To keep a big stock of food?

[speakout]

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?

So why is Alberto Balsam bad?

Please could you post the sweet chilli and soy recipe?.
I bulk buy when stuff is on offer but have had to stop recently as we are doing the house up and I haven't any storage room.. it makes me a bit twitchy only having a couple of tins of tomatoes in the cupboard

@speakout it makes my hair all matted and knotty.

I'm thinking (in general, not wrt Alberto B) that for stockpiling it's good to buy shampoo which is fairly concentrated. The cheap Tesco stuff might be a bit watery, so not ideal for optimizing storage space.

I thought I had a lot of toiletries stocked up as I buy the ones I like when they're on offer. I can't bring myself to spend €10 on a bottle of shampoo and would hate to run out when it's not on offer!! But I have nowhere near the amount you do! Probably about 3 bottles of all my favourite products.
I also have a lot of boxes of teabags, mostly different kinds though.
I like to have at least one spare of products I use a lot and stock up on things I like when they're on offer, but probably max of 3 of each item?

I have relatives who "stock up" on fresh food and it drives me nuts. I never know how old the food in their house is, which concerns me for things like ketchup, salad dressing etc... I can see which vegetables and cheese are gone off (not jealous). And they always have around 3 open ketchup bottles, mayonnaise, butters, juice, milk etc in their fridge.

I don’t stock pile as such but I do buy only certain things when on offer and buy enough to last until the next offer is on.
Things like toothpaste, mouthwash, cleaning and laundry detergent. Loo rolll, bin bags, cat food and such stuff.
I don’t tend to bulk buy food stuffs but to keep the freezer stocked with things we eat regularly and any stuff bought from the reduced fridges which I know someone in the house will eat.
But I am lucky enough to have a walk-in larder and a untility room with an extra freezer so plenty of storage.

I was very young when we first bought our house and had a few years of really struggling to pay the bills it was horrible struggling to buy enough food and never had extra things in the cupboard the fridge freezer was usually pretty bare too so now we are not struggling at all i tend to overbuy and could probably go a month or two with what is in the house i dont go mad but do like to keep well stocked as i know how quickly things can change

I'm a stocker. Grow all my own veg and freeze so it lasts during the winter and spring. Buy offers of meat from the butcher. Batch cook things like spag bol. Watch the clearance shelves in the supermarkets. Household goods stash looks healthy. .

Today I've sat down and planned out all our meals for the next two weeks. I do not need to buy anything towards a single meal.

All the £'s I'm saving go in my deposit fund. I don't give a toss what other people think. Those who matter aren't bothered and those who are bothered, simply don't matter 😂

You go OP, don't be worrying about what others think!

You're an amateur OP. There's a programme on Quest Red about couponeers in the USA - the last one I saw the woman bought $650 of items and after handing over all her coupons she owed the supermarket nothing and they paid her $50!

Their houses are stuffed to the gills with produce, stocked on shelves put up for the purpose, cupboards, garages etc. It's a full time job collecting all the coupons, including diving into dumpsters

Makes sense to buy if something is on offer like you do.