My Missus Doesnt Take Prepping Seriously

[RichT]

Its nice to know I am not on my own, lots of good advice for me to use on the wife

thanks

Rich.

[tatguy]

I dont normally post here but thought i would add to this thread
the wife lol
mine is amazing when it comes to preps after i came back from the u.s as i work away and im a tat artist had a gap in getting cash to her and the kids she then told me she was going to have to "stock up" incase it happend again she is now a full on prepper has been for 5yrs plus puts up with me and all my ways lol

[izzy_mack]

my family think i'm nuts, so I just tell them things were on special offer.I have a lot more stashed away than they know, which bothers me but there's only so much ridicule I can take. Try and talk to your wife, I tried with my husband but as we're always tight for money, he is more concerned with today. But as I read on another post," prepping is a state of mind". If you have to, do it alone and concentrate on the things you CAN do , making bug plans, learning skills that will be useful etc. Good luck.

[Plymtom]

There is always that danger that TPTB will appropriate any resource, your house, your stuff, even you in a crisis, in a desperate attempt to maintain control and get through whatever it is, so in some ways it is possible to be over prepared, or preparing for others whether you intended to or not, the same goes if you plan to bug in-have to bug out and can't carry all your stuff- if things are that bad then as soon as you're away your stuff will be being appropriated by whoever knows you've got it or whoever finds it first, if the situation is that desperate the people will be looking for it including TPTB.
Remember we are in the UK if push comes to shove even what rights we think we have left will be out of the window under emergency powers, all one has to do is imagine yourself in their position and do it in a realistic manner.

[lonewolf]

as far as TPTB go with only 136,000 Police and 82,000 troops (even if they all report for duty post SHTF-which is debateable) they are going to be spread too thinly to do anything more than hang onto places like London and Birmingham, the "provinces" will most likely be left to get on with it as best they can. the idea that they can go door to door is a non starter-even if the had the time to do it, they will be too busy quelling the inevitable riots in the larger cities.

[Plymtom]

as far as TPTB go with only 136,000 Police and 82,000 troops (even if they all report for duty post SHTF-which is debateable) they are going to be spread too thinly to do anything more than hang onto places like London and Birmingham, the "provinces" will most likely be left to get on with it as best they can. the idea that they can go door to door is a non starter-even if the had the time to do it, they will be too busy quelling the inevitable riots in the larger cities.

Funnily enough you may have that upside down, surely trying to hang on to the most populated cities with so few forces? If I can think of it you can bet they have... maybe they have a bunker in the woods right under Bear and Ray's BOL, more seriously a well supplied military base with easy reach of both a port and an airbase surrounded by open country (a kill zone/minefield) cities are a bugger to fight for or in, London or Birmingham (and many more in an ideal world including Plymouth) are the last places I would choose to hang on to if the sort of resources a nation can throw at preparedness for it's top nobs were at my disposal.. who knows really? the only thing you can be sure of is that it is unlikely in a SHTF scenario that anyone will be left "keeping themselves to themselves"
Am I on the right track or were you meaning the TPTB based in those cities anyway would be immediately tied up, the more rural police more likely to be loyal to their neighbours than a dead system?

[lonewolf]

I said London because that is TPTB's power base and they will want to hang on to it, say around Westminster and the Financial district at the very least, Birmingham has always been referred to as the "second city" and has a population of 1 million, add on the population of London..........? 7 million? I think they will have their hands full and not be too bothered about places like Devon and Cornwall or a small city like Plymouth with only 256,000 population.

[FEISTY]

Its nice to know I am not on my own, lots of good advice for me to use on the wife

thanks

Rich.

Hi Rich

I only have my 15 year old daughter on board - hubby suspects and 13 year old son is clueless . Hubby is not a planner (but always seems to have a handle on life) and I'm fortunate in that he's not the type to go mentioning anything to anyone. As in everything, he'll happily go along with stuff as long as it doesn't get too crazy . I'm just keeping everything as under the radar as possible . We've spent far more money on useless gadgets, so it's not as if the money is an issue, thankfully. I think you are just "looking after your own" and I'm sure as your preparedness becomes useful, your wife will see the benefit without you actually having to "talk her around" to it. Good luck with everything.

[Plymtom]

I think part of the prepping boom if you like is the realization that things can get rough, the older ones like myself forgot the days of power cuts, and all the rationing and hand me down war stories for a while there when things got rather stable, we even had a peace dividend when the cold war ended, which when you look at it was folly, the threats have just shifted and the tools to protect against them changed, only we throw far less money at it without the red demon staring over the Berlin wall at us
I'm 60s born when the power went down, mother said no problem and out came the camping stove and candles, do the same to my children and the nerd withdrawal symptoms would kick in PDQ and you would have a panic then a battle on your hands before the adventure started ( I'm only talking about the half day power cut here).. same sort of thing stocking up for xmas - well to an extent you had to because everybody shut shop for a few days and the weather at that time of year back then could turn soon after so having a winter stock pile was sensible.
This winter's storms show that some of us will feel effects of calamities which prepping can ease, and make good conversation points, I'm not low lying so floods are unlikely in our street yet can cause havoc nearby, if you discuss how you would try and preserve you possessions in such an event ( we did) it does help a natural preparedness mind set to emerge in most people, and I will go as far as to say that those who poo poo the idea and refuse also know it could happen to them but prefer to just bleat for help, which reminds me of how I amused a shop assistant last year, I was shopping for stationary items in yep a stationary shop, the lady came over to me as I was looking around and asked if I needed help? I said perhaps later, I would rather have a good look around and see if I can find what I need myself than bleat for help after 10 seconds, she was most amused, maybe it's the hunter gatherer under the surface I don't know yet it still ticks me off no end when supermarkets keep moving stuff around.
Anyway keep talking to your partners not starting from TEOTWAWKI, little things like why let your petrol tank flirt between a quarter and empty and get caught short when the tanker drivers go on strike- I keep ours between a three quarters and full ( Usually £20 once a fortnight does it or over does it and I keep any change separate for times when we do more miles) my main use for the car is shopping and the shops will be out of stock long before I'm out of petrol so I'm prepared and that is my normal, things which make good sense are the best starting point, if you go from empty cupboards to wanting to buy a bunker next month, no one will take it seriously - the bar is too high, a little discussion and you will both probably come to the conclusion that you're preppers anyway.

[lonewolf]

I think this is the problem, we have a generation (or more) who have their wants taken care of from "cradle to grave", and an era of mobile phones, computers and "social media" where the concept of power being off for more than 5 minutes and empty shop shelves is something completely alien. the idea of a storage cupboard full of food(let alone anything else) would not ever occur to them when the supermarket is only a 5 minute drive away.