Are you?

To beat coming price rises due to tariffs?

To make sure you can carry on as near normal as possible?

Dried milk powder?

Tinned fish?

The good old toilet rolls? (Get ready to be ridiculed)

Canned goods in general?

Bread mixes are good as it is hard to store flour for long.

Cake mixes are good when there's a shortage of flour.

Alcohol and medications?

Honey is always a good one because sugar may well be about to disappear.

Bottled water?

Cash?

Or you don't think it necessary just now?

jackb wrote:

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Are you?

To beat coming price rises due to tariffs?

To make sure you can carry on as near normal as possible?

Dried milk powder?

Tinned fish?

The good old toilet rolls? (Get ready to be ridiculed)

Canned goods in general?

Bread mixes are good as it is hard to store flour for long.

Cake mixes are good when there's a shortage of flour.

Alcohol and medications?

Honey is always a good one because sugar may well be about to disappear.

Bottled water?

Cash?

Or you don't think it necessary just now?

 

-- Edited by jackb on Saturday 26th of April 2025 10:42:20 PM

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 The Covid panic buyers made things a lot worse than they should have been - how and why toilet paper was seen as vital to someone’s survival still confounds me. Folks loading up their car boots with TP was both pathetic and .

So no I won’t be stockpiling food etc on the off chance, and if people don’t panic buy then everyone should have a fair chance if stocks dwindle for some reason. If my usual tea runs out or becomes so expensive I can no longer afford it then I’ll try something else, I’m sure I’ll survive.

The only thing that would concern me ever would be if my daily (and necessary) thyroxine was in short supply for whatever reason but I doubt I’d be the only one concerned re essential meds. Supply was ok during Covid.

jackb wrote:

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There's a difference between stockpiling and panic buying.
I don't think I need to do either as I'm always super well stocked.

Government launched a 'preppers' website.
This article is from last year and is titled wrongly in my opinion but interesting regarding this kind of topic.


Panic buyers flock to emergency 'prepper' to grab essentials after ministers urged Brits to start a national crisis 'emergency kit' - as supplier insists stocking up is 'common sense'

Leigh Price has noticed a steady increase in customers heading to his shop The Bug Out, in Wales, since the Government launched a 'preppers' website.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448505/Panic-buyers-flock-emergency-prepper-grab-essentials-ministers-urged-Brits-start-national-crisis-emergency-kit-supplier-insists-stocking-common-sense.html

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 Emergency survival kit:  apart from the baby stuff /pet food / portable power bank for which I have no need that list is everything I have anyways. Phew I’m gonna survive . Must get some loo rolls though.

jackb wrote:

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There's a difference between stockpiling and panic buying.

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 I see it as one of the same in a sense. Items bought through fear…be that fear of price increase, chances of non-availability, threat of conflict, power outages etc. - anything gathered together/hoarded over and above your norm.

I made myself a little 'survival kit' after reading an article about emergencies.

Batteries

First Aid kit

Tinned food

Water

Power Bank

Battery radio

Torch

I've got it tucked away, just incase.

jackb wrote:

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There's a difference between stockpiling and panic buying.
I don't think I need to do either as I'm always super well stocked.

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 You panic bought during covid and spread a good deal of alarmist stuff on Dogs about it at the time - remember?

Anonymous wrote:

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jackb wrote:

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There's a difference between stockpiling and panic buying.

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 I see it as one of the same in a sense. Items bought through fear…be that fear of price increase, chances of non-availability, threat of conflict, power outages etc. - anything gathered together/hoarded over and above your norm.

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 Panic buying is just selfishness...stock up, deprive others of getting what they would normally get, and then in some cases, the panic buyer ends up binning items they bought because it turns out there was no need to panic in the first place.

I suppose stockpiling can be done in degrees...no need to empty shelves in order to do it.

Anonymous wrote:

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jackb wrote:

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There's a difference between stockpiling and panic buying.
I don't think I need to do either as I'm always super well stocked.

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 You panic bought during covid and spread a good deal of alarmist stuff on Dogs about it at the time - remember?

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 I took the mick out of The Major for his toilet roll obsession.

I completely ignored COVID including lock downs and masks.

I did sanitize my hands often.