# Disaster readiness advice sparks a gadget-buying hobby among friends

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/alexandra-shulmans-notebook-apocalypse-porn-is-our-new-guilty-obsession/
- Published: 2026-11-01T01:22:32+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T01:32:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16255737/ALEXANDRA-SHULMANS-NOTEBOOK-Apocalypse-porn-new-guilty-obsession.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Health, Mental Health, World

## Key points

- Emergency advice has fuelled interest in disaster-preparation gadgets.
- The government recommends keeping three days of supplies at home.
- Shulman questions the need for elaborate preparations.

## Summary

Alexandra Shulman describes how emergency-preparedness advice has fuelled a new hobby among her friends: buying safety gadgets and searching online for ways to prepare for disaster. She sees this as a shift from browsing aspirational property listings to dwelling on possible crises, while questioning how much preparation is useful.

The UK government’s “Be Ready” advice asks people to keep three days’ worth of water and supplies at home. Shulman says she has not changed her habits, noting that she already has food, candles and medicines, and might keep some cash in case bank cards stop working. The article also includes brief observations about increasingly revealing Halloween costumes, Alexa Chung’s engagement to Tom Sturridge, and builders finding newspaper inside damaged exterior plasterwork.

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