Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

Goldiegirl

I don't have a store cupboard as such - but I always have a few cans on the shelf, and if I open a jar, a packet or a box of something, I immediately put that item on the shopping list so I have 'one in reserve'

However - I have just started on the road to building a comprehensive store cupboard. The main reasons are to take advantage of offers when they happen, and to build a reserve for use after we stop working. We'll be on a relatively low income for the first year of our proposed early retirement, so my thoughts are to buy now when I see good offers, so I will need to spend less during that first year.

I've been on a decluttering drive over the last few years, and in the new year one of my first actions will be to move things around in my cupboards, so things are stored smarter, and it'll make room for proposed store cupboard items.

LOVE the idea of a micro shop...... I'm theory we could clear one of the spare rooms, and put up shelves - I can just imagine all the tins neatly stored !

Hollyberry

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've often thought that a store-room is the way to go.

Not for me personally, as I have a tiny 4-room flat with each room just about serving its designated purpose, and storage placed wherever it can go, subject to the positioning not causing the stored item to suffer.

Love the idea of the micro-shop which you can re-stock when bargains are about and shop-from when necessary.

I've often thought that, for larger households with perhaps a spare bedroom, wouldn't it be more sensible to have a dedicated Wardrobe Room with drawers and hanging space assigned to each family member?

That way, you could have a central place to deliver clean clothes to (and perhaps collect dirty ones from, if you keep the linen bin/s in there) rather than traipsing from bedroom to bedroom, depositing piles of clothes on beds, exhorting the lazy so-and-sos to put them away etc.

This would free up space in other bedrooms, a lot of bedroom storage seems to be dedicated to holding clothes and shoes anyway.

Anyone reading doing this already IRL?

We have something like this kind of arrangement.

I realise that we have *way* too much space here, so this might not be possible normally. We have storage on each floor as follows:

- top floor - little store room on landing - has out of season clothes, out of season stuff (such as summer beach stuff, Christmas decorations etc)
- first floor - dressing room - central place for our clean clothes (although there are only two of us). I would love to move the washing machine up here eventually, so that everything happens in one place. The ironing board lives here too - although I can't say it gets a great deal of exercise. Dirty linen bins are here, and clean linen gets delivered back here.
- ground floor - have recently cleared the entrance to the butler's pantry. Here I have stored the cleaners, spare pans, non-temperature-sensitive items such as paper goods etc. The central heating pipes run up the back wall, and it's too hot for food, sadly. Although if it gets really chilly this winter, I might move my chair & kindle in there!

Also on the ground floor is the breakfast room - I keep most of my not yet needed food stores in here. I admit to a rather expansive store cupboard. Having grown up in the back of beyond, I am used to not being able to shop at regular intervals. I am also coeliac and lactose intolerant, so can't always rely on finding some items at the local garage when I need them.

I would really, really love a dumb waiter, especially for the heavy linens. Although I suppose that lots of stairs here means a bit less time at the gym.

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I've commandeered the very cold bedroom over the garage as a general store room and we've floor to ceiling shelved it courtesy of I*ea so it holds a goodly amount of stuff. I keep all the food store in there, all the home made produce, sacks of home grown spuds, candles, loo rolls, toiletries, camping gear, boxes of matches/lighters, camping stoves, sewing box and rag bag, hanging rack for clothes out of season, spare kitchen/household equipment, drinking water containers (full!),sleeping bags, suitcases, rucksacks etc. household things i.e washing up liquid, loo cleaners,disinfectant and It's lovely to be able to buy ahead if I have the spare cash and find bargains and know I have the space to store it all. The 99p shops here are sources of much affordable shopping and it makes me feel more secure to be able to store it out of harms way, not liable to water damage (unless we lose the roof) and out of the way of rodents, it's a nice feeling, Lyn xxx.

poppycracker

GreyQueen wrote: »

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Homes will also have a smallish room with squashy furniture in soothing colours, as a place to put tantrumming children, <snip>

When my family lived in a large house and fostered children, we 'had'a room like this - it had at times been a second sitting room, a dining room (when the house was a B&B that did meals before we got it) and a bedroom for a long term B&B guest we had. It was known as the 'rumpus' room and kids could go nuts in there safely as there was old mattresses, bean bags and other soft things in there, and nothing they could destroy or hurt themselves or anyone else with. Worked very well with several of the more emotional foster children we had.

Goldiegirl

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've commandeered the very cold bedroom over the garage as a general store room and we've floor to ceiling shelved it courtesy of I*ea so it holds a goodly amount of stuff. I keep all the food store in there, all the home made produce, sacks of home grown spuds, candles, loo rolls, toiletries, camping gear, boxes of matches/lighters, camping stoves, sewing box and rag bag, hanging rack for clothes out of season, spare kitchen/household equipment, drinking water containers (full!),sleeping bags, suitcases, rucksacks etc. household things i.e washing up liquid, loo cleaners,disinfectant and It's lovely to be able to buy ahead if I have the spare cash and find bargains and know I have the space to store it all. The 99p shops here are sources of much affordable shopping and it makes me feel more secure to be able to store it out of harms way, not liable to water damage (unless we lose the roof) and out of the way of rodents, it's a nice feeling, Lyn xxx.

