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Bill Barber

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the times they are changing, try to stock up.

Went to costco today,tried to buy 100 lbs of flour, was limited to 25 lbs, wanted to buy 50 lbs of rice, was limited to 25 lbs, got 15 lbs of sugar, 10 lbs of coffee, 20 lbs of ground beef, 10 roaster chickins, two cases of tunafish, case limit is two.

Filled up my ST and the wifs car at cosco (130 bux)

we are in for some deep shit, got enough for a month, will only get worse
 
They talked about this on the national news tonight. Rice has doubled in price and stores are limiting how much a person can purchase. I think we'll go out and do what BB did, not as large of quantities, but close. Good thing we have a large freezer and two refrigerators. I can see beef going way high.
 
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yea i heard about this the restraunt i work at has been buyin flour in bulk for the past month due to the fact of the lack of it and the rediculous increase in price
 
No matter how bad it gets,,, it will be great as compared to other places.



I saw one man die while fighting over rice in Haiti and stopped a gang from killing another man over a single bag of rice...



Soooo, I hear you and understand what you are saying. But,,, to me,,, it is all relative...



(Sorry if it sounds like I am taking something away from the post, it is not my intention...)
 
I guess for a while people have been stocking up on items like that for a while now.



From what I have read, there are no shortages right now, but people have been buying hundreds of pounds of items like this because the prices are going up.



This is along the same lines as the oil trading is going. The prices are not reflecting the actual prices, but on what the prices may go up to.



So people are trying to get these items because the prices MAY go up to.





Tom
 
My wife started buying flour and sugar last month. I got the vacuum bagger out and bagged it all for long term storage._Ron
 
Asked my wife and she said we only use one pound of rice and flour a year.



Don't worrry about food cost I can catch all the fish I need. With boat, insurance, and fuel I figure it is only costing me about $350 per pound.
 
No i do not own a bakery, 100 lbs of flour could feed the wif and I for two mos.

we live on a major earthquake fault, might not have any food nor services for weeks in the event of a big EQ.

all that we have put away is non perishable and can be used down the road.

just stocken up in case.

20 gals of gas (that i rotate) 4 large bots of propane (i can cook outside)

10 gals of bleach, we live next to a lake, I can make my own drinking water

I have a smoke house and 200 lbs of frozen beef, I have a generator that will run the freezer until I can process the meat.

I have guns and ammo, I live in the country full of deer, wild pigs, if need be, I can feed my family, no problem

i in no way in these times want to have to rely 100% on the local safeway store.
 
Self Sufficiency is great, though I live in the sub-suburban land of not milk and honey, so while I'm not in townhouses or the like of suburbia, I don't have deer and pigs wild, and unless a Fight Club scenario happens, I won't have them like bill does :(

Got my chickens though, so I'm alright.



(Sadly, I've never gone hunting or cleaned any dead animal...I feel cheated by my sheltered life.)



lol--no one pokes fun at Bill Barber for stocking up on food, yet I got flak for the pants....guess an earthquake fault line is a better reason then needing more pockets. ;)





Coastiejoe, are you saying that you single-handedly kept a gang from killing a guy over rice? That's pretty impressive. I can see why France didn't want to hold on to that country.
 
Myself and another guy, fortunately we were armed, which,,, they really could care less, until,,, we shot a magazines worth of ammo into the water next to them (This happened on a pier in Haiti).



I really didn't care about the rice and fully understand their need for it, but not at the cost of the life of another human being.
 
Looking this up on the internet the shortage expanded to cover certain types of hops....



Beer tastes like crap anyhow. The new bud commercial about "commitment" with the lame looking bartender...."130 years of not changing their method of making beer to cut corners and save money, now that's commitment."



Commitment to crap. They don't have to cut corners as they've already cut them all.



With a beer shortage, maybe the lesser known beer that is purported to not be heinously awful will gain in popularity.



(because since it isn't known, there can't be a shortage of it as there isn't demand enough currently to be able to define a shortage if there was one)

 
Bill, you look more urban than I am, yet you have bird parades and wild pigs and deer roaming?



Must be a west thing :huh:



That's almost biblical food deliverance. Makes the "drop a salt lick and camp in a deer stand" method of hunting look like work...
 
100 yrds from my house is a 65K acre ranch.

The wild Turkeys are pests, they peck on your cars with their peckers.

The deer are all over the hood in the mornings, are a real hazard when driving.

The pigs dig up the golf course like D8 cats

SJPD shot a Mtn lion 100 yrds from my house a couple weeks back:(
 

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