Do you have plenty of toiletries, cleaning and washing stuff in

[Auburngal]

Following this thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5283316-is-your-kitchen-full-of-food-all-the-time?page=5&reply=142484582

What are you like with your toiletries, cleaning and washing stuff? Have loads in or buy shower gel, washing up liquid and laundry stuff when down to about a 1/10th of a bottle left or 2 pods.

I have about 7 bottles of shampoo in as I have 6 bottles on the go as if I wash with the same shampoo wash after wash, my hair goes limp and loses shape. Even on holiday, I have two shampoos and alternate.

Remember about 6 years ago, my then workplace had a range review on anti-perspirants and I bought about 18-20 discontinued cans for 35p-70p each (under £10 for the lot) and they lasted me 2 years. Majority were the big cans
Cleaning and laundry stuff, I usually have 2-3 of bleach, WUP, laundry liquid.

I used to live in the middle of nowhere, so for 25 years I had to stock up. I’m slowly learning to not do that, I have shops I can just nip into.
I made a pledge this year, to use everything I have under the sink before I go it and buy more. I have 3 bottles of washing up liquid, ffs, I only wash by hand 2 water bottles, everything else goes in the dishwasher! So rather than buying a surface cleaner for the countertops, I’ll use washing up liquid on a cloth then rinse. Let’s see if I can do this before I crack and buy an antibacterial surface spray 😂😂😂

I buy in bulk when on offer then use it up.

I used to. But I married someone who loaths clutter and disorganization and we have a whole pack of kids, so I'm reformed. I realized that I'm not naturally a super organized person and I'm not great at maintaining orderly stocks or remembering what I have stashed, so the best choice for me is to be fairly brutal about getting rid of things. Once I stopped hanging on to things I came to value the extra space and ease of finding things more, and realized that extra clutter from "just in case I maybe need it" items and buying in bulk actually resulted in more waste for me, not less.

I have a shelf in the shower that fits two shampoos/conditioners and two bodywashes and that's it; I don't allow the collection to expand, so if I decide I dislike a bottle enough to get something new then I toss the old one to make room. I have a small drawer tray each for makeup, skin care and hair supplies and when one is full I either stop buying or weed out old stuff. I buy smaller bottles even if it's a higher price per unit because I know I tend to get bored and ultimately it's less wasteful to pay a little more up front and not end up with leftovers I don't want to use. We don't ever stock more than 3 months of consumables (most cleaning products and toiletries lose quality as they age anyways) and for most items one spare is plenty. If something isn't a daily use item and we can replace it within the day then there likely isn't a need to keep spares at all.

Toilet roll and nappies are the exception. Always have more of those than you think you need.

Not toiletries, I buy as needed, ditto laundry detergent.

Cleaning stuff, however…. I have a cupboard jammed full of all sorts. Maybe it’s to subconsciously kid myself that I do a lot of housework, when I bloody hate it….

Run out. Re-stock. We don't need all this shit we fill our houses with.

My dream is a big pantry with prepper-level quantities of products, and only having to restock every couple of years.

The reality is six packs of deodorant stacked on top of the bathroom cupboard and a 24 pack of loo roll in the shed.

For shampoo and conditioner I have the big 5 litre bottles of Faith in Nature in the utility which I refill their metal pump bottles with. Same with washing up liquid as I use Miniml. Pretty much everything else I have one in use and one as a back up.

I don’t have a massive amount of cleaning products. M&S kitchen spray and bathroom spray. Bottle of Cif for deep cleaning. Nancy Birtwhistle’s pure magic, ecloths and I do use Mr Muscle drain stuff periodically.

Then laundry liquid and a tub of Vanish for school shirts.

I have 1 on the go, 1 as back up and when I start the back up one I buy another. I can’t be dealing with tons of bottles “just in case”

I’ve got subscriptions for washing capsules, softener, washing up liquid and spray cleaner and shampoo bars Cleared out years of part used bottles when I got a new kitchen. Soap I have a huge tin to keep all of them in. I will be clean till i snuff it. I stock up on other stuff when I go in Home Bargains. It is very liberating not to have to lug stuff home or chase deals on my favourite products.

I do a heavy shop run every couple of months and buy triples of household cleaners and sprays. Waitrose or Aldi.

Get through toiletries like a beast and never save them for treats, so there’s only a few bubble baths in the cupboard.

