Are you still Stocking up or Prepping..

I have good stock of food but have done that mainly in the last two years. I always have kept a very full pantry. Now it is inflation fighting and the chance we have another lockdown. The one thing I need to get more of is dog food.

I am not worried about gas, I only fill the tank about 4 times a year. I can walk to everything I need, if I have to. I have a couple of wagons or carts to get groceries home if needed. I have done it when the car would not start. It is no trouble at all.

If the big boys decided to play war, there will be nothing left there or here.
 
win231 said:
I'm not only stocking up on TP, I've also stocked up on things to guard it:
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I'm fairly certain I have enough .223 rounds to hold off a SWAT team or several hundred walkers for at least a couple hours.

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I'm not. I survived the covid panic buying and never went hungry. I remember when the only pasta I could find was lasagna noodles so I bought those.

I'm only concerned about the cats. I was able to find their Science Diet at Pets Mart yesterday without an issue. A 7 pound bag lasts awhile.

I mentioned the no potatoes at Winco Foods to my stepfather yesterday wondering if it was a trucking issue. I know they grow potatoes in Washington state and Idaho of coarse. He said they also grow them in California.
 
I'd guess the most important prepping right now would be people who live at sea level should move up a little higher.
People who live in tornado areas should have better shelter than a bathtub. People living in fire areas maybe build with something fireproof instead of wood?
I'd think for serious prepping a person would need a very fuel efficient vehicle, motorcycles are so good for fuel but sucky at everything else (shelter from elements, safety, noise). Maybe we should all get solar powered skateboards. Caves are good if the climate goes into an ice-age, I think they found a cave system somewhere like Greece (maybe Turkey) that sheltered a lot of people a long time ago during the beginning of an ice age or something like that.
Personally I've given up what little prepping I ever did. For Y2K I had a handful of Slim Jims snacks and some HotHands. Later we bought a house that had a little generator but we never used it and left it when we sold the house.
In Nebraska I had several things (light, radio, phone charger) that would work just from cranking them. Donated them when I moved.
What are the recommended supplies for people in hurricane areas, are they supposed to have 3 days water on hand? 5 days?
I hope that our socially organized prepping (FEMA, the national guard, the Red Cross) is adequate for anything that is likely to happen.
 
hollydolly said:
well I already have what I like to call my shop, which is actually in my barn, where I have an outdoor tall freezer.. full of food... and shelves full of dried goods, paper goods, canned foods etc.. having been storing these for several years ..
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I've always associated a barn as a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment. What exactly is considered a barn in your country?
 
PamfromTx said:
I've always associated a barn as a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment.
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We are in the same country. My cousin has a large barn. Currently it houses the contents of his late wife's antique shop. After those contents are sold, it will house my cousin's huge train collection (tracks, trains, buildings, etc.).

His barn also has mice. So he offered me the small space left to store things in, and I politely refused.

When I move there, the first thing I'm going to want to buy is a huge upright freezer. It may have to go in the barn.

Personally, I'd rather have a couple of horses, cows, and goats in that barn, than anything else. This is a pipe dream, though.
 
DebraMae said:
I have a water well and when the electricity goes off I do not have water.
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Have you talked to a well company, they might have something that could be added that would allow manual access (pumping manually or somehow pulling up some skinny buckets of water). In the old days people got water out of wells just by pushing down those old pump handles manually. My great-uncle's farm had that, and they had one for kids to pump out water at a park I visited in the Chicago area (the type of park where people dress in old time costumes etc).
 
