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]

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.

[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!

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

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

[(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.

[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.

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

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

[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.