Posted on 07/24/2011 1:08:37 PM PDT by Mamzelle
All of my usual stores are rearranging and changing what they put on their shelves. I'm sensing that the big uptick in prices will start to arrive shortly, maybe before Christmas. I'm interested to hear what the impressions of FRugal Freepers. What are you seeing? What will you be buying in quanity before TSHTF?
“Will toilette paper really do any good after IT hits the fan?”
That’s what the bags are for - many thousands for me.
That's when the paper towels come into play... :-)
Diapers went up 11% recently. I have enough to get us through the first two months when our daughter arrives, but I think we’re going to go to cloth after that with disposables at night. We’ll see how it works for us.
My wife has been couponing for about a year and a half now. We are stocked up with everything imaginable.
I’d love to hear from some management at grocery stores!
Some brand of bread have reached $4.59 a pound in Los Angeles County.
I have been living on my stocks off and on for a few years, I remember having 25 pounds of grits, and wondering if I was going overboard, but it is all gone now.
I have gone through all my 8 year old tuna, and am now into the more recent stuff that I got at the price of 3 for a dollar just 3(?) years ago, I think I bought 120 cans of it, which at the time took me to around 200, or 220 cans of tuna.
“Don’t forget gasoline, bottled propane, a Coleman white gas. We’ve got 30 gallons of Stabilized premium gas stored away. I rotate in very 6 months to make sure it’s fresh.”
40 gallons, ha!!! Although it’s not premium. It is double Stabil-ized, so should be good for 2 years, although I rotate about every 18 months. Needless to say, I have multiple gasoline stoves and lanterns. I expect to be inconvenienced by the soon-to-arrive blackouts, but still be quite comfortable.
bfl
Every time I go by Wal Mart I stop in and get at least a dozen incandescent light bulbs. We have four separate shelves in a spare closet; 40w, 60w, 75w, and 100. Now we’re starting on floods for the exterior.
Youbetcha! Mostly (and in this order) Twinkies (they - like cockroaches, will be the only things left after the nuclear holocaust), dehydrated water (way easier to carry than its counterpart), and sunblock 45 (I hate getting sunburned...and with global warming imminent, one cannot be tooo careful)
You can never have too much justice, I always say.
Just kidding. I don't even own any guns... they were all stolen years ago when I was on vacation. Came home and they were all just gone. The bums took my whole gun safe.
8^D
“That’s when the paper towels come into play... :-)”
Agree - and they work fine. I’ve been using them for years in my workshop bathroom. You just tear them up and use them.
TP ping
We get our organic Acai juice from Costco — 2 bottles, 32-ounces each, for 9.99. We just discovered it (or they just started carrying it), so I’m not sure if the price has gone up.
Starting to buy more supplements and vitamins, most have a pretty good shelf life. That’s not only for WTSHTF but for all the other one-world government control, seizure of anything you do for yourself nightmare.
My wife just said we’re going to need a new fan.
Funny you should mention wine.
A bottle I bought this afternoon rang up higher at the checkout than it was listed on the shelf. They adjusted to give me the shelf price, but said they’d put the higher price in their system and just hadn’t got the higher price posted on the shelf yet.
I don’t so much stock up as I buy things when they are on special and in season.
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