Poll of the Day > Bulk shopping

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Whenever a new comic featuring the gay Superman drops I make sure to buy triples and every variant cover + one to read and one to display (if need be)

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Would love to get some of that in bulk, if you catch my drift

pretty much everything on your list i buy in bulk, especially if its on sale or something. like meats i'll buy a ton of it on sale, and just freeze it to use for the next year. i even have one of those vacuum sealers to make sure that my meats and stuff don't get freezer-burnt.

the only things i don't buy bulk are things that go bad quickly, so like fruits/veggies, yogurt, and stuff like that. i'm also that person at the store who has dozens of coupons every time, because i was raised to be super frugal and always live way below my means, so bulk shopping + coupons seems like the way to go.

We usually get paper products, frozen fruit, some fresh veggies/fruit (depending on what's available, lettuce and celery being staples), sandwich meats/cheeses, some cleaning products, and a few pantry items like cereal and chocolate chips from Costco, some toiletries/pharmaceuticals, along with a few other things where the bulk quantities won't spoil and are more cost-efficient than a regular grocery store. We also go to a bulk food store (Bulk Barn, which I believe is only in Canada) for spices, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, and a couple other dry goods. It would probably be more cost-efficient to get stuff like flour and sugar from one of those places instead of the regular grocery store, but I find that grocery store bags are a good size for our cupboards and I don't spend all that much on them in the long run anyway, so I'm fine with that bit of inefficiency.

Notably, I'd like to get meat from Costco, but we just don't have the freezer space for it, and there's no way we could go through it fast enough without freezing.

Canned products and boxed/bagged dry products.

None. I barely shop for that sort of thing at all.

BucketCat posted...

pretty much everything on your list i buy in bulk, especially if its on sale or something. like meats i'll buy a ton of it on sale, and just freeze it to use for the next year. i even have one of those vacuum sealers to make sure that my meats and stuff don't get freezer-burnt.

the only things i don't buy bulk are things that go bad quickly, so like fruits/veggies, yogurt, and stuff like that. i'm also that person at the store who has dozens of coupons every time, because i was raised to be super frugal and always live way below my means, so bulk shopping + coupons seems like the way to go.

Me too when I catch a sale or have coupons which is rare for me LOL

All one needs at Costco is a rotisserie chicken and a bucket of cheese balls

Bulk TP lasts years. Or less if you're wasteful, I guess.

Meat.

Entity13 posted...

Bulk TP lasts years. Or less if you're wasteful, I guess.

I bought one package from Sam's Club in March 2022. I'll need to buy another package before Christmas.

captpackrat posted...

I bought one package from Sam's Club in March 2022. I'll need to buy another package before Christmas.

For how many people?

Entity13 posted...

For how many people?

Just me. I think it's 5 packages of 9 rolls, so 45 rolls total. I've got 6 rolls left, plus most of one on the holder.

captpackrat posted...

Just me. I think it's 5 packages of 9 rolls, so 45 rolls total. I've got 6 rolls left, plus most of one on the holder.

Over 38 rolls in 20 months. Or one roll in just over two weeks. That's not terrible. Your 45 rolls will have lasted one month shy of 2+ years.

monster energy drink, I buy 30 at a time and space them out over some weeks.

I buy 10 bales of hay at a time, does that count and buying in bulk? It completely fills the back of a Ford Expedition with all the seats down.