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

Churchmouse

Sadly no!!

When you've got the tiniest house and four kids there's no room for much stocking up!

Even now I'm down to 2 at home I think I'm doing well if I've got 12 loo rolls spare on top of the 9 or 12 pack we're currently on!:rotfl:

RoCas

I don't usually go that mad but a couple of months ago or local Somerfield were doing whole frozen ducklings cheap and I bought 6.

When the checkout girl asked me what I was going to do with all those ducks I told her I was going to take them to the park and teach them how to fly :rotfl:

oakdale_minx

The infamous Beef in Gravy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brought me to this site last September and has paid for my MFI furniture with Tesco.

I had a freezer full of the stuff and have only recently finished it all.

calleyw

Churchmouse wrote:

Sadly no!!

When you've got the tiniest house and four kids there's no room for much stocking up!

I think I'm doing well if I've got 12 loo rolls spare on top of the 9 or 12 pack we're currently on!:rotfl:

I have stocked up for years. Even when I had a one bedroom tiny ground floor flat and not a lot of cupboard space. I choose my bed because it was a pine frame so there is loads of space underneath it for storage.

And I had 4 storage boxes that went in the cupboard under the stairs for next door.

And it is amazing what fits under the sofa as well

Yours


Calley

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rocas.... thats a classic....i got visions of you on the park bench with 6 frozen ducks in front of you, and you throwing bread at them.....i bet you the sa gave you a wired look after that comment......:T

Mirtos

I had an ex boyfriend whose family were SERIOUSLY wealthy, yet his mum was addicted to bogofs and boots points etc. Their house was absolutely rammed to the rafters with stuff that they never used I remember nearly breaking my toe tripping over a bulk bought box of slim fast shakes!- the most ridiculous thing I remember was them being unable to use their sauna because it was jam packed with fish food - even though they didn't own any fish! On the up side, I never had to buy cosmetics while I was going out with him, as there was a huge stockpile in the guest bedroom!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi..mirtos..thats a bit extreme by any standards.. fish food and no fish!!!!!!!
maybe she was a bit of an arthur dailey on the quiet.....or a del boy.....:cool:

Mirtos

I know! I like to bogof and bulk buy with the best of them (posh shampoo for me, or loo rolls and general keep-able groceries!) It was most bizarre - they had a pool house and sauna that they couldn't access for stockpiled stuff! If I could afford that, I'd still be thrifty, but not to the point where I was wasting the resources I had!

Shortie

kiwichick: at least you'll have plenty of flour in for making cakes and biscuits for your Christmas hampers for people! lol

Mine had to be the time when Tesco's had over ordered pineapples and reduced tonnes of them down to 20p. From memory I bought 30!

I did it in mind of making wine (which I did), but I did get some seriously odd looks walking round with 30 in the shopping trolley! :rotfl:

flufff

we had 20 multi packs of skips when the bogof wasnt working in tesco.Also cans and cans of coke about 10 packs of 24 lol.Ended up going off skips for life gave packs away.We did pile on some pounds.
Then there was 28 xpacks of 4 green loo rolls when tesco messed up and charged 38p on website sadly just finished so back on value rolls.Got a 1000 pts out of it too fpmsl.My landing was kinda like playing human jenga getting round them oh and my bathrooms blue!But my son and partner both have irritable bowel so wish i'd bought more
Currently have 12 packs of mince beef in freezer all different sizes and types.Kids werent impressed with my homemade meat balls though :-( and about 6 packs of chicken breasts frozen all r&r
3 stereos,gave one to a friend when hers bust.Other is going in my daughters room when I redecorate.
When "the one" skimmed milk was on bogof I would buy 8 at a time
Have the obligatory "always" 2 carrier bags full
and 2 bags full of expensive shampoos and hair colourants knocked down to 49p from superdrug
Had 24 packs of nestle cereal when the "go free" promotion was on as we used them to go down stoke waterworld