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Storing Your Stockpile

How do you store your stockpile? Good storage of your stockpile allows you to take advantage of great deals without having your house overwhelmed with cereal boxes falling from the top of the fridge or soup cans falling on your foot. I’m always curious as to how people store their stockpiles. Does your stockpile have its own designated space or do you just fit things in where you can? We struggled with our stockpile for a bit before we found a solution that works for us. Here in Pennsylvania, I am about and hour-and-a-half from Lancaster and Amish country. The … Continue reading →

Adventures of the Stockpiling Queen (2)

In Adventures of the Stockpiling Queen (1), I shared “how a desire to save money and be prepared for anything creates a kingdom onto itself.” If you answered yes to the questions I asked, you, too, may be stockpiling royalty. I also shared the one thing that I keep hidden from my husband. Read on for the rest of my stockpiling adventures, including the reasons I stockpile… Stocking up also gives me a sense of security. I can whip up pretty much anything anyone wants for dinner, even if unexpected company drops by. Sure when they go to hang their … Continue reading →

Adventures of the Stockpiling Queen (1)

This blog is about how a desire to save money and be prepared for anything creates a kingdom onto itself. Are you stock-up royalty? Take this test: Do you have at least a six-month supply of shampoo? Are you still getting through the extra toilet paper you bought for Y2K? If the neighbor came over to borrow a cup of sugar, could you oblige? What about 5 pounds of sugar? What about the entire makings for a cake that serves three hundred? If you answered yes to the above questions, then congratulations my friend. By the power vested in me … Continue reading →

8 Practical Stockpiling Tips: Save Money!

Practical tip 1: Buy up “loss leaders.” Grocery stores entice you into the store by offering a few items at ridiculously cheap prices. These items are generally on the front page and can be seasonal. So when soup is on sale four cans for a dollar, fill your pantry until the next sale. Practical tip 2: Combine coupons with sales. Ask friends and neighbors to save their coupon inserts for you, buy extra Sunday newspapers, or make friends with the local convenience store, all great sources for lots of coupons. When instant oatmeal went on sale at 1.00 each, I … Continue reading →

Don’t Waste Money on Expired Products!

Saturday afternoon, we had a long overdue trip to the local warehouse store for our bulk purchases. Among the items that we bought was bulk yeast, since I make a lot of bread from scratch. The yeast comes in two cakes, and a cake can last me for the good part of a year. I freeze one cake and keep the other one in an airtight container at the back of the fridge. My yeast has always been good yeast, happily chomping away at the sugar and starches in the dough and giving me nice airy loafs. Well, unfortunately for … Continue reading →

Free Sample Stockpile: Creative Uses

I love getting free samples wherever I can. In an earlier blog, Top Places for Free Samples, I listed the best sources for everything from shampoo to coloring books. But now that you have all of those great freebie samples, what do you do with them? Well, here are some of the ways I use up my free sample stockpile. My favorite way to use free samples is by creating my own custom travel kits. I have a kit for my husband and myself, one for my older two children and one for the baby. The sample sizes are perfect … Continue reading →