I have two more reader stockpile posts to share with you! In case you missed them, you can see family sizes of 2-3, family sizes of 4, and more family sizes of 4.
Today readers with family sizes of 5 will be shared. As a reminder, the goal is to share how very different stockpiling may look from family to family as well as to glean ideas for how readers keep their goods organized.
Shannon’s Stockpile
Shannon purchased the above body wash, deodorant, shampoo, and shave gel over the course of a month for $1.25! She has just started getting into couponing and picking up a few things when she finds a really great deal. She is storing these items on a shelf in her hall closet.
Sarah’s Stockpile
Sarah’s house didn’t have much storage space, so her husband constructed these shelves in their stockpile room. The stockpile room is also her husband’s project room. 
Melanie’s Stockpile
Melanie started couponing in January and she was glad she did, because unfortunately her husband lost his job in March. Her couponing and stockpiling have helped their family during this time. She has built her stockpile to this level over 4 months. Melanie also teaches coupon classes in the Gig Harbor area and blogs at Harbor Homemaker.
Kyliee’s Stockpile
Kyliee’s stockpile is stored in their detached garage. They also have three full size freezers which makes it perfect for stocking up on meat and frozen goods. I loved what Kyliee had to say here: “We do donate on a regular basis to the local food bank, church, and recently made a large donation to a human trafficking charity through the NW Christian Women’s Conference. Stockpiling has really helped cut our grocery bill, and my husband even tells people that my ‘job’ is to take care of the kids and save the family money.”
Angela’s Stockpile
It took Angela almost a year to stock these items. Like Melanie, Angela’s husband is also out of work. She writes, “It’s a relief to have my stockpile and not have to worry about purchasing these items during these rough time. It’s well worth all the effort!”
In spite of what Angela’s family is going through, she lets family “shop” for items at her house and additionally shares some of it with neighbors who are stay at home moms.
Thanks to the readers who participated in today’s post! Last up…family sizes of 6+!
Just an FYI
I’m blessed to be getting a New Kitchen and Laundry room (on a budget of course…including a $0.10 KOHLER porcelain sink… see bottom of post)
Any way I boxed up everything, from both rooms and we’ve been living out of thees boxes and totes for about a month. As I’m a die hard couponer I still had to shop 🙂 and continued to bring home items. Well in my haste to put things away I put a bottle of ketchup still in the store bag into the wrong tote.
Yesterday when I needed Clorox drop in sheets, I started searching through the totes marked Laundry and found a “Ketchup Bomb” just on the verge of blowing it’s top!
It seems the fumes from all the cleaning products don’t match well with food items, even food items that are sealed. So please as you stockpile be aware of the items and view the manufactures suggested storage information. It could save you from a ketchup bomb 🙂
Ok the $0.10 sink 🙂
I love a deal so when I saw a local church garage sale I stopped. They had a few nice things that I thought were priced well and a few that I’d wished were in my price range (cheap). So I walked around shopped and chatted with a few folks I knew and while I was there it started to rain not hard just tiny little drops.
It was around 1;30 and the church members decided to post a $0.10 sign and just wrap up their sale.
So Jumped at the Kohler sink that was marked $50.00 (still a deal at 1/5 of what Lowes sells it for but I’m cheap).
So I asked “Is the sink ten cents too? And the slow mumbling answer was yes. At first the church members were a little put off, and I get that after all it was a church sale for a good cause and they could have made $50.00.
Then I told them why I needed it.
Because I’m a single Mom raising three sons, who left an abusive relationship, moved 2000 miles to the Bible Belt to raise my boys away from harm. I bought a delapitated old repo for pennies on the dollar using all of my 401k from my previous job. You see I felt lead by God to this town, to these people and to this sink that the Lord had just made possible for me to afford.
To them they lost a profit to me the sink meant I could cook, clean and care for my little family.
Blessings can come in all sizes even tiny little drops 🙂