Irrational panic!!!

I am a 1948er. I don't think I am too bad about hoarding food. Such things I buy in bulk tend to be our food staples. Tinned tomatoes. Asda mushy peas as all other brands colour theirs.
OH is the hoarder in our house and not just with food. The older style energy saving light bulbs which were really dreadful at first still up there. Boxes of those dirt cheap biros which are really rubbish.
He also stock piled Green's Carmelle dessert mixes because the shops were once out of stock.

I do always look in the short dated shelves and tend to have quite a stock pile of quiches in the freezer.
Bargain price raspberries, frozen to use in ice cream.

When we cleared out my parents house there were about 74 unused tea towels. I have given some of them to my children and possibly still have some stashed away in the loft. Apart from tea towels my mum tended to be a rather mean very frugal shopper.

I did hear of a lady who was a keen baker and had a big freezer well stocked with pies, quiche, sausage rolls, cakes, scones, deserts etc when she died.

Her daughters discovered this amazing stock when they were planning the funeral and decided to serve it all up at the wake.

She was a popular old lady with many friends and acquaintances who came to the wake and several remarked on the delicious spread. One or two asked Who made this delicious quiche/pie/tart/cake? and there were some funny reactions to the answer, but what better for a good send-off?

I start to panic when its starts gong below 50% which is madness and I always have more than one tin in stock

If a disaster movie plot happened, but if I could keep my freezer running miraculously. I could probably last without shopping for.....Oh about two years. Brought up by gran, born in the sixties and I love offers and even recycle old clothes into quilts etc

Another forty-niner here, must have been a good year. To my horror I once ran out of toilet rolls, never will again! You have to stock up when there are good offers on, we did once have to keep spares in the box-room.

About labelling, some of my dry goods, rice, pasta, lentils I keep in large Kilner jars and I have learnt to buy paper stick on labels which I fill in when I open a pack and put the contents in a jar.
WH Smith does some lovely reasonable stick on labels, which can take several lines of entries..

EnglishRose that goes without saying?

Wine of course, never run out of wine WINE

Oh dear! Afraid I am guilty of panic if my Sky box goes lower than 50% !!! Heavens knows why ! It would take hours of recording to get to nil, but there I go, diligently making sure I stay at or above 60% free all the time!

I thought it was only me!!!

Yes, never run out of win!

Oh dear! after reading some of the posts I think I need to restock. ?

Never run out of wine ??

Do you find that you do run out of things because you haven't had to buy them for so long you forget? Nearly ran out of tabasco last week and in tnis house that is a disaster - there is always 3 or 4 bottles there, what happened?

Definitely don't have enough stuff in stock.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yep !!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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