What item would you horde if the supermarkets were closing?

McGinniesta

NickNickleby wrote: »

Recently, someone created a thread asking g where to put a safe. He wanted to have a stash of money , in case "the sh1t ever hit the fan". I remember saying to my son, after reading that thread, that if one REALLY thought some sort of armageddon was likely, then guns and ammunition would be the best thing to hide under the stairs. To protect the food and money youd stockpiled.
Even now though, I'd be concerned about criminals targeting homes where guns are kept. Not sure if that's a thing or just in my head.

Oh, by the way, chickpeas and rice. :-)

Guns make sense. At least I can understand the point of having a gun in a crisis.

How likely would it be that money will lose it's value in an Armageddon type situation?

I imagine food, water and the gun itself would probably be far more valuable than the money.

DilD

Chicken, eggs, rice, oats.

castletownman

This reminds me of what I witnessed in Tesco earlier.

There was a fella in a blind rush filling his trolley with tequila, Old El Paso buritto kits and a sombrero.

I thought to myself, "Hispanic buying".

Cee-Jay-Cee

Gluten free food for my daughter. The rest of us will manage somehow, she won’t.

Zaph

Toothpaste. The impending collapse of civilisation is no excuse to neglect oral hygiene.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Alcohol....mainly jamesons,

This.

Eggs I can beg borrow or steal. Jameson I can't. Denny sausages and Jameson. I'd clear the shelves of both and then by a second freezer.

Kermit.de.frog

Zaph wrote: »

Toothpaste. The impending collapse of civilisation is no excuse to neglect oral hygiene.

You, sir, need to reassess your priorities.

Graces7

Maybe a thread on " What you have in your food cupboards.." ???

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

Maybe a thread on " What you have in your food cupboards.." ???

For most people that will be some out of date cereals, half a bag of pasta and a lot of empty space. There’s an awful lot of eejits who would be licking the fridge drawer within a week for a taste of onion if the shops were closed. No excuse for it for most. Sky TV subscriptions and a takeaway on speed-dial is how they plan to feed themselves. I keep about 3 months worth of meals ‘on hand’, with or without a pandemic. Carbohydrates in pasta, rice, noodles, dehydrated potato, peas, fruit and so on, canned beans/peas/soups/fruit, chickpeas, lentils, oats and muesli, flour, powdered eggs and milk, sugar, 6L sunflower oil, honey, 2kg coffee, kilos of seasoning, bovril/gravy mix, marmalades and jams and that’s before I think about things like spuds, onions in cool stores and the contents of the freezer. Same goes for toiletries and personal hygiene supplies. Two burner gas stove and two cylinders, batteries and the like. First aid stuff including medicines, water filter cartridges and purification tablets, milton and bleach, nitrile gloves, duct and foil tape. All there, used and cycled so never any waste. 60 days handy. Plus 30 with minor adjustment.

Graces7

JayZeus wrote: »

For most people that will be some out of date cereals, half a bag of pasta and a lot of empty space. There’s an awful lot of eejits who would be licking the fridge drawer within a week for a taste of onion if the shops were closed. No excuse for it for most. Sky TV subscriptions and a takeaway on speed-dial is how they plan to feed themselves. I keep about 3 months worth of meals ‘on hand’, with or without a pandemic. Carbohydrates in pasta, rice, noodles, dehydrated potato, peas, fruit and so on, canned beans/peas/soups/fruit, chickpeas, lentils, oats and muesli, flour, powdered eggs and milk, sugar, 6L sunflower oil, honey, 2kg coffee, kilos of seasoning, bovril/gravy mix, marmalades and jams and that’s before I think about things like spuds, onions in cool stores and the contents of the freezer. Same goes for toiletries and personal hygiene supplies. Two burner gas stove and two cylinders, batteries and the like. First aid stuff including medicines, water filter cartridges and purification tablets, milton and bleach, nitrile gloves, duct and foil tape. All there, used and cycled so never any waste. 60 days handy. Plus 30 with minor adjustment.

Great post and my cupboards etc are well stocked as you describe. PLUS many crates and bags of catfood..

JustAThought

Item singular?

As I have everything else I
think I would buy water purification tablets.

Or, iphone cable rechargers. They break easily and it will be a long forever with analogue.

46 Long

An extract from the single best article I've ever read on this topic. Written by a survivor of the '92-'95 Bosnian war.

If you plan to live by theft – all you need is weapons and ammo. Lots of ammo. If not – more food, hygiene items, batteries, accumulators, little trading items (knives, lighters, flints, soap). Also alcohol of a type that keeps well. The cheapest whiskey is a good trading item.

Many people died from insufficient hygiene. You’ll need simple items in great amounts. For example, garbage bags. Lots of them. And toilet papers. Non­reusable dishes and cups – you’ll need lots of them. I know that because we didn’t have any at all.

As for me, a supply of hygiene items is perhaps more important than food. You can shoot a pigeon, you can find a plant to eat. You can’t find or shoot any disinfectant. Disinfectant, detergents, bleach, soap, gloves, masks…

You should choose the simplest weapons. I carry a Glock .45, I like it, but it’s a rare gun here– so I have two TT pistols too (everyone has them and ammo is common). I don’t like Kalashnikovs, but again, same story – everyone has them, so do I.

You must own small, unnoticeable items. For example: a generator is good, but 1000 Bic lighters are better. A generator will attract attention if there’s any trouble, but 1000 lighters are compact, cheap, and can always be traded. We usually collected rainwater into 4 large barrels and then boiled it. There was a small river but the water in it became very dirty very fast. It’s also important to have containers for water – barrels and buckets.

Tec Diver

I would hoard meat, lots of types, and eggs.

DoozerT6

Short term: the usual I guess, toilet paper, non-perishable food and personal hygiene items. Other essential items like lightbulbs and bin bags, paracetamol, some extra petrol for the car and the like.

Long term: regretfully I think guns would be necessary in a SHTF, Mad Max scenario, along with plenty of ammo and the knowledge in how to use and maintain them. For self-defence only, I would hate to think I would be an aggressor, no matter how desperate I became. Also, in a genuine life-threatening scenario, would I actually have the ba!!s to shoot another person with the intention to kill? I hope I never have to find out.

Apart from that, I think literally anything will become an essential commodity if there was some sort of world-wide catastrophe where society collapsed, so anything you could put your hands on could be traded for something else. Food, alcohol, clothing, medicine, weapons, tools, etc.