Is DH being unreasonable to think we should start hoarding ?

[oldandgreynow]

He is worried about what is going to happen to the economy after the 'window dressing' which has gone on in the runup to the election ends.he thinks we should start hoarding non perishable food incase there is a devaluation in the currency ,we can't import anything and there are food shortages.I can see this is a remote posssibility but surely very unlikely and most likely we'll end up with loads of stuff we don't like cluttering the house!

I don't think I'd survive long in a post-apocalyptic world, with or without zombies or George Osborne running amok. I was quite depressed recently after reading an old sci-fi book with an "end of civilisation" plot - the survivors in it seemed to have no problem siphoning petrol from abandoned cars, starting a fire in the damp woods, killing and preparing a rabbit dinner, and making their way across country without so much as a compass (never mind a satnav) to get to their bolthole where they could start serious farming to rebuild a little patch of civilisation.... I'd be stuck trying to break the window of the corner shop to get the chocolate stash and have no clue what to do next

Pedro - I am experimenting with making an automatic knife and stick sharpening machine from a hairdryer and a pumice stone. I'll let you know when I have a good prototype and a clear set of instructions which can be followed in any home.

Right, well we're happy to start digging, maybe an escape route to Australia could be useful (and we have slatted bed bases for shoring the tunnels up too).

Also willing start whittling down next door's sycamore either for spears and/or a spot of pole vaulting across the fen ditches (suspect zombies would struggle at this without any arms).

And I think every MNetter would probably consider her/his duty to hoard emrgency chocolate (checked my hospital bag last night and have more chocolate than newborn nappies so happy to distruibute in emergencies).

AMumInScotland - that sounds like a fab book.
What was it called?
I had a book out from the library recently all about zombie plans and survival techniques but I forgot to read it as I never took it out of my bag!! It's not looking good for my survival chances is it?

Brilliant thinking Dumpyoldwoman.

Where can I get thousands of marbles to throw over my driveway so the zombies fall over in the manner of the Keystone Cops?

Scary thought of the day - does chocolate attract zombies? Could we all inadvertantly be drawing them in?

BookAnt - it was called "The Death of Grass", but I should probably point out that the "hero" also had to learn how to use a gun and had to make some unpleasant choices, so it wasn't the cheeriest book ever!

My mom has an emergency box thing in the back of her car. Batteries, canned food, water, Tylenol, flashlight, and chocolate, of course! Yes, we all laughed at her. And then she was stuck because of an earthquake.

Rofl Pedro

Pedro - you want marbles, let me introduce you to my son...

We can also pave the entire road with lego - the zombies will get sore feet from walking on it and it will slow them down.

Unless the zombies are able to adapt to new terrain and develop lego friendly feet?

oooh waitrose for teh mumsnetters!

oooh waitrose for teh mumsnetters!

These here bananas - do they have to be smartprice or can i use my vouchers to buy M &S ones that will last a bit longer ? (apologies for only reading the first dozen or so poats)

The most painful thing known to man is standing on a piece of Lego in bare feet.

We will keep that as our secret weapon

Ooh or use plugs to stop them in their tracks. Standing on a plug in the middle of the night is the bane of my life - hurts like a bugger. Why I don't just put the straighteners away after I have used them I don't know.

Although, just a thought - do zombies feel pain?

Just made a zombie dance on a three pin plug AND a piece of Lego - didn't even blink.

Dagnamit.

Switch to Plan B

What is Plan B?

ROFL at Bookants bro - that is the funniest, most British thing I've heard in ages

I think we've missed the point here. It's not the zombies we have to worry about. I'm more worried about the Daleks. They can get up stairs now.

But I can grow things (two gardens full of veg); can build a fire in the woods, can navigate (a little) and bake a wicked chocolate & brandy cake so I could join Pedro's gang.

Don't know how to siphon petrol from a car though so that's a skill I would have to learn....

I am stockpiling blue clothing in case the Tories get in and enforce their law that everyone wears blue. Have also booked my blue rinse appointment.

I know how to siphon petrol.

And how to rig up a plastic sheet over a small depression of sand in the desert in order to gather condensation as drinking water.

I am planning to stock up on a range of 'No Frills pot noodles' and 'Value sausage rolls' goods to hold up at the windows and repel Tweedy Tory Looters. And in place of Holy Water I will sprinkle them with diluted Panda Cola (the blue sort) from an upstairs wirndow with a watering can.

We once had to siphon petrol from a car when DH filled it up with diesel instead of petrol, so I think you might need me.

Certainly never thought at the time that his stupidity would come in useful in a zombie plan.

I shall look and act very hard and tough (think Linda Hamilton in Terminator) and spin my AK47 like a majorette's baton in between firing shots but pleeeease can I go all girly if the army turns up to rescue us?

Would the thing I use to siphon off the fish tank work? Must keep it somewhere handy....

Hama beads are the devil's work, they must have some sort of crucial role to play in any anti-zombie plan. Ideas anyone?