Bulk buying my shopping

kittiej

Can anyone tell me if it makes good sense to bulk buy on supermarket offers on things like tea bags, soap powder etc buying six months worth at a time?

Or is it cheaper just to play it by ear and buy each week or month as and when offers occur?

I just wondered if anyone else had tried this.

tosca5

If things like teabags, fairy liquid and washing powder are on offer, buy one get one free then i do buy a bulk.

vikingaero

I bulk buy all the time. Tissues, bogroll, washing powder, fabric conditioner etc

Costco had bogof on an 8 pack of boxed facial tissues for £5.40ish. That's 16 boxes of decent tissue for £5.40. I have the (mis)pleasure of 1 missus, 2 girls and countless female visitors who seem to devour boxed tissue and bogrolls!

tosca5

vikingaero wrote: »

bogrolls!

:eek: Grrrr! My pet hate! Bogroll and 'I need a dump'!

mountainchrisriver

If its a good offer I buy lots of it (well as much as i'm likely to use anyhow and assuming its not going to 'go off'!)

LittleVoice

kittiej wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if it makes good sense to bulk buy on supermarket offers on things like tea bags, soap powder etc buying six months worth at a time?

Or is it cheaper just to play it by ear and buy each week or month as and when offers occur?

I just wondered if anyone else had tried this.

It makes good sense as long as you have the physical space to store it, it isn't something where the offer comes around six times a year, and you will actually use the product before it deteriorates.

I don't bulk buy tea bags because I use about 20 of them in a year so they would not be in a good way before I came to the end of the box!

Toilet rolls also are often on offer, so I don't buy more than two large packs at a time.

On the other hand, I did spot Sainsbury's offering large boxes of their own brand washing powder at half price. This was more than a year ago (more like two), it hasn't been that good since, and my supply is not yet exhausted!

geordie_joe

I stock up when things are on special offer, but you have to consider whether you will actually use it, will it be past it's best before I get round to using it.

I hate it when I see things on offer and make a mental note to buy some next time I'm in the store, only to find they've gone back up to the original price and I really need to buy them now.

Luckily my local Somerfield delivers leaflets regularly so I always know what's coming up and can have them on my shopping list.

Fizog

I Bulk buy from Makro on their specials for loo roll, tissues, A4 printing paper etc. Tescos offers and damaged packets in Sainsburys, Morrisons cheapie deals if I see them but only if we actually eat or use the products. We have a large shed known as the 'Shed Shop' and all contents of the metal shelves and plastic containers for the dry goods are listed on my desktop...ditto the chest freezer. So I know not to buy too much of a good thing no point if the sell by date renders the bargain inedible.
I never buy huge boxes of tea bags only 80 at a time as I think they get stale very quickly and the quality and taste isn't as good.

kittiej

Thanks everyone for your interesting points.

I was just thinking of the 'consumables' that we buy every time we go shopping like tinned food, toilet roll, and loads of tea bags!

The only thing that bothers me really is if I do bulk buy what if the price goes down even further at a later date?

After all the price of baked beans can go down as well as up lol.

hev_2

Does anyone use a price book?

Sort of related to the thread. The idea is that you write down prices of staples, such as baked beans. Then you can tell when it is a really good offer and buy a shed load. In theory you can also track patterns, ie how often soap powder is for sale, and how low it goes. I'm never organised enough to use it properly.

I love bulk buying. There is a wonderful comfort in knowing you are never going to run out of loo roll and you save loads by not having to nip out to the shops to pick up something you forgot and all the impulse stuff that goes with it.

On the other hand, Costco had a buy three pay for two on baked beans and we stocked up, just before I became pregnant and couldn't even bear the smell of them. The beans sat around for ages.

(The expression of the shop assistant when Boots had a great offer on condoms and I stocked up was beyond belief!)

geordie_joe

hev wrote: »

just before I became pregnant and couldn't even bear the smell of them. The beans sat around for ages.

(The expression of the shop assistant when Boots had a great offer on condoms and I stocked up was beyond belief!)

They didn't work, that's what happens when you buy cheap condoms