Tariffs on products at Costco.

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53. My family did the same

During the height of the pandemic, we kept an extra shelf that we called "the pandemic grocery" out on our side patio and any time we found a good deal on non-perishables like canned foods, toilet paper, baking soda, dish soap, etc., we'd restock it. Not to a hoarding level or anything, but we'd lost my partner to COVID already and my elderly mom was being treated for cancer, so this was to reduce the number of times we had to go to the store or order expensive Instacart deliveries. (And yes, we were those freaks wiping our stuff off with bleach wipes before bringing it in the house if it came directly from the store, so having that set up meant we could just let the stuff sit for a week or more and reduce having to expend that energy.)

After the orange menace reinstalled himself, we reactivated it out in our garage and now have what we call "the tariff grocery." Coffee is heavily represented in the inventory because I work a really mentally-demanding job and I'll be damned if I'm going to be taxed on being able to wake up enough to do it effectively! Like wabbit said, olive oil/balsamic, etc. We have a "bin store" that buys pallets of stuff from Target/Amazon/Walmart and sells them for a steal, so we even bought duplicates of a few of our small appliances that we use a lot like toaster, hand blender, microwave, juicer and threw them in our storage locker.

I never saw myself as a "prepper," but here we are, I guess.