Irrational Household obssessions

[onenameshelley]

That Savage Henry is a weird one...he'll be glad of your foresight when you can't get loo rolls for love nor money. You can point and laugh at him when he's reduced to stockpiling old leaves and bits of newspaper.

exactly

 

[vipper]

I'm exactly the same. I have to force myself when out shopping not to buy a couple of tins of butter beans/tuna/tomatoes etc etc "just in case". I also seem to have a bit of a chutney obsession - we must have at least ten different kinds at the moment.

This I can relate to. An obsession with sauces is not weird. It is normal. The Isle of Wight Garlic Farm Vampire Extreme Chilli and Plum sauce I bought last weekend is absolutely necessary in my kitchen.

I often forget that I have lots of something and buy them out of habit. Then I twig that there are 73 tins of tomatos in the cupboard and stop buying them. Then I run out and fail repeatedly to buy anymore for weeks on end. It's a vicious circle.

 

[Space Girl]

stock cubes, have hundreds of the buggers, bin bags and dishwasher tabs, keep on buying them each shop and how have loads, more than a years supply I reckon I also have a huge collection of tupawear and sharp kitchen knives, see them, buy them, can't have too many I thinks

 

[butterfly child]

I've got a thing about toilet rolls too, it really winds me up if my husband only picks up FOUR when we go shopping...

I like to have loads spare - the cupboard in the downstairs toilet has to be full (that's six) and the toilet roll holder in the bathroom (three) PLUS there needs to be some in the cupboard in the bathroom too (big enough for 20!)

My husbands thing is kitchen roll, I thought we had run out yesterday, then found four on top of the cupboard.

Soft drinks? Don't get me started on them...!

 

[Termite Man]

You can point and laugh at him when he's reduced to stockpiling old leaves and bits of newspaper.

Thats what free newspapers are for ! When I shared a flat with subversplat the only time we would buy loo roll is on the way home from the pub at the 24 hour garage ( if we remembered ) otherwise we just used the local free newspaper !

 

[spanglechick]

savage henry, that is rank.

i don't stockple anything as such, but monkeygrinder is used to going to sainsburys at least once a day, and as such, is resistant to buying in quantities of anything other than "one".

Buying in bulk makes economical sense.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I have this horrible unbidden image of Savage Henry bearing mirror image newsprint headlines on his backside.

*shudders*

 

[Pieface]

I always try to make sure that I've got beer and wine in the house for visitors and would never run out of what you need for tea and coffe.

this is so sweet!

I don't stockpile anything. Our cupboards and fridge aren't totally empty but they are certainly not full. Apart from craft club jam, I have loads of craft club jam. I like making it but it appears we don't actually eat it.

 

[felixthecat]

Tins. My house is full of tins. Chopped tomatoes, kidney beans, baked beans etc. I currently have 15 loo rolls in the house.

Yep. I could probably feed the family for a couple of weeks on tins alone. Kidney beans, chickpeas, butterbeans, baked beans, tuna, chopped tomatoes.........you name it.

I currently have a new pack of 24 toilet rolls, which makes me very happy.

 

[spoone]

I'll bet that if this question was asked on the drug forum, or the general forum, there would be far far less stockpiling and concern about being able to feed guests.

I heart Suburban

i'm sure there'd be stockpiling on the df just not of food

 

[Termite Man]

savage henry, that is rank.

It's recycling the paper though !

anyway we rarely had to do it since going to the pub was a regular occurence and running out of toilet paper was quite rare ( I made sure I went at work to save money ) .

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I stock plie beers in the fridge. I tend to get a little twitchy when I'm down to the last four cans - Especially if we've got friends over.

 

[symbiosis]

Actually I am now quite reassured - I thought it was just me !

My thing is pasta - all shapes and sizes. You can rustle anything up if you've got some pasta in the cupboard.

hubby now takes the micky out of me everytime we go shopping. 'are you sure we don't need any twirls, penne, macaroni etc' lol

 

[Choc]

i like to have full shelves as well. i tend to overbuy really

also i have to mob the floors quite often...

 

[onenameshelley]

Thats what free newspapers are for ! When I shared a flat with subversplat the only time we would buy loo roll is on the way home from the pub at the 24 hour garage ( if we remembered ) otherwise we just used the local free newspaper !

gross thank god i got to you in time

 

[onenameshelley]

The cabbage wants everyone to know that to keep me happy (we were down to six rolls! ) he went out and bought 16 rolls today

Who said you cant train the one you love

 

[EastEnder]

also i have to mob the floors quite often...

I never realised your floors were so popular.....

 

[pogofish]

People often comment on the small mountain of bog rolls in the corner of my bog & laugh. Few ever see the even bigger pile in the corner of another room. I have had folk call me up in the middle of the night, asking me to help them out with a roll when they have run out!

Don't have my gran's nuke-winter approach to food stocpiles but I do have a good few week worth of dried/tinned goods laid-by. Very useful fall back when money is tight.

Also coffee, lots of sealed packs of coffee.