To be annoyed at my husband's prepping?

[Laura199]

My DH is a prepper. He has tins of food stockpiled in our pantry to last for years. He knows I'm not really on board with it, but each to their own and I'm fine with jt as long as it doesn't impact on our household finances/ life/ space.

I also think we should be rotating his "stockpile" and not leaving things there for years. He says all of his tins are fine for 30 years.

He buys things we don't eat like tinned chicken??? And army ration packs (we have a full suitcase of this).

He's just had a delivery this evening of another 100 tins of food. We have no space for this and I'm at the end of my tether. Aibu??

Do you ever notice how, maybe not so much in places where it happens most years, but places where heavy snow is a novelty, the shops sell out of bread, milk and toilet rolls as the first heavy snow happens?

Not the 2-3 days before when there are weather forecasts that it's coming, or even the day before when weather warnings go out (maybe a little then)...but mostly on the day that snow starts to settle properly and people feel they may need to stay home, no school etc?

Plenty of people just get an extra bottle of milk in that week's shopping, and already have a few spare toilet rolls and some part-baked rolls or ingredients to make bread, or are happy to walk to local shop for a loaf and some fresh air.

But there are always photos of bread men being accosted for deliveries and shop shelves emptied out the morning after any kind of "snowmageddon" event.

Weaner ninny 😂

This thread is gas.

I am all for having food in the house, but the kindness in people comes out in hard times. I think it would be embarrassing to have food and supplies and not share them. Not many could do it. Covid showed me that.

When it starts to get extreme though, there's usually some paranoid nonsense about the end of civilisation or a zombie apocalypse, then it's a problem.

"Zombie apocalypse" or "when the zombies come" is a prepper in-joke. It means any emergency of significant duration.
Obviously not meant to be taken literally - unless you actually believe in zombies.

But yes, hoarding or extreme prepping (not the same thing) are usually caused by mental health issues.