What are your goals for stockpiling?

[tinabohio]

My goal is to make my life easier! I have enough of certain things for YEARS (like toothbrushes, toothpaste, bodywash, shampoo/conditioner/stylers, soap, hand soap, dish soap, dishwasher detergent, TP, cleaners), and not enough of others (rice, pasta sauce for when I am lazy, other food items like dried beans, peanut butter and laundry detergent).
I have learned so much from this site and am learning more everyday, I just need to get on this more and get my goals a little more clear in my noggin!
I need to reorganize, but we are doing some remodeling and stuff is torn up, so it's tough. I need to keep up with my lists of what we have and scratch off what got used!
I want to get good enough to be able to cut the grocery bill more significantly and be able to divert some of that money into stuff for the kids (clothes and such), and some to saving.

[doulas3babes]

I just went and reread what I posted almost a year ago on my goals! LOL

Pretty much nothing has changed other than the fact that I am still plugging away at doing the same things and continuing to build my stockpile every day as well as heavily donating to diff. organizations and heavily giving to family and friends.

[loladooder99]

Well my goal when i started stockpiling 6-8 months ago was to have a backup if something went wrong and to save money. Well now im really broke and I can't afford to even buy groceries. Thank god I spent my tax return on food. keep in mind I spent it on food that was a great deal. Love this website. i didn't even know about stockpiling before this site.

[oregon]

I used to coupon and stockpile like crazy. Then I lost my job. I didn't need to grocery shop for HBA, meats, or staples for almost a year. My stockpile really saw us through some tough times. I only needed to shop for dairy items which I bought at incredible deals. I used the staples to make things from scratch because I couldn't afford to buy pre-packaged anything unless it was free.

I got really busy with other things and forgot to "get back to it" when things turned around for us. Things got really tough for us when another set back came.

Now that we are both employed again, I am determined to re-build the original stockpile even better than before.

The amazing thing is that I am saving so much more money than ever before doing this (I've only been serious for a month). HCW didn't exist back when I built the original stockpile. Wish I would have known then what I know now. I could have stockpiled some cash too, LOL.

[Ggbwg]

My goals for now are:
To not run out of space
To clean out areas to make more space, lol
Stock up on more food items instead of HBA stuff.

[loladooder99]

Originally Posted by oregon I used to coupon and stockpile like crazy. Then I lost my job. I didn't need to grocery shop for HBA, meats, or staples for almost a year. My stockpile really saw us through some tough times. I only needed to shop for dairy items which I bought at incredible deals. I used the staples to make things from scratch because I couldn't afford to buy pre-packaged anything unless it was free. I got really busy with other things and forgot to "get back to it" when things turned around for us. Things got really tough for us when another set back came. Now that we are both employed again, I am determined to re-build the original stockpile even better than before. The amazing thing is that I am saving so much more money than ever before doing this (I've only been serious for a month). HCW didn't exist back when I built the original stockpile. Wish I would have known then what I know now. I could have stockpiled some cash too, LOL.

Good for you. I started stockpiling and it took me less than 4 months to get a huge one built with killer deals. Now I too am broke and making everything from scratch. And on top of that I gotta move all that stuff 1,200 miles because I wont be able to buy anything once I get there. Keeping up the cook from scratch method is always a good thing.

[KristieGK]

Living so far out in the county my main goals are to have at least some, and then some more, of everything we use and need- to a certain extent.

Before I started stockpiling I was always and forever hearing things like, "Mom, we are out of trash bags!" or, "Mom, we are out of light bulbs!" Because like most people I know I bought ONE at a time. Waited until we ran out before buying another.

It got so I was driving to town all the time for one of this and one of that so often simply because I had no spreadsheet, no plans, and kept forgetting this or that when I did go to town. To live so far from town and forget a couple of essentials is a PITA! lol

So now I stockpile HBA enough for a year +, cleaning supplies at least 6 months, food a year +, and now I also stockpile those trash bags, at least enough to last 8 months or so, the same for light bulbs, and even coffee filters!
Anything and everything we use on a regular basis but never gave much thought to before.

[anaj06]

My goal is to not go quite so overboard. I have stuff in too many corners. I am going to sell a massive amount of my stockpile this summer at my yard sale and then I don't plan on buying HBA stuff unless it is what we actually use...or it is a MM (or free and I mean free without tax even). I am going to use a big bin in the garage for the MM stuff that we will never use and sell it at next summer's yard sale.

As far as food; I want to be healthier. I think my husband and I have gained weight because of my stockpile. If it is in there we eat it; if it weren't there we wouldn't.

[cpanders]

I may have responded to this already but because the answer has likely changed now that I am almost half a year into it.

I am stockpiling so I can avoid grocery shopping. I'd love to only shop every other week, but currently we don't have a deep freeze and need to shop every week in order to have freezer space (frozen veggies, TV dinners for my husbands lunches, and morning star farms stuff for me). We plan to get a deep freeze in October, after Hurricane Season.

However I have found that my stockpile has greatly reduced the number of trips to Sam's Club (which we never could walk out of without spending atlesat $100). I have gotten lots of free stuff at CVS (shampoo, body wash, pain killers, toothpaste) and it is so awesome to get stuff free. I'm excited to continue stockpiling and to learn from the masters. :)

[meems]

My goal is to feed my crack headed like addiction to the high of a deal..in the meantime, I supply 4 famlies, donate a bag a week & have 2 huge garage sales a yr..might have to up that to 3, I do great, but my location is terrible.