Hi all,

I've been doing my own thing for a while. Preparing for Peak Oil on a micro scale - you know,- just my family first.
I've noticed that with the financial stress, consumers aren't spending as much on non-essential items, and these are on sale now. Just bought some sleeping bags, water sterilising tablets, camo pants (for bow-hunting (which I have done all my life)), and black plastic solar shower-bags. Also bought a cast net and yabbie trap. While essentials will rise in demand and price, non-essentials are dropping, trying to stay in business. I plan to buy discounted non-essentials, to make my essentials for free. Now I can go and catch a meal of baitfish, as they do in Spain, and fry them up, instead of wasting my money in the seafood section of the supermarket. If they taste terrible, I can mush them into fertiliser to feed my vegies, and eat them that way, instead of wasting money on blood & bone at Bunnings.