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Depends. Meat, maybe. Toilet paper? Doubtful. You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it. Not to mention gas to drive and get

• rootusrootus 5y ago
  > $150 at Home Depot Good luck with that. Even with an off-brand, you're looking at much closer to twice that if you want any kind of heated water.
  • com2kid 5y ago
    Home Depot actually has their own feature reduced SKUs from popular brands. But checking prices, they are around $250.
• josephcsible 5y ago
  > You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it. If you have the space anyway, you're not paying any extra to store stuff in it. And it's expensive enough to move that it's not economical to do so just to have the lower payments from 1 fewer square foot. > Not to mention gas to drive and get it. And vehicle insurance. And car maintenance. If you stop at the store on the way home from somewhere else that you were going anyway, the additional cost of those things is basically zero.
  • com2kid 5y ago
    The alternative is living in an area where you don't have to drive everywhere to get things. I drive maybe 200 miles a month now. I walk down the street to a supermarket to get toilet paper when I run out.
    • jjav 5y ago
      > I drive maybe 200 miles a month now. But still pay full insurance presumably? I've been fighting this with the insurance company ever since the pandemic started. We no longer drive anywhere daily, working from home. But the insurance company wants to maximize profit so they won't approve less than 6000 miles per year, a number they made up, and keep raising prices.
      • com2kid 5y ago
        I barely drove 6000 miles a year pre pandemic while living in the suburbs!