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Unlike last February when I started getting ready for the end of the world, kek, this year to repopulate my shelves I have been more selective about what I buy. I have 3 criteria:

  1. It must be shelf stable

  2. It must be something that my family will eat on a normal non SHTF day

  3. It must be at least 40% off

Every Wednesday when I take my boys to Kung Fu practice I have an hour to visit the big store there and walk all of the isles looking for stuff that meets my criteria, the loss leaders that these big retail chains offer just to get you in the door has been very helpful. I don't buy any of their other stuff just the cheap good stuff that meets my needs so fuck them.

For example today I picked up 27 juice boxes (right section, 3rd shelf down, blue box) at a 50% discount; I got 12 bottles of Heinz ketchup (same shelf) at a 45% discount; 12 cans of hot dogs at a 69% discount and a box of Oreos for 50% off (right section 2nd shelf down). Today was a good day.

We will be rotating all of this into our normal food plans and will be saving an actual bundle; if SHTF we should be fine for about 4-5 months.

So niggers, give it to me straight, what am I missing and what am I doing right?

Unlike last February when I started getting ready for the end of the world, kek, this year to repopulate my shelves I have been more selective about what I buy. I have 3 criteria: 1. It must be shelf stable 2. It must be something that my family will eat on a normal non SHTF day 3. It must be at least 40% off Every Wednesday when I take my boys to Kung Fu practice I have an hour to visit the big store there and walk all of the isles looking for stuff that meets my criteria, the loss leaders that these big retail chains offer just to get you in the door has been very helpful. I don't buy any of their other stuff just the cheap good stuff that meets my needs so fuck them. For example today I picked up 27 juice boxes (right section, 3rd shelf down, blue box) at a 50% discount; I got 12 bottles of Heinz ketchup (same shelf) at a 45% discount; 12 cans of hot dogs at a 69% discount and a box of Oreos for 50% off (right section 2nd shelf down). Today was a good day. We will be rotating all of this into our normal food plans and will be saving an actual bundle; if SHTF we should be fine for about 4-5 months. So niggers, give it to me straight, what am I missing and what am I doing right?

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[–] • 3 pts

A big part of what you are doing right is buying stuff in bulk and on sale as part of your regular diet.

Let's say you are saving an average of 30% off across all of your purchases.

If you took that money and put it in any bank these days, you are not going to generate 30% in annual interest.

Think of how much money you spend on food every year. It kind of adds up quickly.

And these gains are after tax too. They are actually the equivalent of much larger taxable returns.

What's the word for that? Thrift, I believe.

[–] • 3 pts

Thrift, I believe.

I actually identify as a skinflint thank you very much. But seriously you are not wrong, this is our first house so it took me a while to realize how much money we could save by buying normal (shelf stable) foods at bulk discount and using our basement to store the stuff. Even if ayyy lmao don't land next week we are saving min 40% on everyday items that we use and if ayyy lmao do land we are ok for a fair bit. We will use all of it and since it isn't going to go bad we have a fair amount of time to do so. At least that's how I look at it.

[–] • 1 pt

we have a fair amount of time

You need enough time to re-adjust to a new way of acquiring foodstuffs. That can mostly depend on outside factors, but you can hedge your bets by getting into gardening or make sure you are up on your tradeable skills.

You cannot buy enough to last the rest of your lifetime.

In the meantime you are practicing skills that will work well when a slump/crash hits. Get into making shit from scratch. Like with just flour and a few other ingredients. Hunting/fishing/smoking/salting/canning/bottling are good too. You don't need to become an expert, just good enough to produce something.