Irrational panic!!!

My sister and I are hoarders (or as she puts it, we just keep plenty in) as our Mum was a hoarder. I do think it comes from wartime habits. My daughters laugh at me and I at them when I visit and see their sparse stores. You can see vast tracts of shelf in their food cupboards and fridges!
I notice that it's food I keep stores of - not cleaning products. That's revealing, although I don't like to live in a tip.
As for the Sky box - when I moved I was given one with lots of storage space. Now I hoard programmes. Who needs box sets.

Yes, yes, yes! Kitchen rolls, toilet paper, tinned tomatoes, cider vinegar, actually nearly everything! But DH is even worse (he's shopping at the moment as I'm recovering from a foot op but he often does it anyway) just basically doubles what I put on the list! Can't complain though! But unlike other organised GN's I sometimes run out of something!

DH's aunt had a rather grand house with an enormous larder. When she moved to a smaller place, in the 70's, we found several tins of dried egg.

I'm a 42er. Mother couldn't hoard food due to lack of cash and shops - our groceries were delivered from a shop in the town - though we did buy eggs from farms illicitly during the war and afterwards, and set them in isinglass in a bucket under the stairs. I'm surprised it didn't put us off eggs for life.

But I am a terrible hoarder and my family always said that we would last a month after everyone else if there was nuclear fallout and we had to barricade ourselves in the house.

I am relieved to find that I am not alone.

I once knew a woman Jalima who bought new towels in every colour, just like your MiL. She stacked them in her airing cupboard on the top shelf and they were never used. Her family were not allowed to touch them, she just loved looking at the rainbow of colours.
The old ones on the lower shelf were for using.

I'm panicking now as I've only 21% left on my planner and still got the whole of the last series of Poldark to watch! Better get stuck in before the new series begins, but hang on The Handmaids Tale starts tonight!

The game of Pit is quite old and will make you hoarse when you play it. Make sure the neighbours are aware that you will be making a lot of noise, mostly screaming, as otherwise someone may call the police expecting to learn of a murder!

We must be like manna from heaven to retailers.
When I had to organize the clearing out of my late aunts house I found enough bags of sugar to sweeten the cups of tea /coffee for her neighbourhood. My late mother had enough loo rolls to paper the wall of her bedroom.
I dread to think what my family will find when its' my turn.'

My 91 year old mother always collects the sugar packets and biscuits which come with cups of tea and coffee in a cafe. These are stored in her room at her nursing home (she doesn't take sugar or eat biscuits and my brother has to have periodic purges to get rid of them) - she doesn't suffer with dementia she just thinks as she has paid for the sugar and biscuits she is going to take them!!

Regarding Olive oil and Red wine better get some before people start hoarding it me thinks

My mother also hoarded sugar. I'm sure it was a throwback to rationing and it rubbed off onto me when I was first married in 1969. I eventually realised that since neither of us used it in drinks or on cereals it was safe to buy it one bag at a time! I am guilty of hoarding toilet and kitchen rolls 'just in case'.

DH is just the same with the packets of sugar which come when you buy a coffee - drives me mad when he 'just pops them in the cupboard'!

I remember reading that VioletRose1 but I remember that the whole chicken in a tin was given to them as a wedding present and they opened and ate it on their 25th wedding anniversary and all was fine. I often quote this when I'm urged to throw out any out of date tins

As a 31er I can honestly say that I have never run out of anything as I always have a spare of absolutely everything including my teeth

I'm now starting to worry that I don't have enough spares.

Hi Kitty, i was born in 49 good year that!! Yes I have loo rolls by the dozen, beans in 7 packs. Woolies local to me closed dow 30 years ago everything l0p still using laces pins and cottons.maybe its to do with after the war scarcity.

Interesting thread. I too was born in 1949 and have stockpiles of tinned tomatoes and loo roll. Occasional visits to Costco are very bad for me as I buy trays of chopped tinned tomatoes and similar.
My Mum told me that when WW2 was threatened, my grandmother stockpiled soap as there was a shortage in WW1 when her babies were small and laundry constant. It apparently lasted until well after 1946!

Did anyone else take note of the Protect and Survive guidance in the 80s? I had all sorts squirrelled away down in the cellar - tins and tin opener, powdered milk, soap, old pillows to block the gaps in the door, candles and matches, a bucket for us to pee in. I can't remember when I decided to decommission the bunker, but I know I made bath salts with the powdered milk because nobody would drink it.

kittylester I am younger but picked up storing extra dry and tinned goods from my much loved great grandmother and grandmother.

In my cupboard I have extra tins of chopped and plum tomatoes, extra pasta, spaghetti and penne, extra tins of chick peas and lentils, tinned soups and UHT skimmed milk 'just in case'. Extra rice too.

When I moved a few years ago, I checked the dates on my collection of tins (when did tins start having use by dates etc.?) and to my horror a number were out of date.

It made me cringe to throw them out.

Another slightly younger hoarder here. We live in a small town and until a couple of years ago we only had a small Budgens. I do not drive and my husband worked varied shifts including weekends.

I like a bargain so when the supermarkets offer 15% off vouchers or £10 off £50 etc. I take advantage and shop to as near the target spend as possible. This week I had 15% off a £50 spend with a free home delivery. I did not really need much so I bought 3 x 24 packs of loo rolls which were on offer. There are now only the two of us at home so they will last a while.

I have loads of pasta and sauces as I had lots of vouchers for 50p off and when the products went on half price I purchased a mixture of 30 products all only costing me 25p per item. Have a dozen tins of salmon for sandwiches which DH loves. 1 tin was £2.89 or 3 tins for £3, could not let that one slip by. I bought a 24 pack of baked beans from Farmfoods which cost less than 8 tins in the supermarket.

We have recently had a new kitchen so I have been running my store down and then will have a refresh.

My box is at 20% so hopefully we will get some time to catch up a bit.

Yep !!

I have a box full of shower gels, bubble baths etc., in our garage and a bag full of Bath and Body Works shower gels/hand washes/body creams in our bedroom. I can't resist buying these items but have decided I need to stop stocking up when they are on offer (there will always be an offer on). My mum used to have loads of toilet rolls.

Well, it seems that almost all of GN stockpiles something or other! So, it must be normal.
I don't stockpile cakes biscuits or sweets ( in fact we have no sweets at all in the house.) Only plain biscuits in usually.

kittylester sky engineer told me about deleting the deleted programmes, otherwise the hard drive is constantly full which strains it.

My confession is one cupboard just for pasta, get worried if I have less than 6 packets of each type. And the rice stock is in crisis but it hasn't been on special offer for ages.

My husband does the shopping and seems he only buys staples when on offer. Checking the garage now we have 22 kitchen rolls, umpteen work surface cleaners, too many loo rolls to count, so many bottles of shampoo they'll still be there when we're long gone, 11 shower gels.... I could go on and on... On the plus side we rarely run out of things.

Definitely don't have enough stuff in stock.