My family laugh at my stockpiling

[Maykid]

Whenever I mention Brexit my family snigger .I have a stockpile of food in case of no deal and to be fair they have been fine about that, but I know I am just being humoured.

In my mind its the words stock piling. Brings images to me of rooms full of provisions.

I know some more serious preppers have dedicated stores (and more stocks than I ) that would last longer but really its not really any different to what i would do around times when i know i am not going to want to keep nipping out to the shops every few days (like christmas or bad weather forecasts).

If its stuff that you are going to eat anyway and you have the space and the money to buy a few extras here and there then i dont see what harm being prepared does. Thats all Ive been doing. A few things here and there - stocking up just as i would do at the start of the month.

I dont think anyone is advocating renting out a warehouse and storing mountains of stuff.

So OP id just ignore them. Or dont tell them.

My local supermarket are out of baked beans by 9:30 each morning now because people are stocking up on them. So I think the amount of people that are doing it should make the whole thing less funny to others!

Do they also laugh at people stockpiling medicine they need?

I'd be interested to know if all stockpilers voted Remain? Remainers and Leavers seem to be seeing this whole Brexit mess through very different lenses.

I certainly have not got a warehouse full😆, just a couple of boxes in my wardrobe!

Stockpiling to me isn’t 2 boxes, its a spare room full or garage full of stuff.

KennDodd, yes I voted remain and still would.
I do have a stockpile of my medication which I rely on daily. It gives me peace of mind.

greendale, they are large boxes! Perhaps stockpile was the wrong word, but it is certainly a pile of food I don’t normally keep in the house.

When/if it all goes tits up ask the sniggerers where their emergency supplies are.

I’ve got more than that in my larder at all times, so in my books you’re totally sensible. Ignore the naysayers, they are the ones who whine if the rosemary runs out on Christmas Eve.

And I live in central London where amazon prime will deliver within two hours if I run out of anything. But I’m not stupid enough to rely on something like that always being available.

I'm also stockpiling medication. Luckily Pharmacy2U don't seem to be checking the frequency you're ordering.

I work in a small nursing home. They don't seem to have made any provisions. I'm kind of prepping for them too now, but a) family and friends first, and b) the older grneration seem to be fussier - not lovers of pasta, rice or noodles which is about a quarter of my stock.

thinks are disappearing into corners and hidey holes here. All stuff we use anyway, all stuff I would buy when on offer (branston beans, 3 or 4 for £1 on tinned beans and chopped tomatoes, coffee) the trick is now to keep it all topped up and rotated!

one family member has scoffed. he scoffs at everything as an apprentice teenager. ah you've got to love 'em.

Stashing food. Families laughing. Response=ignore them.

If these threads and the replies are legit, I worry for all your offspring.
Only takes one loony to take it to the next level.

If stockpiling makes you feel more comfortable, do it and just ignore them.

If everything is fine in April, cut back on the shopping, use up the stash of food and treat yourself with the difference.

I think it’s conpletelt generational as well. So my I laws live off tinned and fried food and bread and hardly any fresh stuff, so they will always have a fairly well stocked larder and wouldn’t change their diet much. And tbehwluld be the people wanting bread and milk.
My diet is mainly salad and fresh vegetable heavy. I’d not miss bread and milk but I’d struggle living on tinned stuff. So I’m trying to freeze veg. I won’t tell family who will laugh at me, then expect to come round and me to give them half my stock to help them out.

You worry for our offspring? Mine have had years of expecting me to have an answer/plaster/emergency snack/rocket launcher as required.
The interesting thing is now, as adults, they too have a plan, a back-up plan and an emergency plan when heading into situations. Only one of them was a scout, but both believe in Be Prepared.
Constable Benton Fraser of the RCMP was an early role model.

Our offspring will be warm, fed and well lit during a storm/power cut.

It pays to be prepared.

There's an awesome movie called Blackout on Netflix about a power cut. Also there's American Blackout which shows diffetent types of people trying to cope. There was a yuppie couple who only had swordfish and champagne in the fridge and didn't own a tin opener.

@ArmchairTraveller , love the Due South reference

Me too. Plus loving your great advice, Bellini, and the patience you've shown in repeating it.

@Defenbaker thank you. I'm afraid my patience has pretty much worn out. Glad I have been useful, though.

Bellini, I’ve admired your civility with quite unpleasant posters who just want to shout rude comments and yell ‘haha’ You’ve remained polite and calm. Let’s hope none of our prepping is needed in April, and that all will be well.
But if it isn’t, many of us will be looking for further advice.

My swearing has been reserved for the politics threads (mainly). And the air around me.
I am concerned that people in low incomes in particular felt excluded. I am also concerned that people think it's all about buying spam [shudders] or making massive philosophical changes to who they are.
It's not. But I think it would be irresponsible of me now to suggest people buy a three day buffer because they probably can't now do it carefully and tin by extra tin or whatever with their normal shop. Buying from scratch sounds a bit panicky.

I was a student for a few years, OH for almost a decade. So if necessary, I’ll revive many of those very inexpensive recipes we lived happily on for years. Fortunately, there are a number of good websites and advocates - Jack Monroe springs to mind - to balance my 1970s Rose Elliot lentils.
It’s the change in mindset that many struggle with. As I said, let’s hope it’s all for nothing, because some things hold true throughout history. The poor are always the ones who lose. The forward planners are always doubted.

If people buy an extra meals worth per week from now thats six weeks so about two days. I've been gradually building up a cupboard and would be ok for about two months but quite bored and I'd lose a bit of weight.

Just putting it out there that I've got enough stockpiled so that if Benton Fraser wants to bunker down with me - I'll have him covered literally.

I've been rather enjoying this - from a health pov I'm becoming a lot more inventive in the kitchen and am learning to use more dried foods rather than just grabbing stuff from the chilled section. It's also meant that even though stockpiling - I'm actually saving money!