Just wanted to pat myself on the back for a minute. A couple of months ago several people started posting about eating up their 'stockpile' of food and I thought that seemed like a good idea. Due to major medical and unexpected travel expenses in May, it really seemed like a great idea.

Anyway, I have been eating the food I had been 'collecting' and it's going great. I went to the store the other day and bought less than $25 of food - this has been about the average I've spent a week for since I tried to start this in April. I'm pretty much just buying fresh fruits & veggies, bread and milk. Occassionally I have bought a few other things like lunchmeat or packaged products but not much. I actually ran out of 2 products last week. I couldn't believe it - I never run out of things!!

With just my DS and I we have 2 fridges w/freezers and a separate freezer. I am slowly using up what's in there - planning a week's worth of meals at a time and using what we have. It has been great for my bank account and good to see empty spaces in the freezer and on the shelf. I hope by the end of the summer to have the extra fridge and freezer empty.

Just wanted others to know that it CAN work if you try. It is hard to pass up good deals at the store but I really like seeing the low totals at the checkout.

Lou

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Better to give your kids the values you have
than the valuables you can't afford.

We had bought big packs of meat at Sams and some were going bad because they had been in the freezer so long. We are also trying to empty out the freezers and save money to build our savings back up since DH lost his job for a few months. It is nice to see the low grocery bills and know we're not wasting anything.

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Mom to Caitlyn 4-1-03
Mom to Michael 9-1-05

thats great...with my recent "paycheck" incident I am too afraid to ever get low again. But i do think that when stockpiling you have to ONLY buy what is on sale and the weeks there is nothing good you MUST use what you have stockpiled. Otherwise you are just collecting.LOL!

I always try to run the cupboard bare before I go shopping. I saw the pictures of the stockpiling some moms were doing on another website and I was in awe, do they use that stuff? or are the just collecting for the fun of it. If I hade ten boxes of soemthing I would not buy it again till i used at least 8. Then I saved money by not continously buying that item.

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We buy things we dont need,
with money we dont have,
in order to impress people
we dont like?
(Ramsey, D)

I have a space deficit as it is in my house but my Mom used to do this and I can see it as good and bad. In our case there was food but no one really wanted to eat 6 can of beets.:D As long as you use the items reguarly I think it's ok otherwise it's beets.

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* Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

~Ron Paul

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison

I've been starting to stockpile and match up coupons with sale prices. I'm going shopping this weekend and due to sales and coupons I shoul dbe getting like 50 dollars worth of stuff free and some 40ish in mail in rebates. Thus adding to my stockpile with very little money. I think its a great idea so that you never have to worry about your kids going hungry if you are short a paycheck or have a financial emergency.

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Mommy To Brody(3 years) Mason(20 months) Orin (3 Months)

"It's easy to pass judgement, it's more difficult and more meaningful to love someone" Big Love


"Cholesterol won't stick if you have the right attitude"

I have done modest stockpiling for years. When dh was out of work it came in very, very handy. In the months before a state-to-state move I always eat down what I can. It's good to rotate things now and then.

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Katie--mom to ds--21, dd--18, ds--16, dd + dd--6, dd--4

This is exactly what I do. I try to spend $20-25 on fresh/frozen fruit, milk, bread, tp and a few other necessities. It is working out really good.

Blew it yesterday and spent $70 on my weekly trip. We had actually been running out of some stuff though and I used a ton of coupons and there were some good sales this week so saved from what it would have been. It was actually 'weird' to see the cart full. I used to do that every week though so I think I'll be able to go back to my $25/week most of the time.

Lou

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Better to give your kids the values you have
than the valuables you can't afford.

since i started using coupons i've saved quite a bit of money.I use to spend 600.00 a month.I'm spending 500.00 now.It seems like alot of money but we have a large household.5 boys(2 of them teens)and dh and i.

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