Marseydoats
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Bottled water is just a prep for when the power goes out.
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Bottled water is just a prep for when the power goes out.
wobble
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The deer park is just under $8.
tnphil
Don't screw with an engineer
Not to 99% of the public... that's all they drink. We have a Pur water filter that my wife bought. My nephew won't use it-he only drinks purified bottled water after he pours it into his LifeStraw bottle.
"Prepping" is not just buying cases of water-it's also filling old gallon jars, large wine bottles, etc from the tap.
okie-carbine
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You must not be in an area with terrible tap water. Some folks don't have the luxury of being able to drink from the tap.
20Gauge
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We have well water and it has hydrogen sulfide in it.... lousy tasting.
20Gauge
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or 5 gallon jugs that you bought new caps on line for.... like we did, we can hold 80 gallons for drinking or flushing the toilet when the well is down due to power.....
straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
Just today i made a Sam's Club stock up list. We've been supplying our daughter and grandkids with food since May so we've been eating out of our own preps and pantry which is very low now. I thought with the potential port shut downs we should replenish. My Sam's Club list is over $1,000!
I told DH we'll just take this list and go to Walmart and see what we can get.
I told DH we'll just take this list and go to Walmart and see what we can get.
tnphil
Don't screw with an engineer
To me, our tap water is good, I grew up drinking it (and it's hard water). To my wife, not so much-that's why she bought the Pur filter. Way cheaper than buying the cases of water that nephew goes through.
So, when you store gallons of tap water, just store some filters too. Along with bottled water too.
bracketquant
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I though prepping was emptying large wine bottles?
tiredude
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Liquid calories count!
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
If someone told me in 1965 that we would be shipping DRINKING WATER from OVERSEAS that ordinary Americans would be drinking, instead of tap water, IN QUANTITY I would have said " you're crazy!"
tnphil
Don't screw with an engineer
Love those fuel points!We went for groceries last night, gotta get those 4X fuel points on Friday.
This is Kroger in mmiddle-TN.
30 minutes ago...
Our local water is reverse osmosis so quite good once I put it through the Britta filter to get rid of the chlorine. I have dozens and dozens of empty quart jars and as a winter project, I plan to "can" quarts of drinking water. It will be sterile but flat tasting so will need to go through the Britta filter again before drinking. I fill any 2 quart or larger container with water and store in the basement. Refreshing all of that is also a planned a winter project. That water is for flushing and washing not drinking although it could be boiled for drinking. I currently do buy bottled water as part of my emergency supplies, but it would be almost impossible to buy enough for every use and darned expensive. I'm also old with a bad back so have no desire to load water into my cart, into my car and then into my house. I think canning tap water makes more sense physically and financially.
My well water is excellent. Maybe a little iron taste, but it's clean and perfectly safe. Yes, I get "city people" visitors staying who get hinky about water from the ground (hahahahahahaha!) and mostly I think "pizz on 'em",
but usually relent and buy a couple gallons of cheap spring water for them if I'm feeling charitable.
but usually relent and buy a couple gallons of cheap spring water for them if I'm feeling charitable.
PrairieWind
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Our well water is crappy…way too much iron for me. We run a Berkey for drinking and cooking water. (Extra filters are in the pantry)
Reasonable Rascal
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Today. Wal-Mart was over $4.50 somewhere but I neglected to record it.
Something tells me that Pete and Gerry are getting hosed on their eggs vs. the store brand prices. Organic used to be so much higher than regular ol' industrial eggs.
RR
Something tells me that Pete and Gerry are getting hosed on their eggs vs. the store brand prices. Organic used to be so much higher than regular ol' industrial eggs.
RR
Wobble, why are you buying bottled water? It’s ridiculously expensive and a Berkey gives you better water anyway.
bracketquant
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Here, the 60 egg white box at WalMart is down to $19 and change, from the $22 of the past few months.
Reasonable Rascal
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Looks like "Big Mac" could use some Viagra.
RR
RR
momma_soapmaker
Disgusted
I've been filtering drinking water since the '90s.
straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
We went to Walmart this morning with our re-stock up list. $588.61
Great Northwet
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Once in a while I get to report good news on the inflation front and here is an example: I buy Pine Mountain firestarters 1lb. box for the fireplace during the winter They were $6.99 last year and now $8.99 one year later. I went to Kroger a couple days ago to get the first box of the season, but they were gone. Not a single one anywhere in the store. I normally go through about 4 boxes of these things during the winter. So I went to Amazon and found a 5 lb. box for $15.44 incl. tax. Thats $3 and small change per box and will last the whole winter+. It was delivered to the house without a delivery fee in less than 24 hours.
