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!