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

Raksha

Sarahsaver wrote:

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'

I bought 2 Flora Omega 3 packs which had reached their 'BBF' date - and it says on the pack 'not suitable for baking'

Sarahsaver

I am going to try it anyway!

carras

My bulk purchase was way back circa 1970!
I left the NE to work in London for Rank Hovis MacDougal. Their staff shop sold goods damaged in transit so a pallet of 3lb bags of flour which had a damaged packet would be sold off at 5 (old) pence. I stockpiled, flour, Cerebos salt, Bisto gravy - then had to get it back to the NE! Never again my suitcase was horrendous!

jcr16

i have used marg/butter before that said not suitable for baking and i didn't notice a difference. i'm sure there is a reason for why they say this. but when u have no other marg/butter in then i have to make do with what i have.

HTH

ben500

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

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I have bulk bought for free bodyform ..i have over 100 packs....at the begining of the year they were on offer in boots for 99p a pack, but they had a £1.00 coupon on them...and there was a loophole in boots where if you bought 10 packs and a pack of chewing gums you ended up only paying 22p as they also took the penny off ...and on top of that if you spent £10.00 or more you would get a £5.00 voucher to spend on certain beauty products.. which if you scouted round the store you could get items under the fiver.....
so now i dont think i will ever have to buy st's again......

Have there been items that you have been thrifty about and bulk buyed or obtained.....which are stored in every spare space in the house?

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.

Swan_2

going back 20-odd years or so ...

a well-known high-street store, who's name escapes me for the moment (it's my age :rolleyes:) had tinned tomatoes on special, so every time I was in town I bought a carrier bagfull. eventually I accumulated so may of them, I mean dozens & dozens, that I couldn't accommodate them in all the kitchen of my small flat
then I had a brainwave! a supermarket-style pyramid!!! ... so I built one in my living room, to the delight & entertainment of visitors & friends

this was fine until the day that my 7 year-old son was brought to my door, soaking wet from head to foot, by 2 police officers :eek: ... apparantly he & a couple of friends had accidentally set fire to the derilict factory round the corner :eek: :eek: :eek:
they'd been playing cowboys & had made a campfire that had gotten out of control & the fire brigade had been called to douse the blaze (which is why he was wet) ... anyway, they gave him a stern warning (with my full approval) & left

about half an hour later, two CID officers arrived on my doorstep (even more :eek:) to investigate a complaint made by one of the police officers who'd been here earlier. apparantly, my tomatoes were under suspicion of being stolen :rolleyes: ... well, when they came in they were deadly serious! but when they actually saw the pyramid, I thought they were going to wet themselves laughing
I showed them the reciepts I'd saved (anal or what?) & they left muttering about dumb rookie cops making unecessary reports

so the moral of the story is ... save the receipts for your bulk-buys

fannyadams

*flutterby* wrote:

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

I use http://www.trollydolly.co.uk/

this one is FREE ("we like Free" (TM))
It lists Asda, Tesco, and Sainsbury (I thought Waitrose was also there but I may be wrong) prices and gives the date it was last checked.
there's a price check bit on the tesco.com website as well but I doubt it gives special offers.

Fixture ferrets is good too

http://www.fixtureferrets.co.uk/index.asp

but I'm not sure how 'free' it is.

I know one of these types of site was gonna charge people £10 per year to use it and I wrote tot ehm to say it was extortionate and expolitative and that they should ask the supermarkets to subsidise their site. never heard back though...

HTH

SplashWellyKid

In the 1970s my parents had a grocers shop. During the three-day weeks there were so many power cuts my dad bulk-bought candles to sell in the shop - just as the strikes stopped! So, for years afterwards every single cupboard we opened & under the stairs was full of boxes upon boxes of candles.

My yoga teacher admitted that he has three suitcases full of different wattage light bulbs that he bought in the sales. I hope he's never accidentally taken one on holiday by mistake instead of his proper luggage!

Splash

jooles5a

Charmin Ultra makes for really good tissues esp when you're full of a cold - they don't leave you looking like Rudolph and they're cheaper than the real thing.

:j

Martin_Edney

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.