Sound rather clean, me <preens>

I do a big shop at the start of each month, when I get paid, which covers cleaning supplies, toiletries and then my food staples (tins, treats, meat for the freezer, pasta etc). I buy enough for the month and general rule is when it’s gone it’s gone, as that’s how I budget. I don’t buy any more until next month unless we run out of something that’s an absolute necessity unexpectedly (eg, I could live without my conditioning hair mask or bubble bath for a week or so but if I ran out of shampoo that’s a different story). And things don’t usually all last a month, they’re usually going for longer, so we have a bit of a rotation going where one month I’ll by XYZ, and the next I’ll buy ABC as XYZ still have plenty left to last another month, and so on. I try not to have it that everything runs out at once as then I’ll have a big hit financially! That being said, it’s definitely on my list to go through out bathroom cupboards as we absolutely have a surplus of toiletries in there and I’m not even sure we know what’s in there 😂 likely from when there’s been offers on or we’ve switched up what we use .

I haven't bought soap in 5 years!
I picked up a Costco multi-pack of bar soap at the start of advice to wash hands more frequently and realised at home it had 16 bars in it 😂
It didn't get used so much as expected because within weeks there was nowhere to go and then by the time there was, touch points weren't found to be particularly high risk and we were long back to normal washing patterns.
But at least I've realised we've got an excess and haven't added to it. I think a 4 pack might be required by the end of this year when we're down to the last couple of spares. 😂

But generally I like a float of spares maintained at a storable level and keep it in that range so I don't run out (sod's law I'd forget or have some kind of disruption as I get to a last minute use/ replenishment). I don't use a massive range of toiletries/ household products which helps

I bulk buy toilet roll. We get through a lot.
Even at uni, I'd buy 9 packs for myself because I quickly learned that if I left one in the toilet, it would be gone within a couple of hours so I needed a stash.

I occasionally forget I restocked and end up with a surplus, but I don't buy for the sake of it, make impulse purchases of random things. It is stored in an organised way too, so under the sink, cleaning products are lined up by type so its easy to see what's there and I'm not buying what I just can't see.

Toiletries yes - I love buying the nice stuff and we have lots of bathroom storage space.

The rest is very minimal. We have a cleaner and she brings her own materials, so I have a bottle of spray/cream cleaner and that's it. Washing powder, we only use one very basic product as DS has bad eczema, so not much there at all.

I buy when I need to. What’s the point in sinking a load of money into things I won’t need for months.

Have an ottoman on landing with the extra cleaning and washing stuff.
Have 2-3 shelves of toiletries in a cupboard in bedroom

We buy catering sized containers of w/u liquid, laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets, bleach and cleaning fluid so usually have at least 6 months worth, and perhaps half a dozen bars of soap/shampoo bars.

I will buy my toiletries when they are on offer - I am fussy about my shampoos etc. so go from a dozen bottles of everything to almost zero.
Stuff for cleaning the house does not really register it is just cleaning stuff.

Did for a while but in the last year am miserable, topping up only when running out, trying to get back to actually stocking up instead!

I am averse to clutter so try and be minimalist with the cleaning and toiletry stuff BUT my three young adults live with me so I am wading through all the bottles of crap they’re constantly buying. Like 37 (not kidding) bottles of stuff in the shower. Makes it so hard to clean.
When they ever move out I am going to have THREE things in the shower.

I stock pile and have usually about 4 or 5 boxes of laundry tablets, fabric conditioner, toothpaste, washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets, cleaning sprays, a 48 pack of toilet rolls, plus an open pack, moist wipes, etc at any given time. I keep this stock on a set of shelves in the corner of my conservatory. My adult kids joke about Mum's shop but I don't care.

Me too, especially wine🍷

I feel like the spirit of my MIL has entered Mumsnet! It used to be a family sport to count how many loo rolls she had stockpiled.

I've never been a stockpiler. I just buy what I need when I need it. I'm not a naturally organised and tidy person so the more stuff I have the more mess gets created. Plus, I live somewhere with plenty of shops on my doorstep.

I usually have an extra one or two of most things. I live just off a high street though so it's easy for me to shop around and get the best offers. I'm happy to make the extra effort, it saves money and I never get caught short.

I try to have a spare bottle of cleaning things but sometimes forget and run out! I've a favourite shampoo so will buy a couple at a time, but don't have large amounts of cleaning products stocked.

No, I don't stock pile anything at all. I find it very easy not to run out of essentials like toothpaste and toilet rolls, it doesn't take up any headspace. I seem to just notice when we're running low and remember to buy.