Buying in Bulk

Pollycat

Slinky wrote: »

Not sure if Adnams Gin counts as a 'household consumable', but I have a large stash under the spare bed due to it being on special offer before Christmas in Waitrose and them keep sending us £10 off a £60 spend. Seemed rude not to take advantage.

I like your style! :T

I stock up (but don't consider it bulk buying) when shops have offers on. I'm often seen carrying 32 rolls of loo paper on the bus.
I just like bargains - I rarely pay full price for anything - and do have room to store stuff.

ETA: I'd not heard of Adnams gin. How does it compare to, say, Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire?

Slinky

Pollycat wrote: »

I like your style! :T

I stock up (but don't consider it bulk buying) when shops have offers on. I'm often seen carrying 32 rolls of loo paper on the bus.
I just like bargains - I rarely pay full price for anything - and do have room to store stuff.

ETA: I'd not heard of Adnams gin. How does it compare to, say, Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire?

Adnams Copper House Gin has won a prize for the world's best gin....... I've been drinking it (only on a Friday night, I'm not a lush!), since they first started making it. We were visiting Southwold and did a brewery tour on the first week they started selling the gin from their new distillery. A couple of years later the gin world caught onto it and gave it a prize...


I also like Bombay Sapphire and will drink it in places you can't get Adnams, but my favourite is Copper House. It's sometimes on offer in Waitrose at £23.50 a bottle, otherwise you can buy direct from Adnams on their website where it's about £27 a bottle.

Pollycat

Slinky wrote: »

Adnams Copper House Gin has won a prize for the world's best gin....... I've been drinking it (only on a Friday night, I'm not a lush!), since they first started making it. We were visiting Southwold and did a brewery tour on the first week they started selling the gin from their new distillery. A couple of years later the gin world caught onto it and gave it a prize...


I also like Bombay Sapphire and will drink it in places you can't get Adnams, but my favourite is Copper House. It's sometimes on offer in Waitrose at £23.50 a bottle, otherwise you can buy direct from Adnams on their website where it's about £27 a bottle.

Thanks.
Waitrose isn't an option for us - nearest shop is almost 20 miles away, but I'll keep an eye open. It seems Sainsburys & Tesco don't stock it.

I'll also mention it to friends who go to gin tastings.

Sorry to hi-jack the thread.

bellaboo86

I bulk buy toilet roll, kitchen roll, soap powder, conditioner, dishwasher tabs and joint sticks for the dog. I stock up from Amazon and Makro especially when they have a bogoff.

thriftwizard

Put it this way: a sack (25Kg) of spuds lasts us about 4 weeks. Anything other than bulk-buying of things that are relatively imperishable would be daft; I'd spend my whole life shopping. There are 7 adults living here, with differing dietary "needs" and schedules, 4 of them with extremely active lifestyles - a dancer & a footballer/gym instructor, for example - so we tend to go through things like oats & rice by the sack too, and as the DDs are fond of baking, flour's bought by the 8Kg pack as well.

I buy tins of things we use by the tray (12 or 20 tins, usually) and am very strict about rotating stocks so that the oldest are at the top or front, ready to be grabbed & used first. In a sense, I also bulk-buy perishables as I take my trolley down to the local 3-day street market as it's closing down & buy up anything that's going cheap, knowing that we'll be able to either use it or preserve it before it goes beyond use.

So bulk-buy I certainly do, from a variety of different suppliers; I have a Makro card, keep tabs on T*sco offers, go to the farm shop for spuds & buy grains etc. direct from Wholefoods Online, and I visit our local watermill (local organic grain, stone-ground in situ, cheaper than non-organic in the supermarkets) several times a year. But in our case, there's no real alternative, short of clogging up our tiny medieval street with delivery lorries several times a week, or spending my life trotting to & from supermarkets!

Slinky

Pollycat wrote: »

Thanks.
Waitrose isn't an option for us - nearest shop is almost 20 miles away, but I'll keep an eye open. It seems Sainsburys & Tesco don't stock it.

I'll also mention it to friends who go to gin tastings.

Sorry to hi-jack the thread.

Pollycat I've just seen on Facebook that Adnams are doing free standard delivery at the moment on this gin.

Shortypie

I tried . . . in January I decided to do a shopping overhaul & bought a bulk load of stuff from Waitrose using a 25% off new customer code (not that I was a new one, but new house and different email address :cool: ) I was pretty hard up though, so it was about a £70 shop - I bought 1kg pasta and spaghetti bags (couldn't see any bigger) 8 boxes of cat food (on offer) 2 x 3 kitchen rolls, 2 x 9 toilet rolls, big bottle of Ariel liquid, washing up liquid, cream cleanser etc. I've still got a supply of most things, apart from the toilet roll, which was a complete disaster:

My DD (age 5) tripped over her own feet one night and bloodied her nose, gave herself a fat lip and a swollen face and was inconsolable for ages. Her twin brothers (age 9 with ASD, ADHD and learning difficulties) thought she'd tripped over one of the packs of loo roll which had arrived that day and were still in the hall. Whilst I was consoling DD they took it upon themselves to punish the offending toilet roll package (and the non-offending one for good measure) by beating them up with their light sabres :rotfl: until the packs split and the loo rolls were squashed.

Because we only have a small bungalow with little storage, I was intending to store the packs against the wall in the bathroom. Instead I had to just pile them up against the wall. I often came in to find various arrangements of loo roll around the bathroom, courtesy of the kids, or it looked like the Andrex puppy had come to visit and generally, because it was there, the kids just seemed to plough through it.

In fact, the biggest obstacle to me buying in bulk is lack of storage space. We have a manky old garage we could use but . . . spiders . . . :eek:

Pollycat

Slinky wrote: »

Pollycat I've just seen on Facebook that Adnams are doing free standard delivery at the moment on this gin.

Thanks for that, I'll run it past the 'boss'.

MallyGirl

Slinky wrote: »

Pollycat I've just seen on Facebook that Adnams are doing free standard delivery at the moment on this gin.

we normally have Bombay sapphire but have ordered a bottle on the recommendations here

Out,_Vile_Jelly

PlymouthMaid wrote: »

I bulk buy beans, tomatoes, rice, deodorant, hair dye, shower gel and anything else we use regularly which which will not perish in a reasonable time span. The family laugh at me as I usually keep spare tins under the bed.

Come the zombie apocalypse, you'll be the one laughing as you feast on your tin stash, while your family beat feebly on your front door, surrounded by approaching hordes of the undead.