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 ๐โค๏ธ
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.
how do you store your dry beans? I always end up with my beans getting too dry and they stay hard even after lots of cooking, dry beans have become something I can't buy in bulk and only fresh.
Your beans are still dry after soaking them for 24 hours before cooking? Or you just rely on the cooking itself to hydrate them?
yes, even with soaking before cooking they remain dry. Even after boiling for an hour, cooling, and then simmering for hours. Even after simmering for multiple days - they just remain hard and never fully soften or cook.