Same with Burger King's Whopper. I used to get it for lunch in 1968 Albany, NY. It was huge! Same with their Whaler fish sandwitch.
energy_wave
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Grocery chain CEO warns over port strike: Will 'hit right between the eyes'
United Refining Company and Red Apple Group Chairman & CEO John Catsimitidis discusses Biden's non-intervention in the port strikes and explains how it will spike inflation and raise food and oil prices.Rt 6:52
SouthernBreeze
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DS was at the Sam's Club in our area, yesterday. He sent Cary a text telling him that the shelves were almost bare, there. He said that it looked to him like people were panic buying. Bottled water, TP, and paper towels were completely gone. He saw one couple with two carts filled with 8, 25lb. sacks of sugar amongst other food items. They apparently bought the last 8 sacks in the store. None was left on the shelves.
energy_wave
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nomifyle
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I've noticed things going up over night in the last week. I buy my bifocal readers from amazon. Sometimes I'll look at new ones. Last week over night the ones I was looking for went up $6. They do come from china. This is just one example. Just today 4x4 gause pads went up almost $3. Fortunately I have a supply.
Barry Natchitoches
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We here in Memphis are currently very fortunate that we sit on a major aquifer with great water (although several corporate entites are trying to harness that water for their advantage right now).
But I was raised in New Orleans, the toilet bowl of the middle half of the country. Sewage plants and factories on the Mississippi and many of its northern tributaries dump all their stuff into the Mississippi, so by the time the river water gets to south Louisiana, the water is beyond nasty.
And that is where New Orleans gets its tap water from.
Blah…
I did not drink tap water until I moved to Memphis.
psychgirl
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This isn’t gonna help the panic buying!
Sheesh!
Barry Natchitoches
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I went to walMart to fill in some family pantry holes, and I ran into a gem in the rough this morning:
2 pound bags of Royal brand basmati rice - handsomely packed in mylar packaging that will last a long time - for only 99 cents a bag!
That is 49 and 1/2 half cents per pound for BASMATI rice, already packaged for long term storage!
The Great Value brand basmati rice (which sat right next to the Royal brand) was $4.29 for the 2 pound bag. Mahatma brand basmati rice in the two pound bag was $4.99.
There were only 4 bags of the 2 pound, Royal brand basmati rice on the shelf when I rolled my buggy onto the rice & bean aisle this morning.
Needless to say, I bought the last 4 bags.
2 pound bags of Royal brand basmati rice - handsomely packed in mylar packaging that will last a long time - for only 99 cents a bag!
That is 49 and 1/2 half cents per pound for BASMATI rice, already packaged for long term storage!
The Great Value brand basmati rice (which sat right next to the Royal brand) was $4.29 for the 2 pound bag. Mahatma brand basmati rice in the two pound bag was $4.99.
There were only 4 bags of the 2 pound, Royal brand basmati rice on the shelf when I rolled my buggy onto the rice & bean aisle this morning.
Needless to say, I bought the last 4 bags.
tnphil
Don't screw with an engineer
Basmati rice is almost as easy to cook as jasmine rice. Very forgiving.
straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
Our local news is reporting a toilet paper shortage in stores in our area. Seems that the locals heard about the ports shutdown and went and bought it all up lol
Barry Natchitoches
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Barry Natchitoches
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Cyclonemom
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The boys better have good aim and no splash with that setup!!!
Being the only cleaner in a house with 3 males, I can tell you what that pile will look and smell like in a week!
greysage
319 feet above see-level
Hannafords, northwestern Vt.
I do a lot of Instacart, mostly because I can't stand being around the general public.
Decided to go do a stock up on stuff I've been using for the last year. Stopped doing top offs after the early days of the scamdemic. So I could use some stuff, wasn't really a need.
Paper towels, I actually let my supply run pretty low, down to 1.5 Costco packs of Bounty. Grabbed the largest they had at Hannafords, 12 rolls. It was like $23. Paper towels are life to me, my canary in the coal mine. A modern day luxury. If we can't buy them, something is seriously wrong. Most of the TP/PT aisle was near empty.
Rice. I used up most of my 2lb bags of Jasmine rice I stocked up on pre and during the plandemic. To my surprise, the rice section is tiny now. It used to huge with more choices than I cared for. Today I had to reach to the back for a 2# jug of Jasmine, $4.49.
Had to search for Johnsonville Beef Sausage, found it almost buried by pork products. I like it because it has fewer ingredients than the Hillshire farm version. Love the stuff in my eggs.
The produce dept was pretty bare for midday on a Friday. Plenty of fruit, but the pre-washed and bagged veggies looked wiped out.
I do a lot of Instacart, mostly because I can't stand being around the general public.
Decided to go do a stock up on stuff I've been using for the last year. Stopped doing top offs after the early days of the scamdemic. So I could use some stuff, wasn't really a need.
Paper towels, I actually let my supply run pretty low, down to 1.5 Costco packs of Bounty. Grabbed the largest they had at Hannafords, 12 rolls. It was like $23. Paper towels are life to me, my canary in the coal mine. A modern day luxury. If we can't buy them, something is seriously wrong. Most of the TP/PT aisle was near empty.
Rice. I used up most of my 2lb bags of Jasmine rice I stocked up on pre and during the plandemic. To my surprise, the rice section is tiny now. It used to huge with more choices than I cared for. Today I had to reach to the back for a 2# jug of Jasmine, $4.49.
Had to search for Johnsonville Beef Sausage, found it almost buried by pork products. I like it because it has fewer ingredients than the Hillshire farm version. Love the stuff in my eggs.
The produce dept was pretty bare for midday on a Friday. Plenty of fruit, but the pre-washed and bagged veggies looked wiped out.
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