[Misc] In apocalyptic scenario... how long could your household survive without leaving the home?

[The Clamp]

I have everything I need to last a year.

 

[nevergoagain]

I have a stream running by the side of the house so all good for water, quite rural so plentiful volumes of badgers, foxes & squirrels to slaughter and eat. Still have plenty of red wine from Covid so not too bad but would have to ration before I start on the gin. Eventually it would get to the cointreau and things would have to get really desperate to drink that. If boredom gets too much assume I can shoot the neighbours if I don't leave the garden ?.

 

[Chicken Run]

You say completed but there seems to be missing bits of concrete on one side?

Oh dear, this was a drawing of it in the self build instructions, it’s not real…

 

[Chicken Run]

I have everything I need to last a year.

Well done TC, i bet you got a bug out bag permanently at ready status, containing currency from several countries, various passports and a ceramic gun.

 

[Sussexscots]

The Covid bollocks taught me to have a fridge in the garage constantly fully stocked with beer. Plenty of Red wine. Lots of bottled water. Plenty of tinned food.

That'll work for a fortnight.

After that, I'm out.

 

[Mellotron]

This brings to mind one of Alan Partridge's phone-in discussions: "How long could you survive if you just ate crisps?"

I’m 39 years old

 

[Wrong-Direction]

You H, like me, are from an age when being stupid was something to be ashamed of, and stupid people would try to hide their stupidity and would certainly avoid bringing attention to it.

At what point did it change so that stupid people can celebrate the fact they are thick as shit by shouting loudly everywhere they go (on the street, in shops, pubs, on phones and face to face) the louder, the better. I walk around these days being forced to listen to the most inane, thickest shits shouting about every aspect of their pathetic meaningless existence.

And if that's not enough, really stupid people can then broadcast really stupid things into the digital ether.

I do worry for the next generations.

And relax ........

 

[MTSeagulls]

I'd be alright for meat for around a year.
Currently have 6 pigs, around 30 chickens and a few quail, been thinking about getting rabbits too, maybe even goats for milk. I've been learning a lot about preserving and have a large smoker.
I have a 2 1/2 acre field growing corn, millet and casava. We have a small veggie patch to grow lettuces, tomatoes, chillies, cucumbers, okra, water melons and various pumpkin type things but will look to expand that this year.
We have fruit trees of lemon, mango cashew, banana, avocado, pegui, Barbados cherry and pomegranate along with passion fruit.
I have a well but relies on having electric to pump the water so need to think about that.
I reckon the biggest danger would be thieves so would need a large dog and a gun.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Youd have to ask the dog

funny you mention this . . . . There is an Anderson shelter on ours . . . .not on our plot, but close . . . Having inspected it, It is still in a far more robust and resiliant condition then most things built since it was.

I'd love to get my hands on it, restore it and use it as a store. Hopefully nothing else!

A store would be a grand idea

 

[Whoislloydy]

Less than a week as we don't have much water on hand and assume utilities would be shutoff.

On the subject of apocalypse, highly recommend Doomsday Preppers for some shit TV. Some truly nutty people. They're all prepping for the end of the world (either by North Korea invading, Super tornadoes, tsunamis, the cold war, a new COVID.)

Not sure where you would watch it though, i haven't seen it in years.

 

[Dr Q]

I have around 20 litres of bottled water. About 8 litres in my toilet cistern as a backup. Piss is 95% water - If I distilled this, I could get a litre or two a day out of it I reckon. Then there is of course rainwater harvesting. Also got about 100 diet cokes which I could use for hydration.

That's a few months right there - unless I really get to grips with the rainwater harvesting.

You’d probably die of frustration not being able to start cr@p threads!

 

[queens park pete]

How would you cook the pasta?

Soak it in recycled urine? Or cook with wood taken from the neighbour's fence? (Might need to cook them while I am at it). Over time I plan to seize all the adjacent gardens and subjugate those willing to my feudal overlordship. The rest get Game of Throned.

