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Stocking up for Doomsday: As economists predict meltdown, meet the families ready for the worst
Daily Mail ^
| 12/17/11
| Tom Rawstorne
Posted on 12/19/2011 6:55:25 PM PST by Kartographer
Picture the scene: Its the end of January 2012 and already it is clear the year to come will make that which has just passed seem something of a picnic. The last strains of Auld Lang Syne had barely faded before Greece defaulted on its debts. Over the next few weeks, Italy and Spain will follow. Across Britain and the Continent, bank after bank goes down, a domino effect exacerbated by panicking customers desperately withdrawing their savings. Where three years ago the giants of High Street banking were seen as too big too fail, now they are too big and too many for any Government to save. Panic ensues. Within hours, the cashpoints are empty of money and the supermarket shelves stripped bare.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beprepared; getreadyhereitcomes; preparedness; prepperping; preppers; selfreliance; stockupandsave; survival; survivalping; urbansurvival
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; unkus
Easier to obtain than pre-1965 silver coins. readily available in bags of $1000 face, currently going for about 21.5x face
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posted on
12/20/2011 5:59:13 AM PST
by
TheRightGuy
(I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
To: Caipirabob
82
posted on
12/20/2011 6:00:49 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Kartographer
“I am thinking packs of Bugle Boy in mason jars and then vaccum packed.”
Good idea! One of the earliest `preppers’ was Pat Frank, author of the atomic novel “Alas Babylon” (BTW it was set in the Florida Panhandle, far away from the target cities of Orlando, Tampa, and Miami). He later wrote a post-nuclear survival manual in which he asserted that,
“The day may come when a pound of tobacco will be worth more than a pound of gold.”
This was written in 1960, IIRC.
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posted on
12/20/2011 6:33:28 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
To: elcid1970
Don’t let the gold bugs catch you saying that!
84
posted on
12/20/2011 6:51:51 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
Heh, heh, I still can’t figure out how one is supposed to pay for bread and milk using Krugerrands.
;^)
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posted on
12/20/2011 7:02:49 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
To: Kartographer
I like the wine bottles.
They need some vodka too. Good for barter & other things
86
posted on
12/20/2011 7:06:13 AM PST
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: Gator113; unkus
When I met my co-captain back in 1980, I told her I had salt water in my veins, and there was no picket fence in my future, only a life on the water. Now we do have a land-dwelling, but we still have the escape pod (which I built myself).
I'm older now, so most of my thrills are vicarious, and I put them into my novels. My latest is Castigo Cay, which takes place aboard a 60 foot schooner.
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posted on
12/20/2011 7:24:53 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
I can completely relate to the “salt water” passion, although I was never driven to build a boat. That is amazing.
Cheers......
88
posted on
12/20/2011 7:43:54 AM PST
by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
To: Travis McGee
Awesome! Best to you and your co-captain.
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:11:38 AM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: TheRightGuy
readily available in bags of $1000 face, currently going for about 21.5x face Oh yeah. But who has an extra 21k available? Not I. Only if I cash out my 401k and take the tax and penalty hit. But I ain't there yet.
90
posted on
12/20/2011 9:27:04 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: Travis McGee
To: MontaniSemperLiberi
Good tip! and thanks for the reminder, I need to stock up on both hand- and machine-sewing needles.
92
posted on
12/20/2011 10:46:44 AM PST
by
Ellendra
("It's astounding how often people mistake their own stupidity for a lack of fairness." --Thunt)
To: elcid1970
The difference being, I can grow tobacco. I even have the seeds already :)
93
posted on
12/20/2011 10:50:44 AM PST
by
Ellendra
("It's astounding how often people mistake their own stupidity for a lack of fairness." --Thunt)
To: Ellendra
Make sure they are tobacco seeds. ;) Don’t go Libertarian on us.
To: MontaniSemperLiberi
Just thought of something, we’ve been talking about a barter trade in tobacco like post-1945 Germany, but if the S really HTF, currency collapse & all that, there’s going to be an explosion of marijuana cultivation like we’ve never seen, complete with narcoterrorism and law & order breakdown like say, the Mexican interior the way it is right now.
Roving bands of looters & narcoguerillas, pretty scary JMHO.
“It can only be worse in Philadelphia.”
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posted on
12/20/2011 11:35:29 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
To: Travis McGee
oh, nice! Hadn’t seen that before. Good stuff.
96
posted on
12/20/2011 2:07:59 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Kartographer
They fail Rule #1-#10 of prepping.....OPSEC.
97
posted on
12/20/2011 4:23:51 PM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
To: unkus
Acquire the knowledge and ability to make same and you never run out, just saying. :~> I had a taste of that in Georgia when I was in the Army. We bought some home in Mason jars. :)
With or without the tax stamp?
To: Kartographer
Of course, we hope it never happens, but if there is a major catastrophe, then money is not going to be worth much after a couple of days. It will be food that becomes the most needed thing. Dave Hannah and his company B-Prep sell similar products.
He says a number of his customers are bankers. Their average spend is £3,000.Bankers? Why am I NOT surprised.
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posted on
12/20/2011 6:31:18 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
12/20/2011 7:13:15 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
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