A New Hampshire mom has over 400 rolls of paper towels in her stockpile.
#Coupon stockpile paper towels full#
Again, you’re buying what you can reasonably store and use, knowing you won’t pay full price again for that product for quite some time. Coupon-obsessed shoppers go to extremes to save money and amass huge stockpiles. This works especially well for canned foods and items with long shelf lives, too. They won’t expire, so I bought as many as we had room to store.Īnytime an exceptional sale comes around, when prices dip to ridiculously cheap, I’ll buy as much as our household can use before that item expires. Those paper towels are currently stashed on a shelf in our garage. I am not likely to buy paper towels again for more than a year. I ultimately spent $12 on $64 worth of paper towels. But the average roll usually sells for about $1 on sale with a coupon. Yes, 64 rolls of paper towels do take up a lot of space. So, I gathered up my coupons and bought eight eight-roll packs. That worked out to about 19 cents per roll! It was the kind of sale I knew I would likely not see again anytime soon. By stacking a store and manufacturer coupon and taking advantage of a money-back store promotion, I took home eight-roll packs of paper towels for $1.50 each. As long as I have the space in the house or garage, I’ll buy just about as much as I can store and use.Īlmost nine months ago, I came across a great deal on paper towels. But what about those mega stock-ups, when you come across a wonderful sale where things are ridiculously cheap? Do the guidelines go out the window?įor me, any time something is at an extremely low price and is a truly nonperishable item (paper products and cleaners especially) I will stock up beyond the typical 12-weeks’ worth of that item. When we stockpile, we typically buy what our household will use during the next twelve weeks - statistically speaking, the sale prices will cycle around again at that point and we can go buy more at a very inexpensive price. One, I can absolutely relate to having several years’ worth of laundry detergent in the house! Two, while it’s never fun to have a favorite product taken off the market, there certainly are times as shoppers when we’re less aware of brands and product varieties coming and going, simply because we’re “shopping at home” from what we’ve stocked up on. This e-mail from a column reader made me smile for several reasons. I do dread looking for a new brand, but if I hadn’t stockpiled, I would have been without my favorite brand long ago. I couldn’t find any Yes on the shelf so I called the manufacturer and found out that it was discontinued - in November of 2007! That’s how long it’s been since I last bought detergent. It hasn’t been on sale in a long while, so I looked at the store to see the current price. Last month I saw that I was down to 5 packages of Yes. I only buy on sale and I had a lot in the garage. I must tell you about my experience with Yes detergent.
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