Taking bulk buying to an extreme! Strange behaviour.

I buy some items in bulk to make sure I get a reasonable price - like Oral B toothpaste and Corsodyl Daily - which someone always has on offer. Why pay an extra 80% if you don't have to? My real failing though is toiletries in general, especially lovely soaps and shower gels. I tend to buy them at car boots for just pence but stick to the premium brands I couldn't (and wouldn't) afford otherwise. Foodwise everything is totally stocked up to the gunnels although I don't really buy in bulk, just buy more than I use. Toilet rolls - always have three spare in the shower room and two in the cloakroom and then more stored in the garage.

I have a funny anecdote about this whole ' save it for a rainy day' scenario. In WW2 my dad was a tank commander in North Africa and one of the crew carefully stowed all his 'bully beef' and dry biscuits for such a day. Everybody else of course consumed theirs ASAP. The day came when the worst happened - their tank was hit and whilst they all escaped generally unscathed, the tank exploded and all the tins the guy had put away week by week rained down on them, twisted and mangled. The chap nearly cried, never mind the fact that he had survived a very dangerous situation, but the joke was repeated for years at regimental reunions.

I think we have to be careful that we don't become hoarders as seen on TV!

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

Hilarious.....:rotfl: Thanks for making me laugh.

It's sad but true, I am marked on my performance as a bargainista by a select group of cashiers who've been there for more than the decade I've shopped there several times a week.

Impressed the heck out of one of them a few weeks back with the 17p bouquet of flowers......... carnations, too, lasted weeks.:rotfl:

Techno wrote: »

Bought 6 pairs of large marigold gloves in morrisons today. Reduced to 80p instead of £2.20. Beloved always complains that the medium ones are too small so he can't do the washing up so these are all for him (6 pairs my take a while to work through but hey for 80p)

He might suddenly develop an allergy to rubber gloves which would prevent them being used.

If this should happen, reassure him that there are flock-lined glove options for you to buy in the future........ :rotfl:

Was that meant to be funny?

:Years ago we acquired a number of those large glass jars used in sweet shops which we use for storing various types of pasta, rice , pulses. They're great for ensuring you have plenty of stock securely stored and can easily see what you!ve got. But my dear OH seems to consider it his life's mission to keep them all fully stocked up. This means that new product is piled in on top of older stock and I have absolutely no idea how old some of the older product is at the bottom of the jars. We never seem to reach those levels and they probably date back to the Egyptian Pyramid era !:rotfl:

I sometimes feel overwhelmed trying to decide between spaghetti, pasta spirals, pasta shapes, macaroni, etc and wonder why we need to have all this stuff as it all tastes the same. I have a floor-to-ceiling dry goods store cupboard and it's crammed full. I think we need to be locked into our house for a month and not allowed out to visit the food shops for anything. It would be interesting to see how long we could exist for. Besides, I want to run my stocks completely down so I can discover all the odd things that are lurking at the back of the shelves. Getting it all out to do an inventory would take a whole day! I think we need to hold a Pasta Party !

We could also do with having a drinks party to get rid of all the weird and wonderful virtually untouched duty-free liqueur bottles lurking in a drinks cabinet!