ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Aug 12, 2020 22:01:16 GMT 10
Fill the bathtub and rainwater tank. Cycle stored water, if possible.
Apart from that, my preps are pretty low key. We have basic food and water, which doesn't require more prepping. Thanks to covid, we're pretty much set for a 3 month period. I don't have generators or anything like that to get running, as I have no use for them in normal everyday life and they're a significant investment/risk in suburbia.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jul 28, 2020 13:41:24 GMT 10
Why would the locals stand up? The CCP has been spending big money in the area, adding to their economy.
Investing money in your neighbours is absolutely a form of warfare. But we have tons of people here screaming over the 0.2% invested in foreign aid. "HELP EVERYONE AT HOME BEFORE SENDING MONEY OVERSEAS". How many times have we seen that opinion expressed?
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 11, 2020 1:08:23 GMT 10
There is an Australian mushroom hunters Facebook group. There are people in it who regularly forage wild mushrooms and others who ask for help with identification. Yup, and I'm still too much of a pansy to try it! ;P There are several Australian foraging groups too, good information but you definitely have to verify with multiple sources. I've seen people been misinformed there before. It's a human thing were some people seem to be stating something a fact, whereas in reality they're just having a guess.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 8, 2020 23:23:01 GMT 10
I do forage and eat 'weeds'. I'm not game enough to do mushrooms though. You only have to be wrong once, and so many of them look identical.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 8, 2020 23:22:23 GMT 10
Haha I joined to late to see the first pass of this. Definitely agree with zombies though. Independence Day / Pacific Rim type stuff is way out of our league, that's uncontrolled destruction.
Walking Dead zombies though... honestly I could not see how they would not be stopped by government military after a while.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on May 3, 2020 16:53:49 GMT 10
Well hopefully they'll direct some funds to building some storage facilities locally. They made good on the opportunity to buy in, as it wasn't something that could be accurately predicted.
Let's just hope we don't get saddled with paying exorbitant rental rates for overseas facilities while no one bothers to update infrastructure here.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 19, 2020 15:33:29 GMT 10
It was discussed on the radio yesterday that in Asian country like Korea/Singapore they kept a skeleton staff at schools like 2-3 teachers to care for essential service personal like medical staff. Rest of school closed down. That is true, but remember Singapore is basically a police state. You attend national days celebrations, there's blokes walking around with rifles, and HMMMVs with .50 cal keeping an eye on things.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 19, 2020 10:33:56 GMT 10
Question - why can't they re-task some existing government childcare/school resources to provide for health care workers, and lock everyone else down?
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 15, 2020 22:40:48 GMT 10
Same. It irritates me that I have non-deductable debt (aka home loan) but I am forced to put money into what is effectively a taxed and inaccessible savings account. Good for those who are bad at self-managing their money. Bad for those who work hard and invest hard.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 14, 2020 19:35:17 GMT 10
All your neighbours are either gay or latte sipping, metro vegan types. Forget the wire, string lumps of meat at regular intervals around your perimeter, and have them patrolled by bikini clad young blonde Vietnamese backpacker types, carrying patrol rifles. I wasn't going to ask where this bug in location is because I try to be polite, but now I need to know where these patrols are for safety purposes.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 13, 2020 16:14:10 GMT 10
I would have preferred to have access the dollars locked away in my super and invested it elsewhere. But I can understand the initial premise was good.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 13, 2020 8:42:29 GMT 10
Hard to save a house deposit when you buy a latte and smashed avo every morning and pay someone to deliver your fast food dinner every night. I fall into the millennial age bracket. One of my mates a few years younger than me complained that housing was unaffordable. Except when I was on his salary, I bought an investment property in the outer suburbs. The prices in those suburbs have barely moved so far. "But that's too far out, no one wants to live there." I bought my first car in 2006. A second hand model from 2003. I still drive it. He has a personal loan on his car, and is still clearing the loan from his previous car. "We should have enough pay to enjoy life too." I scrimped and saved and didn't go on an expensive overseas holiday until I was nearly 30. "We should be paid enough to enjoy life and still have enough to live on". I frequently buy generic branded goods for feeding my family. Later I see him talking on social media about how an $80 bottle of whisky is cheap. "Anecdotal evidence shows that housing now is the most expensive than ever." Maybe, but somehow some people find ways to put a roof over their family's heads, and save for the future without having to wait for the government to 'fix' things.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 13, 2020 8:31:35 GMT 10
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. If your time line is short, I would even leave it in a defensive allocation.
I largely ignore my super and hope to one day consider it just the icing on the cake after my other investments.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 12, 2020 22:46:35 GMT 10
We have a small amount in ASX200 index fund shares. As we're relatively young, I'm happy to leave it there to ride it out. I don't think it's the end times, so in a few decades it should recover. Hence my desire to buy into it in a few months.
Hard to predict, it's always looking through the crystal ball.
I do wish I had more control over my super though.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 12, 2020 11:25:48 GMT 10
Be careful. As stated in first post this has triggered one of my early SHTF, time to liquidate assets and horde cash under the mattress among the toilet paper. WHO just declared pandemic, US stocks dropped another 5%, wild swings over the last few days. Very close to bear market and all out panic selling. Doc warning in 8 days the US will where Italy currently is. In lock down. I am no financial expert in any means, I am withdrawing all extra cash out the bank - hold for 3 weeks see what happens. Yes, still holding pattern for now. I'm expecting it will get worse.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 11, 2020 21:26:06 GMT 10
Interesting that different parts of the country now have different levels of TP buy-o-mania. You could start bootleg TP trade 'prohibition style'. Do I get to carry a tommy gun? According to social media, all you need is a trenchcoat and a nervous facial tic!
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Mar 11, 2020 21:25:42 GMT 10
I'm thinking of using dollar averaging, and spreading share investments over the next few months. I don't feel smart enough to catch the bottom of the market, so hopefully that will average it out.
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 25, 2018 11:07:33 GMT 10
A bloke I know is an avid fencer, and uses pallets to hang all of his swords instead of purchasing a rack. Just thinking, if your pallets are flush against your container, your stored items can also act as insulation. Maybe set up a vertical garden system?
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 20, 2018 23:06:43 GMT 10
I heard a statistic that in Adelaide, 1/3 of houses will experience a termite infestation in their lifetime. Probably wouldn't apply to newer houses with permanent termite treatments and steel framing, but it's a definite risk for timber framed/old houses. Since the build is elevated on besser blocks, you would hope to see mudding if an infestation occurs. Unless you're unlucky enough for them to come up right under the build. In which case you're pretty screwed!
|
|
ygidorp
Senior Member
Posts: 197
Likes: 282
|
Post by ygidorp on Jun 20, 2018 10:34:27 GMT 10
That last link with the pitched roof really needs collar ties, too (horizontal ties between rafters about 1/3 of the way down from the apex). Funnily enough, the chicken coop that was subsequently posted has collar ties. The chicken coop would probably move less than the shed!
|
|