Sometimes you have to TALK to people! LOL!

**Cricketlegs** · 10-19-2008, 11:54 PM

This evening I was in my sewing room doing something....oh yeah I was feeding the cats!

Anyway my dh gets up from the bed in my room where he was watching tv and comes into the room with me.

He says"So all this is just suposed to stay here(I have a tiny stockpile at this point but he seems impressed with it)for a year?" with a funny look one his face.

LOL!

I said "No, if you need something and it isn't in the PANTRY just pull one from here, from the FRONT, because of the dates. The food is for us to eat, we don't have to wait."

LOL

Sometimes you have to talk to people and not assume they understand what you are doing.

Poor man, I guess he thought I was planning on starving him with a mountain of food in my sewing room!

So I ask, what does your other think of your stockpile? Does he understand what and why you are stocking? Does he care? Is he or she impressed by it?

My dh's comment--"The dogs are doing better than us." said while looking at 7 17lb bags of dog food and my pretty empty shelves.

He is supportive though and always is so when I get it really going he will see all the benefits to support my endeavor.

So funny that man'o'mine!

Personally I think he would love for me to get the 12-16 bags of pads out of his bathroom!

He loves the HBA stockpile and took my step dd into his bathroom to see it!

**pop goes the weasel** · 10-20-2008, 06:55 AM

For the life of me I can't get a stockpile of anything. Just when I think I can stock up something comes up to use that extra five or ten dollars. I have a 14 year old sd that thinks toilet paper grows ontree ( no pun intended) so if Ihave extra I have to put it out of sight. Or anything that I do manage to get ahead she thinks that just because it's there it has to be eaten. We've tried explaining that it's there so we have it but she says she doesn't care.I've gotten to the point that I have to put any extra cereal in a designated spot so she thinks it's her dad's and won't eat it. I have a very small kitchen with one food cupboard. Although we have just finished a shed so I can get the basement cleaned out and fill the little back room with stuff. I have tried coupons and looking at different stores but we only have 2 stores and any different ones are an hour away. Ah hopefully I can do better.

**joyofsix** · 10-20-2008, 07:18 AM

Um, I'm not sure he even knows it's there, LOL. I just refer to it as the pantry so I guess he just figures its our food

**freebs** · 10-20-2008, 07:24 AM

Mine loves our stockpile, stockpiling for us isnt anything new, we hvae been stockpilers for about 10 years. I have an overflowing pantry, 2 freezers full plus the fridge freezer full, lots of tp and paper towels left that i got free 10+ years ago. now i need to improve on the shampoo stockpile. I sure hope i run into a great deal on can goods again! Good luck on getting all your stockpile going!

ETA: too bad you didnt think about starting your stockpile when brookshires and super1 sold all of there hytop items 50% off since they werent going to carry that brand anymore. I got $3000 worth of stuff for just over $1000. I even got gallon cans of fruit for $1.50 a gallon!

**WV_mom_of2** · 10-20-2008, 08:31 AM

My dh is impressed with my stockpile, but doesn't really say much about it. When I finally got the big bookshelf in my kitchen cleared off and all my canned stockpile on it where you could see it all together in one place he was wowed!

He knows if he can find a food it's ok to eat it LOL. If I had something I didn't want eaten I'd hide it! And I do sometimes have to hide chocolate to keep him from eating it all and to be sure I have it when PMS hits!

**Cricketlegs** · 10-20-2008, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by freebs

Mine loves our stockpile, stockpiling for us isnt anything new, we hvae been stockpilers for about 10 years. I have an overflowing pantry, 2 freezers full plus the fridge freezer full, lots of tp and paper towels left that i got free 10+ years ago. now i need to improve on the shampoo stockpile. I sure hope i run into a great deal on can goods again! Good luck on getting all your stockpile going!

ETA: too bad you didnt think about starting your stockpile when brookshires and super1 sold all of there hytop items 50% off since they werent going to carry that brand anymore. I got $3000 worth of stuff for just over $1000. I even got gallon cans of fruit for $1.50 a gallon!

I do remember when all that was happening and I did talk to my sister about it being phased out.

I wouldn't have had the place or the time or maybe the money then I can see how it really was a wasted oppitunity.

I am glad you were able to benefit though!

**Cricketlegs** · 10-20-2008, 10:00 AM

I think having my stockpile in my sewing room (back bedroom once upon a time) and not near the pantry-- utilityroom at the other end of the house will help with the sticky fingers.

I told them--pantry FIRST then stockpile. My dds(only one at home at this point) will ask first and probably my dh too.

Besides, It is okay, the cats are guarding it lol!

**HappyMama** · 10-20-2008, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by freebs

Mine loves our stockpile, stockpiling for us isnt anything new, we hvae been stockpilers for about 10 years. I have an overflowing pantry, 2 freezers full plus the fridge freezer full, lots of tp and paper towels left that i got free 10+ years ago. now i need to improve on the shampoo stockpile. I sure hope i run into a great deal on can goods again! Good luck on getting all your stockpile going!

ETA: too bad you didnt think about starting your stockpile when brookshires and super1 sold all of there hytop items 50% off since they werent going to carry that brand anymore. I got $3000 worth of stuff for just over $1000. I even got gallon cans of fruit for $1.50 a gallon!

