Why would you

[Bounceyboing]

Go in a national newspaper and advertise your stash?
www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/22/everyone-one-should-prep-the-britons-stocking-up-for-hard-times

if ‘why would you!’ is the question, it’s answered by the people in the article; to prepare for potential shortages caused by Brexit/war/Covid and/or to ensure supplies in case of illness etc.

But showing the world you have it is not a smart idea.

I can understand prepping. My dear old DF always had a War Cupboard so I've been brought up having enough food in to last through things like illness or snow storms.

I've no idea why you'd want to tell everyone where to come if things get desperate for them though

I'm not sure it makes a difference tbh, if the shit does hit the fan the biggest issue will be civil unrest & people will loot regardless.

honestly that's why I don't really see the point (although understand having a stash due to bad winters, economising) of having masses of stuff.

Because they're encouraging others to do the same, I thought?

Also people talk about it on this board so not sure why it's different to the people without a photo in the article?

Also people talk about it on this board so not sure why it's different to the people without a photo in the article?

Surely this is an anonymous forum though?

No one knows I have extra stuff. I'm "just" an invisible grey haired married woman in suburbia with kids and a cat.

Surely this is an anonymous forum though?

There is no photos of three of the people, who knows if the names are real? Plus mumsnets have had data leaks, not everyone uses "burner" emails.

There were photos when I looked though - and names/locations! I get why people prep - I’m on this board - but can’t understand why people would make themselves vulnerable to someone taking from them when/if they need it?

There were photos when I looked though - and names/locations!

Not all though which is what I said & how do you know the names & locations of the ones without photos are accurate?

but can’t understand why people would make themselves vulnerable to someone taking from them when/if they need it?

That doesn't make sense to me. If a crisis hits & we get to the point people are looting do you think said looters will browse last yrs Guardian & decide to go to Birmingham to target Angi? What will happen is looters will go door to door raiding. That's why prepping for doomsday scenarios don't make sense to me.

Although if you have shedloads of money, are trained in hand to hand combat & have access to guns then I get it! 😁

Some of the concern on this thread is funny and very misplaced

you think that if a civil war comes people are going to dig out an old copy of the guardian to look up where to loot someone’s tins of beans from?

its hardly like they’re advertising their stock of cash and diamonds. They’re talking about spaghetti and bottled water fgs

glad I'm not alone @ShirleyPhallus 😆

It's not random looters you need to be worried about but your scrounger acquaintances.

I have enough for me and the kids. And my bin fairy neighbour. But having to share or turn down cf others starts to get difficult.

Eg three packs of pasta does us for 8 meals. Add in ex that's 6 meals. Add the family next door down to less than 3 meals...

No, nobody is going to dig out old copies of the guardian. But if your neighbour was in the paper (any paper) or on telly or wherever, blabbing about what they have stored, you'd remember it. Maybe you'll never need it other people's stores. Maybe there will never be a crisis. . But what if there is. That's why you don't tell anyone you have it. I'm not worried about Gary in Basingstoke who might as well live on the moon compared to where I live. But Phil down the road might remember.

This. People are not going to sit there doing nothing, if they are starving, have no means, all the while, the shops are full of food.

@BlackeyedSusan what is a 'bin fairy neighbour'?!? Autocorrect or is it a thing...?

Didn’t someone try to loot an Aldi in Ireland during covid with a digger? Am pretty sure that if I saw someone I recognised in the paper for having lots of something my family needed but didn’t have it might come to mind. Random strangers from far away not so much.

Not all though which is what I said & how do you know the names & locations of the ones without photos are accurate?

it obviously wasn’t those o Ed I was talking aboyt🙄

But Phil down the road might remember.

As I said before if a neighbour is going to start looting other neighbours they would just go house to house taking what they can. That's what I would do 🤷🏻‍♀️

The reality is if people are starving, rioting or have turned into zombies I'm not going to be browsing my stash debating what I can have for dinner!

What sort of things were in the war cupboard