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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 544795" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I LOVE buying things and stocking them at rock bottom prices. I just bought 20 more lbs of sugar the other day........I have 20 lbs already. Now for people wondering why on earth I want 40 lbs of sugar......did you <strong>see</strong> the price jump of sugar in recent months?? It hit flour too. I have ohhh, about 60-80 lbs of flour (stock up at aldis, it is dirt cheap) Speaking of storage.......especially long term storage, the girls and I order mylar bags online & O2 absorbers.........then we pick up food grade 10 gallon buckets at Lowe's cheap and lids (look at the label, food grade because you don't want chemicals leaching into whatever food you have in them). Buckets are to keep critters out. The bags with the O2 absorbers keep it fresh for years, actually eons as far as flour goes. And yeah, I'm done buying flour for a good long time.........at least until I use a great deal of it up. Now while that sounds like a ton of flour (and you might be thinking omg I could never use so much) stop and think how often you use flour and how much you use at a time, then if prices really really go up........are you going to pinch pennies by cooking from scratch......so how much more flour will you need in addition to normal usage? (bread, noodles, biscuits, pancakes, ect) You can use the bags/buckets with all sorts of dried foods to stretch their shelf life far beyond normal. Buckets also help cut down on storage area. That is a LOT of sugar and flour alone........and out of buckets it takes up way too much space. </p><p></p><p>I was raised by my grandma who lived as an adult through the great depression. I heard horror stories from as far back as I could remember. My step dad (the man I call dad) was a child in the depression......and his stories were right up there with my grandma's. Both remembered standing in endless lines all day hoping for bread and soup that was mostly water. Both could walk along a field and tell you every wild edible plant in it, how to prepare it, because it made up the bulk of their diet much of the time until gardens ripened and produced. I wish I could remember the edible ones.....I know a few, but haven't a clue as to what to do with them to eat them. That part didn't stick as well because they didn't show me, they just told me.</p><p></p><p>I'm actually surprised that the news is just now getting the word out. Because I've been hearing about what was coming for quite a long while. But then I"m rural and know quite a lot of farmers, and I know farmers from my home town which is another state.......and I know others in several other states. Even the govt can't claim they hadn't been warned because they started actively encouraging people to use their food stamps for seeds to get more food out of them. </p><p></p><p>We have farmers starting to sell off 250 lb hogs for 150.00 because they can't afford to feed them anymore. FYI that is an amazing price. And if both my freezers weren't packed to the brim, I'd have done thirds with the girls and snatched it up too. </p><p></p><p>This drought is not only unprecedented, it's far worse in it's own way than the dustbowl, but you have other growing areas affected by other disasters too. Which I don't recall happening in the 1930's. And I've yet to hear one weather expert even attempt to say how long they expect it to last, because they've never seen it act this way. .</p><p></p><p>There are lots of other ways you can pinch pennies and make dealing with higher prices not quite so painful too. Actually, it's becoming quite popular in our neck of the woods. We have people learning to make their own laundry soap and fabric softeners, cleaning supplies and such. I'll admit at first I wasn't all that interested.........give me my Awesome and I'm pretty much good to go as far as cleaning supplies......but I just bought vinegar super cheap at wallie world and got 12 bottles of free (yes I said free) Suave conditioner to make fabric softener for when I hang my clothes outside they won't be stiff as a board. </p><p></p><p>Internet searches will turn up all sorts of amazing things. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Just a side note here, for those who think I'm doing Chicken Little's job; easy child and I are not the only ones in the area stocking up in a major way. I've noticed a huge shift in this in the past 3 months or so. </p><p></p><p>The great depression just sort of snuck up on people too. Shoot, most of the country didn't even know the dustbowl was anything to worry about until the huge dust storms started arriving in the major cities. They'd just come out of the prosperous roaring 20's and couldn't imagine anything else. We don't have dust flying everywhere (thanks to top soil preservation methods) but it's the same type of weather pattern only worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 544795, member: 84"] I LOVE buying things and stocking them at rock bottom prices. I just bought 20 more lbs of sugar the other day........I have 20 lbs already. Now for people wondering why on earth I want 40 lbs of sugar......did you [B]see[/B] the price jump of sugar in recent months?? It hit flour too. I have ohhh, about 60-80 lbs of flour (stock up at aldis, it is dirt cheap) Speaking of storage.......especially long term storage, the girls and I order mylar bags online & O2 absorbers.........then we pick up food grade 10 gallon buckets at Lowe's cheap and lids (look at the label, food grade because you don't want chemicals leaching into whatever food you have in them). Buckets are to keep critters out. The bags with the O2 absorbers keep it fresh for years, actually eons as far as flour goes. And yeah, I'm done buying flour for a good long time.........at least until I use a great deal of it up. Now while that sounds like a ton of flour (and you might be thinking omg I could never use so much) stop and think how often you use flour and how much you use at a time, then if prices really really go up........are you going to pinch pennies by cooking from scratch......so how much more flour will you need in addition to normal usage? (bread, noodles, biscuits, pancakes, ect) You can use the bags/buckets with all sorts of dried foods to stretch their shelf life far beyond normal. Buckets also help cut down on storage area. That is a LOT of sugar and flour alone........and out of buckets it takes up way too much space. I was raised by my grandma who lived as an adult through the great depression. I heard horror stories from as far back as I could remember. My step dad (the man I call dad) was a child in the depression......and his stories were right up there with my grandma's. Both remembered standing in endless lines all day hoping for bread and soup that was mostly water. Both could walk along a field and tell you every wild edible plant in it, how to prepare it, because it made up the bulk of their diet much of the time until gardens ripened and produced. I wish I could remember the edible ones.....I know a few, but haven't a clue as to what to do with them to eat them. That part didn't stick as well because they didn't show me, they just told me. I'm actually surprised that the news is just now getting the word out. Because I've been hearing about what was coming for quite a long while. But then I"m rural and know quite a lot of farmers, and I know farmers from my home town which is another state.......and I know others in several other states. Even the govt can't claim they hadn't been warned because they started actively encouraging people to use their food stamps for seeds to get more food out of them. We have farmers starting to sell off 250 lb hogs for 150.00 because they can't afford to feed them anymore. FYI that is an amazing price. And if both my freezers weren't packed to the brim, I'd have done thirds with the girls and snatched it up too. This drought is not only unprecedented, it's far worse in it's own way than the dustbowl, but you have other growing areas affected by other disasters too. Which I don't recall happening in the 1930's. And I've yet to hear one weather expert even attempt to say how long they expect it to last, because they've never seen it act this way. . There are lots of other ways you can pinch pennies and make dealing with higher prices not quite so painful too. Actually, it's becoming quite popular in our neck of the woods. We have people learning to make their own laundry soap and fabric softeners, cleaning supplies and such. I'll admit at first I wasn't all that interested.........give me my Awesome and I'm pretty much good to go as far as cleaning supplies......but I just bought vinegar super cheap at wallie world and got 12 bottles of free (yes I said free) Suave conditioner to make fabric softener for when I hang my clothes outside they won't be stiff as a board. Internet searches will turn up all sorts of amazing things. :) Just a side note here, for those who think I'm doing Chicken Little's job; easy child and I are not the only ones in the area stocking up in a major way. I've noticed a huge shift in this in the past 3 months or so. The great depression just sort of snuck up on people too. Shoot, most of the country didn't even know the dustbowl was anything to worry about until the huge dust storms started arriving in the major cities. They'd just come out of the prosperous roaring 20's and couldn't imagine anything else. We don't have dust flying everywhere (thanks to top soil preservation methods) but it's the same type of weather pattern only worse. [/QUOTE]
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