When you improperly store your stockpile, you can wind up losing money. That is what happened to me. Don’t let it happen to you.
The other day, I was packing up some sandwiches to take with us on one of our frugal summer adventures when I got to the last of the roll of plastic wrap. Since I try to buy ahead when things are on sale, and I have a small stockpile, I’m never worried when I run out of certain things. I just headed downstairs to the basement to pick up a new roll.
It used to be that I had a larger stockpile of items on a series of shelves in the basement. That was until we had the basement insulated and finished to be used mostly as a playroom for the kids. The stockpile got cut down, with some of it moving upstairs to pantries in the dining room. A couple of boxes of paper products and wraps, got moved to the crawl space to get them out of the way.
Unfortunately what I discovered is that the crawl space couldn’t be completely insulated because of the existing oil tank. This means that it wasn’t as dry as I might have liked. This also means that when I brought the plastic wrap up, the cardboard smelled very musty. Not wanting to jeopardize my family’s health in case there was also mold in there, I opted to toss the plastic wrap, and the rest of the stockpile.
This is such a good example how I wound up losing money because I didn’t store that part of my stockpile in a good location. Items should be in cool, dark and dry places for long term storage.
Also, an organized stockpile is a good idea, because if you can’t see what you have, you may wind up having to toss expired items or purchase items at full price, even if you already had them in your stockpile.
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