When I was a teenager there was a huge push at church for family preparedness in case of emergencies. Families were challenged to go for a month without any shopping to see how well they would fare in surviving on their storage. My mom and dad accepted the challenge! It is a tribute to my mom's awesome cooking that we ate well and that she could whip up an amazing meal from simple ingredients found in our store room. HOWEVER, we quickly found out how much toilet paper a family of 7 kids and 2 parents would could run through. I remember some pretty serious discussions at family meetings about using one square. Near the end of the month my folks were encouraging us to go play with our friends and please use their bathrooms before coming home.
My own children probably wonder why every available drawer in each bathroom is stuffed with toilet paper, and why an entire shelf in our store room is devoted to toilet paper. Now you know.
The other thing I will never run out of is.....
I love this! It will be great to have all these stories recorded. If you ever need help, Shay's pretty good with blogger, although it looks like you've got things figured out!
ReplyDeletethere couldn't be a correlation between the t.p. and the chips, could there? nah...
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