Proud of my girlfriend!
 

Some of you may remember a few months ago I started a thread about my first prep activity, and how my g/f dipped into the stash right away because she wasnt in the mood for any of the other food we had around the house. That caused a little friction between us but I got over it.

Anyway, she had a bridal shower this weekend, and had bought a bunch of toilet paper as part of the gag portion. They ended up not using any of it so she asked me if she should try taking it back to the store for a refund. I laughed and said I had no idea. Right away she said, "You know what? I will just add it to our storage (stash) in the basement".

I think she is seeing all the news reports and it confirms everything I was saying last year so she is seeing that I am not some paranoid freak preparing for nothing. I am glad that she is realizing where we are headed and is getting on board a little more each day. :coolbeer:

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:yippee::111::moon:

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+1

We are at one thousand rolls and counting. Gonna be worth a fortune some day.

Can't help it, Ponce got me started.

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All the Europeans,Asians near and far Easterners on thsi board are laughing and thinking ' only an American would buy a thousand rolls of toilet paper'....
LOL

ST

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When they all have itchy a$$ I will be selling rolls for an ounce of silver..:tongue_ma:

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All -

True story.

(Note: I have been building very large yachts for

The obscenely rich for the last 29 years.

Now, before anyone gets on a possible high horse,

We provide family wage jobs with full benefits for upward of 1500

People, which, ultimately counts for me.

I have ZERO problem with taking money, legally

From the very rich.)

Anyway, we had built a 130' for a Japanese businessman

-this was back in the mid eighties -

And the crew was preparing the boat for its journey

From the West coast of the USA to Japan.

I was keeping an eye on things the last couple weeks

The boat was still at dock.

What the crew absolutely filled the whole boat with were:

Toilet paper.

Tires.

Hard liquor.

Golf Balls.

Athletic shoes.


And I mean by the caseload, in every cabin, compartment and head.

Apparently these items were relatively far less expensive in the US

Than Japan. One of the damndest things I ever saw.


scyth

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I have never thought of counting my stash in terms of rolls.

I can see that we will soon have toilet paper fondling threads on here.:565:

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I'm a toilet tissue hoarder too, I think I had about 1000 rolls at
one time , too.
I quit buying TP for a little while and stock baby wipes now.

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We all know there is nothing more important than having the brown starfish sanitized.

:moon:


:banana:

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Twister, who in the hell flushes baby wipes, silly !!
That'd be like flushing a washcloth.

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TENANTS

:banghead::banghead::banghead:

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OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY !!!!!

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A little basic hygiene (soap and water) is much better for that issue than toilet paper. You only need enough TP to take care of the immediate business, then take a shower...TP wiped clean ain't exactly clean.

Funny how we cover all the little things around here, :rofl:

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Well why not? Enough gold gets stroked around here.

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That is not really a TSHTF option though is it? Then take a shower. Or a bidet.

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There are many ways to take a shower...it doesn't take a lot of water or much power. I lived in a tipi in New Mexico years ago and used a Sunshower everyday. Filled it up from the spring near the tipi and let it sit in the sun for awhile...not too long either, because it got too hot if you did. I think it was about 3 gallons...enough to wash my hair, soap up, and a good rinse. If you had to, you could fill the bag with warm water and use it without sun. In my RV I can shower using very little water also, you just can't stand in the showing with the water running the whole time if you are conserving water and waste tank space.

It is easier and healthier to practice good hygiene than to store massive amounts of toilet paper, at least to me.

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Ten years ago I occasionally pre-partied at a drinking buddy's apartment before we would go out for the night.
Nature would call frequently since we were big drinkers. After a while I noticed a black sock that was on the floor.
A few weeks passed and the sock did not disappear. I finally asked my drinking buddy what was the deal with the black
sock. It turns out his roommate Dave did not use TP. Dave would rinse the sock after use, and toss
in back on the floor. http://i42.tinypic.com/2cys9z9.gif

http://i44.tinypic.com/2hziz5d.jpg

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Skimpen on the TP can be beneficial in other ways as well.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ty/newsafe.jpg

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Good for her, she's learning. btw, I sure miss having a basement.

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It's nice to have one but ours is pretty small compared to our last house which had a few hundred square feet of storage space down there. It was creepy as hell down there though, and both of us always had that feeling like someone was watching you. :no_ma:

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Or she knows you are full of shit.

sorry I could not resist walking through that wide open door. :tongue_ma:

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What was used in the old days, leaves?

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Corn cobs, old Sears and Roebuck magazines, sponge on a stick, etc.

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Just the spirits of the dead buried under the house. :biggrin:

I do know that feeling though. When I lived in PA, my friend lived in a house that was about 150 years old. Very nice 2 story house with 6 basements! The first basement had the washer/dryer and some other crap. There was a stairwell in the corner that took you down to the next level, and so on. There wasn't any electricity in the lower basements. We went down about 4 levels before I got freaked enough and headed back up. It was like sensory deprivation down there. Complete blackness! Looking back, I'd love to have that now. You could prep to your heart's content and never fill one or two of those basement levels (they were big). I can't imagine what it'd cost to dig that deep today to build a multilevel basement.