DebraMae said:
I have actually been looking at generators online today. I have a water well and when the electricity goes off I do not have water. I am finding that a regular generator will not power a well pump, I would need a whole house type generator, and then there's the fuel for that, so I am not sure what I am going to do.
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I have no idea what generators are selling for nowadays, but I had one in my last house to run the well pump, furnace or fans, and the refrigerator. It lived in the attached garage and was vented to the outside, which made it easier to use when needed. But, the time to get a generator is before you need it. We lost power in the dead of winter for almost four days (low priority rural area) and we couldn't find any place that still had a generator in stock at any price. I have actually been considering such a purpose again for my current house. It is good to have back-up, in my opinion. Best of luck! ~ Em
 
I have been storing up some extra food. I am never going to be a true prepper and be able to run off into the mountains somewhere with my “bug-out bag”; but if we are going to have shortages this year, and especially into winter, I want to have some storable food on hand.
I have been ordering a little extra canned goods with each grocery trip, and I have also bought some of the Auguson Farms dehydrated foods that I get from Amazon.
I am only stocking up on things that we always eat anyway, so if we do not have a food shortage, we will just consume them and not need to worry about the prices going up. On the other hand, if fuel goes up so much that the truckers can’t afford to deliver their loads of supplies, then we have something to eat to help make it though the shortage.

Besides my little garden, I have been dehydrating and then powdering some foods as I can, so that should give us another option as well.
Vegetables and powdered greens can easily be added to soups and stews this winter for more nutrients and better flavor.
I have found that sweet potato greens are very easy to grow, and they are perfect for salads or stirfry, and also for drying and making into green powder.
 
Nope! I do not stock up on anything. I'm not much on watching the news so I don't believe their "shock" stories about doom and gloom.

For example, I have been traveling for the last 38 days and have seen very few people with masks. Just a few there in WhiteThorse, Yukon Superstore. Yet, I read on the internet that we now have the 6th or is it the 7th wave? Wave? Are these people aware of what a wave is?

The worse thing you can do with your life is sit at home and listen to the daily "shockaroo" news about the doom and gloom of anything and everything in this world.
 
No.

I buy what I need and create my meals around the weekly loss leaders.

I always keep a small inventory of food and necessities on hand that would last about two weeks and possibly allow me to survive for a month.

I don’t worry about clothing.

I do keep a little cash on hand and always operate on the top half of the gas tank.

The thing I don’t understand about stocking up to save is when do you finally unlock the savings?
 
Being an avid Costco shopper, stocking up is what I've been doing for decades. I take advantage of sales, including Costco's coupon sale items. My paper towels, TP, disinfectant wipes, tissues, facial towelettes, dish and laundry detergents are some of the items I purchase that come in large quantities at Costco. Their Kirkland brand (my preferred) TP (30 pack) and paper towels (12 pack) never go on sale but are well priced. Their coupon sale items are usually things that will last me more than a year, with the exception of Cheerios and some frozen items. I'll buy a couple of cases of certain sale items especially if the sale cycle for them only happens once or twice a year.

Since Walmarts are not local, I usually stock up on items when I go, or order online (and my son picks them up). When my local supermarket has sales, I stock up from there too. I have an insane amount of Keebler waffle cones right now. 😛 Stocking up these days is not only fortuitous because it delays paying higher prices but because we never know when the items will be unavailable for a spell. I'm glad I bought several 8 oz packages of Bowl & Basket muenster cheese because my local supermarket was all out (again) yesterday. And Costco is known for having items for a while then not restocking them.
 
WheatenLover said:
We are in the same country. My cousin has a large barn. Currently it houses the contents of his late wife's antique shop. After those contents are sold, it will house my cousin's huge train collection (tracks, trains, buildings, etc.).

His barn also has mice. So he offered me the small space left to store things in, and I politely refused.

When I move there, the first thing I'm going to want to buy is a huge upright freezer. It may have to go in the barn.
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Yes I have a big upright freezer in my Barn too.. it's too big to fit in the house , even if I wanted it to go in there. No mice in my barn.. that I know of..
 
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I'm always stocked up. Made it through the first shortage without needing to buy 1 roll of toilet paper. I was stocked up on that before anything happened. I kind of worried toward the end when I was down to 30 rolls, but everything worked out fine.
 

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