Do you end up stockpiling/buying multiples?

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I must confess, once I find something I like, if I can afford it, get multiples of it.

The latest is polo neck jumpers that actually hug the neck. But I think I can get carried away.
So it spills over into other facets of my life. I have about 7 thousand books and 12 cats. Even I can see that it's getting a bit crowded. Thought it was just me, but was wondering, mayhap it's the aspie in me, married up to the inate hoarder in me? How about you?

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I have it with books. Since I alternately live at my mother's place and on my own, I like to have my "libraries" duplicated, at least to some extent. This is very expensive of course, and my mom thinks it's nonsense.

Oh yes, I do that with groceries as a matter of course. For things like loo roll, if I have a pack open, I want to have at least another unopened pack as backup. Same with washing up liquid, laundry powder, cereal, etc. I just thought it was good housekeeping, so I didn't have to worry about rushing out for stuff. Do you think people don't tend to do this?

I live in a house that's way too small for our family, so in general, I don't do that, simply because there's no place to put anything.

The exception is, if I find a shirt I like, and it fits, I'll buy it in many colors. Same with bras, because I hate the process of trying on 150 different ones to find one that fits right. (Too much information, I know, but honestly, most bras are designed by someone who clearly has never actually needed one. ) So, on the rare occasion that the store actually has more than one in stock, I'll get as many as I can. Assuming I can afford to, which, lately, is not the case.

Bras and clothes are a bit of a sore topic with me. I'd finally gotten a nice casual wardrobe, all the layers from in to outside fitting me, in enough numbers so that I had enough to last me a fortnight without having to do laundry if I chose not to.

Then I went on what my friend calls the "Stupid B*st*ard Diet", and after the loss of my husband, I've lost some 1-1.5 stones. Well, of course that nicely gathered collection of clothes don't fit properly any more, including the bras. Pah.

I don't know whether to get new bras, or whether I'm going to lose more weight, or put it back on, or the timescales. Grief aside, it's actually really annoying too.

Yes. Oh very much so yes.
Just yesterday I was out buying new jeans - Note, I hate buying jeans because of how uncomfortable jeans are on my skin - So I am looking at jeans in the Girl's section (Only jeans that fit me, sadly) and I saw a few pairs of the same jeans that I have and wanted to buy them in bulk, that way I would know that they fit and felt just fine. I asked my brother and he said "No, thats weird, buy a different pair". Haha. If I like something, I want to have many of them.

I don't do that because there isn't enough space in my house and I have a fear of becoming a hoarder because we have them in the family and I know the devestation it causes, so I guard against it by buying what I need when I need it and only as much as I need. That way I don't become overwhelmed with items, so much that it's mind numbing and I cannot cope with sorting thru everything and finding spaces and places for all the stuff. That's happened to a few family members and they cannot deal with sorting and organizing and it goes from there to worse. So, I don't let it go 'there' if I can help it.

i tend to buy multiples of soaps/shampoos/hair products especially if i know it's discontinued, or about to be. mainly because the item and its smell will be innately linked to a time and/or place in my life. i wouldn't call myself a hoarder so much as a pack rat, my things are the only things i have as i don't care for collecting people.

my mother, however, i would call borderline hoarder because she is elderly and tends to hoard/steal/pocket away things like wrapped plastic utensils, plastic containers, plastic cups, plastic bottles, napkins from fast food restaurants, and condiments. OH the condiments. because of her i hate anything other than clean, dry, freshly-obtained condiment packets. not piles and containers of them accumulating and sweating and sliming and leaking and sticking together in the fridge, breeding god knows what kind of bacteria. it makes me ill. i have to make secret dumps of her stuff every once in a while. it's not like it's stuff that means anything to her; it's just PLASTIC. and it's weird because she's from that Depression generation, which seems to breed a lot of that type of hoarder. you know, the little old lady that puts sugar packets in her purse at a restaurant; yet she's really wasteful at the same time because of the plastic consumption.

Sometimes, I buy two DVDs or toys so that one is kept "mint" and the other one is used.

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Yes I'm a stockpiler. I'm sick of going back to buy a thing only to find out that they've stopped selling it, or it's been "upgraded." And stockpiling helps me to avoid going to the shops so often. I like the idea of being able to survive a national disaster by staying in my home and just gradually using up the stocks. My home is my castle, and a castle isn't really a castle if it isn't stocked with everything that's needed to live through a siege.

With grocery shopping, my ideal was always to try and get it so that instead of buying a little bit of everything each time, I could just bulk-buy two or three items. That way, it makes more sense to shop around for the best prices and it's easier to remember what I want, and there are sometimes price breaks for large quantities. Of course that can't be done with most perishables, but the freezer is a great help there, especially for bread. It does make it difficult to know what my weekly food bill is thouigh, as what I buy in a week bears no relation to what I consume in the same week. And it can be risky - I have to watch the sell-by dates and guard against the stuff going off before I've eaten it. I lost a few kilos of margarine that way during a hot summer.

I don't stockpile multiples as such but when I get new music and I like a certain song, I will listen to it on repeat for an hour.

I only do that with shaving cream and dishwasher soap and I do that with paper towels.

I do that sometimes, depending on what it is, how much it costs, and how much money I have. And sometimes with clothes, I'll buy multiples of the same item, but in different colors.

Not really. Unless I see it as something I need to have a working spare available, I don't feel driven to collect redundancies of stuff I have.

Of course, I've moved twice, and unburdening my life is a lesson I've learned to hold to.