# Do you have a lifetime supply of anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618 "2007-05-26T17:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/1 "2007-05-26T17:09:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/2 "2007-05-26T17:10:29Z")
Air… …hopefully. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/3 "2007-05-26T17:10:39Z")
The only thing I’ve got that will last that long is my wife. Everything else will break or go bad! ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/4 "2007-05-26T17:19:43Z")
Yarn. ::Looks over at stash:: well, maybe not … ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/5 "2007-05-26T17:32:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/6 "2007-05-26T17:36:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/7 "2007-05-26T17:38:18Z")
Brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/8 "2007-05-26T17:39:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I suppose that you can post _ **you’re** _… :smack: Rats! Too late to edit! ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/9 "2007-05-26T17:46:46Z")
Sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![CeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/10 "2007-05-26T19:15:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/11 "2007-05-26T19:22:47Z")
Well, I’ve got a 3 pack of condoms. At the rate I’m going… ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/12 "2007-05-26T19:26:13Z")
Converse Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoes. I’ve got eleven pairs. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/13 "2007-05-26T19:26:39Z")
A few years ago, I found the perfect toothbrush for me. It’s called [Dentrust](http://www.dentrust.com/), and it really kicks ass. It is odd looking (reminds me of Stephen King’s [Langoliers](http://www.vincentguastiniproductions.com/LANGO4.jpg)), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/14 "2007-05-26T19:31:01Z")
Evil. I got enough evil in me to last this lifetime and the next, baby. Also Bernadette Peters albums. The second part is a joke. It is not possible to have enough Bernadette Peters. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/15 "2007-05-26T19:40:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/16 "2007-05-26T19:44:41Z")
I’m probably all stocked up on guitars, but lord knows I’ll find an excuse to acquire more of them. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/17 "2007-05-26T20:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Well, I’ve got a 3 pack of condoms. At the rate I’m going… [/QUOTE] 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 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/18 "2007-05-26T20:13:33Z")
Gloves. Work gloves and welding gloves. 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. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/19 "2007-05-26T20:14:49Z")
Stamps. 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. In the meantime, the USPS has my 32.80 now. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618/20 "2007-05-26T20:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=essell] The only thing I’ve got that will last that long is my wife. Everything else will break or go bad! [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t count on the fact that she won’t. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-lifetime-supply-of-anything/405618.md?page=2)