Frugal

Flashback to my mother buying entire brown cardboard shipping boxes of cereal out of the back storeroom of the grocery store and storing it in her basement pantry 😀❤️

For those of you who have the luxury of buying in bulk, what do you buy in bulk when it's cheap? Do you do it because it's always going up in price, because it's seasonally expensive, or because it's a staple item that you always need. To what extreme do you go with your bulk purchase?

Examples from my own life,

• toothpaste and mouthwash, buy when cheap store extra tubes, usually no more than 5-10
• cleaning supplies, chemicals and towels. Enough to keep a backups closet stocked.
• pasta, probably have enough for a couple of months
• coffee, ten to fifteen bags
• shoes, buy multiples if I find ones I like
• consumable hobby items like bike intertubes

The basic idea is to identify the items I will almost certainly decide to buy then snag them up when they're at their cheapest to achieve long term frugality.