Apparently, it’s become a thing. I’ve been idly thinking of a list of stuff myself, even though I’m in what’s probably one of the safest areas in the event of a calamity in are.otetown on the mountains on the very edge of Europe.
Any ody else considering this stuff? 
These days I always kerp a buffer of long shelf-life staples, like pasta and rice, canned tomatoes, etc …and toilet paper. Living for 20 years on an island where off-island transport could be disrupted for up to a week was contributory (and was useful at the time of COVID).
Apparently many super-rich people have fully stocked bunkers - though they might find their wealth of little use when they emerge if that calamity they have it for should happen.
I do have some stuff that I keep around like water, first-aid kit, a bit of cash money, manually operated radio and flash-light, some food, toilet paper etc. Nothing fancy, but it will get me through a couple of days. It’s something that is actively encouraged by the Dutch government.
As Covid was kicking off I stashed away £1000 cash. In an old video box.
Came across it a few weeks ago when I was looking for my driving licence. 
now worth 700 max, why i went gold and crypto
Martin
How about @Fatcat buys something in the sale tomorrow that was £1,000 list price but now reduced to £500.
Where does that fit in with your financial planning 
Mrs B dragged me into a large supermarket today on the outskirts of Seville - felt duty bound after she sat in the HiFi dealers for an hour and a half whilst I discussed issues with my amp/pre amp. Anyway - getting to the point - the supermarket visit was to buy jars of beans, lentils, sweet corn, couscous, sardines etc for the doomsday scenario.
Thinking ahead I foresee never ending bean salads over the summer period when Mrs B heads off to visit relatives. Otherwise next spring the issue will be a load of perfectly good food going past it’s sell by date 
During the early pandemic I snagged a 10kg or maybe larger bag of Basmati rice from Tesco - all the small ones had sold out. Had never opened it but a few months ago (I’m sure it would have been fine beyond BBE) realised that Mr Mouse had finally discovered it with several gnaw holes in the bag which had been fine for years.
My stockpiling goes no further than “which chocolate bar do I need to buy from WH Smith for half time?”.
Covid taught me that all you need to stockpile is loo rolls and pasta, apparently!
With the amount of beans Mrs B has bought, I had better get some more toilet paper 
We don’t want to go back to those days…
Stockpiling in advance is fine. Panic buying isn’t. The latter becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. We saw in Covid and also during the big earthquake in 2011, and again now.
Stocks of said item are not under strain and domestically produced. A few idiots panic buy in bulk. And then as I learned the hard way a few natural disasters back, if you wave it off because “you’re smarter than a sheep”, you are left without. You are forced to jump on the silly train and join in.
Stockpiling a year’s supply of essentials for an emergency during times of calm and plenty is definitely the way to go. You can slowly use the oldest perishables or, what my last company did, collect everything with more than 12 months left before expirey and donate it to charity.
My parents always had full cupboards of long-life foodstuffs, and I seem to have inherited this. But I do it differently from them; I buy items with a long shelf life when they are on offer. Which means I have a good stock of essentials and get them at a bargain price. I have never seen it as stockpiling, just as managing my money with the result I have more disposable income.
Costco is pretty good for building a stockpile for disaster preparedness. But you have to dead careful. The really good bargains of tinned and long life goods often have just a few weeks left on the best before.
Though not very good for dayly groceries unless you have a family of 6 or more. Bulk sizes just wayyyy too big.
And there was I thinking this thread would be about buying old pieces of Naim kit.
Well next year when the NAP250 becomes the Barco BAP250, everything we own becomes an instant Naim stockpile.
Its interesting that anyone would consider something with current financial value as worthwhile in a real ‘Doomsday’ scenario. I mean, you can have all the money in the world tied up in appreciating assets but it will have zero use in a near extinction level event.
That is what were talking about here isn’t it? Why else would you want to stockpile?
In America the “preppers” amusingly took to openly protesting against lock down isolation during the Covid epidemic - when they should have enjoyed their bunkers.
