t know they were in short supply and said it’s ok I’ll buy you one from Amazon, the ones he normally does were £30 instead of about £10, so he didn’t get one as they were too expensive. He is now looking forward to charity shops opening so he can get a new supply, he reckons there will be a glut of them from people doing loads in lockdown.

frazzledfatty · 31/05/2020 10:52

@lynsey91 but then isn't that what you're accusing @pinksparklypussycat off?

I doubt the OP (or many) have been maintaining a stock like you for 30 years. I've not been a adult for anything close to 30 yrs! However the pandemic is here now so if I wanted enough food to last my family a month I would need to do serious mass buying?

ChilliCheese123 · 31/05/2020 10:58

Not much. DP and I have winter clothes coming out of our ears - boots, coats etc and even if there is a second wave in winter, I’d still be able to go into a supermarket or on the mountain warehouse website to get stuff. DD has tons of clothes too. Might get her some next size boots in the sale but that’s what I’d do anyway.

Food wise I never have and never will panic buy. We have never struggled to get food at any point and have actually been eating better than ever.

ITonyah · 31/05/2020 11:02

No one will run out of loo roll now just because I bought a 12 pack not a 9 pack, but should shops run low again we won’t be contributing to the panic because we’ll have enough here already

This is what everyone thought and what caused the run on loo rolls etc last time.

I have no worries about food running out. We have enough money to eat from local independents, a veg patch. I quite enjoy my weekly supermarket shop. If stuff runs out I just buy other stuff 🤷‍♀️

Saladmakesmesad · 31/05/2020 11:03

I’m going to go to my second home as soon as there’s a sniff of lockdown 2.

ITonyah · 31/05/2020 11:05

I also live very rurally and occasionally get snowed in. My preparations are 2 pints of uht milk, some frozen sausages, 8 tins of chopped toms, huge bag of pasta, and then whatever is left in the freezer. After 2 days the village would kick in and everyone would be helping everyone anyway. It's never been a worry.

MargotB7 · 31/05/2020 11:06

Not intentially but just been shopping and when I was putting it away I did realise if we was not allowed to leave the house for a month we'd be okay apart from wine. I haven't got enough wine.

MargotB7 · 31/05/2020 11:07

we were not

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 31/05/2020 11:21

@Yahbasic - I have been a customer for a while but just looked on their website and they are accepting new customers now in some areas. You have to enter your postcode to see if you are in one of these areas. Good luck!

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 31/05/2020 11:25

@Margotb7 - I have ordered wine from Majestic, M&S and a French firm called Vinatis. There were special offers on each site and excellent delivery times. Majestic are now delivering from local stores rather than a central depot and they ring you and check your order, etc.

HuggedTheRedwoods · 31/05/2020 11:40

@countchocula

Why can people just not get on and do their own thing? Why do they need to find an audience to run their lives by?

Exactly!

If everyone just did that there'd be no forums! Grin
Snorkelface · 31/05/2020 11:51

Nothing except sorted out finances as I'm presuming various clients won't survive a second wave (or possibly this one) so will be totally out of work and no more money will come from anywhere. Nothing ran out this time, nothing will next time, if there is a next time, which there probably won't be. The few random bits of cupboard food I bought last time are still in the cupboard. The general population caused (very temporary) shortages, not the virus, not the government, not lockdown. Why do this to yourselves and everyone else?

AnnieCartwright · 31/05/2020 11:58

The only reason why there were shortages in the shops was because of all this prepping.

You are wrong. You are obviously confusing prepping and panic.

I had already prepped way in advance. When it all kicked off, I was able to stay at home.

amijustparanoidorjuststoned · 31/05/2020 12:04

I don't think there will be second wave, controversially.

Numbers will go up slightly, but there won't be another huge peak I don't think. Plus, as PP have mentioned the country can't afford to go in to another lockdown.

I appreciate these might be my famous last words.. but there's rumours that the virus is slowly dying out and that there won't be enough cases to justify paying out for a vaccine. Just another perspective!

2468whodoyouappreciate · 31/05/2020 12:06

I'm joining a gin club so I an at least get 1 bottle a month.
Buying extra tonic every week, well when it's in stock!!

Snorkelface · 31/05/2020 12:14

2468whodoyouappreciate - now you're talking! There's an artisan gin place near me with an amazing window display, hasn't reopened as yet, I press myself against the window (virtually, just in case any one else is doing the same) every time I walk past.

Raaaa · 31/05/2020 13:05

@lynsey91 so you've pulled apart my reasoning, I don't know what I am supposed to take from your comment, is it you're great because you don't waste food or you're trying to persuade me to start two week shopping and to find places in my house to store food.

Il do it my way you can do yours

lljkk · 31/05/2020 13:09

I don't know what a Second Wave is. I even started a thread asking people to define it, and the most specific answer (other than some definitions that I suggested was) "You'll know when you're in it." Which means nothing at all to me.

Anyway, out of fear we will be put into stricter Lockdown, a true house arrest and not able to go out, I am preparing for that by doing as much as I'm allowed as often as possible. So then the next Crackdown might feel a little less awful.