if you are thrifty is your house a little cluttered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tend to stock extras of things like toothbrushes and razors. As a kid we never had something like an extra toothbrush in the house. You had to wait until yours was all used up and thrown out before you could go out and get another one. So it makes me feel very prepared knowing that whenever I want a new toothbrush (or run out of lotion or contact solution or whatever) I always have a new one waiting in the wings.

Toilet paper, I just need a buffer of a few rolls at a time.

YEah never know when first will need toothbrush. And we have had more than one kid drop toothbrush in wastebasket as we are getting ready for bed. Maybe need lideed wastebaskets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Hardly anyone is using the term hoarding, but it would describe some of you pretty well.

If you don't see yourself as a hoarder, please pay attention to the feelings of those living with you, regarding the amount and organization of stuff in your home. Or the reaction of your friends and family when they come to visit.

Yup. Sounds like hoarding to me.

Im thrifty because I'm a minimalist. I don't bring crap into the house we don't need just because its on sale. I'm certainly not going to store a box of junky valentines for a year just because they were a dollar. On valentines I will ask my children what they want to do and either buy them for $5 (OH MY GOD!) or they will make them like my 7yr old elected to do this year.

If i needed to i could have my house ready for sale with only a weekends notice. Guaranteed my minimal lifestyles is way easier and way more thrifty than the lady up thread whose running around stuffing a dozen totes with clearance items.

See now I don't think this lifestyle is more thrifty. You are confusing buying things on clearance you know you'll use rather than just buying to buy. If I'm buying Things both our families use, but I buy more of it when I get it cheaper than you, then at the ending a year, it 5 yeArs or 10, I will have saved more than you from this aspect alone.