Stockpiling is nothing new to me either , I love shopping my pantry compared to the stores. I cook from scratch and want the best ingredients so buy in bulk ( mostly organic saves me tons) but I do loss leaders, coupons etc . for things I will use I just got 20 bags jasmine rice free with my wine tags and a bag of free apples . With that said my DH is use to it now but at first he use to say " where are we going to put it?" Or his famous "we'll take two that should last us.!!! " Now that he has seen us save thousands over the years ( and I mean literally) I know you would understand that freebs....lol he says we'll take 3 cases, he asks for rain checks, will use coupons and is an expert now...lol I have had at least three guys from his work call and ask for homemade recipes, for me to bake them things and they would pay me, where to buy bulk organics and how to stock up..Pretty funny!!

**Jerseygirl** · 10-22-2008, 02:30 PM

John says I'm obsessed. He totally gets the concept and sees the results, he just has issues with visual clutter so I have to keep 90% of it in the basement out of sight. Problem is that kids clothes stockpile (about 20 large keeper boxes, we are foster parents and rotate a lot of it through midnight drop offs that come with nothing but the clothes on their backs) and the food, paper, cleaning and hba stockpile, along with laundry area and gift closet are all in my tiny basement and it is quickly becoming a fire hazard. Gotta take the good with the bad.

**brenda67** · 10-22-2008, 03:37 PM

My dh brags to his family/co-workers about my good deals combining coupons with sale items and getting ton's of stuff for free that I use/add to my stockpile.. My other family member's including my bil whom never hardly saids anything to me (he's 16yrs older ) has bragged to other people at his job about me and the only reason I know that is because his wife has told me so..I was quite shocked needless to say..LOL.. But..I remember a time when my dh was gonna leave me because I had become to obsessed with stockpiling and putting my stash anywhere I could in this trailer (where we live now) and the clutter was taking most of our tiny living space..I had to stop myself from freaking out on him..never really thinking that I was making my family miserable with my obsession with food..I thought I was the Queen Wife/Mother saving my family all this money and having lots of food,medicine,hba's ect.....I had to come to a happy medium with myself and started a mini store in my mil's basement (with her permission of coarse)where I share my deals with them and try not to go overboard when I get things for free..Overall most people think I'm crazy like my co-worker's but their the one's whom live paycheck to paycheck and don't want any advice from me btdt..then there is my family who call me the CouponQueen which the name fit's me to a tee and they are very proud of me..

**Squirt** · 10-22-2008, 03:39 PM

I don't have a "real" stockpile. I do, however, have reserves at the very least. My dbf and his roommate tend to run out of toothpaste (among other things) and we end up squeezing at that empty tube for days before dbf buys another one or I bring one over. I told him that if we are ever inhabiting the same house, I'll have at least 3 tubes of toothpaste. When you run out of one, you get another, and that's when it's time to buy more. You still have an extra in case you don't replenish for some reason. I know this is simple reasoning for everyone here and isn't really stockpiling, but it was something that boy just didn't have a grasp of. I didn't expect him to apply this to himself, because he doesn't tend to do things like that, but much to my surprise I saw extra toothpaste in his cabinet soon after that! He has also magically started doing this with loaves of bread (in the freezer, even) and hamburger meat. I'm flat out amazed. I didn't think he had it in him. There is hope.

**hippytreehugger4ever** · 10-22-2008, 04:03 PM

I'm stockpiling as much as I can without DH whining and moaning about all of it. For some reason Saturday night when I went shopping I got some dirty looks LMAO. Maybe it's because the contents of my cart were:

9 bottles dish soap
13-4 packs of yogurt
1 anema for DH (he's been having some tummy problems, I know, TMI!)

Yeah, I can see why that looked a little wierd, oh well :-p

**Squirt** · 10-22-2008, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by hippytreehugger4ever

I'm stockpiling as much as I can without DH whining and moaning about all of it. For some reason Saturday night when I went shopping I got some dirty looks LMAO. Maybe it's because the contents of my cart were:

9 bottles dish soap
13-4 packs of yogurt
1 anema for DH (he's been having some tummy problems, I know, TMI!)

Yeah, I can see why that looked a little wierd, oh well :-p

Now that's funny!

Reminds me of the first Activia commercials with Jamie Lee Curtis and that weird hand gesture she would do over her tummy to indicate "getting things moving."

Are you going to administer the dish soap by stomach tube, or will it be going in the other end? Lol.

**Cricketlegs** · 10-22-2008, 05:18 PM

Ohhh the things I could post......

**itlw8** · 10-27-2008, 10:00 AM

I have always kept a large pantry though mostly canned goods. so the shelves of cereal threw dh but he got used to it and shops the storage area now

BUT the free shampoo was a bit much I had not put it away and pert is not our regular brand I found it all lined up on the bath tub one morning....
The shampoo has now made it to storage and I pass up any that do not come out to almost free.

I have also learned we can not resist so foods and eat far too much if they are on hand.... my 10 cent candy bars... the pringles all went way to fast. no matter how cheap.