True.
I often wonder, how secure is my pension and how secure is my SS? I think they are more secure than a job would have been, really. And it would have to get really, really bad before they took a hit. Which I don't see (or don't want to see). It would be a couple of years, minimum, before the Cal. State pension had any impact. Social Security... who the hell knows. Same, I assume. My 403B lost money the first quarter, but has pulled into the positive (barely) for the second. Hmmm. I've got it heavier in bonds than stocks, for the long term. That's going to be the Daughter's inheritance. Otherwise, I think it's a good time to be saving. I'm just not sure if I should spread it around among dollars, Euros, and pounds, or keep it primarily in dollars. Which I think are going to be stronger than pounds for the next couple of years. I can't get a feel for Euros.
Then again, I could step off a curb whilst on my way to the shop some afternoon and be splatted by an Irn Bru truck, and all bets are then off.
Three-day supply chain. That boggles the mind. Lovely fresh food, but goodness!
Well, having learned from the near riot I watched in Waitrose the first nice day after three days of snow, when people could finally get out, I believe I'll have some powdered milk in the pantry. It works for tea and coffee just fine. I'll have my fresh greens growing in my little hydroponic setup, albeit not in the quantities I'd like. There will be beef and chicken preserved in jars, and jerky. A couple of week's worth of veg, the same. And the ability to bake bread for a good couple of months, as needed. Just so I don't have to go get elbowed in the dairy and the bread section at Waitrose by pinched-face people who look as if they see the End-of-Times approaching.
Aside from the powdered milk, I like to keep a month or two's staples on hand anyway. Things happen, sometimes, and it's better to have them and not need them, then to need them and not have them.
Having lived places where I've been snowed in for a week and lost power, I also have several emergency cans of tuna, peanutbutter, and crackers. Not ideal, but they'll hold one over in a power failure situation. (Apparently those sort of power failures only very rarely happen here, but old habits die hard.)
I still would be more comfortable about things if I lived in a village somewhere that I had some land to have a garden. But that applies no matter what the rest of the world does. I just like being able to go pick fresh veg, and miss my old garden in Calif.
I would imagine the chaos would last maybe a month, with shortages and high prices, unless the government freezes prices. Then supplies will trickle in from elsewhere, with the associated higher costs. People are going to whine like mad about it, too.
