Who still has lockdown stockpiled stuff to use up? Own up!

[BaroldBalonz]

DD has just finished the huge box of glasses wipes which was bought on amazon near the start of lockdown. To be honest I accidentally bought a much bigger pack than I had intended to, but with all the crazy buying that was happening, who will admit to still having lockdown purchases that haven't been used yet, what are they, and when will you use them?

That made me snort

First day of furlough I found myself polishing the cooker hood and then realised I should probably stop as I would run out of stuff to do
Everyone else seemed to achieve massive things and I played rollercoaster tycoon....

One of my friends sent me a postcard during lockdown. It shows a pile of toilet rolls with the phrase 'Roll with it' on it. I just found it the other day.

The only thing I had a surplus of was lasagne sheets, but I've finally used the last of them. There was a lot of talk of pasta running out (because things were so bad in Italy). I was still working when we went into lockdown here, so I missed the run on the supermarkets. When I finally got to a supermarket, they had very little pasta - I think there were just two or three bags left on the shelf. So I just took one bag. They'd lots of lasagne sheets, so I picked up about three boxes. Only to discover (when I got home) that I already had a few boxes 'cos I'd picked some up on a special offer pre-lockdown. It's taken me a while to use it all up. None of it went in the bin though.

The jar of sprouts made me laugh

A few tins of beans. I did not massively stockpile. There is only me to cater for and as I share a kitchen I did not have the room, nor was I actually panicking as before the lockdown I had a number of tins of Slimfast anyway. But I don't seem to be using the beans. I keep trying to get round to doing a veggie chilli. Every day I look at the beans!!!

To be honest I gave some of the tins of fish and the pasta to a food bank.

I didn’t stockpile anything. There was nothing in the shops to stockpile.

My colleague is.

In her defence she did end up on a ventilator with covid and last year was in ICU with pneumonia.

(Of course there is always an argument or building up a bit of immunity...)

I didn’t stockpile as my cupboards are always well stocked anyway. I stock rotate, so nothing goes to waste - it’s used and replaced. I like being very prepared, particularly in the winter in case I get snowed in. My freezer is the same.

I also always have lots of toilet rolls at home due to only being able to use a certain type due to an auto inflammatory skin condition I have. Another medical condition means I take diuretics so go through a lot.

I have nothing in my cupboards that was there during lockdown, apart from two small bottles of hand gel.

I'd rather have scurvy than tinned sprouts 🤮

To be honest I'm not convinced that people stockpiling was the cause of the empty shelves. I bought loads more food in lockdown because of two teens not having school dinners, no meals out and no takeaways. Multiply this across every household in the country and the supermarkets were never going to cope.

I think it was a combination of factors.

Factories had to cut back production because of social distancing.

And people were buying more because they weren't eating out lunches etc.

And people were being encouraged to limit trips to the shops. Remember ques outside supermarkets 1 in 1out.

Soluble paracetamol so we could take it if really poorly.
Throat sweets as above.
Home made alcohol hand spray.

Water purification tablets. In case of total societal breakdown.

I don't regret a single purchase.

That will partly have been an issue. However many people have admitted to panic buying/stockpiling, so that will inevitably have caused problems too.

Not food but like 20 wool ball things, I was convinced I was going to learn to crochet hats during covid lockdown and bought a ridiculous amount, it ended up with my throwing it against the wall, the crochet pegs went everywhere and i sat crying for hours at just the whole lockdown/covid situation. 😬

I did a whole season's worth of garden centre shopping the weekend before the lockdown. 2 of the plants are still alive.

Definitely grateful. The queues outside shops were awful.

Hand gel and covid tests which are nearly out of date. Everything else has been used although we always have good stores as the weather has been so interesting this past year and stuff goes out of stock due to supply line issues or storms or bushfire. I buy stuff when I see it.

Currently stockpiled with frozen hashbrowns and I did have a stash of frozen chips but DS had eaten all the chips. Australia's potato crop didn't do well and there will be no frozen potato products until at least April. DS has autism and his diet revolves around frozen potato so I started stashing in December.

As an aside we never actually had to queue outside a shop. Don’t know whether it was just our area but there weren’t any queues. We just went in the morning as soon as it opened and it was fine. Our local supermarket didn’t have any toilet roll shortages either (not that we needed any as we buy ours in bulk from Costco anyway).
The only thing we couldn’t get hold of was flour, and we didn’t actually need any.

There is no scenario, including the actual end of the world, that would see me eating tinned Brussels sprouts!

Nothing because I'm not an idiot who panic bought stuff.

I've always been a 'prepper' so have always bought slightly more than I need when it's on offer or whatever.
When we had COVID back to back it was really useful to dip into the 'backstock' and not worry about trying to source things.

I have GA as well and I found this was a good coping mechanism because it was something I could control. Means if things happen, like someone losing a job, being injured or trapped in the house for whatever reason, we're covered.
I also have camping stoves and other equipment for the same reason... Well that and we like to camp

2 years later and folk still have unused bags of pasta?!!

My ASD nephew has HUUUGE food sensory issues and my dsis had so many problems trying to source pasta in the lockdowns. She uses 1kg of pasta every couple of weeks. And folk stockpiling food that they don't eat or haven't eaten enough of in 2 years they still have stocks.

Not even blatantly side-eyeing people at this point - its just selfishness and greed. Pure and simple.

Nothing, we didn't go so mad that things wouldn't have been used up by now!

I don’t have any actual food left dated from that time, but I keep my cupboards a lot fuller than I used to and will continue to do so. Not silly quantities and nothing we won’t use, but whereas I had a week’s worth of food in the house it’s now closer to a month. And I have loads of masks leftover in all my bags, cupboards, the car etc, but I dare say they’ll get used eventually since you still need them in medical settings.

Joining you in giving hrad stare!

Hard stare!