Why stock pile

[Wendy1985]

Hurricanes I understand and snow stromes I understand, Otherwise I fail to understand the reasoning behind stock pilling, and why bring your entire family reports of wall to wall people, single parents are the exception, or if you have a elderly family member that cant be home alone

 

[RamblingMad]

I still can't wrap my head around the TP hoarding.

 

[OneOftheB's]

Idk about stockpiling, but I tend to buy items in bulk because I can store more than the average person (we built a second pantry in our basement). More than to stockpile or hoard for a situation, I find it very convenient to be able to go to the freezer or pantry and find items I need for dinner that I may have forgotten to purchase, or because a meal didn't stretch as far as I thought or changed my mind to make something else as well as to save money. Case in point: last week my grocery had an unadvertised special on pork loins, BOGO, so I bought two, one for last week and one for the freezer. In a few weeks when we want bbq or pork medallions, I'm covered at 1/2 the price.

 

[Denise W]

Hurricanes I understand and snow atromes I understand, Otherwise I fail to understand the reasoning behind stock pilling, and why bring your entire family reports of wall to wall people, single parents are the exception, or if you have a elderly family member that cant be home alone

Do you mean snow *storms* or something else? I am stocking up on some of the things I was unable to get during March and April.
Denise

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Hurricanes I understand and snow atromes I understand, Otherwise I fail to understand the reasoning behind stock pilling, and why bring your entire family reports of wall to wall people, single parents are the exception, or if you have a elderly family member that cant be home alone

Mostly because many people who never learned the skills of stocking up for snow/tornados/etc panicked when told things were going to be in short supply at the start of the pandemic and just bought whatever they thought they'd need in the next XX number of months. As it turns out, things were not really as dire as that.

And, sadly, it looks like it's going to start again.

 

[Wendy1985]

Do you mean snow *storms* or something else? I am stocking up on some of the things I was unable to get during March and April.
Denise

Yes sorry I thought I cought all my typos

 

[Kitty 34]

I'm kind of thinking there's a difference between stocking up vs stock piling which stocking UP is what I do heading into winter.

 

[fla4fun]

I am not really stockpiling, but I am buying 3-4 weeks of groceries so I don’t have to go to the store as often. This week I will be picking up Thanksgiving food as well, but then I probably won’t have to grocery shop until mid December. I get some fresh produce and some frozen to have some throughout the period between trips. I buy the big paper towel and TP packages at the wholesale club, and buy a new one when the prior one is about half empty. I don’t have a lot of storage space to stockpile.

 

[luv2sewtjr]

My entire adult life I have made sure to have between 2-4 weeks worth of food available. My reasoning was that my Ex has some dicey job situations a couple times (I was an SAHM at that time) and I figured being able to eat would make me feel better in the time between a job ending and beginning (or unemployment, etc). I switched jobs this summer and went a month between paychecks and I was able to buy the minimum perishable items because we could use the pantry and freezer. Now for the pandemic, if I am out of commission for a while, my kids will be ok.

 

[nw6675]

When the pandemic began I lived in a very rural area that required a long commute to the nearest grocery store. We stocked up because we didn't want to be in quarantine far from resources coupled with limited to no store inventory.

After we moved to civilization where I have Prime Now, Walmart Plus, Instacart, etc. and the availability has returned, we don't buy in large quantities.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We shop for the month, so my family of five requires multiples of some things like canned goods, meats, etc. Toilet paper we always bought 3 multipacks every month because we go through a lot. But the people who were buying enough TP to wipe the butt of every American 5 times over were something else entirely.

 

[Wendy1985]

I understand moor now then when I started the thread, it is unbelievable what is going on with the
Us government I have never seen anything like it

 

[MamaLema]

There is a difference between stockpiling and hoarding. Stockpiling is buying a few items and hoarding is cleaning out the shelf.

I have a DH and 3 adult sons living at home. We don’t eat at restaurants or get takeout unless we’re on vacation. We go through a lot of food, 15 meals a day plus snacks and I love to bake.

 

[starry_solo]

i agree. There is a difference between stockpiling and hoarding. Our family usually buys the large TP when Sams Club is on sale, once a year, two to three max (for the discount), I think we had just bought our yearly allotment when COVID hit. Another friend invited me to a Costco with her so I went. Tried their Kirkland TP (on the last set of six, thankfully cuz it’s not as soft as a Members Mark). We still have the MM to fall back on.

but TP supplies are still plentiful at the local Target and Safeway (Vons)

 

[chickapin parterre]

Religon.....then came the Great Depression, followed by WW2....those that stockpiled came thru...those who did not waited in lines...winter of 1973 I had to wait for hours in the morning darkness to fill the family car with rationed gas. Still haunts my wife, car is never below half tank. 2000 electronics failures made sense....we all dove in head first into the technology without any attention to the sign.....DO NOT DIVE!! Alas it was ignorance.....2001...ignorance again.... so for more than half of us the terror of going without is still very prevalent. From my grandmother to my inability to purchase prescription durgs spans the generations of family culture that is all about fear of going without.

 

[Chuck S]

I need to stock up on Kleenex. I have plenty TP and paper towels until at least January. Like most, when I nearly run out, I buy the biggest package they have so it lasts a while, mostly because I don't like to shop in big crowds. I get enough crowds at Disney. Also, I usually have about a month's supply of milk, I buy the UHT processed milk, like Parmalat, because it keeps on the shelf, and even after opening it keeps better in the fridge If I buy regular milk, it usually sours before I use up a half gallon. As far as hoarding for the pandemic, I didn't do that.

 

[amcnj]

To me it was kind of like a snow storm situation, where you wanted to make sure supplies were fully stocked. Here in case illness prevented you from going to stores for an extended period of time.

 

[disneychrista]

it is unbelievable what is going on with the Us government I have never seen anything like it

This is ONE case where I am not sure the US Government has anything to do with it.

 

[_19disnA]

There is a difference between stockpiling and hoarding. Stockpiling is buying a few items and hoarding is cleaning out the shelf.

I agree. Hoarding to me is buying an excessive amount of something. Earlier this year when covid first got going, our local grocery stores put reasonable limits on how many of one item you could buy, which made sense. This was to insure there were fewer shortages of common items making more available for everyone. Since we only go to grocery store once a week due to covid, it is sensible to 'plan ahead' so you don't have to shop for one item.

 

[Hikergirl]

I stock up on things I use. I see it as a kind of insurance. If I need something I'll have it and if I don't need it I'll still have it and it will get used.