Do you stockpile your favorites? Unopened tubes shelf life?

[Noodles]

I am afraid you are guessing wrong.
Last time I was in Germany (10/2022) they had disappeared from the shelves from all the major drugstore chains.

Hmm....interesting. Maybe they got an order in before they disappeared. I bought one out of curiosity more than anything.

 

[Hu3ir0 Hu3Hu3]

better start stocking up on stirling sheep

 

[Frank Shaves]

I would not stockpile anything. If there is a product which you would like to try because you have heard it is a solid performer, buy one. There will always be great performing soaps and creams for you to try if that one product changes formulation or is discontinued.

That's what I thought and then they stopped making Tabac with tallow, Speick with tallow and Floid Vigoroso. I now practice targeted stockpiling.

 

[FL shaver]

Those are great products! And this is the first I am hearing about Floïd :-(

 

[Matchless]

This forum is a pretty terrible influence. This week I ordered a box of Arko and 5 tubes of both Classic and menthol Palmolive.

 

[know1special]

I don't tend to stockpile any one thing but I have great heaping piles of many different things.

Because I have so much stuff to get through I'm often opening up something years after I bought it.

So far, I've not had any problems although sometimes creams need to be rehydrated or maybe just used in their more solid form.

IIRC, my current record is a tube of Proraso green that was probably a decade old. Little stiffer than new but otherwise fine.

To be honest, I don't buy vintage software so I'll leave it to others to comment on that. Although, at the rate I'm going some of my collection may become vintage before too long.

 

[VerbaVolant]

I bought in bulk anything that I enjoyed using and brought satisfaction as good value. It was also somehow therapeutic as I am a bit of a control freak (my own family diagnosed me some time ago...) and wanted to, at very least, have a good grip on this. I would like to believe it is rather benign and very cheap "deviance". No, I have not been through therapy but promised to seek help if I ever buy one more shaving product.
That being said... 100 Palmolive sticks, wow. Respect @wibbleandstrop23! I only have 39.

I usually don't regret purchases, but always regret missed ones, I didn't buy.

Oh, I keep part of my stash (mostly soaps and few creams) in the fridge. I don't really care if I can still use them, let's say 10-15 years from now. I get comfort knowing they are there.

 

[wibbleandstrop23]

I bought in bulk anything that I enjoyed using and brought satisfaction as good value. It was also somehow therapeutic as I am a bit of a control freak (my own family diagnosed me some time ago...) and wanted to, at very least, have a good grip on this. I would like to believe it is rather benign and very cheap "deviance". No, I have not been through therapy but promised to seek help if I ever buy one more shaving product.
That being said... 100 Palmolive sticks, wow. Respect @wibbleandstrop23! I only have 39.

I usually don't regret purchases, but always regret missed ones, I didn't buy.

Oh, I keep part of my stash (mostly soaps and few creams) in the fridge. I don't really care if I can still use them, let's say 10-15 years from now. I get comfort knowing they are there.

I wish that I’d bought 100 Valobra sticks but they were £10, Palmolive was 50p at my local Morrisons, when it was available. So I decided to get a lifetimes supply of soap for the price of 5 Valobra sticks.

 

[Multum in parvo]

The last place in Europe that had Palmolive sticks was Switzerland but they are gone there as well. You can now find them on the German eBay together with the Irisch Moos sticks for crazy prices.

I got my last ones from Ireland 2 years ago but this was old stock and a private purchase they were discontinued way before.