Shoppers stand in an aisle with empty shelves in a supermarket in Athens on July 4, 2015
Posted on 07/04/2015 2:14:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
Greeks were hoarding cash and food Saturday amid mounting fears the economy could collapse, cracking open their wallets only to stock up on essentials and stripping supermarket shelves in the process.
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In the well-off area of Glyfada in Athens residents appeared to have panicked, thrusting everything from vast rolls of toilet paper to multiple packs of lentils into their carts.
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Preppers’ PING!
I can’t urge you enough to pay attention many real world lessons to be learned. Class is in session.
I’m hording Gyros myself.
All the butt plugs gone, too?
“All the butt plugs gone, too?”
I’m sure there’s a govt. reserve of the most critical items.
Gyros...stock up on gyros.
Those are available near the back door.
“Preppers’ PING!
I can’t urge you enough to pay attention many real world lessons to be learned. Class is in session.”
Excellent idea...what happens next is going to be very educational should this collapse move forward.
I’m encouraging people to go to where the bankers live and eat what the bankers eat!
They’re always liquid, aren’t they?
I’m stocking up on Ouzo. Other than that, I have just about everything I could want.
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Communism - working as well in Greece as it did in Venezuela.
Then, it said in a wealthy area, people were panicking, buy huge amounts of toilet paper, etc..
Why weren't they buying before this last ditch effort to buy everything in sight?
It's normalcy bias, thinking something would happen to stop this train racing down the track - thinking it couldn't happen - but it is.
I read there is only enough cash in banks to last until Tuesday and amounts are limited to each person, with long lines to get some cash.
It's just like here - people in hurricane country, wait until the hurricane is coming down the track before they rush out to buy enough food FOR A FEW DAYS and buy a six pack of AA batteries for their one flashlight.
I have given up on these people and that goes for 99% of America. They are not going to store for an emergency of any kind. The best number I have heard is 3% of Americans store anything.
If the electric grid is taken down through corrupting electronic gadgets and/or the internet by corrupting code, or an economic collapse this September which I suspect may happen, there will be millions of deaths in a few days and more millions dead within a week and more in two weeks.
There won't be a place to store or bury so many dead bodies. I wish it were not so, but it is.
I have helped prepare thousands of people through writing articles on a survival website and I'm glad I did that, but I think the time is arriving when the country will fail and no more can be helped. Kartographer, you have done the same, helping people understand how to protect themselves from a long time emergency. I think our time to help others is over in the very near future. We have our preps and now it's up to God.
I just ordered a couple of dozen Mountain House meals. The main reason is I like them.
I know they would not last long but that is all I could afford. Actually I could not even afford these. I used a gift card my Daughter gave me for Fathers Day.
When I get more money I will order a few more. The have a 25 year shelf life which is more than I have.
That Mountain House stuff is GOOD!
I had a scrambled egg breakfast one morning and it was at least as good as I could make it, even from fresh!
Plus the mylar packaging has like you said a 25 year claimed shelf life, which is probably twenty years more than me!
I tried my first one maybe 22 years ago. I was on a camping tip and picked up a couple.
When I tired one, it was unusually good. I thought it might have been partially because I was physically active and was hungry.
Having tried them a few times since, they really are of excellent quality.
BTW, a few months ago, I was in a Wal-Mart and noticed some Coleman meals on clearance for less than half price. I got a couple thinking that they had to be OK if they carried the Coleman name. Well they weren’t OK. They were so bad I could not finish them.
We just need to make sure we can withstand the initial onslaught of very hungry, desperate people. Sad but true.
I know those in very rural areas don't need to worry so much, but those of us, for one reason or another may be stuck in the 'burbs - we shelter-in-place, and wait for the first wave to dissipate.
Winco foods near me had a cart near their customer service place that was filled with them!
So I asked, they said it was end-of-season, and sold me the whole cartload for half price.
It was about 135 bucks worth (at half price), and it immediately went into my survival stuff!
It’ll probably outlast me...
I got one of those vacuum food sealers for Christmas. It greatly extends the useful life of frozen meats. We buy primals and portion them ourselves, and then deep freeze them.
But it really shines for preserving dry goods like dried legumes and rice. We buy bulk when they’re on sale and portion it into 8, 12, or 16 ounce packages depending on the product. Toss in an oxygen absorber just to be sure. It’ll keep for a decade I figure. LOL.
Then I toss a bunch of assorted packages into one of those five gallon buckets with the airtight lights from Lowes. I put some salt in there with them. Each bucket will hold about 15 pounds of stuff.
We’ve got half a dozen put back and are adding one a month or so. We will get tired of rice, beans, and lentils but we won’t starve.
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I have all kinds of beans and lentils.
Rice, not so much...
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