It was one of those things that I just thought about while I was single, but never more than in an idle "that would be a good idea" sort of way. Now that I'm contemplating marriage to a young lady who already has a young daughter, I find myself seriously planning.
Cut a piece of plywood to fit flat inside your closet.
Buy in bulk enough canned goods to fill the bottom of the closet. (cans should all be the same height.
Lay the plywood in so that it covers the cans.
Place your shoes &etc on top of the plywood and forget about the cans underneath, til needed.
One whole side of our garage is cabinets from floor to almost ceiling. Until recently they were filled with junk. I cleaned them out and everytime I go to the grocery store I buy extra of stuff on sale to store in there.
Guess I am nuts but my grandmother always had about a 6 mnth supply of goods that could be eaten during ‘bad times’. Maybe she rubbed off on me. lol
Being an engineer, when I first started thinking about this, I focused on how you could rig up a system so you would put the cans you buy at one end, and when you took things off the other end, everything would automatically move down the row :-)
We probably have food in the freezer that has been there since the last major power outage, which was several years ago.
We probably have boxes of mix from last decade, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find a can of soup from the 80s if I looked hard enough.
But it’s not purposeful, we are just horrendously disorganized in our food storage. The only food that comes and goes regularly is the chocolate... :-)