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I bought all I'll ever need at garage sales.

I wish I would have beat you to the garage sale. I have a water well (good flow) with H2S. The only treatment is a bleach injector into a holding tank. I use a lot of bleach and found stockpiling was not a solution. The bottled bleach oxidizes and loses it's effectiveness rather quickly. That is how I came about handling pool shock before it was popular.

The chemical injection pump is a pain in the back side and they do take advantage of you. Every three years the pump diaphragm fails. No problem? They will sell you a rebuild kit for almost the same amount as the original pump. Ugh.

I am envious.

"The bottled bleach oxidizes and loses it's effectiveness rather quickly. That is how I came about handling pool shock before it was popular. "

I've been at it a while too.

I threw away a lot of bleach before I discovered pool shock. My son (PhD physics) said that bleach loses about 50% strength in one years time. Hydrogen peroxide is even worse. I don't even bother with H2O2 anymore.