What do you keep running out of?

[vivalostwages]

Every time I turn around, I have no bananas...and then I think, Man, I can't believe I have to go to the store for those things again.

What do you keep running short of?

[CynicalGabe]

Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.

[MsRobyn]

Milk. I was at the grocery store yesterday, too. Don't know why I didn't think to pick up another gallon.

Robin

[Shagnasty]

Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.

The situations where you would need all of things are not only immoral but probaby illegal too.

[Misnomer]

Frozen food. I buy enough for a few days and invariably run out before my next trip to the store.

Tissues. Once or twice a year I'll buy a bunch of boxes when I don't need them, and I spend the rest of the year thinking that I have extras when I don't.

Replacement toothbrush heads and knee-high stockings. Though it's not my fault that I run out of those, because the grocery store is usually out of them, too.

I'm also always out of furnace filters.

(My first thought on seeing the subject line was "patience." :D)

[bouv]

Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.

How much would I have to pay you to live your life for a week?

[Doctor Jackson]

Toilet tissue. We buy the Super Mega Multi Pack of Rolls of Tissue So Large That They Will Not Fit on the Holder. Yet every time I go to the pot - no paper.

[Creaky]

Kleenex, toilet paper, paper towels, and (with a nod to CynicalGabe) vodka.

[HelloKitty]

We don't have a dishwasher, or, more accurately a machine that washes dishes, so we are constantly running out of dish liquid. The SO seems to think that no less than 1/2 cup of ultra concentrated Dawn is needed to wash a half sink of dishes. A huge bottle that really should last us about 2 months has barely gotten us through 2 weeks.

Maybe it's time to switch to paper plates...but we'd probly run out of them, too!!

[Shirley Ujest]

Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.



Hunter S. Thompson, is dat you?




Meanwhile, outside of Bat Country....

Bread and pens. Our pens are migratory. (They are in the room we are not in.) Our coat hangers have been awol for months and then suddenly reappear in a frightened clot in the front hall closet. I'm starting to think the front hall closet is a portal to some evil alternate universe or something.

And food for the dog and cat. Fortunately, the dog has no issues about eating cat food for three days until I buy a Mega Colossal Jumbo Bag of K-9 Kibble. The cat, OTHO, is more selective.

[Cheez_Whia]

Kitchen size trash bags. My husband uses them for everything.

But the big black trash bags sit around forever. :rolleyes:

[racer72]

Money, cash, payola, greenbacks, etc. Bread and soda seem to be the staples we run short of on a regular basis.

[levdrakon]

Lemon juice. I use lots & lots of lemon juice. I keep a jar of crystalized citric acid in the cupboard for when I run out.

[kanicbird]

Nothing really, I know how to buy in quantities that don't lead to this. I guess the closest thing is fuel.

Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.....
How much would I have to pay you to live your life for a week?

You get paid Bouv, CynicalGabe just runs the local Quicky-Mart in a very bad part of town. :D

[BMalion]

Captain Morgan's

[corkboard]

Our coat hangers have been awol for months and then suddenly reappear in a frightened clot in the front hall closet.
This gave me an irrational fit of the giggles. I'm still laughing just picturing a frightened clot of wire hangars. Now that's comedy.

Everytime I open the medicine cabinet we're out of mouthwash again. And even though I buy a couple six-packs of beer and a couple bottles of wine every Friday night, I have to do it all over again the next week. I guess we drink more than I realized.

[UrbanChic]

Patience and time.

[Zsofia]

Milk, bread, that stuff. Lunchmeat - not that I run out of it, but that I forget I had it in the fridge and it's old when I next notice it. Ditto prewashed salad. Pillsbury frozen cheese and garlic biscuits - they're hard to find, and I keep running out of them. And I keep forgetting to make more sweet tea.

[Winnie]

Plastic grocery bags. I'm a dog walker, and I'm always grabbing a huge wad of plastic bags to stash in my car but yet I'm always down to just one when it comes time to walk the beasties. What the eff are people FEEDING these dogs?

