Not so much with me, my “enhanced winter preparations” have been pretty much the usual stuff I normally stock up for winter (bulky or heavy items like paper products or canned goods) and substituting the things I would normally go to the store for during winter (milk, bread, salad mix) for longer shelf life replacements so I won’t have to go grocery shopping at all for 6 months. (At least if the rest of October goes according to plan, some things I haven’t fully finished stocking yet, some I have.)

Things I’ve changed:

-Canned Peas instead of salad mix
(cheaper)
-UHT Milk (and canned condensed milk
for the last bit of winter after that
runs out) instead of regular milk.
(slightly more expensive)
-Since my freezer can’t hold more than
a few weeks of sandwiches I’ll be
having Clif Bars for lunch instead
of peanut butter sandwiches.
(More expensive)

None of the changes are really driven by luxuries, for me it’s entirely driven by shelf life and the uncertainty of what shopping is going to be like when it’s -40°C and we have occupancy limits in stores and the lines outside that go with that at the same time.

Also it’s been a matter of re-thinking everything I use and doing the math to
be sure winter plus a few weeks is fully covered. (In case the government decides after a year of half-assed lock-downs and half-assed re-openings that the day the snow melts, _now_ we are going to get serious about stamping the last bit of COVID out with a full lockdown.)

Of course I’m “lower middle class” so
that may affect my prioritization. ^_-