Here are a few things to keep in mind if you want to create your own stockpile. It's good to plan for the unexpected - a job loss, natural disasters, fluctuating gas and food prices. Stockpiling isn't a bad thing in and of itself.
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I have even more than that, but I won't bore you with the full list. I will admit that in my house you will find 8 tubes of toothpaste, 30 rolls of toilet paper and 5 toothbrushes (other than those we are using). When they get done, they find that they have 87 tubes of toothpaste, 120 rolls of toilet paper and 24 toothbrushes. While it may have been a weird combination, I was building our stockpile, saving us money on those items that we enjoy and will use over the coming weeks and months.Many of you have probably seen the television shows about hoarders. I checked the expiration dates and I knew that I had space to store these items so we wouldn’t feel like we had to eat them up quicker than need be. I knew I had coupons in my coupon box which greatly reduced the prices of these items. But, I browsed the aisles and saw these items on rollback. Sure, I also bought a gallon of milk and some birthday party stuff. This past week a recent trip to Walmart produced these items in my cart:ģ bottles of Genesis Today juices ($6 – $1 coupon = $5 ea)ģ bottles of Hunts Ketchup ($1 – $0.20 coupon = $0.80 ea)Ģ packages of La Creme Mousse yogurt ($2.19 – BOGO coupon = $1.10 ea) It’s okay if the checker doesn’t understand the method to your madness.
Once you get a stockpile going, you may forget what you have. The 20 cans of tomatoes which they will not open go on the bottom shelves. If I have excess of an item that the family could consume too quickly, the extras go way up high where my kids are least likely to get them. I have a very tall closet pantry where we store our dry goods. So, you need to have some kind of control over your stockpile. Well, my kids could eat ten boxes of cereal in one day. In the above scenario, my ten boxes of cereal should last five weeks. It’s not a deal if it drives your family bonkers as they trip over said “good deals.” Only purchase what you can reasonably store. Make sure you have room at home to store it.Make sure the item is something that you can store for a reasonable amount of time. The only exception to this rule is when you are sure you can and will donate it to someone who will put that product to good use. Unless you’re sure you and your family are going to like it and use it, don’t buy it. There are some guidelines to keep in mind when you’re building and maintaining a well-stocked pantry on a budget. OR I can buy ten at one time for about $0.50 a box and spend a mere $5. You see, I could buy two boxes of cereal for five weeks at pay whatever the going rate was, usually about $2 a box. I may buy 10 boxes of cereal at one time at a great price on sale and with coupons, but they get eaten within a couple months, avoiding waste and avoiding a bigger bill at the grocery store. In my mind, a proper “stockpile” is one that is used.
They bought when they didn’t need it, and they never used it. And so they bought without as much purpose as they did compulsion. Due to fears, some probably very real, they didn’t want to be without. You’ve probably heard plenty of horror stories about people who died with closets and closets of food and other belongings that they didn’t really need. Now let me clarify between what I do and hoarding. I buy things on sale before I need them and keep them on hand in the pantry. You see, I practice what some people call, stockpiling. This new way of doing things can be a little restricting sometimes, but overall it works out. I’ve shaved that down to about $600/month on average. Three years ago I regularly spent $800-1000 each month to feed our family of then 7. Today, I decide what I want based on what’s on sale.This reversal in my thinking has helped us trim our grocery budget enormously. Time was long ago, that I would go to the grocery store with a list of all the things that I wanted to buy.
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