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Why does he do this?

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Esspee Mon 13-Jun-22 14:28:08

I have a tendency to hoard, no idea why but we have enough food in the house to keep us going for a few months. Our freezer is always packed to the gunwhales.
We have tried to run down stocks but somehow it never happens.

Germanshepherdsmum Mon 13-Jun-22 14:26:40

It sounds like a security blanket. Pink Cosmos’s suggestion is very sensible.

PinkCosmos Mon 13-Jun-22 14:23:02

I can understand this becoming more of an issue during lockdown. I still have some tinned items that I bought two years ago 'just in case'.

As other posters have said, a lot of it will be out of date by now. Though, to be honest, I think some use by dates are a bit over cautious

Why don't you suggest he goes through it all and put the oldest (still in date) items in the kitchen and work your way through in date order until you get the stock down a bit.

I had a box of tins and jars in the under stairs cupboard that I stocked up on during the pandemic. I wrote a list of what was in the box so that I could check before I went shopping. Otherwise I would end up buying yet more of the same thing.

Georgesgran Mon 13-Jun-22 14:10:16

As well as the cost - I bet some of its out of date too. However, I agree with GSM and wonder if this isn’t a bit of obsessive behaviour and what would be his reaction if you said no shopping was needed for a month or two, to use up some of the supplies? His GP really shouldn’t be prescribing meds to hoard either.

Germanshepherdsmum Mon 13-Jun-22 14:05:27

Groceries in the wardrobe and the garage? Sounds like he has a hoarding problem. What on earth is it costing?

Nandalot Mon 13-Jun-22 14:00:10

DH has always been the one to do the shopping, (now online). He has always had a tendency to overbuy. We have kitchen cupboards, a pantry under the stairs, a shelving unit in the utility, part of an upstairs wardrobe full of groceries, not forgetting water, squash etc under the model railway in the garage. Oooh and paper goods secreted in odd cupboards upstairs. He has always had this tendency to stock up which became exacerbated with Brexit and Covid. I have just bought a slow cooker in order to cut down on electricity and this has warranted a rearrangement of kitchen cupboards. This has brought home to me just how much stuff we have! I have also realised that he is just the same with medicines. Two of the large shelves in the kitchen wall cupboards, plus four of the shelves in the small cupboards are full of medicines, both prescription and other, plus plasters etc. You may wonder why this has come as a surprise to me? Well, DH has always done a lot of the cooking but since I had my pacemaker fitted, as we have an induction hob, he has done nearly all except for baking.
So I suppose I shouldn’t complain really!