Huh? Unless you know when you are going to die, you can always use it up or sell it off. And isn't buying stuff at a discount the definition of "maximizing your savings"?
Oil + filter hoarders
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I take all mine to either the buddy of mines big truck garage as he has waste oil heater. Or if he has enough I dump it into one of our two 900 gal waste oil tanks at my work. Safety Kleen doesn’t care.
I can see if you have accrued alot of credit 2 years ago you are in for a penny/pound. So 2 years and lots of inflation later, are you still only out $22.80 per shipment for an oil change? (current large flat rate box rate)
Overall I like their comprehensive kits they sell and the lifetime warranty, takes alot of part research out of the equasion and prices arent bad either.
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No, maximizing your savings doesn't mean buying everything in sight just because it's cheap. If you normally have two TVs in your house, and Walmart had a great sale on Samsung TVs, are you going to buy twenty TVs to best capitalize on the sale? No, because then you're still buying a bunch of things that you don't ordinarily need. Same can happen even with consumables like oil if you greatly over buy. There are some serious stashes here (not just in this thread, but shared on BITOG over the years in general where people have basically their own warehouse inventory.
Most people don't change TV's every 3 or 4 months. You're confusing durable goods with consumables.
Hmm. Never thought of that. For environmental reasons I presume?
A consumable is quite different than a product you will never use.
More like, cheaper to make and ship.
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Not if you buy more than you can actually consume. People here that have hundreds of quarts of oil at one time for their personal cars (not a fleet), you can't tell me they're using all of it.
Why do women have 50 pairs of shoes or dresses?
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You can wear different pairs of shoes on the same day, or during different nights of the week.
You don't switch back and forth between 300 quarts of oil.
Stash has grown a lot, this year. I’ve been able to offer free oil changes to a lot of family and friends. Also dropped off a significant amount to a family friend that is a mechanic in a small town. He does most of the work for my dad’s farm these days, so this put some goodwill there.
Except half the shoes they never wear after buying them.
I have 8 cars I take care of.
The only oil that I've been sitting on for a while is the xxW-50. I'm between Porsches right now.
I have spent $4K on returnable items (that I use reguarly/will use LRG on) to-date. I have $2.3K in returns so far. I've spent about $100 in return shipping to-date. With the new system, I typically have several $'00 in store credit on my account at any time to use for all this crap.
Ah, to each his own. I have 0 quarts of oil in my stash.
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Thanks for posting this, now I have something to show to my wife when she complains about the 7 jugs I have (for 4 vehicles).
my current stash is 159 qts of synthetic oil, 5-6 oil filters.
Average cost for oil is $1.07/qt.
No current pic of it.
I have 7 vehicles I service, and this is probably 5 years worth of changes.
I just recently bought 52 qts from the Tractor Supply clearance (10 qts PP 5w-30 and 42 qts of Travelers Syn 10w-30) and 34 qts of Total from the Advance Auto Clearance.
Who are you to say what someone else will consume?
Just because you can't see a use case for it does not mean it does not exist.
Quit being ignorant.
Average cost for oil is $1.07/qt.
No current pic of it.
I have 7 vehicles I service, and this is probably 5 years worth of changes.
I just recently bought 52 qts from the Tractor Supply clearance (10 qts PP 5w-30 and 42 qts of Travelers Syn 10w-30) and 34 qts of Total from the Advance Auto Clearance.
Wow, so you are able to tell others needs without knowing what their use case is?
Who are you to say what someone else will consume?
Just because you can't see a use case for it does not mean it does not exist.
Quit being ignorant.
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