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Nickelless
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Delawhere Jack
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 Posted - 03/12/2009 : 17:10:31
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I have Noticed a lot of posts saying that there is a domesday approaching, and you need to by all the food you can and that you are going to die if you don't. hear are some of my reasons on why you do not have to do this.
sorry if this is the wrong place first time posting in this kind of forum.
1) If you live out of town you can grow your own. its not hard and if there is no fall out or what ever you will not need to by so much.
2)If you are in the city and there is a fall out what ever you are going to need to move out of town anyway so you will not want to carry all that food around with you.
3) Farmers will still exist only there will not be any way for them to get power and fuel for there tractors so there will be lots of workers and they will most likely be paid in food.
This is what I think by the way I live in Australia Just like to say best place there is
Yeah, I'm taking advice from someone who cannot compose a lucid sentence..
I'll keep hoarding, thankyouverymuch! 
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Lemon Thrower
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 06:16:10
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| a minor oil disturbance or a minor uptick in the current financial crisis could cause grocery store shelves to go unstocked for a few weeks. are you ready for that? i'm not making a prediction, just noting that this sort of thing is within the realm of possibility. preparation is not difficult and you can avoid your own personal Katrina. |
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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 12:56:32
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Hi there-
I'm not really a hard-core food stocker, but my dad has like 30 24-bottle cases of bottled water. My parents(+myself) never really bought EXCESS food, to the point to where you had to store it in the garage, but I remember growing up and still today, the refrigerator and cupboards/pantry were always full of food. Always. SO, I guess by those standards I would guesstimate they have about a month's worth of food at all times. Better than most!!!
I'm the same way. I like to have my cupboards and fridge stocked, but I hate wading through bags of beans and tubs of peanut butter in the garage or basement just to get a hammer, etc. You do what you gotta do, I guess. I would consider getting some seeds, tho.
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Only when they CAN'T have it, ......THEN they'll want it.
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Posted - 03/19/2009 : 20:20:09
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Not having stores of food is a very new thing in America. People used to always store for the "winter" or non harvest times. Also, people always thing of TSHTF scenarios, but that is not what most of us will (hopefully) experience. However, all of us, at some point - will have a personal crisis. It may be as little as a week in bed with the flu, or as long as months without income. Why not be ready for your own personal crisis? Just because there is food on the store shelves doesn't mean "you" can buy it or "you" can get there. I have had a stomach bug and literally couldn't get out of bed for two days - I definitely saw the need to have a store of food. My husband and I both got sick one time and had to have family come over to watch the kids. So, the world could be spinning just fine when all heck is breaking loose in your life - why not be a little prepared. Our goal is 4 - 6 months of food - but that wouldn't cause us to put food in the garage - we can easily store it out of sight and it not disrupt and it allows us to easily rotate. Kind of like "storing up for the winter", whatever our winter might be or when it might come.
My neighbor has had a year and a half of completely unexpected health crisis - one after another. He hasn't been able to really work. He had no idea that was coming, just walking to the mail box and had a stroke and went down from there - in his early 50's. Not having to worry about grocery shopping for six months would probably be a welcome thing in a situation like that. |
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 03/20/2009 : 17:51:19
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| Right now I can't think of a better investment inflation or defation. Let's see them manipulate the price of food down. They could do it through price controls but there wouldn't be any food left real quick. |
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