Anything you hoarded during the pandemic you still have some of?

As i said on a thread about this a couple of years ago, living rural i've bought non-perishables and certain long shelf-life items in bulk for years. While we now have 3 stores that carry 'staples', when supply chain issues arise---small towns are low priority for suppliers--they cater to the big city chains.

When i was a young single Mom on tight budget one of the things that made me feel most 'poor' was having to count pennies to buy TP at end of months. From the time i got more financially secure it was one item i never let run entirely out before buying more.

Age and 3 pregnancies have taken their toll on my bowels. i found a pineapple/coconut juice that helps keep me regular, along with high fiber cereals 3-4 days a week. Years before the pandemic i started keeping at least four 1 liter containers on shelf at all times. So far that's gotten me thru times when suppliers skipped my grocery with that item for a week or two.
 

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I don't USUALLY eat processed foods (prefer fresh produce) but did buy a case of tuna, a bag of rice, "old fashion oatmeal"; stocked up on dog food.

Still on hand:
- 2 bags of Costco dog kibble, 2 cases of Costco cans dog food!! Now I always have extra dog food in Flash's cupboard!! LOLOL
 

I never hoarded anything when i was finishing my last temp job in March that company who went crazy IMO hoarding threw away pallets of sanitizers and clorox wipes that have a best buy date it was discussed giving item to the many employees as i am sure some would use not expecting 99% sanitation but they said they did not feel right about dispersing them so all taken to a landfill ....... imagine this X many other companies.... Covid sure created mor etrash then probably the 5 years before it put together.
 
Jeni said:
I never hoarded anything when i was finishing my last temp job in March that company who went crazy IMO hoarding threw away pallets of sanitizers and clorox wipes that have a best buy date it was discussed giving item to the many employees as i am sure some would use not expecting 99% sanitation but they said they did not feel right about dispersing them so all taken to a landfill ....... imagine this X many other companies.... Covid sure created mor etrash then probably the 5 years before it put together.
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Ya, thats the right choice. I've spent many years on pandemic planning in my job. I got certified in pandemic planning from FEMA back before it was 'a thing'.
We encouraged companies to throw away date expired products rather than give them to employees.
It could open up a company to lawsuits from employees. The premise was that employees would make an certain level of assumption that they would be protected from getting COVID, and if they got it, could sue the company for not properly protecting them. I know, I know, most people wouldn't think that, but the companies didn't want to take that chance.
 
Supernatural said:
@Devi & @Old Salt . Here's the link with Amazon. They'll sell your eBook, no problems. However, they sadly reimburse if someone who purchased it, wants a return. Major downfall...

So, my series was bought at 08:00 and reimbursement took place at 08:30 same day. I was nonplussed. Waited a fortnight and BLAM! Found it on no less than 8 illegal free eBook sites.

I had to report them, that was nasty as I had to write to each individual sites. Amazon was no help. I had to make a choice and I decided to unpublish, close account at Amazon and deleted my series altogether. Never looked back.

I've an easier system just now, granted it's not a sales magnet BUT I know where my eBook goes. I've my payment site, I give it to people I know who make a request. Once I get payment, I send the copy requested or whole series, various prices, through reader's email. I keep a record of these.

I'm of the opinion that if you buy any reading material and you don't like it, physical just give it to charity or digital, just delete permanently. Simple solution!

However, there's nasty people who thinks it's funny to send a struggling indie author an email saying: "LOL, that's you having lost a £1,000 in revenu..." yes, I received those emails. Very sad... I've just made £10.00 in the sales of two copies, this year, so far.

Hoping this explains to your satisfaction 😁. I can give link to site via private message only. Cheers
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I have been back browsing some of the online sites for authors to publish and it sounds like they have mechanisms in place to prevent copying. Am thinking about writing computer programming books.
 
I wouldn't say I hoard, but I've always had a backlog of certain items like paper products, water, and cleaning products because I buy them on sale, hate having to run to the store for basics, and also have a lot of storage space.
 
Sippican said:
Ya, thats the right choice. I've spent many years on pandemic planning in my job. I got certified in pandemic planning from FEMA back before it was 'a thing'.
We encouraged companies to throw away date expired products rather than give them to employees.
It could open up a company to lawsuits from employees. The premise was that employees would make an certain level of assumption that they would be protected from getting COVID, and if they got it, could sue the company for not properly protecting them. I know, I know, most people wouldn't think that, but the companies didn't want to take that chance.
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I understood it was for that reason......................... but was just pointing out what a waste it was as these people went order crazy and had no idea what they had on hand to avoid this mess. many a department never found out others had tons of stuff that should have been managed in my opinion.
 
Jeni said:
I understood it was for that reason......................... but was just pointing out what a waste it was as these people went order crazy and had no idea what they had on hand to avoid this mess. many a department never found out others had tons of stuff that should have been managed in my opinion.
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I've thrown out thousands of masks and cases of sanitizers.
Companies buy them not knowing when they will be needed. Typically, the stock gets rotates every 2 years.
Pandemics are not planned events, so the stock is bought hopefully well before a pandemic hits, leading stock to go stale while sitting on the shelf.
Truthfully, COVID was the most mild of pandemics we will ever have.
 
chic said:
What about Twitter? :unsure:
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Twitter never brought me anything worthwhile. Didn't get likes... in the end I was just helping others for free lol! I closed all accounts after hubby died. Lost Instagram by a an angry user and didn't fight for it, when they said I'd be banned lol. I was at the point of not caring. Was at a low point, understandably.

I've more fun here than any other sites. Got communications and likes. It's all good. I've just to reorganise things but too many things in RL getting in the way. Guess I need more time to get back to my old self lol!
 
BC Flash said:
I don't USUALLY eat processed foods (prefer fresh produce) but did buy a case of tuna, a bag of rice, "old fashion oatmeal"; stocked up on dog food.

Still on hand:
- 2 bags of Costco dog kibble, 2 cases of Costco cans dog food!! Now I always have extra dog food in Flash's cupboard!! LOLOL
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My daughter joked with me that an observant cashier would know how much of a priority our dog and cats are by how much of that food we bought.
 
C50 said:
Personally I didn't hoard anything but saw news reports have people buying fifty cases of water or pallets of toilet paper.

If you did that do you still have things left over? And how much? No judgement, just curious.
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I still find the odd tin out of date now.
But I never store much extra foods these days, I do keep a couple of extra packs of toilet rolls in.
 
Since I couldn't find hand sanitizer in some stores I visited, when I saw that Costco was selling it by the gallon, I got one. My son is a trucker and I thought I'd share it with him since he uses sanitizer a lot when he's on the road. Turns out he bought a gallon too, so when he moved back in, we had a more than a gallon and a half. Now we have a little less than a gallon.

I bought boxes of KN95 masks in different colors because I like to be fashionable and match. :D I still have some of those.
 
I still have some tuna to finish up. I also have rice and dried beans and lentils, dehydrated onions, peppers, and even some tomatoes. Maybe even some canned stuff if I think about it. Oh yeah, some kippered beef in my freezer. Maybe 2 pounds left out of the 10 I had bought.

All stuff I work through gradually, a lot of it in soups or chili.

Not so much hoarding as buying in bulk when restrictions were high and grocery stores radically cut hours here, forcing shopping among the crowd rather than off hours.
 

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