Monday Morning 9/12/11-Building your stockpile

Hi, me Rhonda again. I wanted to touch on building your stockpile. It may seem like a daunting task at this point. Don't worry, it just takes time to get it going. It all depends on the coupons and the sales. The things I tend to stockpile (not hoard) are cereals, coffee, paper towels, toilet paper, dish soaps, laundry soaps and softeners, canned goods, pasta, cake mix, meats, boxed mixes like Betty Crocker potato mixes, mac & cheese, soups and broths, toothpaste, shampoos, bath soaps, toothbrushes and deodorant. It is suggested that when you find a good sales on your "stockpile" items, buy enough for at least 3 months. This takes a lot of coupons, find a buddy you can swap coupons with, that way, if your buddy doesn't use an item that is on sale, you can swap some coupons with them for something they need. I recommend always having at least 4 coupons for each item, at the least. More is better when you are stockpiling. After your stockpile is built, you SHOULD be able to go a couple of weeks just buying staples & the great sale items you find. You should be able to build your family meals around your stockpile. Okay, toilet paper and paper towels. The coupons for these items are very small as a rule. My way of building my stockpile for these items is to shop the drug stores, and using my ECB's or Register Rewards combined with coupons and sales, I am able to build up my paper goods stockpile. When I first started my stockpile, I would try to concentrate on a couple of items at a time....like laundry soaps or soups. We are coming into "soup weather", so we should see some really good bargains on soups coming up. Save your coups for these sales. Okay, that's it for now...decide what you want in your stockpile and work real hard on those items.