![]() I live in a community where volunteer service and charitable works are part of the year-round local culture, so a typical family needs to be able and ready to respond to civic club and classroom-hosted donation drives in the first place.My husband makes fun of me sometimes because I use the word “stockpile” so often.īut I can’t emphasize enough the importance of having a well-stocked pantry for successful couponing. Some for six.īut when you hit the goal you wish to provide for your own family, stop. Some people aim for a three month stockpile. I don't have a deep freezer or the pantry space to go beyond that, but that's my comfort zone anyway. I keep about one or two months' worth of groceries and that's fine with me. That being said: make a decision as to what is your inventory point and stick with it. It's also true that having groceries in reserves will help your family get through a tight cash week or month - and many of my local readers have been hit with layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts. The "preparedness" blogs and sites are a good additional resource to the tornado safety / power outage reminder lessons I post every year (Southeast MI / northwest OH is in tornado alley). I support the concept of having some groceries and personal care products in reserves for your family's use. Where do you draw the line between stockpiling and hoarding? It's especially not ok to clear the shelves to get those things just because you can get them free. ![]() It is NOT ok to buy things that you don't need (unless you intend to donate them) just because it gives you a little "high" to get it for free. It is fine to stock up on things in order to save money (Frankly, since I have been stuck paying $1-$1.50 for juice boxes lately, I am wishing that I bought MORE than 100 boxes on that trip). It is fine to buy 30 jars of peanut butter one week if you can get it for $0.16/jar (especially if your family is like mine and you go through 1-2 jars per week). It is fine to buy 12 (or even 20) bottles of body wash one week if you can get it for free or super-cheap AND your family will use it. Even though I have seriously "used down" my stockpile recently, there are probably people who would look at my recent trips to Walgreens and Target, looked at the 12 bottles of Body Wash that I got for free in 2 days and accuse ME of hoarding.įrankly, I am getting sick of people confusing stockpiling with hoarding.they are NOT the same thing. Their homes are downright scary to visit. I know some people who can honestly be called a hoarder. ![]() How can it be considered hoarding when I used them all up? But guess what? Within 8 months, they were all gone. I can guarantee you that if I did that transaction on TLC's Extreme Couponing, people would be screaming about me "hoarding". To anyone watching me in the checkout lane or loading them in to my car, I must have looked crazy. Last year there was a deal at one of my local stores that enabled me to get 10-packs of juice boxes for $0.25 each (with no coupons!). Hoarding is buying things that you know you will never use, just because you can get them for free and then not donating them or giving them to people that can use them because all that free stuff just looks so PRETTY sitting on your shelf. Hoarding is bringing them home, adding them to your pantry where they sit until they have expired. Hoarding is buying things just because you can get them free or super-cheap. Stockpiling is buying things that you will use, preferably at the lowest price possible, in sufficient quantity to hold you over until the next sale and before it will expire. :: What is the difference between stockpiling and hoarding? ![]() The problem is, people are starting to confuse stockpiling and hoarding.and smart shoppers are being accused of hoarding by friends, family, cashiers and even complete strangers in the store. Because they are trying to save as much as possible, I do agree that there are a few people who have been on that show who seem as if couponers ARE hoarding. They are going for maximum savings and not "real-life couponing". If you have watched Extreme Couponing, you will notice that almost every person on that show has said something along the lines of "This is my biggest shopping trip ever!". Since then, so much has changed in the Couponing community and what was once considered a "smart" way of shopping (stockpiling) is now, thanks to TLC's Extreme Couponing show, being called "hoarding". Almost 2 years ago, I wrote a post about Stockpiling vs.
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