Always one spare of the following

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Always one spare in the cupboard - this is not a panic buying thread - it's purely general interest.

I'll start - toothpaste, washing up liquid, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree and ground coffee. Oh also tinned tuna steak.

Teabags and soap.

Bubble bath.

Gin, lemons, 00 flour, yeast, coffee beans, canned chickpeas and tomatoes.

All of the above, apart from the gin.
I think it's something to do with my mental health but I have a real fear of running out of the things I use regularly.

I stress I"m not one of these antisocial people who panic buy and stockpile items when there is a shortage or rumour of shortage. I despise the selfishness of that. But I have back up spares of not only food and drink and toiletries but also skin care products , make up, and even a spare kettle and a spare electric tin opener, gardening tools etc etc. I realise it's not a healthy mindset.

My husband has to always have a spare of something before he will use it. So if we see a new chocolate bar we think he will fancy, we buy two, because if he only had one he won’t eat it.
I have had to limit him hoarding multiples of stuff but things he always had a few of are ;
syrup, oats, vanilla essence, protein powders, coffee, passata.

I don’t stock up on anything, if they stop doing the one I usually get I just try something else instead.

Is it like a real fear/panic feeling?

I absolutely hate running out of stuff and do everything I can to avoid it, but it’s more because it gives me the rage and interrupts my day. eg standing in the shower and there’s no conditioner left - would just about end me 🤣

Bread - I always have a loaf in the freezer. I can’t always keep up with my hungry teens.

Toothpaste, soap, shampoo/conditioner. Food cupboard.... tinned tomatoes, tuna , soup, sweetcorn, tomato puree, bags of sugar. Just in case I feel like having a mad baking session

To be honest I can't immediately think of anything that I don't have at least one spare of. Apart from yeast but I buy it in 250g packs and it can go off relatively quickly.
I have 13 tins of tomatoes in the cupboard because I buy in bulk.

Packs of toilet rolls. I have the open pack of 12 that I am using, and then I like a spare pack in the airing cupboard. I'm fussy with loo rolls and like the Andrex ones with puppies on ... so if they are on offer I will get a spare pack.

Coffee. Again, I am fussy and like Nescafe Gold Smooth powder, and I like to have a spare in the cupboard. I went to buy one in Tesco and I looked online at Morrisons and it was around £8.50 a jar - but on Amazon it was £6. Bargain.

I’m exactly the same. And, like you, I’m not the type to panic buy when there are rumours of shortages etc. I just feel ‘safe’ having the next box/tin/item to hand. There are a few things I have a ridiculous amount of, such as tinned tomatoes and tuna, but they do get used! I think it might be to do with where I was brought up compared to where I live now. When I was young, all the shops were on my doorstep, so I never had to worry about running out. Now the shops are a bit of a trek, so I think I probably panic a bit about what I’d do if I ran out of tomato purée. Because obviously it would be the end of the world🤣

I stock up on absolutely everything. If I open a new moisturiser, I order another same day.

If - at point of death - I had to choose just one item, it would be Coffee.
Lidl was out of the strong French blend ground number 5 for weeks recently (Aldi equivalent is shite)

I now have a small suitcase full 😶‍🌫️

Bananas. We go through mountains of them. I buy them in various shades of ripeness.

I don't really have any 'extra' spares other than what people would normally have in their food cupboards / pantry anyway. Sometimes I might buy two tins of something if it is on offer, but it isn't deliberate.

We always have loads of soaps as I have an irresistible desire to buy one whenever I'm in TK Maxx because they look so nice.😂

Washing powder. I like always to have two spare 45-wash packets of Daz in reserve. This is in part because in the real world (hard water area) they only last for 25 wash-loads anyway; and also because only three shops in a three-mile radius of my house ever stock them, and one will always be sold out.

Everything- our cellar looks like the corner shop (we do use Costco quite a lot)

Nothing really, if something is running out, I just buy another. I don't keep a spare or backup of anything, with the exception of maybe tinned tomatoes where I probably do have more than 1 tin.