The card was cancelled and a new one ordered. But this left me without a debit card for several days including the weekend! Yikes! I was feeling the pinch because I forget to get cash before I left work on Friday! And I didn't want to be one of those pathetic people writing a check in a grocery store... oh the ridicule and evil stares I would have received from the more advanced people waiting in line behind me!! Oh the shame of it all!I only had about $20 in my wallet so I had to watch what I spent. And I ended up doing without many things.
It was only the week or so before that I had lost my phone and I felt very lost without immediate contact with the world. All this made me think of a time when I was younger...
When I was growing up my parents really tried to follow the Mormon church teachings on preparedness by having a year supply of food! Mom canned a lot of fruit and vegetables and we bought some food in bulk so when we ran out of something we just went down into the basement instead of to the grocery store. When I was about 8 yrs old or so I remember that several families in the area were asked to test their preparedness by living off their food storage for several weeks. No going to the grocery store for anything! We did OK except for milk! To this day the thought of powered milk makes me nauseated. Yuck!
What would I do in an emergency? What could I live on if I had to? It does make one stop and think!
8 comments:
Jim,
you got me thinking about what I would do in a similar situation and my first thought would be my friends. I thankfully have people around me, some even living close by, that I can depend on an emergency...
You can find and cook cheap stuff though. A package of pasta, some cans, noodles or rice can be easily bought at minimun cost.
We do take lots of things for granted though...
If I had peanut butter and cosmos, I could live like a king forever...
seriously: water and crackers can sustain me for a loooong time...
You could always earn money the old fashioned way... twenty bucks at a time.
I think of this too. What would even happen to me in a blizzard if I couldn't get out? But, I have a grocery store right across the street so it would have to be REALLY bad out. Today's technology and instant living have really spoiled us. We don't have to plan ahead anymore!
I have at least one month's food in the house. I also have good neighbors who would help out in time of need. the nearest grocery store is one mile away.
one should always be prepared...and then watch the crazed weasels run for the store whenever the weather forecast calls for snow! I always bust a gut laughing!
We've both had that happen before. It sucks. You can get a temporary ATM card at any local branch of your bank....for temporary cash and all of that until your new card arrives. Ugh. But, you're right, there are so many things that we do on the internet nowadays that it's scary. How in the world would we survive? We could stash a hundred or two under the cushion of the couch like grandma did.
I try to follow the rule of having a week's worth of supplies 'just in case'. I was a boy scout after all!
We had powdered milk when I was a kid. That stuff is foul.
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