 

[Cotton Socks]

Just to check the 'rules' for the short time in the garden..... can I light the bbq & come in while the coals heat up? I've got a lots of bbq charcoal that would keep me going for a few days. Then onto the camping gas then I'll have to do some gardening & get out the binbag of letters I've been meaning to shred to put in the incinerator.
I have solar power battery packs to charge torches & a lot of torches with batteries.
If it happens tomorrow, I'll be ok for water for 2 weeks as there was a slight miscommunication with the amount I wanted. I also have other drinks that are mostly water. The dog seems happy to drink manky water from a bucket in the garden so we could share that. I wouldn't have enough beer but there's a couple of bottles of baileys and the trifle sherry.
All things considered I reckon 3 - 4 weeks, if I don't get robbed as I've just said what I have on an open forum! Just to warn you though, my dog is a trained guard dog that will bite & if he doesn't one of the cats will! The cat would probably bite first actually.
I have the orange creams from the quality street left over from Xmas if things get really desperate as well.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I'd consider making a fire pit in the living room, and ventilating it out the window, for heat and cooking, and possibly distilling my piss.

Throw in some crusty artisan bread and dipping oil and @Herr Tubthumper would probably pay £80 a head for that.

 

[jcdenton08]

@ManOfSussex Who invented the skip?

 

[queens park pete]

I'd be alright for meat for around a year.
Currently have 6 pigs, around 30 chickens and a few quail, been thinking about getting rabbits too, maybe even goats for milk. I've been learning a lot about preserving and have a large smoker.
I have a 2 1/2 acre field growing corn, millet and casava. We have a small veggie patch to grow lettuces, tomatoes, chillies, cucumbers, okra, water melons and various pumpkin type things but will look to expand that this year.
We have fruit trees of lemon, mango cashew, banana, avocado, pegui, Barbados cherry and pomegranate along with passion fruit.
I have a well but relies on having electric to pump the water so need to think about that.
I reckon the biggest danger would be thieves so would need a large dog and a gun.

You should be ok till survivors turn up having taken the choicest beasts from Drusilla's Zoo.
I think we already have threads on "Hardest Animals" by way of advice.

 

[queens park pete]

Throw in some crusty artisan bread and dipping oil and @Herr Tubthumper would probably pay £80 a head for that.

That's quite a lot for just the head. What's he offering for the rest of the body?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You H, like me, are from an age when being stupid was something to be ashamed of, and stupid people would try to hide their stupidity and would certainly avoid bringing attention to it.

At what point did it change so that stupid people can celebrate the fact they are thick as shit by shouting loudly everywhere they go (on the street, in shops, pubs, on phones and face to face) the louder, the better. I walk around these days being forced to listen to the most inane, thickest shits shouting about every aspect of their pathetic meaningless existence.

And if that's not enough, really stupid people can then broadcast really stupid things into the digital ether.

I do worry for the next generations.

And relax ........

I refer you to squatter (the embodiment of thick) and the ant.

Clive:
I wish him luck – at the same time I wish him a strange sort of happiness:
Derek:
Mmm.
Clive:
Death.
Derek:
Yes. I think it’s-, that would be the best thing for Squatter.
Clive:
I think if death could come to Squatter…
Derek:
Mmm.
Clive:
… now…
Derek:
Rather than the other way round.
Clive:
Yes.
Derek:
I think we’d all be very happy.
Clive:
I think so.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd be alright for meat for around a year.
Currently have 6 pigs, around 30 chickens and a few quail, been thinking about getting rabbits too, maybe even goats for milk. I've been learning a lot about preserving and have a large smoker.
I have a 2 1/2 acre field growing corn, millet and casava. We have a small veggie patch to grow lettuces, tomatoes, chillies, cucumbers, okra, water melons and various pumpkin type things but will look to expand that this year.
We have fruit trees of lemon, mango cashew, banana, avocado, pegui, Barbados cherry and pomegranate along with passion fruit.
I have a well but relies on having electric to pump the water so need to think about that.
I reckon the biggest danger would be thieves so would need a large dog and a gun.

Telly Savalas?
He's dead.

Anyway, what will you feed all those animals with?

 

[MTSeagulls]

You should be ok till survivors turn up having taken the choicest beasts from Drusilla's Zoo.
I think we already have threads on "Hardest Animals" by way of advice.

Funny because we were talking to some friends here last night about becoming more self sufficient in case of some kind of financial collapse in these uncertain times.
But yeah I think other survivors are the biggest danger. Even now though animal and food thefts are not uncommon here due to the low standard of living.
I was recently looking into getting a rottweiler for added security. My two mini pomeranian don't really cut it in that department.