Tipping point for empty shelves and panic buying?

[aimee309]

So do you think we are close to the point when panic buying might start?

[Tiredofit]

When I went to get my prescription a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get the Naproxen. The pharmacist just said there was a problem with it. I collected it yesterday. Today I read that there is a shortage of it and some other meds. Patients are being given ibuprofen instead which I an allergic to. I’m on ordering another prescription today!

[BadlyAgedMemes]

I did see an awful lot of people in Tesco yesterday, who were clearly buying stockpile items. Trolleys with just tins, flour, water, toilet roll, uht milk. No sign of panic, but worried faces, definitely. (There was a very organised lady with a long list of items she was ticking off one by one, taking an older lady around with her, and I might have been eavesdropping a bit, as they were disgussing just how many of what they were both getting... and we hit both the tinned fruit and the flour at the same time...)

[cloudtree]

I had a conversation with a lady in lidl about bread mixes and how long past the BBE date I thought they might last for. She was stocking up for her parents.

[bellinisurge]

My Remain voting in-laws are not getting anything more than usual because they lived through similar shit in the 70s and can't be doing with it. Also, they don't have spare cash. Which is code for DH and I to look after them. My parents are both dead.
So I said they will just have from us. What looked like a plentiful stash at our house now looks like it needs topping up.

[cloudtree]

And that's the problem isn't it. You plan for what you need but if you have to share it with others it is suddenly not nearly enough.

[otheractivities]

There is a preppers thread on Money Saving expert , they have been predicting the end end of the world is nigh for at least the last 10 years
They are going to be mightily pissed off if there is no world disaster within the next 50 years or so

[cloudtree]

I lurk on the MSE prepping threads. There is a general prepping thread and a prepping for brexit thread. The regular contributors are all staunch (and quite aggressively vocal) leavers and so they have a slightly different take on things than the MN prepping threads.

[bellinisurge]

@otheractivities , I'm a general prepper. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see a no-problem-Brexit. You don't need to be a prepper to prep for Brexit.
Snarky observations about how anyone who prepares for Brexit is a paranoid fool is unhelpful. If you can provide concrete and reliable proof that everything is going to be fine, go ahead. Otherwise, not sure what help you are to anyone who is concerned.

[KateArronax]

I am tidying up cupboards so they fit more stuff in but saying little as my husband would no doubt laugh at me for stocking up.

I have a laugh myself and was thinking of Richard Madeley's Millennium Cupboard as I was rearranging stuff yesterday, but I'm still doing it!

No obvious shopping going on that I've seen, uht shelves are still full but I've not been in a properly big supermarket lately.

[BrieAndChilli]

i havnt told DH i am prepping, we have a largecupboard that houses the tall fridge and has selves for tins and dry goods etc. ive been slowly stocking up the tins etc and putting stuff befind the fridge and on the top back shelf that you cant see behind all the cereals.
im not being a world is ending bug out type of prepper but just making sure we have a good supply of food so if theres empty shelves during brexit/we ge snowed in/ get made redundant we will be able to feed the kids. it will all get rotated and eaten, i ust need to make sure i replace things as we use them rather tan waiting for the cupboad to be empty before i restock.

[AnotherShirtRuined]

@otheractivities So have various religions for thousands of years. I don't see why that should stop anyone from a bit of rational forward planning if they so choose. Journos fuck off. Most reasonable preppers view their preps much as home insurance. Personally I hope to never have a house fire or flood. But I have insurance just in case. Same with Brexit. I hope everything goes swimmingly but I have a few things put by if it doesn't. What so wrong about that?

[KateArronax]

People arrange their homes as they see fit and to me proper preppers are giving themselves tangible insurance.

I pay cash to have have bits of paper as insurance policies, a prepper lifestyle is more understandable compared to that!

[KateArronax]

Cross post Another!

[otheractivities]

bellinisurge Fri 18-Jan-19 15:33:43
@otheractivities , I'm a general prepper. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see a no-problem-Brexit. You don't need to be a prepper to prep for Brexit.
Snarky observations about how anyone who prepares for Brexit is a paranoid fool is unhelpful. If you can provide concrete and reliable proof that everything is going to be fine, go ahead. Otherwise, not sure what help you are to anyone who is concerned.


I suspect nothing would give you greater pleasure than being proved right . My post was one example of how people have been posting that we need to hoard stuff because of x, y or z is going to bring the world crashing down
These types of threads encourage panic buying and can cause a great deal of stess and upset to vunerable people . I believe it is an extreme form of attention seeking
Perhaps you could provide concrete proof that everything wont be fine?

[bellinisurge]

Good lord. You obviously haven't read all the calm the fuck down posts I have been doing. Suggest people get three days of shelf stable supplies in. Any more is up to them. Is what I have said repeatedly.
But hey, make shit up if it makes you happy.

[Whatthefoxgoingon]

Perhaps you could provide concrete proof that everything wont be fine?

Seeing as you can’t provide any concrete proof that they will be fine, why should anyone give your opinion any more credence than another joe bloggs of the street?

[bellinisurge]

There have been a few popping up. I prefer to think it is some people with genuine strongly held views rather than disrupters with a strategy. But, ye never know.

[AwdBovril]

Anyone buying flour - make sure you store it properly. This site gives some tips on improving the storage life of flour. Apparently you can also decant it into a plastic tub & freeze it, this will further extend the storage life. Not sure how it would cope with any power cuts & partial thawing & refreezing though. TBH, I'm going to start doing this with all my flour anyway. I'm fed up with having to throw half bags of flour away.

[SnuggyBuggy]

Apparently even freezing for 48 hours and thawing kills weevil eggs. I had a nasty incident in my cupboard recently from a newly bought unopened bag of flour so I'm definitely doing that from now on.

[ShirtyFlirty]

^^

[Pinotwoman82]

Thanks for the Facebook group I have requested to join. I already have a few tins of beans, tuna and tinned fruit on top of the fridge, but I really need to start properly