Life since 2020-Did you purge or stock-up and hoard things?

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I have a “good hoard” in that I spent about 5 years on one of those fashion subscription boxes when I lost a ton of weight. I just stopped it this year.

My son’s new wife is in the visa process to come here maybe 2027 (?) and she’s a war refugee from a very hot climate and they still currently live in a hot climate. She has nothing for a northern climate.

My closets basically look like I ransacked LLBean at gunpoint and I have all the stuff

“I said, you don’t need to worry, I got you”

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a hoarder or prepper in a doomsday sense. I do however find I hate leaving the house so when I go to the grocery store, I buy more then I need at the moment for the sake not having to go back in three days time. Before, I kept very little on hand and went shopping two or three times a week. Now it’s once every 7-10 days.

Same. I used to go almost every day. Do you go 7-10 days without leaving the house at all?

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Anonymous wrote:Make space in your home for girl scout cookie season is almost here

😂🤣

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was sick recently and wore a mask to school for a few days. He used up our last precious masks.

Guess I need to buy more.

You have a thoughtful kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a minimalist until I moved into a house, then I basically turned into a low key hoarder. Then I inherited the contents of my mom’s vacation home, she and my stepdad were high-end hoards to the point where their place looked like a TGI Friday’s with all the stuff on the walls, the linens for 5 bedrooms, stuff.

I’m getting better at curating it all. I manage to put together 6 boxes or so of stuff every month for the charity pickups.

And a flash flood to our basement pretty much solved the contents on that floor. Lost everything there except for what I’d presciently kept in sealed Rubbermaid bins.

An estate sale might have been a good idea that way you make money and declutter. Two for one.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve always been a food hoarder, brought on by sketchy access to it growing up.

Like 15 years ago I really surpassed myself and ordered one of those year’s supply of emergency food things. Giant buckets of rice, grains, sugar, beans. Like 150 #10 cans of everything non-perishable you could come up with. A whole load of stuff.

Good news is that I still actually use it all. I mill my own flour and make pots of plain rice and oats every week to mix in with my dogs food and sometimes eat myself.

I keep stocks of everything, though. Soap, garbage and plastic bags, toilet paper, paper towels, coffee. I order a lot online so it’s often a case of something at a time.

I have a metric ton of candy due to the case at a time thing. I’m really bad. I want one candy bar, eat it, and end up with 23 left that I’m not in the mood for for months.

Is the rice and flour still good after 15 years I thought flour only lasted a few years? How much is a metic ton of candy ? Where do you order from like a warehouse restaurant supply place or Amazon?

[Anonymous]

I think having several months of food is just common sense. You can buy long-life rations from Costco that last a decade or more for like $100 a person for a couple of months. The cheapest insurance available. I think I am very unlikely to need it, but the same goes for my umbrella insurance.

Get a bidet attachment and you don’t need much tp.

I am not very worried about another pandemic, but we have the basics like masks stocked up.

I am much more worried about civil unrest in the US when the MAGAs shut down the possibility of free and fair elections. Just listen to what Trump is saying on the subject- he wants to change the rules so democrats caan never win again. And to hedge against that, I got a European passport and have some money in Euros and gold.

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Anonymous wrote:Make space in your home for girl scout cookie season is almost here

They last about a day (if we are lucky) here…

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I was always a minimalist before COVID. That changed in 2020. About a year ago I realized I was still stockpiling certain things so I’ve been making an effort to stop. I’ve stopped keeping an overstocked freezer and pantry but I do still buy my Clorox wipes, toilet paper and paper towels in bulk since I get those at Costco/Sams.

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I have always been a person who maintains a stock of key supplies, just because it is more efficient to buy p, say, six cans of beans that I use often in one trip than going back to the store six times (and, because I am fortunate that I can afford to do that).
What maybe changed because of Covid is that I eat out much less and have a wider range of foods I make myself.

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Anonymous wrote:I was always a minimalist before COVID. That changed in 2020. About a year ago I realized I was still stockpiling certain things so I’ve been making an effort to stop. I’ve stopped keeping an overstocked freezer and pantry but I do still buy my Clorox wipes, toilet paper and paper towels in bulk since I get those at Costco/Sams.

Same here! But now I kind of love having all the things I need at hand and never needing to run out in the rain or whatever or if I don't feel well. I like having more now it feels comforting to me.

[Anonymous]

At first I used less things and did without at some point that changed for me and we started starting stocking up which led to a small kitchen hoard we are trying to stop but its been harder than we thought it would be. It makes us feel better some how. These are crazy times for us. We both had food insecurity as kids and some how covid kicked this up. Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:Purge but I’m 51 so not unusual for my age.

When you’re older you’ll hoard?

I hope not! I'm getting rid of the extra kid things. They're teens now so I'm late on clearing out.

My mom is a hoarder. Has pathways in her home. I'm definitely not interested in that. I'm less and less interested in "things."

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Anonymous wrote:I am hoarding my pre-2020 clothes bc the quality of newer stuff is terrible. But each year that passes I lose more of them.

Example: my fav work shirt is an iron-free button down from LLBean circa 2016-18. I have two of them and they just fit SO great! The cut is flattering, the shoulder seams are in the right place, the fabric is nice.

I have bought newer styles since then but returned them. Sadly no clothing item will last forever and soon I will lose my nice quality pre-pandemic clothes.

You could take them to a tailor with new fabric and they might be able to replicate them

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was sick recently and wore a mask to school for a few days. He used up our last precious masks.

Guess I need to buy more.

Haha, there was a sale a couple of years ago, at the tail end of the pandemic, and I thought I was buying a dozen dozen "just in case" but I actually bought a dozen gross (that's 12x144 or 1,728). They showed up in a box the size of a new dishwasher that we stashed in the basement. I wouldn't have said I was a hoarder but I guess I am hoarding N95 masks now.