have you ever stocked up on a product being thrifty and gone a bit mad

hobbesy_2

My nan has been addicted to BOGOF for years. Whenever my mum needs raffle prizes for the school, etc you can always raid her bedroom cupboard for a huge variety of smellies.

One day last year we went to visit and she asked if we knew anyone with a dog. She had bought 4 large bags of dog food because they were BOGOF and she doesn't have a dog! Not a senile moment thinking she had, she just thought the offer was so good she would buy them for someone else. Things is she's is in her eighties and doesn't drive so was lugging 4kg of dog food around!

bless her

**purpleprincess**

Martin_Edney wrote:

I'm a member of a vegan wholefood buying co-operative, which buys bulk items direct from wholesalers. So we get things like 5kg bags of organic porridge oats for much less than the high street price of the non-organic equivalent.

As a result, our house has a little larder section by the back door with modest bulk quantities of loads of these sorts of things, nearly all organic (e.g. 5kg muesli, 5kg porridge oats, pasta, 2.5kg linseeds, 2.5kg sesame seeds, 5l olive oil, 5l washing up liquid, 5l clothes washing liquid, 12 pack of jars of jam, loose leaf tea, 100g bags of herbs, dates, figs, brazil nuts, peanuts, walnuts, etc. etc.). We use big glass storage jars to keep most of these items fresh (and avoid tempting the local mice).

To make this work, you need to get together with like-minded friends, and approach a wholesaler (Suma and Infinity are recommended) and order a pallet's worth between you.

Oooh, I use Infinity!!

sugaJen

ben500 wrote:

I also took a little advantage of this offer and can assure you these are the perfect utensil for cleaning laminate and vinyl floors highly recommended.

Haha how did you find that out???? :rotfl:

Swan_2

Martin_Edney wrote:

I'm a member of a vegan wholefood buying co-operative, which buys bulk items direct from wholesalers. So we get things like 5kg bags of organic porridge oats for much less than the high street price of the non-organic equivalent.

As a result, our house has a little larder section by the back door with modest bulk quantities of loads of these sorts of things, nearly all organic (e.g. 5kg muesli, 5kg porridge oats, pasta, 2.5kg linseeds, 2.5kg sesame seeds, 5l olive oil, 5l washing up liquid, 5l clothes washing liquid, 12 pack of jars of jam, loose leaf tea, 100g bags of herbs, dates, figs, brazil nuts, peanuts, walnuts, etc. etc.). We use big glass storage jars to keep most of these items fresh (and avoid tempting the local mice).

To make this work, you need to get together with like-minded friends, and approach a wholesaler (Suma and Infinity are recommended) and order a pallet's worth between you.

oh that's really interesting
I used to run a (non-profit making) wholefoods co-op, & on delivery days my living room in the farmhouse where I lived would be stacked high with 25Kg sacks, cartons & giant tubs. I used to love weighing out everyone's order, like playing shoppies when I was a wee girl

but the company I dealt with, Real Foods In Edinburgh, closed down their wholesale operation & I had to give it up. & ever since I baulk at the prices charged in retail shops :mad:
I think I'll investigate the people you've recommended

two tips for running a successful co-op
1) always get the cash up front, no matter how close you are to the people involved
2) never, ever, order a case of glacé cherries to share! :rolleyes:

123xyz

During the sugar shortage, which I think was late 70's/early 80's, you could buy 2 packets only. My grandmother religiously bought her 2 pack entitlement every time she went shopping. Trouble was, she was diabetic and didn't use sugar in hot drinks or on cereal.

When she died in 1996, we found a large hoard at the back of the broom cupboard!

rosy

ben500 wrote:

I also took a little advantage of this offer and can assure you these are the perfect utensil for cleaning laminate and vinyl floors highly recommended.

Any other uses for bodyform ( apart from the obvious ?) - I'm sure there are a lot of us on here with an awful lot more of them at the moment than we require for their intended purpose and a few more ideas like this would be handy! ( I need to free up some storage space....:o)

juliaw

Back in the 1970s my Dad used to ask supermarket managers if they had anything going really cheaply. He used to buy crates of tinned food with all the labels ruined by damp, etc. One day he was offered 20lb of bananas for 50p and bought them, thinking that he could make wine.

When he got them home and weighed them there were 40lb so he was really pleased. Then he decided that the bananas were too good to make wine, so he made us eat them all.

He brought crates of bananas twice more after that and made us eat them all.

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Me I would never stock pile anything ...........



or do this:



even when we went to get the kittens it was a case of get the tabby one and have her brother free !!!



Eventually, though I decluttered, I did have enough bodyform to last until menopause so I car booted them and the lilac bags I gave to my daughter's friends as birthday presents. The kittens we kept and ended up with a bonus freebie in the form of Diesel:



I too benefitted from the beef in gravy and ended up with a free kingsize bedstead and mattress, pine bunk beds, 2 single mattresses, one computer chair and alot of beef in gravy in my freezer !

Welshy x

nanamags

I usually go to the local market on my way to work. One day I bought a huge bag of fresh ginger for 50p. I gave most of it away to workmates. I also love Wilkos for bargains. I got a pair of children's leather shoes for 10p. Although I didn't need them I soon found someone in work who had a child that they would fit.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Snow_Angel

Welshy - Those photos are hilarious :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: .....and the kitten ones - OMG soooooooo cute!

As for going a bit mad - I went to Lidl tonight. Jars of pesto for 39p! Yes I know I can make it myself, but without growing my own basil, I certainly don't think I can do it that cheap. So, I'm wondering how many jars of pesto I can fit under the stairs! :rotfl: