Stockpiling Groceries

For frozen goods, we needed a decent size freezer. Being cash poor, we relied on the time honored tradition of hand-me-downs. Flash’s parents had a large upright freezer that they wanted to replace, so we got it for nothing more than the effort to move it from their place to ours. It was about 15 years old at the time, but it was still in good working condition and had just the right amount of storage space to meet our needs. It served us well for another 15 years. We replaced it two years ago.

Everything was in place to begin the process of stockpiling to save money. We built up the three month supply of food items (canned, prepackaged, and frozen) and cleaning supplies slowly, always trying to buy items on sale and with coupons whenever possible, for the lowest possible cost.