Is i reasonable to start stockpiling due of Coronavirus

[fishermccann]

Most people on this site, I think live in homes. If you live in an apartment with no pantry or place to store extra food except in the kitchen cupboards, you would have no 'stockpile', usually.

[MarkB]

This actually might be a good group to ask.

I keep the house stocked with items, I do not buy as I need. For example, I have multiple jugs of clothing detergent, dish detergent, canned food, a freezer full of food, etc. Oh yes, and a package of sealed toilet paper haha. Going to school with people who lived in town and seeing how their parents stocked their houses (they didn't) versus looking at the homes of my fellow country bubkins, I concluded this might be a rural living practice. When I use the last of the dish detergent, I'm not dropping everything to go into town to go get another bottle. I go downstairs and grab one of the three that have been downstairs since the last sale. Similarly, when I was dating my high school boyfriend, I was shocked to see there was never food in the house. Zehrs was just a couple blocks away, and they always just went and bought food to eat that day. It was such a shock from the way I was raised. Now I'm still rural and I still keep food and supplies handy so I never find myself in dire straits because I'm out. It's Canada, we get bad winters like January 2019. I like to have food on hand to make my life easier.

So, my question -- is this a country living thing? If you are stocked up and in the country, this is normal, but if you're stocked up and in town, you're a hoarder? Thoughts?

My family is Italian, and we ALWAYS stock up ... I think maybe it just comes from habit making our own food every fall ... tomato sauce, sausages, wine, etc. You're just accustomed to having a cold cellar or storage area for all that stuff that lasts throughout the year. You aren't going to make a batch of stuff for only 1 month, you do it once for the whole year. The other thing is ... you see a deal on something, we grab 5 or 10 of it. Normally when we go shopping, we get the short term stuff we need (normally stuff that goes bad quick, so you can't store ... like vegatables or milk), but the rest of the stuff like meat that can be frozen, or cleaning stuff ... normally we get that when we see a deal and just stock up ... sometimes I see a deal, and I already may have 2 or 3 at home ... we still buy it and replenish the stock. Saves a lot of money, yes, but more so ... it saves time. We don't have to go to the grocery store ever ... we go when we want to go, and fewer times per month.

And most of my family you can say are in the city.

[oaknut]

Most people on this site, I think live in homes. If you live in an apartment with no pantry or place to store extra food except in the kitchen cupboards, you would have no 'stockpile', usually.

That's a valid point. A large chest freezer makes keeping large amounts of good food easy. Lots of people will be having soup cans decorate random rooms in the house. One can live off Mr. Noodles but if you don't have a skid of butt wipe.....

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[severn don]

With the shortage of toilet paper. I new that some day, my unused tags from the last 30 years would come in handy .

[fishfood]

We tend to buy alot 3 or 4 trips to a grocery stores are nothing in a week. This is mainly for fresh produce and meats or dinners . The good sales and daily basis things there is never a shortage of . We get alot of things on sale and pile up when we can. We never pay more than 5 bucks for a 12 pack of the good toilet paper. Laundry soap to soap and shampoos . They are a daily use why pay full price ?. If you dont stock up while the good sales are on you wont be getting the best price and you spend more.
That being said we got 3 additional packs of crap paper 499 cashmere plus 2 bucks back on pc points for each pack that's 6 bucks back and less than 15 bucks for 3 12 packs. Good deal we were nice and left other paper we are not greedy if it was no shortage I would of definitely got more as the was plenty .

a bag of rice a bag of flour , the flour we were just about out anyway. A few additional freezer items 6 more cans of soup 3 cans of milk for when the cream runs out lol. 2 extra cases of water and that's it lol. Oh my wife ordered coffee and powder cream I think last night online lol. Who needs to wait in these long lines when you can shop online and have delivery in 2 days [emoji54][emoji106].


We are not hoarders we are smart shoppers saving money.
Unfortunately many are not,either they cant afford to do it or other things are more priority are more important. You have to have the funds available to smart shop not everyone will spend 30 40 or 100 bucks on a certain product a few times a year.

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[js4fn]

With the shortage of toilet paper. I new that some day, my unused tags from the last 30 years would come in handy .

LoL. Money well spent

[gbk]

When there was a big sale on about 3 weeks ago I got in trouble with my wife for buying 4 of the Charmin Double roll 12 packs, she has the view that we should shop for groceries weekly or more and need nothing more in the house, if I have more than 2 cans of soup etc. I am hoarding .... so here's your chance.

I will trade 2 unopened packs of Charmin Soft .... the Double roll ones.... even trade on any in good condition Browning, Henry, Blaser or IWI etc. (I will have to consider others) I repeat TWO UNOPENED 12 PACKS.....ULTRA SOFT.... I mean no one is hoarding firearms (or atleast it isn't in the news) so this is your chance to invest at the bottom.....

Good one............

[gbk]

They were talking about it yesterday before the school closures. Was thinking to myself this selfish b#^#terds as the schools remained open. Then theylcanceled schools.

The political parties don't want to be in close contact with each other. I have seen nothing but talks of yet but yes they maybe taking some time off and use other things to make decisions lol. Video conferences and phone calls is the new thing. If they would of done this a week ago we would be in a much better position.

They just left the doors wide open from travelers from Italy they didnt check anyone they handed off a pamphlet and said this is what you do ..... then they say they have everything under control lol. How can it be under control when not checks were being done??. It was only a matter of time before community spread it they wanted to play the catch up game. You cant catch up to everyone it was a good way to go if they slowed it within the air travel side of it. Cant just get people to infecte others then try and find out who this person had contacts with. Silly.



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Maybe based on all this ,mostly sad facts.........we shall not be surprised anymore, how our moose population is being managed.

[sawbill]

We live in a smallish town with the most basic of grocery stores. So we've always shopped the larger outlying stores where there is a better selection and better prices. We always tend to buy in bulk to cut down on the number of trips we need to make to keep our shelves filled.

[GW11]

Around 2 weeks ago I realized that I was in denial about this virus and the situation in general for no good reason. I could continue to go on like that until the store shelves were empty, or I could spend some time picking up a few items (prepping) that might turn out to be essential within the next few weeks or months. After all, I have more than just myself to be responsible for. So I did.

Been fairly comfortable over the last couple of weeks while watching this situation unfold, but this has gotten very big in the last couple of days. I think the next few months will reshape the world in a way. It's happening now, and we've got ringside seats.

Yes, we can continue to compare this to the flu. I was doing the same a few weeks ago. The fact is, we know how seasonal influenza works. We've lived with it forever. It's miserable to be stricken with it but unless you're otherwise ill, the vast majority of people generally recover. It's so un-scary to us that we don't even try very hard to protect ourselves from it. It's not "newsworthy".

Sure, we've all probably had a coronavirus of some form or another, but this particular one is new... "novel". It's a relative unknown to us, none of us are immune to it, and most of us are going to get it. Most of us will be fine, but some of us will die. I don't know about the rest of you, but if someone told me that out of 100 of us in a room, 3 or 4 of us aren't walking out, I wouldn't be too comfortable with those odds.

The media hype is both addictive and deafening. Maybe the virus isn't as deadly as advertised, maybe it is. The worldwide panic, the stockmarket free fall and the potential for a societal breakdown are very real, and we all should be concerned and aware. I'm not suggesting we join in the panic, I'm suggesting that everyone use their heads. What is there to gain by sitting in denial until you realize you might have been wrong?

This might be one of my craziest posts, but if that's the worst of it, I can live with that.









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