What are you stockpiling????
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Well with the unnecessary run on bog roll and pasta just wondering what the PHers are hoarding ready for the long lock in???
Me?well..Plenty of Lego and have bought some bits for the cars for some preventative maintenance
Mrs T has bought some paints/brushes etc with a view we'll have time to do all that decorating we keep putting off; and is also short listing workouts etc on Youtube.... supposedly we will be fitter than when this started....
Also, what defines an unnecessary journey? I can go house, garden, garage, car..... out for a hoon, and back again without ever getting anywhere near anyone else......
Me?well..Plenty of Lego and have bought some bits for the cars for some preventative maintenance
Mrs T has bought some paints/brushes etc with a view we'll have time to do all that decorating we keep putting off; and is also short listing workouts etc on Youtube.... supposedly we will be fitter than when this started....
Also, what defines an unnecessary journey? I can go house, garden, garage, car..... out for a hoon, and back again without ever getting anywhere near anyone else......
HTP99 said:
Nothing, apart from bought a bit more dog food than normal, only because what they eat cannot be bought from a supermarket and if there is a lockdown with only essential shops being allowed to be open, I can't imagine an animal feeds shop will be classed as an essential shop.
Yes to the dog food, ours has a special diet so have bought more than normal, and one of the few things in Makro still on offer or in stock was Swizzles Refreshers so there’s a few boxes of those “just in case” Nothing.
Although it looks strangely like we are stockpiling loo roll: the week before the furore, Costco had their regular deal on bales of loo roll - you can only get 6 x 9-packs from there - and seeing as we also have a holiday cottage to stock, we bought 2.
IF we don't get a raft of cancellations, we will still need some down at the cottage....otherwise, well, we are well stocked
I guess it also looks like we stockpile beans and tomatoes - again, we buy from Costco, and you buy 24 tins or none. Same for rice & pasta - 5kg and 3kg bags are the smallest you can get. Stocked up 3 weeks back due to supplies running low.
Although it looks strangely like we are stockpiling loo roll: the week before the furore, Costco had their regular deal on bales of loo roll - you can only get 6 x 9-packs from there - and seeing as we also have a holiday cottage to stock, we bought 2.
IF we don't get a raft of cancellations, we will still need some down at the cottage....otherwise, well, we are well stocked
I guess it also looks like we stockpile beans and tomatoes - again, we buy from Costco, and you buy 24 tins or none. Same for rice & pasta - 5kg and 3kg bags are the smallest you can get. Stocked up 3 weeks back due to supplies running low.
I suspect the average Briton can cope with supermarkets getting closed and their parents dying but will burn the country to the ground if they can’t get essential items for their pets. 
As for stockpiling, I had a look around at what we might need and we pretty much have everything. The one think I have done is gone and filled up the petrol Gerry cans which I had emptied at the end of the summer just in case one of the relatively regular power cuts can’t be fixed as quickly as usual and we end up needing to run the genny for a bit.
I’m also going to go to the charity cycle shop this afternoon and get a couple of adult bikes because if the roads go quiet it will be a good time to tech the children how to ride on the road and to give them some exercise.
I’ve also bought a white board and associated items as the children are almost certainly going to be home schooled for a while. Even though I am a bit of a lefty I am looking forward to de-assimilating my children from the loony left claptrap that barely educated teachers are now obsessed with.
. By the time they return to school they will be light years ahead in the real world subjects of chemistry, physics, maths, geography and will have been learning history without any of the political engineering. The wife will be in charge of languages, potato printing and how to use hysterical outbursts to get what you want.
As for stockpiling, I had a look around at what we might need and we pretty much have everything. The one think I have done is gone and filled up the petrol Gerry cans which I had emptied at the end of the summer just in case one of the relatively regular power cuts can’t be fixed as quickly as usual and we end up needing to run the genny for a bit.
I’m also going to go to the charity cycle shop this afternoon and get a couple of adult bikes because if the roads go quiet it will be a good time to tech the children how to ride on the road and to give them some exercise.
I’ve also bought a white board and associated items as the children are almost certainly going to be home schooled for a while. Even though I am a bit of a lefty I am looking forward to de-assimilating my children from the loony left claptrap that barely educated teachers are now obsessed with.
. By the time they return to school they will be light years ahead in the real world subjects of chemistry, physics, maths, geography and will have been learning history without any of the political engineering. The wife will be in charge of languages, potato printing and how to use hysterical outbursts to get what you want. I'm now in self isolation with a cough, I brought some tinned food a few weeks back and a 12 pack of toilet roll (just 1 as I know that'll last me ages). I was in Tesco on Saturday and there was a larger sized lady (to be polite) with tonnes of toilet paper and bottled water (guessing her house doesn't have taps), but also what made me laugh, at least 20 boxes of Celebrations, chocolate must be a priority. .
Tyre Smoke said:
Nothing.
At what point will all this stockpiling stop?
There has to come a point where the stockpilers reach saturation point?
Right now there are low functioners sitting in a living room full of toilet roll who are going to get a credit card statement in a week or two that informs them that their stockpile whichbis going to take months to consume is costing them 20%+ to finance. Saturation point will probably be defined by media reports of people complaining that they can’t pay the rent because the Gubberment forced them to spend all their rent money on cola and bogroll. And that they risk dropping from their natural 20 stone because they aren’t being allowed to guzzle burgers. At what point will all this stockpiling stop?
There has to come a point where the stockpilers reach saturation point?
We also have to face how to help all those people whose living is derived from robbing others either in the street or their empty homes. The stockpiling of other people’s possessions might be the solution as people offer DVD players and TVs in exchange for beans and toilet roll?
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