[Khadaji]

Beer

[Translucent Daydream]

Milk. I was at the grocery store yesterday, too. Don't know why I didn't think to pick up another gallon.

Robin

I will second this and add that Wal-Mart milk sucks big floppy donkey dick. I used to work there and they leave it out in the back room before it gets put into their grossly inadequate walk-in dairy case. It always will go bad on you about 3 days before the sell by date.

And even knowing all of this, I some how ended up bringing a gallon of this white-crap-posing-as-milk home. :dubious: And it sits in my icebox, good until 1-01-06, smelling funny already.

Never have a problem with Braums milk.

Sorry for the hijack.

[Ogre]

Kitchen size trash bags. My husband uses them for everything.

But the big black trash bags sit around forever. :rolleyes:Katherine, is that you?

I told you I'm saving the big ones for, y'know, outdoor stuff.

:)

[Zahava424]

Plastic forks, pencils, shaving cream and shampoo.

[Crescent]

Kleenex, toilet paper, paper towels, and (with a nod to CynicalGabe) vodka.


nods to Creaky and Cynical Gabe

Same here.

[Spoons]

Cream for coffee.

My wife will only put proper cream in her coffee--no milk or creamlike powdered substance. I'm not so selective; I'll use whatever is available, or take my coffee black if I have to. But we always seem to be down to the last few drops of cream.

[Angel of the Lord]

Toothpaste. It feels like I'm going through it like water. Also, plastic knives--though this is mostly because they won't sell them in anything other than a variety pack including spoons and forks as well (both of which are useless, as I use the knives to spread stuff on my bagel in the morning without having to worrry about dishes).

[silenus]

Bourbon, cat food, ingredients for spaghetti/tacos, taco sauce, Trader Joe's Teriyaki Wings and beer.

[Annie-Xmas]

The situations where you would need all of things are not only immoral but probaby illegal too.

You forgot fattening.

[eleanorigby]

Patience and time.


Bingo.

Me, too.

[Anaamika]

Creamer. I stock up, and so I'm always thinking "I've got plenty!" and then I turn around, and there's none.

Bread.

Milk.

We drink seltzer water by the case, so we're careful not to run out, but often we still do.

Toilet paper - problem here, too.

[NoClueBoy]

Human livers.

Rubber bands.

Excuses.

[Annie-Xmas]

Human livers.



How well stocked are you with fava beans and a nice Chicanti?

[Stuffy]

nods to Creaky and Cynical Gabe

Same here.

Nods to all three, with the caveat that I'm generally on the throne when it happens.

[NoClueBoy]

How well stocked are you with fava beans and a nice Chicanti?


Hello, Clarice.

[Arien]

Conditioner, which runs out way before an equally sized shampoo bottle will.

[koeeoaddi]

Maxalt*, gingerale, library book time, chocolate

*overpriced migraine med

[Telperien]

Soap. Who is using my soap? I take a lot of showers, true, but not that many.

[LouisB]

Time. I'm rapidly running out of time.

[dogbutler]

Beer
Salsa
Seltzer
Cat and dog food(Eat the Wheaties, or eat each other)

[Hilarity N. Suze]

Conditioner, which runs out way before an equally sized shampoo bottle will.

You must be using MY shampoo. Cause I always run out of that way before conditioner.

[sj2]

My raspberry jam seems to go from full to 1/4 inch from the bottom magically. And seems to stay that way. :D

[jabiru]

Conditioner, which runs out way before an equally sized shampoo bottle will.

I can get through five or six bottles of shampoo before the conditioner even looks like running out. I've never been able to figure how people use more conditioner than shampoo. Don't most people do two shampoos then condition?

As to the original question: I'm constantly running out of stawberries. I buy two punnets everyday but still it's not enough.

[Cunctator]

Cheese and potatoes

[jayjay]

Already been said, but money's the big one. I'm always running out of that stuff...

[NoClueBoy]

Beef, bean, and cheese burritos.