That sounds fantastic - and something I could probably do.

We are two people in a four bed room house.

There is our bedroom, and the room with the computer, which functions as an office/ study. But there are two other bedrooms - we have wardrobes in those rooms, plus a double bed in one and a single in the other. Back in the day my parents might stay a couple of nights, or my MIL, but these days we don't have anyone to stay, so the spare beds aren't needed. One of those rooms could easily be turned into a store room.

I have a cupboard under the stairs, kitchen cupboard space, and two deep built in cupboards in two of the bed rooms.

For the time being I'll content myself with storing smarter in the kitchen, and I could get more shelves under the stairs and in the built in cupboards. But the store room idea will be kept in mind

I've de-cluttered a lot over the last few years, but for the things I want to keep it'd be good to have easy access to them, rather than having them in the loft.

Frugalsod

I do have a small pantry and keep my flour in there, well the stuff I use a lot. I went a little crazy a few months ago and bought 8 months supply of flour so can make bread and pasta without much thought. I did have some airtight barrels to store it in so no problems there. I also have 8 months supply of most of my curry ingredients so only really need to find some meat or vegetables to make my food.

Generally all I really need to buy are milk eggs and other diary produce and a fresh vegetables for the next couple of weeks. So my needs to top up are minimal. So at the moment all I doing is eating my way through my food stocks.

PlymouthMaid

I have ploughed through all 53 pages of this thread this evening (as well as much of the threads about flour weevils and preparing for the zombie apocalypse). I have always had quite a healthy store cupboard as we cook from scratch most nights and so have all the usual suspects to hand at all times. I am going to invest in a few more 'emergency' supplies the next time I shop such as bottled water (as that is not something I had considered) and more tins and longlife packets just in case of illness or disaster. Great ideas about storing things under the kitchen kickboards or making 'tables' out of tin stacks! I have found this discussion really interesting.

calicocat

GreyQueen wrote: »

Lilyplonk, Mum and I have often mused on the sheer impracticality of homes.

They draw little plans and put a bedroom here, a sitting-room there, and give no thought whatsoever to how life is actually lived in the home. We are not little plastic mannikins who are either horizonal in our beds or sitting tidily in our living rooms. We have stuff and do stuff.

My family blames house design mostly being in the hands of the gender which doesn't run the household.

When I rule the world (scheduled early 2014, please mark your diary), all new-build homes will have lobbies over the front and back doors, so that you don't let all your heat out whenever you open the door, and that you have somewhere to put the coats, shoes, wet umbrellas etc etc.

Each home must have a dedicated laundry room at least as big as the kitchen, to house the laundry appliances, with large double-sinks for various duties, copious shelvage and nice cupboards for storing the household linens. It will have lots of plug sockets and space for an ironing board to stand permanantly. The ceiling of the laundry room will have to be high enough to accomodate a proper sheila maid type airer.

Preferably, the laundry room will be situated immediately below the Family Wardrobe Room, which will have laundry chutes (whites/ darks/ colours) down into appropriate laundry bins.

Other options currently on the drawing board will be dedicated larders for various kinds of storage, outdoor cool storage for root veggies, log stores and all newbuilt homes to be pre-set to be fitted with logburners.

Homes will also have a smallish room with squashy furniture in soothing colours, as a place to put tantrumming children, and a retiring room for Mother, which will be verboten to all other household members.

Mother's Room will be furnished entirely to her specification but current options under consideration are drinks cabinets, libraries of mags and books according to taste, broadband internet and a hot water dispenser for fast cups of tea or coffee.

Right, my lottie needs me. Toodle-pip!

Lol.


Just been mooching around the boards and ended up here......I love this post..!!



I have stores, but my work are yet again reconfiguring (which will in fact translate as closing)...lots of wards....again.

Anyhow, due to this, I think I am going to organise a better more organised store, and over the next few months build up my stocks of various things in case of redundancies. My plan will be - I think) to have enough of basic stuff, food and toiletries etc to last 6 months...if not more.

Not sure how much room that will take though..!?

Loolah

I always used to keep a spare of most things and a few extras just in case of visitors but now keep a huge stock of most things.

started off when i went on the glitching thread and got fabric conditioner for 5p a bottle lol. now have enough toiletries for at least a year, and could go months without buying anything but fresh stuff. going to up the ante this year and get more organised and buy more in bulk. amazing how much you save and as we are in a village that regularly floods we would be able to manage easily

have added a camping stove, candles,lighters to the stockpile now as have had a few short power cuts of late. heating is easy as we have a woodburner

suelizab

Just finished running down the winter store cupboard. Will be building up again from september with new basics and bargains .