I laughed so hard when I saw this page on Hoarding Groceries! It's funny to me because my past has so much history to this touchy subject. In all seriousness, this can be a disease that is not a laughing matter. Please be kind to others when someone out there is suffering from a battle they cannot control. If you're older like me with family members suffered through the depression period. Food was scarce and no one had money. No such thing as to a credit to get you by, either! For those with these conditions, they literally stocked up on everything so that they would not be in a pickle, again! Funny, but not funny story, one of my friend's family had passed away. I was asked to help out clearing the house to be sold. Family members were clearing out closets and furniture. We were in the kitchen pulling out food. It's a small pantry or so we thought! It was like a cartoon! We were pulling out endless cans of food. My buddy was making tomato soup on the stovetop. As he was eating the soup, he said, it's good, but it would be better with a little milk in it! That is how grandma makes it! His mom comes in and asks us what year it was?!?! We laughed and said it's 2005 silly!! Then she says, why are all these cans say best by 1980??? We all looked at all the canned goods and every single one were about twenty plus years old!!! YIKES!! With that being said, some things can be eaten past its date?!?! I guess with caution. For me, I am a prepper! When I lived in the Midwest, we had snow, ice storms, and tornadoes! I still stock things, but in rotation! I follow some FEMA guidelines and add my own twist! Hopefully everyone is stocking enough food, but not hoarding! I hope I did not offend anyone. I just wanted to share a moment in the past that we still chuckle from time to time!!! read more

Writing a review for hoarding groceries definitely is a case of the good, the bad, and the ugly. I have a rather large walk in pantry at our current house so keeping a well stocked pantry has never been a problem. Years ago when my children were in middle school there were neighbor kids that felt quite comfortable walking into our house after school and go straight to the pantry for a snack before settling down for homework or after school activities. Our pantry was definitely different from what they would find at their own home. That was good. Then came Covid and a well stocked pantry provided a variety of meals for my husband and myself when grocery stores were off limits or the store shelves were bare. When we could get to the store if allowed we could purchase a few extras to restock our pantry. Once again the good. Winter in Kentucky can be brutal and if there is deep snow or ice we always have plenty of food stocked away in our pantry. You may get tired of a variety of soups every day but you're not going to starve to death. In addition to a vast assortment of canned items we also have boxed/dry non perishables that we can make meals from. Once again the good. Now for the bad. Since the pantry is on the large size and we don't always depend on that food it takes effort to rotate food to keep the items with the soonest "sell by date" to the front of the shelves. It is easy to be exhausted after shopping and just shove the items just purchased onto the shelf without putting it to the rear of existing food. THE UGLY! Each June I try to empty out the pantry and check the sell by dates on EVERYTHING. We usually have family visit in July or August and more than once I didn't totally complete my June overhaul of the pantry. Last year we had a crisis while barbecuing country style ribs. Both bottles of barbecue sauce were way past the pull date and my daughter had to run to Walmart while the ribs were cooking. THE EXTREME UGLY! My husband is now retired so the June overhaul I use to do while he was away on a business trip took place this week. Garbage day was Tuesday night to Wednesday morning. Even with emptying jars of their contents down the garbage disposal to lighten the load we had multiple garbage cans that weighed a ton. I hate the amount of money that was probably ground down the garbage disposal but at least nobody is going to get sick. It feels wonderful to have an organized pantry. It's nice to make a list of items we need to buy because we don't have one in the pantry. Lesson learned don't over hoard groceries! read more

Hoarding groceries or hoarding anything is not good. As Yelper Diele K. notes hoarding is certainly reminiscent of COVID days when folks were hoarding things like TP. I agree with Yelper Kandy F., it is wise to stock up on some nonperishable foods for events like electrical outages during tornado season for example, where I live in North Alabama. I like Kandy F's suggestion to follow the FEMA guidelines and then tweak them to your family's desires. Human food hoarding is a real thing and Phycology Today says that hoarding in times of abundance may be motivated by past trauma,, depression and anxiety. Often hoarders actually refuse to let go of unneeded food items and are absolutely obsessive about buying food. There are distinctions between healthy stockpiling of grocery and food items, for example for an emergency food pantry and grocery hoarding. Happy stockpiling Yelpers!!! read more

Hoarding Groceries is definitely one of my good or bad habits. My family were of the depression era. We always worried about having food. Food Stamps and coupons are not unfamiliar to me. I've been there in my life. Now that I can't get out shopping I do hoard to have variety of food on hand. Covid definitely got me hoarding everything. I'm recommending! read more

When I see "hoarding groceries, I immediately think of 2020 Covid era. My dad was the night stocking manager of a local grocery store, so thankfully, I had support to stock up some groceries while staying home to stop the spread. As the crowds and store selection during that time was insanity! Plus, the atmosphere in the stores was chaotic and panicked. Hopefully, hoarding groceries is a thing of the past; only for incoming natural disasters like winter storms or hurricanes. read more

Hoarding Groceries - 2020 - stocking up during COVID - Grocery Near Me - Gaffney, South Carolina

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