To keep a big stock of food?

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Do you? I have come to wonder if I am unusual. I do watch my pennies, but also hate running out of stuff. So when it is on offer or I have coupons I bulk buy.
I even have dedicated shelves in the garage, at last count something like 30 toilet rolls, 20 cans of tomatoes, 12 bottles of Soy sauce, laundry detergent, cans of beans,pickles, cat food,olive oil, shampoo ( bought 20 bottles of Alberto Balsam marked down to 14p each!) foil.

Is it just me?

being poor is bloody expensive

Exactly.

I also have a huge chest freezer in the garage, well stocked with " whoopsies"- so chickens costing 80p, chops, 10p veg blanched and bagged.

I know it’s true for me! If I know I’ve loads of wipes in stock I’m definitely more free and easy with the usage. I’d be sticking soy in everything if I had 12 bottles in the garage 🤪

I once got an awesome deal on loo rolls and bought 108. Lasted for ages

I'll stock up with stuff that lasts that will be used, like getting a great deal on washing powder. atm the brunch bars that are eaten in this house are now on sale at the cheapest I've ever seen them at Morrisons. I'm buying them by the dozen.

Nothing wrong with that as long as you don't feel frightened and can't sleep if you're down to your last toilet roll pack.

I stock up a bit. The thing about stocking up is you think you have a never ending supply and it's quite a shock when you run out! I expect you are more efficient than I and don't run out.

I'm not quite at extreme couponing levels but I too love to keep a large stockpile. My parents always did, then I joined a church that advocated a year's supply and it's just kind of stuck. It's proven invaluable during times of ill health, ill wealth and ill weather! At minimum there's at least "another one" of any item so that when that's opened I'll buy a new one. Actually this summer's project is adding more shelving in the garage to increase storage space.

No, I don't stockpile anything

I can't afford to shop like that, we buy what we can afford with the money we have, ad when someone is gone, it's gone, even if that means going without things for a week or two til it's pay day again

So long as your garage is nice and dry. You wouldn’t want the tins to rust.

Yes. We keep tinned tomatoes, baked beans, chickpeas, tonic water, soya and almond milk, jam, peanut butter and some other slightly more perishable things like crackers and cereals. Also loo roll and kitchen roll. Garage freezer also full of basics. I don’t like doing big shops and with a toddler and baby it’s hard, so we do an online shop every week and keep it topped up. Works well for us, doesn’t take much room and means we can just do small top up shops for fresh veg etc.

We do this too. We've already got turkey and chipolatas for Christmas. Plus a load of Christmas beers DH got in post Christmas clearance

Hey- lets use five sheets instead of the normal two. you obviously have never had to live with someone, like my oldest. 😒 The skitter thinks, if I’ve bought something on special offer, he can have extra “cause there’s loads” 😠 I may have to drive off with him and leave him in the middle of a field somewhere, in the hope that he won’t find his way back home, until any food crisis is over. Don’t worry I will pack him a rucksack, I’m not a complete monster. —he’s 27–

I'd like to be able to do this, but lack of space and money means we can't.

We do a weekly shop and then by the time the next one is delivered, we are down to the odd can of beans and basic store cupboard ingredients.

Why would you be being unreasonable to do that, it’s not hurting anyone? That’s why Costco’s in business

if I had the room to stockpile stuff while it was at rock bottom prices, I absolutely would.

we are veggie and use a lot of soy sauce as well

I am in awe of the OP and pp where do you get shampoo bottles at 14p each?

I don’t think you’re unusual, OP, I tend to buy all commonly used items in bulk - I buy loo rolls in packs of 45 and store under the bed (ottoman divan) tinned foods in trays of 12 and stored in storage boxes on top of kitchen cupboards, many other bottled, jarred, dried foods similar. Because they are in neat coloured boxes which match decor it doesn’t look like piles of stuff in a warehouse etc which I guess it could easily do if you weren’t organised about it or had less space (am thankful for high ceilings).
Cleaning products buy in 5L containers and decant where possible. Recently my favourite shampoo/conditioner was half price so I spent around £50 on a bulk order (so no delivery charge) and now won’t have to worry about it for a while. I know I’ll get through it eventually anyway and it brings me a huge sense of security, I guess it’s what someone people call prepping, to me it is just common sense and I am able to afford it. I have lots of things on subscribe&save from Amazon so don’t even have to think about it. I still buy fresh foods although trying to grow more and more of my own veg etc. If the SHTF then I know we could live out of the storecupboard for a few weeks easily. It seems more unusual to me that people would be worried about a few days disturbance in supply chains when Brexit happens, why wouldn’t people naturally have their own stocks at home anyway (barring poverty, housing insecurity and associated issues, obviously). I guess it just depends on what perspective you’re coming from. Keeping the store cupboard well stocked feels ingrained to me. 12 bottles of soy sauce just sounds sensible, not remarkable at all!

where do you get shampoo bottles at 14p each?

That was ASDA- sometimes when lines are being discontinued they sell of excess at silly prices.
I have alerts and groups to keep me posted.

PositivelyPERF yes garage is very dry- also doubles as my office, have a PC and printer in there.

I just buy what I need. We regularly run out of things. I just walk to the shop and grab some more or grab some from the 24hr supermarket on the way home from work.

I'll buy things in bulk if I'll save money, but I don't tend to find stuff at an amazingly cheap enough deal than I would normally pay for it IYSWIM. Although I did once end up with 10 bottles of fabric conditioner because they cost £1 each down from £4

The only thing we always have in stock is ds's milk substitute. Simply because our local doesn't stock it.

Our cupboards are very rarely chocked full. I tend to find we don't go through stuff very quickly and don't want stuff to go out of date before we get round to using it.

Soy sauce is a preserve, fermented product. Very long shelf life.

I also have an amazing recipe for sweet chilli and soy chicken, baked in one pot that the family love- takes a cup of soy sauce for one meal.

Because they are in neat coloured boxes which match decor it doesn’t look like piles of stuff in a warehouse that’s such a simple but brilliant idea.

I’m very envious of you, OP. 😁

*Because they are in neat coloured boxes which match decor it doesn’t look like piles of stuff in a warehouse that’s such a simple but brilliant idea.
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PositivelyPERF you are misquoting me.

YABU, Alberto Balsam is horrible stuff. Might as well wash your hair with glue.

Otherwise, if/when prices rise sharply, I think you'll feel pretty glad to have stocked up while you could.

Just remembered that in the garage I do have boxes of crackers and wrapping paper for Christmas and Easter craft stuff for school that I picked up cheap.

I have a tight budget but the luxury of space to store stuff including a chest freezer and the electricity to run it. Meal planning is often touted as the best way to save money but I buy from the reduced section and make a meal from that and what we have in.

Agustarella which shampoo do you use?

I use whatever's cheapest in the supermarket (that isn't Alberto Balsam) or Wash n Go.