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

hex2

About five thousand tea bags when I went on maternity leave three years ago. They were on BOGOF and I went a little bit mad!

The best bit is I have just thrown the last of them out as part of FLYlady week, I don't really like Tetley........

RachelD

Years ago I used to do lots of competitions - the ones where you had to complete a slogan. I won a year's supply of dogfood and didn't at that time have a dog.

Rachel

D&DD

Well my best buy must be when we were expecting our second child.. I knew he was a boy and back then the nappies were boy or girls..sooooo when Kwiksave had an offer on of a triple pack for £9.99 I quite literally grabbed them (at the time one pack was £7.99) problem was I just didn't want to let a good opportunity go so I bought enough packets to last me until he was out of nappies :rolleyes: We were living in a one bedroom flat at the time (4 of us) so it was a bit cramped but I will never forget the look on the mans face who came to move us when DS2 was 2 months old..along with 50+ triple packs of various sized huggies..:rotfl:

eternal_optimist_3

Softstuff wrote:

be careful or your bum might get used to the luxury

I find that cheap bog rolls aren't economical. The sheets are smaller, so you use more of them and there are fewer sheets on the roll.

Sarahsaver

One of my toilets got blocked when mum decided to buy me some charmin ultra!
I have loads of margarine now as theres a free lunchbag with flora omega 3. DD said 'just make some cakes'

COOLTRIKERCHICK

well my bulk buying now seems to be health and beauty products at tescos..with the money off vouchers and the point vouchers....combined with bogof offers... i am getting bubble bath..shampoo...deoderant etc for more or less free... so now i have loads of it...most of it is still in the carrier bags in the bottom of the wardrobe...

i just cant resist a bargin.....and it is money saving.....as i try to tell my hubby .when ANOTHER bag of goodies.... go into the wardrobe....and in his draw with his boxers....and behind the settee...:D


and i have heard on the grabbit thread....that tescos basic washing powder is only 12p in some shops......even though in some shops its not listed at that...price check it and see if interested....

robin58

Always buy the brands I like of Tea bags, Toilet rolls and Kitchen towels when ever they are on offer.

Not tooooo many though, just enough to get me to the next offer. :rolleyes:

(except for once, too many toilet rolls but I did find another use for them at the time .)

Never had to pay "Full Price" for any of these for years now!!

Robin

COOLTRIKERCHICK

please tell us what the other use was for your loo rolls.....as there is a lot of us here which have stocked up on loo rolls.......

please it will be be nice to hear......:p

*flutterby*

robin58 wrote:

Always buy the brands I like of Tea bags, Toilet rolls and Kitchen towels when ever they are on offer.

Not tooooo many though, just enough to get me to the next offer. :rolleyes:

Robin

I do this...

Does anybody know of a website that lists collectively special offers from all the larger supermarkets... I don't get time to go to them all now so I'm probably missing out on loads of special offers

Sometimes it's hard as different brands package in different quantities so I use the following rules then multiply it by how many are in the pack on offer... before I decide if it's worth stocking up... (hope that makes sense)

I only buy Charmin or Andrex toilet rolls 25p or less per roll and I stock up

Dishwasher tablets, 10p each (brand names again)

Washing machine tablets 20p per wash (persil or ariel)

330ml cans of pepsi max 17p per can

725ml Vimto cordial 75p

PG pyramid teabags 1p per brew!!!

regular bottles of lenor comfort £1

Thinking about it the only things I ever really pay full price for are bread, milk, eggs, sugar, fruit, vegtables and salad... usually these things never come on offer, the wierdest thing is I pick all of these things up and never even look at the price...?!

taxspider

This thread makes an interesting read, but a couple of things strike me, so here goes....

I have read that you should not keep sun cream for more than 2 years as it goes off, so it may not be worth buying BOGOF. This may only apply if it is opened, so if anyone can confirm then great.

Having used a variety of loo rolls, and having had a variety of bum problems, one of which was induced by a heavy handed Dr (you don't want to know!!!) I now only use Charmin cos they are the best for me. I buy them in Netto though, as they often seem to get them on offer - worth knowing. (On a similar theme, I have found there is a vast difference between Morrisons own moist loo paper wipes and Andrex. It's Andrex every time for me, tho I did stock up when they were in the price marked pack at 99p, normally at least £1.49)

As money savers must also know, multi buy is not always multi save. BOGOF is all very well (except that it teaches young kids that the phrase Bog Off is acceptable, but that's another issue!) but when it's buy two for £2, when singly the item is, say £1.25, then it's only a saving if you have £2 in the first place. At the moment we (my intended and I) both have credit cards that we are clearing - on 0% interest, and overdrafts that we will have to clear when the Alliance & Leicester 0% ends - and we are getting married in 3 weeks. So when I was in Morrisons and saw that they had mayo on buy 2 for £2 I put 2 in my basket, and then took one out again. I just couldn't justify the extra 75p while juggling finances this month, especially as I have just taken a voluntary demotion in an effort to gain more job satisfaction, just to add to the financial strain. :undecided

So all power to the elbows of those with storage space, sympathies to those without, caution to those looking at the multibuy rather than the bogof, and hopefully a protected skin to those going on their sunny hols in 2008 in an effort to use up all the sun cream! :rotfl: