How stocked is your store cupboard

I keep a portable gas stove and lots of spare gas bottles. Car charger for my phone and other digital equipment.
Lived in South Africa where we had continual 'rolling blackouts' often for hours at a time, You learn to adapt and make do!
It's only me so my needs are fairly small - lack of water would worry me though!

Freezer full to bursting. utility room cupboard full with tins, packet and jars. Upper cupboard full of washing powder, loo rolls, cleaning stuff etc. Garage has overflow on the shelves. Every so often I realise that I have more stock in my home than a small supermarket and then we slowly eat our way through the freezer and I stop myself from buying any more three for two offers and another nine loo rolls when we already have eighteen in the garage. Ridiculous hoarding instinct - I have Tesco, Sainsbury's, Co op, Aldi and Waitrose in the town and I go out every day. My mother wasn't a hoarder - she didn't have enough cash to buy more than what she needed for the week so where this comes from I don't now.

I don't live my life thinking of all the 'what ifs'.
I buy fresh bread, fruit and veg every day as Waitrose is a 3 minute sprint away and I certainly don't get satisfaction or kicks from seeing a full fridge or freezer. If I want a cake or scones at teatime I bake them after lunch or make a loaf in the breadmaker.
Filling up my fridge/freezer would oblige me to eat the contents rather than something else I might fancy.

If a nuclear bomb was dropped and no one could come or go from the house we could live for at least four months. We have three freezers full and two store cupboards full to bursting. Only the cat would suffer and only enough cat food for about two or three weeks.

tanith a couple of years ago here they cut off our water main for stretches of four days at a time all summer.

It can and does happen.

We had leaflets put into every letter box from the Government the other day (we dont live in the UK) the gloom and doom of it all, it gave instuctions about if there is a war or catastrophy of some kind, we MUST have a stock to last a few days, and litttle gas stoves, the type you use for camping etc. etc.It was quite depressing, apart from the fact should there be a war I dont think we will need the use of the stocked cupboard!
Strangely in this neutral Country they have never been involved in wars, and dont really think they will ever be, but its better to be safe than sorry I suppose. My cupboards are not well stocked!

However long you stock up for, one day it will all run out so does it matter if it's one week or six months!! There's water in the tap; it's a waste of money and plastic to buy in bottles. People who selfishly overstock are the ones who actually cause the shortages.

Dito

Sorry for my lack of post,my “Dito” was for Marydoll,I too had a very poor childhood.

My stores are slowly increasing, a tin here and there, a packet of paste, rice etc. My freezer is full, mainly meat, and I'd be lost if we lost power because I'm all electric. I am planning to get a gas stove and cannisters very soon, just in case!
I could probably survive for around a month.

Are we stockpiling for an imaginary Armageddon here?

I am a natural hoarder be it knickers or food. I stocked up prior to my knee replacement last month and I have only had one on line delivery since but the odd loaf of bread bought.

I have never bought water in my life and have no intentions of starting. Sometimes I have to stock up with loo rolls and cat litter to make up my £40 the delivery price.

If any of the supermarkets ran out of cleaning stuff they could always come here- even my wardrobes are full. It is mainly buy two and get the 3rd free or whatever. It works out well now when I will not be allowed to drive until after the 18th July.

I will not starve and I will have a clean house.

Have a cupboard in the hall just opposite the kitchen, my husband made into a storecupboard. Came in very handy all tins and packets in there.

We have well stocked cupboards, freezer and household goods. Enough for a few months if I am honest about it

I'm can't quantify how long I'd last but I always keep tins of soup, Complan and a few tined and frozen meals 'just in case' like my mother did. It seems to be the sensible thing to do. There's not a lot of storage in my little house - many of us who live in towns have got used to shops being open for longer hours these days, even on a Sunday which most definitely wasn't the case when I was a child.

Months and months although I woul dhave to start baking my own bread. I am such a food hoarder and have shelves of tins etc elsewhere - not just in the kitchen. Going to move fairly soon and it is very hard to not replace the items that we are using. I am really looking forward to re-stocking at the other end of the move.

We don't buy bottled water so that would be the main problem. Are we allowed into the garden or confined to the house? In the garden we have a bbq with a gas canister so could do some limited cooking and we also have two water butts so could use rainwater if filtered through our filter jug.

There is enough food in the cupboards for a couple of weeks and a fair amount in the freezer - however, that would soon go off with no electricity - so probably about two to three weeks maximum.

Then we could work our way through some wine and those spirits which we rarely touch - at least we could drown our sorrows in drink.
I could even force myself to drink the Coke/Pepsi which we bought for visitors and which they didn't drink if I was desperate.

Are we allowed to build a fire and cook on that?
I could make damper.

I am a hoarder. There, I’ve said it! I have cupboards, fridges, freezers, more cupboards in the garage etc etc. All stuffed to the gills. I can’t help it, my mum always had about 40-50 bags of sugar and ditto of tea which I used to scoff at but now I do similar but not as many. I have clothes in many different wardrobes, thousands of shoes....... I could go on but I won’t. We could survive anything I think.

To be honest, some behaviours illustrated here seem rather odd!

Could it be something to do with being brought up with living during the war years and the rationing - which went on for years afterwards?

My mum was frightened of being without tea and sugar for some reason, left from the war, I’m sure. I don’t think it’s odd.

I can understand your mum Luckylegs but not yourself (and others!). I was born in 1954 & perhaps we are of a similar age? My mum was born in 1931 and she didn’t stockpile. It must be each to their own behaviour?
Mind you, you can’t eat ‘thousands of shoes’ so I expect you are right when you describe yourself as a hoarder!

Rationing ended in 1953 I think.

I can still remember the ration books in the sideboard drawer.

Water - or rather lack of it - would be our biggest problem. I have several water butts for the garden, but if you saw the colour of the water in them, you wouldn't want to drink it no matter how long it had been boiled. Still, at least we could use it to flush the toilet for a while!