I not only feel we have been prudent to prepare, but--it's not over til it's over. However, I do feel free to begin chomping on the preps as we have a lot. I'm getting a sugar rush from the fruitcake. I love the free range turkey jerkey and I have bought lots of citrus (a bushel) for this month, anyway. The treats will be consumed first. Then, when the real crisis comes we'll be stuck with the boring food--oh well. The fruitcake is better than I expected. We have two of these.

Were we fooled and victims of a meme? No, the best and the brightest said there would be problems. Further, we're only at the start. I hope we stay up and get to have more fun in our lives rather than suffering. However, there are possible disruptions ahead. As someone else said, I'm not going to worry about chemtrails, but I can fuss over the economy. Yet if oil is okay--big if--I'll heave a sigh of relief. Please recall, IF we were wrong, the government was prepared for us to be right, which was why the big coverup...

Best to all you good people out there. I'm eating SOME of my preps, but leaving at least three months' supply.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 01, 2000

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Me too Mara....I told Chubby Hubby no matter what happens, we are starting our preps Jan 1. Actually we eat out of them all the time, but would like to whittle them down a bit where I wasn't having to step over and around them all. But......the fat lady isn't even on the stage yet. But come hell nor high water, y'all ain't going find this old hen hanging around the grocery stores this year. A year of no shopping (I hope) means a lot of free time. Wheeeeeeeeee! And its 78 degrees out with the sun shining and I have been pruning the grape vines. Wonderful! Just knowing the infrastructure is still up has lifted a large burden off the mind.

Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

I have been prepping for nearly 2 years. I have been praying at the same time that nothing serious would happen. My prayers were answered.

Do I feel foolish for having prepped and nothing happened (yet)? Not by a long shot. Like someone who takes out a large life insurance policy and is still alive at the end of the policy period, I'm thankful that I didn't need it. But unlike a life insurance policy, most of our preps will be used, eventually. The peace of mind I had knowing that if something serious happened makes up for the time and trouble I went to prepping.

And like Taz said above, the fat lady hasn't sang yet; she hasn't even gotten onto the stage.

Gerald

-- Gerald Cox (grcox@internetwork.net), January 01, 2000.

Food preps should always be eaten and cycled
with the newer foods going to the rear of the
queue.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 01, 2000.

I wouldn't start eating your preps just yet--we're not through this thing yet, & the solar flares aren't expected to hit until mid Jan 00. I might finish my champagne up, but that's about it.

-- loire (wolfscout77@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

We too feasted on tuna and crackers, with pickles, for lunch. I'm glad we stuck with a no SPAM policy on our preps. ;-) My question is, if nothing more comes to pass in the next few weeks, what is a good way to use the 100 2 ltr bottles of non-potable water we have down in the basement?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 01, 2000.

Save it for your garden this summer--we had a drought this past year & were banned from watering. At the very least you'll use it. But hold on, at least until the end of January...you may still need it.

-- loire (wolfscout77@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

TRAITOR!

BLASPHEMER!

How dare you speak of EATING fruitcakes on this forum. You will shortly know the wrath of the collective mis-intellegence of the almighty FRL!!

And Taz, to think you collaborated! Who's next, Old Git, Rob; maybe Greybear and Gayla sharing tips for slicing (wet the knife) and serving fruitcakes!

INFIDELS!!! Where is DiEtEr when I need him?

(BTW, I have stored five (5!) of the deluxe cakes from Colin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, and I dare not open the first one. Once I start, I can't help myself, and those Fruitcake Anonymous meetings are soooo depressing.)

Lon

-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), January 01, 2000.

I'm amazed that the power stayed on at all the millenial celebrations throughout the world (maybe they were on generators like the Washinton DC affair). Nonetheless, with power up, I feel like we have avoided TEOTWAWKI. (I feel a little like a prisoner on death row being given a reprieve).

Now all we have have to do is avoid "death by a thousand potholes".

-- Michael (mhgentry@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.