I totally agree with you on keeping the food you eat around. As far as the Ghee goes, making it is much cheaper than purchasing it. My thoughts on that would be that it would be a nice treat for bread. 4 pounds of butter from Costco is reasonable. I have been tempted to put some up for storage to see how long it would be viable.

So do oils have a longer date than 1 year? I was watching a couple of videos put on by the LDS, and their comments were they don't save oil because it goes bad. I personally don't think I have had shortening in the house for years now.

Love that you keep that much toilet paper. I have something very close to that in my garage. If I thought it would store ok up in the attic, I think I would store it up there as well.