You don't have to be super organised to prepare for what's coming. Just a couple of extra cans of food each week when you shop. For instance, if you buy two cans of soup, two of hot dogs/corned beef and two of baked beans, when you get home, just put them away for when you might need them.
I always write the expiry date on those tins with a sharpie, and after a while you have a small stockpile that means if you can't afford to shop or are sick, you don't have to worry about the shopping , I have been buying 3 for two tins when ever I see them anything that is on offer. I have peanut butter and marmite to last me a good year or more, aswell as cook in sauces and anything that will make a quick meal, either by warming up on the stove for a few mins or using my slow cooker.
Strip wash each morning and evening instead of a shower, and I let myself dry naturaly rather than towel dry. In this weather it saves water, and is very cooling and refreshing.
A lot of people are just carrying on as if nothing is going on, they are going to get a rude shock this winter if they seriously expect the powers that be are going to help out anything more than the bare minimum.
It's never too late to begin looking after yourself and your family...untill it's too late. We have a few months left just get on with it now, don't Bury your head in the sand and say you can't, or you are too busy. Hunger is no fun, hungry and cold is miserable. Hungry cold children on top..... do you realy want that for them.?
We take so much for granted nowadays, that we have forgotten how to look after ourselves well, without needing all the frippery of modern life. I feel sorry for the younger adults of today. My step daughter is 40, and has the idea that mum is sorted, so I'll take the family to her to get help, whilst boasting about a family holiday to Turkey.
Sorry, her priorities are messed up, and it's not like she's not been told.
She is an adult, has a good job and a 4x4 car. Holidays abroad twice a year, and a nice house. Don't get me wrong, well done her, but times have changed and she, along with thousands of others need to start thinking about how they are going to pay a mortgage and feed the kids. Not go off to Turkey for holidays. We've had words, and she now isn't speaking to me, I was just trying to get her to realise the extent of what this next few years will be like. She has her own responsibility now, and can't come running back to rely on me, who has had the foresight to insure myself with a few things to keep me.. not her going. I can't afford to help her if she thinks with her extra income she can leach off me, she's wrong. I'm willing to teach her but she doesn't want to know about the hard work I've done, just expects it on a plate when the time comes. She has rung me in panic as her car insurance has gone up and she needs new tyres for the mot, and doesn't know what to do. Sell the 4x4 and get a smaller, cheaper car, did not go down well!!
So sad.
