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Wife always has at least one cat so cat litter is always on the shopping list. My hoarding weakness is collecting the empty heavy-duty plastic buckets w/ lids the brand she buys is sold in. Handy as all get-out for lots of things. I use them to store wild bird feed in as they keep stuff dry and safe from rodents and insects, water for flushing toilet when main is down for repairs, fishing bait, ice melt, dry fertilizer, even as planters for tomatoes and such, etc. I usually have about a dozen at all times.

What things are difficult for you to pass up in the stores? What's tough to make yourself throw away, or quit stocking up on? (Aside from ammo/components).

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Dam it.

Ok, I do hoard.


Jim, whole hams? I buy those thanks and butts for $.99/#.
Sore Dick deal, you just can't beat it.

Slice it off for sammies, ham and eggs, whatever.
It keep a looonnngggg time. If you throw half of it away, it's still cheap.
Cook the very end for pot pie or beans.

Soon be some of them waiting for me.
Bet we have a couple in a freezer now!

Boomers like to hoard random odd things, like bulk crappy .22lr ammunition. Which is fine since they leave the good SK, wolf mt, eley, and cci target stuff alone....its not 2 cents a round I guess.

hundred dollar bills---never have enough of them--:)

Oh good its not just me. I've got 3 or 4 full of stuff in the garage and another 2 or 3 on stand by. I keep going to pitch the empty ones out but that stupid hey I might need that thing creeps in.

Wife always has at least one cat so cat litter is always on the shopping list. My hoarding weakness is collecting the empty heavy-duty plastic buckets w/ lids the brand she buys is sold in. Handy as all get-out for lots of things. I use them to store wild bird feed in as they keep stuff dry and safe from rodents and insects, water for flushing toilet when main is down for repairs, fishing bait, ice melt, dry fertilizer, even as planters for tomatoes and such, etc. I usually have about a dozen at all times.

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What things are difficult for you to pass up in the stores? What's tough to make yourself throw away, or quit stocking up on? (Aside from ammo/components).

For me, it seems like I can't not grab steaks when they're on special. Half a dozen packages seem to always find their way to one of the freezers.

I also find myself "collecting" spray paint when I walk by that aisle. There's two or three huge totes of spray paint in my storage shed, as you never know when you'll need to paint a deer stand, or an ATV rack, or some steel targets. My wife and kids try to steer me away from that part of the store.

Pocket-size LED flashlights are everywhere around my place too, on all the nightstands, by all the doors, in all the cars. And with flashlights you have to have lots of batteries on hand, so you need a "battery cabinet" in the laundry room.

I also can't make myself throw away the good plastic coffee cans, as I always set them aside for brass or bullets.

Got to have a variety of good boxes for shipping guns and scopes too. I purged my attic earlier this year and it hurt to throw out a lot of those extra ones. I just know I'll need that exact box when it's time to ship something next month.

Bet I have a washtub full of handwarmers and footwarmers too. Grab a pack in the store, get a pack in your stocking, and it adds up over the years.

Surprisingly, my place does not look like an episode of "Hoarders" as useless junk and clutter tends to find its way to Goodwill or the dumpster.....

G R E A T idea!! cool cool

I think I'll have the wife buy this kind of litter, instead of the kind in bags. I'm always running to Big-R and buying plastic buckets.

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Not generally a hoarder, but age teaches a guy to have a few extra things on hand that make more sense to have around than to wish you had around, but don't.

Costco's Macadamian Nut cluster containers. I have dozens in the garage, including about 25 empty ones - the rest have nuts, bolts, screws, etc. in them. Handy