-{Background: Having finally moved into a larger house, we are able to unpack boxes that have been packed for a really long time. This included multiple boxes of bathroom utilities, where we found duplicates of a lot of things. Including, as you will see, a fair amount of soap. The following is based on a true story…}-
Clancy: Do you know how many bars of soap we have?
Will A lot, I’d bet.
Clancy: Eighteen! We have eighteen bars of soap!
Will That’s all?
Clancy: Why do we need eighteen bars of soap?
Will We don’t. I’m just glad we’re down to eighteen.
Clancy: Dare I ask how many we used to have?
Will I have no idea. You should ask when the last time we purchased soap was.
Clancy: When was the last time we purchased soap?
Will The summer of 2012. We’ve been coasting on inventory ever since.
Clancy: Why did we have that much inventory? And how do you remember the last time you purchased soap?
Will Well, remember Leaguefest? As you know – or maybe you don’t – I buy soap in three or four flavors at a time, and they come in packs of something like 12 or 16 each. Well, I noticed that we were running out and so I bought some before I went to Vegas. Then, when I got back, I forgot that I’d gotten it, and so I got another set. Then, when I next went shopping, I looked in the wrong cabinet to see if I’d already gotten it, and so I ended up getting it again. Then I found more downstairs.
Clancy: How many did we have?
Will I don’t know. I just put a freeze on buying more until we started to run low. If we only have eighteen, I may need to get more soon.
Clancy: …
Will Why are you looking at me like that? Like this is any different from the fact that we found like seven bars of your deoderant.
Clancy: That turned out to be a good thing, though, because they stopped making it and now I have a supply.
Will Maybe this will turn out to be a good thing, too.
Clancy: Did they stop making your soap?
Will How would I know? I haven’t purchased soap since 2012.
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Obviously a large quantity of soap will lead to a house being invisible to Google.Report
He was scrubbed from their database.Report
Keep it clean boys…Report
But you have soap to last a long time once the Zombie Apocalypse hits!
Now get some MREs. 🙂Report
Buying lots of soap so you don’t have to remember it each time you go to the store makes perfect sense to me.
No, you can’t look in my bathroom cabinet. Why do you ask?Report
Too late, Hanley!Report
Hey! That’s our job!Report
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I can’t believe this…Report
Why not, @dave?Report
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@dave – “I can’t believe this”
I know, right? DHS busting suspected movie pirates. Way to take the fight to Al Qaeda, guys.
I’m being absolutely serious here…are there any…any at all…known big wins that the DHS has pulled off in service of its original declared mission…you know, the one that the acronym stands for?
When the DHS was first announced, my German friend said, “one day that will be your Stasi”.
I suppose I should be relieved that the “D” appears to stand for “dunsel”.Report
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Thanks. The joke probably would have been better without my icon but I am glad that everyone knows I made it.Report
We have a BJ’s membership. We buy soap by the pallet. It never goes bad. It doesn’t take up much space. And we have tons of storage. If I get down to the last stack of soap (typically 7-8 bars), I re-load. I use a similar approach with other toiletries. Especially if they are on sale.
Think about it this way: Has anyone ever said, “I really wish we didn’t buy soap”?Report
I have. But I have limited carrying capacity when I take the bus to Costco.Report
They have new toilet seats there also i hear. And new dishwashers.Report
Yea, but you have to buy them by the baker’s dozen.Report
I do this with kitchen trashbags at Sam’s. I bought trash bags when I moved in to my current home 3 1/2 years ago. I go through 1-2 a week (depending on whether I’m alone or with teenager). I’m now on the last box I bought when I moved in, which should last me into next year, at which point I’ll have to buy another 4 years worth. I’m just hoping that trashbag technology hasn’t changed dramatically since 2011.Report
Oh, no, not at all. We promise.Report
We have a BJ’s membership
TMI, my friend.Report
I don’t think I know anyone else who goes shopping with a pallet jack. I always figured those were for moving inventory into the store.Report
Have you considered developing an obsessive-compulsive disorder to help with the soap surplus?Report
+1 Awesome!Report
I buy soap in three or four flavors at a time
Are you certain you are using them correctly? I’m a little bothered by calling them “flavors”.Report
If all of your soap were the kind in the photo & you had so much you were looking to move some & we lived in the same state, I’d be more than willing to help you out. That’s my brand; love that stuff. Sounds like none of that is the case, though.
Also, I did this with toothpaste. I have four full-sized tubes of Crest orig backed up right now. They only seem to sell it two-packs now, and I bought it once then forgot & thought I still needed it. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but at the rate I use it that is a ton of toothpaste.Report