Brain Fart

[bjarvis]

Ever have one of those moments while shopping for groceries & household supplies when you can't recall if you need to buy a particular item or not, so you do because, hey, if you're out of stock at home you're in trouble, and if you're not, well, it'll get used eventually.

Ever have that happen twice in one week on the same item? While shopping at a bulk supplies store?

I'm now the proud owner of 60 rolls of paper towels.

Doh.

Memo to self: no paper towel purchases until, oh, 2008 or so.

Comments

[rlegters.livejournal.com]

That's so funny...we did exactly the same thing.

Every time we went to Costco for a couple of months we couldn't remember if we had paper towels, so we bought some. We'd get home to put them away in the attic, and...D'oh!

We didn't need to buy paper towels literally for two years or something, so every time we went to Costco, we had to remind ourselves "We've got enough paper towels to last the rest of our lives."

Which, of course, was not true, as we discovered when we used the last roll and popped a head up into the attic to get another, and there were none, because we'd just been to Costco and talked ourselves out of buying more.

Sometimes you can't win for losin'.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

It was more like 5 years. I didn't think we would ever reach the end of them.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Good thing it was paper towels and not, say, toilet paper. Hate running out of that.

not running out of toilet paper

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

oh you ARE a true resident of Washington.

the rest of the continent has a view of DC - as soon as "snow" appears in the weather forecast, the shops are denuded of milk, bread and bogroll.

and you a canajun boy from Cambridge ON, growing up in New Liskeard, and not remembering a time he couldn't ice skate. fie!

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I got through the first line of this post and thought to myself, "I have to tell him about our never ending stock pile of Paper towels."

Great minds think alike. Or don't think alike, or....something like that.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

After a couple has been together long enough, they cease to have independent identities or thoughts. :-)

Last week, while filing papers in the basement office, I got a paper cut on my left hand. Without prompting, Kent shouted "ouch!" from upstairs. Go figure.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Steve went to Costco last week and got paper towels. Before he left the house, I told him WE DO NOT NEED PAPER TOWELS. He also came home with a bunch of other stuff that we didn't need. Um, that's why I gave him a short list. He's no longer permitted to go out alone! ;-)

In San Francisco, space is at a premium. We don't have room for extra paper towels!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

You let him go shopping on his own? I thought you just used him as bait! :-)

In San Francisco, space is at a premium. We don't have room for extra paper towels!

Our house has plenty of storage, thank god. The pantry, the basement walk-in storage closet, the attic and the freezer are well stocked. We're ready for the Apocalypse!

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

I'm the same with lemons - I mean you can never have too many lemons can you ?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Depends what you're drinking...

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

Mines a G&T thanks :)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

So noted, on the off chance that I'll be in a position to buy you a drink some day!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

They don't keep indefinitely, even in the refrigerator.

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

They do a good job to look edible until you actually pick one up and realise how hard it's got (the lemon that is)

[rsc.livejournal.com]

...or soft.

[(Anonymous)]

What's even worse is when you go to the store for a specific item, and can't remember exactly what you needed when you get there.

Early onset of Alzheimers, I guess.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

That was me, sorry. Thought I was logged in.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

My mother and I used to (inadvertently) play a little game. She'd drive into town to go shopping, forgetting her carefully crafted shopping list at home. I'd guess which items she would remember and which ones she'd forget. I always had an 80% hit rate, with occasional jumps to 100%.

Sorry, what were we just talking about?

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

That story is OH so familiar in our household!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

If we bought that many rolls of paper towels, we'd have a storage problem.

After a couple has been together long enough, they cease to have independent identities or thoughts.

Tell me about it.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

You could always store the extras at the summer house...

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

I certainly have...and now I have like three boxes of water filters. :)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Unfortunate, but at least, like my paper towels, they won't go bad. Good thing it wasn't something more perishable.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we do that all the time. Only at our house it's cooking spray. And mustard. And then there's the time I put "hot pads" aka potholders on the list. A couldn't read my writing and thought it said "trout logs." He was all over the store for an hour looking for trout logs. I think he even asked the meat department.

Offer to babysit a friend's new puppy or small child not yet capable of neatly feeding self for a week. You will no longer have a paper towel glut problem.