Stockpiling

HOWMUCH

Well I've been stockpiling again Andrex toilet rolls 9 for £3, Bold 2 in 1 24 washes £3, Topside beef joints £4 Kg, Cadburys selection boxes 2 for £2, 190g boxes of Celebrations and Heroes 2 for £2 all from Mr M'sons. The meat is in the freezer along with the 2 Gammon joints I've got from Sainsbobs £3 Kg. I shall another 2 joints of beef and gammon next week.

Ilona

Just checked my toilet roll stock, about 150. I buy them in bulk from a warehouse. Should last about two years. Will probably get some more when I am next passing either Lincoln, Sheffield, or Leeds.
Ilona

toozie_2

My stock piled goods are the ones I find cheap or on offer and I know I'll use.
Earlier this year found As*da has a "make" of conditioner they were selling off for 35p, bought 12 bottles.
A similar thing happened somewhere else with shower gel-I have about 15 bottles!
If I see huge washing powder at an extremely low price I'll buy 3 or 4 and it last years!

Otherwise I have 2 or 3 of each thing in the cupboard-beans, toms, tuna, kidney beans etc.

I buy pasta in the biggest bag I can find at the lowest price and on offer-so the pasta lasts months.
Same with loo rolls -but they don't last months-I could never be without about 10 rolls in stock!!

Iused to buy a sack of spuds from local farmer, when the kids left home stopped doing it.
Just started again as I'm feeding my parents most nights.
I buy the huge paper sack for £6, store it in the shed-covered over, and just bring in enough to fill my "potato bag" in the house. They won't eat pasta or rice.

YORKSHIRELASS

No. I dont stockpile because a) I dont have room, b) For me its wasted money and c) I cant stand clutter and tend to get very confused about what I have if my cupboards are too full.

I mealplan and shop once a week. I have to walk past Li*l on my way to work every day so I could easily pick up anything that I need. I can see the moneysaving benefit in buying things when they are on offer if you can be organised and disciplined enough to only buy what you need but I just dont have anywhere to store it.

If there was some world disaster and the supermarkets ran out of food then yes I would be stuffed. As for redundancy or some kind of financial crisis I would rather save some money for this so I could spend it on whatever was necessary when the time came.

Wesker

I tend to do this with clothing.
I am a bit of a weird shape, i've got clothes ranging from size 16 to 20, depending on the fit.
I also have a long inside leg so when i find something that fits well at a good price i tend to stock up.
I have 4 pairs of the same ankle boots in different colours,cos they fit well, are comfy and cheap

physicsgirl

London_Town wrote: »

As a business model, it doesn't work terribly well as there is ultimately "money" tied up in my stock for a long period of time. However, they have beaten inflation as I have things like 1 litre bottles of Fairy Liquid that I bought in 2008, still unused. This is simply because I have so many!

I think everyone should have some stockpiled stuff. It's common sense and could see you through a period of redundancy or any other first world famine. Also,your money goes further as if you stockpile when a product is on offer, you never pay full price.

The trick is to know when to stop buying, without running out of something and having to pay full price. I find this difficult and tend to be over cautious, hence I end up stockpiling too much!

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I tend to think that if the stockpiles grow too high, it's the opposite of money saving, having a load of goods in the house that may never get used or eaten, with the money in the supermarkets bank accounts, instead of mine!

Agreed. This is always my internal debate so I try not to stockpile unless something's on a very good offer that I don't think will come around again soon. It is a balance between giving the supermarkets money sooner than is necessary and not giving them too much money when I need an item (i.e. buying it at full price)!

Having said that I have ~40 cans of chopped tomatoes and ~30 cans of chickpeas in the garage that I only buy when they're on 4 for £1. I also stock up on Lidl's non-perishable half price weekend offers e.g. snacktastic 24 packs of crisps, wheatabix-type ceareal, and chocolate (definitely essential not to run out!). My OH would say I stockpile toilet roll, but when the farmfoods ones come in a pack of 18 and they're on offer at 2 packs for £7.50 it would be silly not to buy.

LameWolf wrote: »

I tend to work on the principle of "one in use, one spare" for most things, and when the spare gets started, it's time to buy another one. That way, also, things get used in rotation, and you don't find, having decided to use up your stash, that the one at the back is 10 years out of date!

Same. I try to have 2 of most things in the cupboard and when 1 gets used, it gets added to the shopping list and another bought before we run out completely so I guess that's a form of stockpiling. I think it's mainly about feeling secure; that and despising paying too much for something!

pigpen

grandmasam wrote: »

Toilet rolls! My ds2 helped me to move a freezer and emptied the small space so he could slot it in.

When he cleared it out he called me to see the space.... and he asked me if I had a 'bottom problem' :rotfl::rotfl: he had removed 10 x 18 packs of t rolls. I now keep 1 pack at a time :T as I live on my own.

This has become another family joke, along with , mum the skip diver, the mum who got stuck climbing the apple tree, at 63.... you get the idea.:D

Caz

My uncle is a skip diver.. he had to be rescued once when he leaned a bit too far and fell in and broke 3 ribs.. but he did not come out empty handed!

CathA

When the meat counter at work has meat that has to be either sold or it will be got rid of, I volunteer to take it home!! (For a very low price.) I now have an official 'steak drawer' in my freezer, plus a 'joint drawer' as well. I try not to buy any more, but when you can get fillet steak for such a low price, how can you leave it behind?

schiff

I only stockpile when I have supermarket coupons allowing for example £4 off a £40 spend, and then only buy stuff I use anyway, hopefully at reduced prices. The limit date on the coupons forces me to stockpile, otherwise I wouldn't, the monthly reports on the cost of living tell me prices are going down anyway. And for regular stuff, especially perishables, why not Aldi or Lidl?

Tesco send me £4 off coupons for each week over a monthly period, but I only use one of them as I can't spend £40 a week without stockpiling for England!