Stocking up?

I've just seen over the road neighbours going in with at least 5 large packs of toilet rolls

My son just sent me that photo...selfish ,stupid people..

This is the loo roll aisle in massive Tesco

kwest, I disagree with your:

'A clean , calm, well organized home impacts positively on the mental health of the people living there'

Oh no it doesn't, (not for me) - if you were brought up (and tortured) by a mother with anxiety and OCD. It was all about being organised and prepared - for what, exactly, I really don't know.

I think most of the Christmas stockpiling and panic buying is driven by anxiety. When you think about it, though, there is very little that we can't do without and most things can be substituted.

I have a permanent horror of overly tidy rooms, so if/when I dust, hoover and clean a room now, I simply can't leave it tidy. It's too formal and unfriendly.

I have to put a few books or cushions on the floor, maybe throw a blanket on a chair, anything to mess it up a bit!

We will shop as usual as we did last time.

Why are people making Brexit boxes? What goes into them? Should I be preparing a Brexit box? If so, what should I put into it? I’m perplexed!

I am absolutely disgusted seeing in the newspapers pictures of shoppers with their trolleys loaded to the gills with packs of toilet paper and milk.

Greedy b.....ds.
Shops should limit it to two packs per person, but they won’t do that until it’s too late, as usual.

We have a fourteen mile trip to the nearest shops so are always stocked up! I have bought more than I usually would because when we had to quarantine for a fortnight after being on lockdown In Greece, I couldn’t get any supermarket delivery slots. My cupboards and freezers are full and if I don’t have to shop until Xmas that is a bonus!

The only thing I would stock up on, if I could, is medication. It's not the lock down that worries me in this case, it's Brexit. I have been concerned, ever since the referendum, about the possible disruption to the supply of medicines from the EU. Now someone in the government - can't remember which particular nitwit, might have been Michael Gove - has said that he can't guarantee that there won't be a shortage.

As well as getting the tablets I need for my own health, I am worried that it has been said that it may be difficult to get insulin. My ex-SIL has Type 1 diabetes, my friend has Type 2,and both are insulin dependent. They can't manage without it.

So I would hoard medication if I could but it's not possible to order more than a month's supply at a time. A good thing in the usual way, as people shouldn't hoard medicines, but I still wish I could do it even though I know I shouldn't.

Frankly, Brexit worries me more than the lock down where any sort of possible shortage is concerned. The shops still managed to get stock during the last lock down. Not sure that that will happen if stuff is rotting in lorries around Dover.

Missiseff

Why stock up on essential items when shops selling them aren't closing? Ridiculous

Because there is a vicious, deadly and highly infectious disease which is now known to be spread by airborne particles disseminated by people gathering in indoor spaces such as shops. By stocking up, we can minimise the number of times we need to shop and therefore help minimise the spread of the virus. Supermarkets can easily restock. Vulnerable older people not so much

Summerlove

Stocking up over a few months is the direct opposite of panic buying.

How do people still not understand that?

exactly ☝️

Panic buying and stockpiling are just about the same thing and what ever excuse reason you give brexit ?? COVID Christmas or anything else it is a selfish way of working
no wonder people panic buy because they know others are stock piling one plays into the other
Just act with some decorum there is nothing wrong with buying an extra tin of this or that but boxes under the bed or in the spare room is just a wee bit selfish and not very helpful to the situation in my opinion
Sharing is a nicer way to go

Stocking up over a few months is the direct opposite of panic buying.

How do people still not understand that?

I’m not stocking up, what for? All the shops are open as usual and receiving normal deliveries what is wrong with people carrying on as normal as possible? Don’t panic! I’ll do my normal shop later in the week.

Why stock up on essential items when shops selling them aren't closing? Ridiculous

I think I’m a bit of a hoarder too - I have a ‘one on the go and a couple in reserve’ mentality. What I hate are the dark nights and the manic (maniac?) Christmas shoppers, so I’ve always bought enough cleaning materials and certain dry goods to get me from mid November to early January - only needing to venture out for fresh stuff as and when. I don’t consider it panic buying, just being sensible for the time of year.

I was expecting to hear about non essential items being purchased like nipsmum mentioning wool.
What I wasn’t expecting was all this food stockpiling. After our last lockdown when the only shortages were caused by panic buying surely nobody expects to be unable to get food?

Nope, normal here, nothing extra.

Like Teetime we are desperately hoping that we can complete our house sale and move (to Scotland), so have already "run down" our usually well stocked fridge/Freezer.
This morning at Lidl, there were no "low GI rolls" which we love and look forward to eating. The stocks of toilet paper were already low, and there were none of the brand we normally buy (my hubby has skin cancer and can't use poorer quality ones, as these quickly make his skin sore). I am now going to have to look at other stores to ensure that we don't run out! Stocks of flour were also low, but I don't bake, so that's not an issue for me, personally. As we are both diabetic, I'm trying to give up bread, pasta and potatoes currently, but we do have some pasta in stock, as hubby loves it, so I guess we won't starve.

My cupboards and freezer are usually well stocked so no need to get extra in. Plus I have a veg box delivery every fortnight so we are sorted. My only problem is that the dog has to have special food otherwise she gets very sick so will get extra ordered today. The cats can and will eat anything so no worries there.

Doing our usual supermarket shop this morning we watched a couple ahead of us in the queue unload at least 9 large loaves. Of course, they may have been buying for neighbours.

With regards to provisions, like several others have mentioned I do now order a new item on my weekly shop when the previous one has been used to maintain supply. We have also amassed a selection of tinned stuff “just in case”. Very much hoping that supermarkets will cap the number of V & A (in Naval parlance, valuable and attractive) items an individual can buy. Such as loo roll
Ever since the last lockdown I have been doing jigsaws. Have so enjoyed bidding for them on EBay it seems I now have too many to fit in the cupboard. (Not panic buying as such but more like over enthusiastic bidding!).

Are we expecting a nuclear Armageddon or something?

I haven't been excessively buying but I have been and bought more than a couple of my favourites from a certain store as I will stop going out now for a while. Apart from that I do have a full freezer and my cupboards are well stocked and now my shopping will be on line with just a top up shop.

I'm lucky in that I managed to set up a regular weekly priority delivery slot with Tesco which I have kept going since March. So no need to stockpile or panic buy. If they don't have what I want we go without. I also get lovely fresh milk (in glass bottles), eggs and granola from the milkman and the option of weekly fruit and veg deliveries from a company called Groobarb. Hope that doesn't sound smug!

When the rumours started about the border to Germany being closed again, which has happened, we went shopping for cat food, coffee, olive oil, flour, sugar, aspirin and Ibuprofen, all of which are much cheaper in Germany than in Denmark.

They are all things we would have bought in the course of this month anyway, if we had been able to space out our shopping as usual, so it is not exactly hoarding.