Looking at the 'stockpiling' threads..

[EinsteinaGogo]

Is there genuinely ANYONE who could afford to get a couple of weeks shopping into the house, who hasn't?

And if so, WHY?

@ghostee

And this will be my last response to you as this interaction is as much sense and use as a chocolate fireguard

Or is it because you can't justify your stance when challenged?

If one were being cynical...

I havnt cos I cant be bothered. Last time the supermarkets withstood the stress test.
I'm not worried about supplies running out.

@Poppinjay stop deflecting. I didn't name them & said up thread I was none them. Why can't you define them?

Have a small, gradually obtaining stockpile of basics. Will probably, slowly gather one over time for Brexit, but I don't see the need to do it now and will probably do that at Costco and not local supermarket. We have a number of family close by, so if we have to isolate we can easily get someone to pick up a shop for us if it came to that.

@ghostee no it’s because this thread just goes round in circles and clearly me and the other poster don’t agree so why keep arguing the same opinion using slightly different phrases? It’s going nowhere and clearly we aren’t going to change our minds so why keep the dialogue going.

Why can't you define them?

I agree with the definitions set out by yesthese. Why do they need to be tighter?

It's funny how we're on page 16 and people still don't get the difference between a well stocked pantry that has some float in it and panic buying as a knee jerk response.

Until I came on Mumsnet I thought prepping was a thing done by people obsessed about surviving the apocalypse. It never crossed my mind that having a small buffer in my pantry just in case life throws us a curve ball, or someone is unwell or we can't get out to the shops etc was anything other than pantry management.

I found it bizarre that there's people who seem to think they have a shiny badge for only having the exact number of items they plan to eat that week in their cupboards, as if somehow it's a morally superior choice than someone buying a multipack of chopped tomatoes or an extra pack of pasta every few weeks because they've then got some spare for a just in case tea.

Why would you do this @EinsteinaGogo?

@ghostee

Most people on this thread don't understand the difference between stockpiling and panic buying it seems.

I definitely don't understand the difference. What is it?

Buying a few things as you go along does not mess it up for anyone else,

Surely it depends on the numbers who do this. If everyone tmw bought 1 extra tin, 1 extra pack etc then stocks would deplete.

Plus I don't understand the process of 1 extra tin here & there which somehow manifests itself into a 2 month stockpile. Surely you need to be adding an extra item for like a yr prior to build this amount up?

Yes, lots of us have been adding a tin here and there for well over a year. We are now able to stay well out of the way, leaving available stock for those who did not or could not do this.

That's the difference.

@Wheneverwhereve then say that then

It isn't an opinion that this thread doesn't implicitly exclude long term stockpilers, it's a fact.

@LangClegsInSpace so people who didn't do it a year ago and started this month or in the Summer are?

@Rudolphian - this is genuine curiosity, but if track and trace phone you in the morning or a member of your household goes down ill overnight - whats the plan for the next 14 days?

My mother shopped a few times a week when we were kids, never had anything much in the cupboards and was indifferent when we ran out of stuff.
I remember going to a friend’s house as a teenager, seeing a full freezer for the first time and thinking ‘Bloody hell, that’s a good idea’
And that was probably the beginning of my prepping path.

[quote ghostee]@Yesthesearemymonkeys so what about the people who didn't start 4 yrs ago & started now? [/quote]
Nowhere in my post did I encourage people to start now.

I've always had extra in. So when I open a tub of peanut butter, I buy a new one. If the baked beans I like are on offer, I buy them. It saves me a) running out and b) buying stuff I use all the time/like at higher price. Even if I don't need beans, if they're £1 cheaper it makes more sense to buy them now than wait until they run out and buy them at normal price

Lockdown was horrific, I was shielding and couldn't get a food shop for a month. Thankfully the council dropped some fresh stuff off and I lived off the freezer/cupboards. It's not changed the way I shop except I always have extra UHT milk in now

I can afford to buy as many groceries as I want, but I am a responsible member of society so I refuse to stockpile at the expense of those who can’t afford to do so.

It is not compulsory to be a selfish, inconsiderate prick.

@Poppinjay because some people are talking about having enough for 2 weeks of self isolation, some people clearly are talking about much bigger reserves. And as @CrappleUmble the context is in relation to where we are now, not people stocking up 10 yrs ago.

I don't see the point of stockpiling when there's always been food in the supermarkets. I'm not going to die because I didn't hoard tins of soup, this isn't the apocalypse.

Because there is no need to stockpile! It’s selfish and greedy. Already the toilet roll is gone of shelves it’s madness.

@Yesthesearemymonkeys I never said you did. I just wondered what category they fell under, because there were threads early Sept about prepping. Are they prepping or panic buying?

I think we always have enough food in to last at least two weeks , yeah we might not have fresh milk etc but we wouldn’t starve

I'd just like to point out to everyone saying that there was plenty in their supermarket, that there certainly wasn't in ours.

Meat, fine, milk fine.

Any kind of fruit or vegetable? Tinned, frozen and fresh picked bare for a couple of weeks.

Any form of carbohydrate? Nope.

Oh, I tell a lie. There was a single tin of tomatoes. I wouldn't let my husband pick it up because we could do without because we had a well stocked cupboard.

so people who didn't do it a year ago and started this month or in the Summer are?

How many extra things are they buying?

How often are they buying them?

Did they stop when the panic buying started?

Did they buy things that other people were panic buying at the same time?

Did they buy more when they saw that stocks were low?

Are they people who would want to isolate if the R number increased again?

What about the people who only started when they heard about Covid but stopped when the panic buying started?

We could make a spreadsheet that covers all the different variables. Would that help?

Apparently google images can't tell the difference between preppers & stockpilers or panic buyers & stockpilers but I've tried my best. 😆

A - stockpilers
B - preppers
C - panic buyers