How stocked is your store cupboard

I can well believe it.

M0nica it was once explained to me that actually crafting, and buying and organising materials to craft, are in fact two separate hobbies.

I am very very good at one but strangely bad at getting round to the other...

DD squirrels craft materials. A girl (or woman) after my own heart!!

I wonder if this 'hoarding' gene tends to skip a generation? My DM was a 'chucker outer' and I am reluctant to do so; DMIL was a hoarder and DH tends to chuck out clothes etc - buy one, throw one (but the garage is still full of 'useful bits'.

Water wouldn't be a problem. We would only need to dig down a few feet and we would hit the water table and there is a small stream about 30 yards away. The village is riddled with small streams and a reasonable sized brook.

I think, what I describe as squirrelling away, rather then hoarding is genetic. My aunt was a squirreller and so is DD. However the gene skipped me and I am a chucker outer.
Squirrellers are also more selective, my DA squirrelled almost anything domestic; food, cleaning materials, medical supplies. Around 2000 when we were emptying her house we found drawers with bandages wrapped and dated to WW2.

DD squirrels craft materials. She has equipment, which she does use, for almost every domestic craft, from 19th century sock knitters to felting and one of the advantages, she noted when she bought her house, 12 years ago was the huge loft, which now has a solid purpose built ladder and is decked out with shelving to store all her materials and much more.

I will get DH started on digging a bore hole in the garden.

Ah, but we have a generator, and also an open fire on which we could use coal (if lucky enough to have a spare bag or two at the right time) or wood to both cook and keep warm

and, apparently, there is no gas or electricity so we couldn't boil the water anyway MamaCaz!

Lack of water would be the main problem, so I suppose we would have to use the rainwater.

I still have my ration book!
We also have a generator as we are totally electric and have a two burner camping stove which has a grill. We have a small stock of water as we have had our water supply disrupted a few times and although bottled water is eventually provided it can take a while.
I was a Girl Guide when it was properly "Be Prepared" and I do like to have sufficient 'stocks' available for the days when I am not able. Sensible is what I call it.

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!

Rationing ended in 1953 I think.

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

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!

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Are we stockpiling for an imaginary Armageddon here?

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.