For some reason, stores around here stopped stocking my favorite-fake-sugar-of-choice, liquid Sweet ‘n’ Low. So I decided to go online and get some. I bought a case of 12 bottles, which will last me for at least six years. (Does that stuff go bad?)
That’s not really a lifetime supply, Og willing, but it got me wondering about people who stock up, or have a supply of something that will last for the foreseeable future.
I suppose that you can post you’re “I’ve had enough __________ to last a lifetime!” musings here, too.
String. We needed some for a school project that my son had in kindergarten. I ran into Smart 'n Final but all they had were these honking great industrial-sized spools. I was desperate (the project was due the next day!) so I bought it anyway.
The boy is in fourth grade now and the spool is not noticably smaller than when I bought it. This is despite many other school projects, and my daughter’s tendency to decorate her room with string. I suspect the cardboard box containing my ashes will be tied shut with string from The Great Spool.
Fish hooks. I was at a discount outdoors expo and stumbled into the deal of a lifetime. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of like 5000 size 2/0 fishing hooks, and I lose maybe one or two per fishing trip, so I doubt I’ll be running out of them any time soon.
I have more yarn than my local yarn store. Of course, it’s only a lifetime supply, depending on how fast I can knit it and if I buy more during the course of my life. Which of course, I will.
A few years ago, I found the perfect toothbrush for me. It’s called Dentrust, and it really kicks ass. It is odd looking (reminds me of Stephen King’s Langoliers), but I found this product to be immensely better than any other toothbrush I have ever used, manual or electric.
I got a great price on Dentrust toothbrushes by ordering a gross (144) of them. I am currently 59 years old, and I wear out about 4 toothbrushes a year, so my supply of toothbrushes will last until I am 95. Even if I live that long, I don’t expect to have any teeth then.
Diaries. I’ve kept a diary since I was eight. To fill all the ones I have bought and other people have given to me, I’ll have to live to be about 297 years old.
I thought I had such a supply too, until I found out they actually had a best before date. I kept my free sample (heh, tell a girl your only contraception is a freebie) until it expired, IIRC at least a year before losing my virginity
Someone I know used to work at a factory, and at one point brought home everything he could carry out that wasn’t nailed down. I’ve personally got about 20 pair of work gloves (good for gardening and construction), a dozen pair of some kind of thinner leather gloves (which my uncle prefers for gardening) and a half dozen pair of really nice welding gloves. I think I’ve only used one pair of welding gloves and 2 pair of work gloves since I’ve moved in.
I give them away a lot. He has a lot more at his house too.
The 41 cent forever stamp thing is the most brilliant marketing scheme the USPS ever thought up.
Think about it. I rarely use stamps. A yearly birthday card to my sister, the once-in-while thing that can only be mailed. I might use 4, 5 stamps a year.
I bought 80 forever stamps.
Even if I use up 40 before the price goes up again – to say, 43 cents – I only saved 80 cents, after that time and beyond.
