Stockpilers who will admit/defend it on here?
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Stockpiled plenty of intruder, fire and alarm and cctv parts, but particularly the fire alarm parts are prudent, I reckon anywhere still occupied with a preservation of life fire alarm system will still want faults fixed during a lockdown. Dont know if intruder and cctv will count as critical but even after lockdown the suppliers might struggle to get me stuff on time. Stockpiled networking gear for my WISP customers too.
Got 5 gerson masks, 2 boxes of gloves, and 2 big bottles of hand sanitiser and some disposable coveralls, as I look after medical alarms in sheltered housing and nursing homes, but at this point in time they have asked us to stay away and only provide telephone support for minor faults, but if a major sitewide fault occurs I will need to attend but take very careful measures, so the van needs to be stocked up and ready.
My mrs always likes to keep the cupboads stocked for a nuclear winter so we have had to buy very little for home, got loads of paint and brushes, all the diy stuff for the long list of jobs, and 4 12 packs of wotsits, cos all 4 of us absolutely f
king love wotsits.
Got 5 gerson masks, 2 boxes of gloves, and 2 big bottles of hand sanitiser and some disposable coveralls, as I look after medical alarms in sheltered housing and nursing homes, but at this point in time they have asked us to stay away and only provide telephone support for minor faults, but if a major sitewide fault occurs I will need to attend but take very careful measures, so the van needs to be stocked up and ready.
My mrs always likes to keep the cupboads stocked for a nuclear winter so we have had to buy very little for home, got loads of paint and brushes, all the diy stuff for the long list of jobs, and 4 12 packs of wotsits, cos all 4 of us absolutely f
king love wotsits. The real tin foil hat 'be prepared' guys with defensible houses in remote areas, nuclear bunkers in the garden and safe rooms etc will have stockpiled years ago so we probably can't count them. In fact they could probably be regarded as the sensible ones now.
The herds of chavtastic wildebeest/lemmings roaming the empty aisles in Tescos over the last ten days are what I would call Stockpilers.
The herds of chavtastic wildebeest/lemmings roaming the empty aisles in Tescos over the last ten days are what I would call Stockpilers.
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As a matter of course Mrs V keeps enough bog roll on hand to cope with major familial arse failure over a prolonged period. I used to take the piss about this but now have to yield to her superior sense of preparedness.
In other words we didn't need to panic buy bog roll as we already have/had 60 odd rolls to hand.
In other words we didn't need to panic buy bog roll as we already have/had 60 odd rolls to hand.
Voldemort said:
As a matter of course Mrs V keeps enough bog roll on hand to cope with major familial arse failure over a prolonged period. I used to take the piss about this but now have to yield to her superior sense of preparedness.
In other words we didn't need to panic buy bog roll as we already have/had 60 odd rolls to hand.
ditto - Mrs I also keeps a well stocked freezer so by and large we're ok. The real issue may be fresh fruit and veg - but then the chavtastic hordes tend not to like that anyway so should be good there tooIn other words we didn't need to panic buy bog roll as we already have/had 60 odd rolls to hand.
I've bought a few extra tins over the last few weeks.
There are 2 of us, and we could both just about manage 14 days on the stock though it would be pretty grim. The extra stuff was bought from different shops on different days without really increasing the usual shop by more than a fiver or so each time.
Totally reasonable approach as far as I'm concerned.
It's people like I've seen early on in the crisis with big shopping trolleys full of 16 packs of bog roll and pasta that have fked things.
The supermarkets should have clamped down much earlier with maximum purchase limits per type of item.
Local shops are the default now.
There are 2 of us, and we could both just about manage 14 days on the stock though it would be pretty grim. The extra stuff was bought from different shops on different days without really increasing the usual shop by more than a fiver or so each time.
Totally reasonable approach as far as I'm concerned.
It's people like I've seen early on in the crisis with big shopping trolleys full of 16 packs of bog roll and pasta that have f
ked things.The supermarkets should have clamped down much earlier with maximum purchase limits per type of item.
Local shops are the default now.
I rang my parents last night after the announcement, to see if they needed anything. They told me they were pretty well stocked up, which is pretty normal anyway for them, and the question was pretty much reversed. My dad asked if I eat muesli, and then told me if I need any, they have 30 boxes!
This is nothing to do with the Coronavirus panic-buying; it was on offer, so they bought sh*t loads a few weeks before it went mental.
This is nothing to do with the Coronavirus panic-buying; it was on offer, so they bought sh*t loads a few weeks before it went mental.
Monkeylegend said:
I will admit to taking steps to make sure I have enough food for the pets, but then again the shelves in Pets at Home have been full to overflowing.
Its been Crazy, I normally just buy frozen rats for the snakes on a weekly basis but nowhere had any in stock, ended up the only place I could get any sold them in packs of 10 so I guess at least they are sorted for the next month or so.unpopular view but i don't think there are a few people buying up everything, i think that people are buying normal amounts of things, but the differences being that it's every person in the country and secondly that they are visiting the shops slightly more frequently than they would ordinarily do. Those things together have emptied the shops and kept them empty. There are almost no 'stockpilers', let alone the legion of serial baddies that everyone is imagining so as to have a focus for their frustrations. It's like when people saying they are 'caught in traffic'.... no, you are traffic.
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