What was your first stockpile item?

[love2cook]

I have not done any stockpiling yet - but after reading all of your posts, I want to! Wow - I got to watch for stuff on sale that I have coupons for! I am still fairly new to all of this! :Wave:

[Deb53092]

Venus disposable razors...... they are everywhere!! Closets and in the attic and drawers .

[faeryedark]

Shampoo, cond. lots of hba stuff and laundry detergent... all started a couple of years ago when my local Giant had $2 bag sales "bent and dent" and clearanced stuff. They'd set out pallets of stuff all sorts from dog food to make-up to whatever alot of it was things that had packageing changes or had to be taped up because someone got overzealous with a box cutter or they were a couple of months from expiring. As much as you could stuff in a bag for $2! I can stuff alot. I walked out with diapers, wipes, laundry detergent, dog food, Giardelli chocolate,kool-aid (a couple hundred packs) and much much more. I made a ton of gift baskets, donated alot of the koool-aid to my church and head-start and still had a ton of stuff.
I miss those days!

[mrsjschultz]

60 cans of Progresso soup...maybe more, as that's just a guess, LOL.

It was last winter when the B1G1 Free Progresso Soup Printable came out. I printed them out EVERYWHERE. School, work, home, friends, family, you name it, I printed it! When I went into the grocery store several times that week I ended up getting ALL the cans were FREE with how the sale was running (except for tax of course).

I was so excited - I was definately hooked at that point!

[kost]

For me, it was dove shampoo last September or October? got 12 bottles free. After that Carefree, Kotex, Pantene, Softsoap...free

This summer I got 40 boxes of cereals for 37.5c/box+ free milk. Had to stop because ran of space in the refrigerator. I can't imagine one year ago, I paid $3.79 full price for one box of cereals.

[erwash]

Mine was in 2005, I think, at Albertsons. I saw Kikkoman Pearl organic soymilk on sale for $1...and there were $1 off peelies on the box. It was an awesome feeling to walk out of the store with 10 boxes for free! :)

[berlinsmommy]

Mine was in either 1993 or 1994, yikes!! My mom is a teacher and had these samples of Carefree pantiliners. She gave me a bag ful to use but I discovered they had a coupon in each one. I cannot remember the value. I didn't think much of it but then our grocery store had triple coupons making them free. I bought tons. I don't remember how many but when I moved into my current house in October 2000, I still had some. I wasn't a heavy couponer then, I was in college and would occasionally clip coupons out of the paper or get them from my mom. I still have my recipe box coupon organizer from back then, what a JOKE!!

My first "I'm a serious couponer, I started trading", etc. deal was GUM toothbrushes. I'll bet a lot of newbies started with them. I got like 60. I think that was in 2002. I believe anothershopper (who is still here) sent me the coupons.

[Trish6103]

My stockpile so far consists of 2 Adidas deodorants and a tube of Colgate from CVS. :)

[CraazzyMom]

I guess it would depend on how many items are considered a stockpile ;)

I just got started 6 weeks ago. I got in on the Clean Team wipes deal and started stockpiling Johnson's Buddie bars at the same time. :)

[chanfu]

Mine was tampons last fall. Back in November, they had insert coupons for $2.50/1 Playtex Sport Tampons. Walgreens had them on sale for 2 for $6, making them 50¢ each, plus you got a catalina for a free box of Tampax Pearl Tampons with every box you bought. Plus there was a TMF for Playtex Sport! This was an offer that just kept on giving.

A few months later, Walgreens had a RR for $10 OYNO when you bought a big box of Kotex tampons, and they put them on sale for $10, making them free. Also, several different months they had an ESR that made Kotex tampons free (buy $10 worth, get a $10 gift card).

I now most likely have enough tampons to get me to menopause (considering I'm 47, this is probably literally true)!