Stockpiling

TasmanianMinimalist

Hi everyone,

Do you have anything that you stockpile? Maybe it's been on sale, or buy one get one free? Or you just buy tons of it because you like it until you realise you are being taken over by it?

I realised the other day that I had rather a lot of tea bags, all varieties, all brands. I especially had a lot of herbal teabags because the pretty boxes sucker me in. By the time I had sorted them I had four three litre containers stuffed to capacity with them.

Note to self....no more teabag buying until I can see a scant few remaining.

Thanks for reading,
TM

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jackieblack

Toiletries.
I have 5 24l plastic storage boxes full of assorted 'bargains'
Have resolved to stay out of those aisles in the supermarket until I have used them up.

NewShadow

meat in the freezer - Black Friday muscle food order for chicken and steak, boxing day salmon, goose, turkey and duck = at least 70% of my meat for the year.

Tins of (various) beans, spaghetti hoops, tomatoes (chopped, whole or passata depending what's cheapest), tuna, 9p mushy peas... I've got a dresser full.

Oats, rice, pasta, noodles - probably about 20kilo all in

Soup mix, couscous, lentils, pearl barley - again, 10 - 15 kilo

Tea bags - c.1000

UHT - c.12 litres

Sweetener - 4 spare packs of tabs and a tub of powder

Hot chocolate - 6 tubs

Spices - cinnamon, cumin, coriander, garam, paprika - c. 1kilo of each

Cat food - c. 300 tins, c.40 kilo dry, c. 35 kilo littler (due to buy litter in Jan)

And that's just off the top of my head.

Only things I don't tend to stockpile are fruit and veg, and even then I'll tend to have a couple of kilo of this or that in the freezer or cupboard (as seasonal and appropriate)

cbrown372

I'm stockpiling matchmakers, malteasers, twig lets, cheese lets, chocolate oranges, doesn't everyone in December?

whiteguineapig

cbrown372 wrote: »

I'm stockpiling matchmakers, malteasers, twig lets, cheese lets, chocolate oranges, doesn't everyone in December?

noo we are watching our figures here, if its in the house i'll eat it

summerlady_2

whiteguineapig wrote: »

noo we are watching our figures here, if its in the house i'll eat it

same here. Last year I bought Christmas chocolates in November and had eaten them by 1st December.

MallyGirl

jackieblack wrote: »

Toiletries.
I have 5 24l plastic storage boxes full of assorted 'bargains'
Have resolved to stay out of those aisles in the supermarket until I have used them up.

I don't have quite that much but we have a cupboard in the bathroom where all the spares go and it has lots of miniatures from hotel stays. I haven't had to buy shower gel or bath stuff for some time as we try to use it all up. It is handy for guests as well.

darrensurrey

Coffee, deodorants, toilet rolls, cheap watches.

KnittaPlease

Yes. I live with a compulsive stockpiler, so we always have at least 3 months worth of toilet rolls, shampoo, cat litter, washing powder etc.


We also have in a supply of UHT milk, par-baked bread, water and other "staples" that she bought in for when the big winter comes...

missyrichards

I hate running out of the basics like loo roll, cat litter, shampoo, hand wash etc...so I keep a stock of things like that.

pigpen

toilet rolls usually and pasta.. I have about 10 boxes of lasagne sheets. Sanitary towels and tampons.. we use a lot!

Other than that no it seems pointless with shops in walking distance.