Comments on: Almonds, Evaporated Milk, and a CONTEST!

By: Dimpi

Dimpi — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:03:04 +0000

OK, I’ve thought and thought but… nothing. I buy stuff when I’ve run out or worn out. Yarn being the one exception but you said that doesn’t count.

By: Janet Booster

Janet Booster — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:19:46 +0000

My kids laughingly refer to it as Y2K creamed corn. Yes back when the world was suppose to end-my husband thought it was a wise idea to put away some food stocks. Somehow we ended up with about 10 cans of creamed corn. It’s still in the basement.minus the 2 cans that developed a bulge and 1 can that actually sprung a leak!

By: sandy Watkins

sandy Watkins — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:15:51 +0000

Okay, I have a problem with jello. Boxes and boxes of jello. I find them throughout my pantry and have been collecting them since college. We don’t seem to make them much, except when the kids are sick. But somehow I keep buying more. And the weird part is they are all mostly rasberry and strawberry. Like we won’t eat anything that isn’t red. I bet I have more than 20 boxes, or I did before I started looking at the expiration dates on some of them. You don’t even want to know. I am proud to say though that I went grocery shopping today and did not buy a single box of jello! Yay!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:27:23 +0000

Cake mix. I don’t eat it. I don’t like it. I don’t know anyone who likes it. BUT, my local supermarket chain does a 10 or $10 and I get them “just incase” . Of course, I would still have to go and get the forsting IF I DID want to use them…. I wonder how long they stay good for. >:( The REALLY stupid part of it all is I WOULD NEVER make an instant cake for anyone I cared enough about to actually make a cake. DUH!

By: Angeluna

Angeluna — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:10:16 +0000

Well, I was going to attach photos but it was just too embarrassing.

Panties. Everytime I see my underwear on sale, I buy all they have in my size in black, because I’m sure I don’t have enough at home. I could go at least 3 months without doing the wash. Did not take photos.

But I took photos of the pantry and freezers where you could just pick out any of several overstocked, underused items.

And oh, by the way, I have the frozen chicken problem, too. One day I’m going to cook up all that chicken.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:33:13 +0000

Hops, that is what I have an overabundance of in my freezer. My husband is a homebrewer and loves searching for the perfect combinations for flavor. Our is so full of them that we can’t actually put food in there. He buys more every time we visit Seattle, so we have duplicates and triplicates of some varieties.

By: Regina

Regina — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:53:02 +0000

Cans of chicken soup. I don’t even particularly like canned chicken soup. That and I always buy granola bars and nobody really wants them. But in the store I must think, “oh, granola bars, yes, I will get those for the kids…” and in they go. And there they sit.

By: janet

janet — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:40:27 +0000

At work i get accussed of buying too much baking powder! At home i decided recently to start eating popcorn for snacks after a long time of not eating it. i noticed the other day that i have 3 or so bags of popcorn (the bulk unpopped kind) enuff to serve hundreds, and that when i placed an order for sorghum flour for my bakery business and opened the box i had ordered a pound of multi color popcorn to try, forgetting how much i had at home. i don’t even have a popper or micro wave so i have to pop it stove top in a pot! 3rd thing would probably have to be sock yarn! i have a lot but it doesn’t go bad like food does! For a while i bought every shade of koigu that came to my lys. I guess i should start a movie theater…..
off to eat some popcorn…..

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:39:42 +0000

Ranch Beans. That’s all I am admitting for fear of further incriminating myself. :0)

By: KarenJoSeattle

KarenJoSeattle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:40:54 +0000

I tend to be an intentional stock piler. The dozen white shirts I have are mostly duplicates of two shirts, plus a few cloth variations on a dressier one I buy in various fabrics. My ‘uniform’ usually includes a white shirt and sweater, so I go through a lot of white shirts.

People don’t sort their closet by color?

My main area of unitended accumulation actually is knitting needles. I knit sweaters in one piece, so often have multiple needles going at once. And I buy tools ahead rather than for a specific project. This doesn’t explain why this week I found I had 17 size 3 needles and only five size 7, but not two 7s in the material I wanted to use to knit in the round with two needles.