Irony
I actually have a lifetime supply of two things: dental floss, and candles.
They’ve pretty much stopped making unwaxed dental floss, which is the dentist-recommended kind for really getting the gunk out. So when I discovered, a while back, that Kroger still sold it, I started buying a handful of 'em every time I shopped. With the result that there’s now an…extremely laaaaaarge…box of dental floss up in our bathroom closet, more than enough for that guy who escaped from jail by making a rope out of dental floss.
And during the Great Ice Storm of '06 last winter, not only did Walgreens nationwide happen to be running a huge coupon sale on votive candles (8/$1), but also the Mt. Zion Dollar Tree happened to have a double truckload of those Red Cross emergency candles. Since the power was back on in Decatur everywhere but our block ( :mad: )after the first couple of days, I had no compunction about making several trips to the Dollar Tree and basically buying out their entire stock, and of making several trips around town to all five Decatur Walgreens and buying as many votive candles as Management would let me have.
My husband mocks, but I tell him, “Do not mock. We are fully prepared for the next Big One.”
Plus we’ll have no dental floss worries while we sit there in the dark.
hmmm, I am a sucker for bulk lots, so I’m all set for:
Little rubber feet
Stepper motors
1/4 watt resistors
luxeon star 1 watt LEDs
telephone cable
Dead batteries.
No, but occasionally I will get it into my head that I am low on something and will buy it each time I’m at the store, no matter how much I have. Currently I have 5 bottles of shampoo. I have umpteen servings of tuna fish. About 6 jars of spaghetti sauce.
Fotunately these things don’t go bad, so it isn’t a problem.
I really love 5-mm metric ruled graph paper notebooks. I mean really love them. They are perfect for plans and sketches for various of my weird little interests.
Now a few years ago, I ran out, so I went to the store to get another one. And they didn’t have any. I went to another store. Nothing. Went to the Bureau en Gros website. Nothing!
Well into a freak-out, I finally went to the really big Bureau en Gros downtown, and finally there I found some.
I bought ten of them.
I love my graph paper.
I used to have a job in which we all used Xacto knives every day. If you cared about the quality of your work, you might change your blade a few times a week, depending on what type of work you were doing. (You could also go for some time without needing a change, but it was nce to have a fresh balde when you needed one.)
But when you asked the boss for new blades, he’d dole out maybe two or three at a time. :rolleyes: Plus, while everyone used the #11 (pointy) blades, I also liked to use #15 blades (with a flat edge) for some tasks.
So I said “fuck it” and acquired a 500-count box of each, on my own dime. About six months later (for other reasons) I said “fuck it” again and quit, and I took my blades with me.
I don’t use Xactos as much anymore, but I’m pretty sure I’m stocked for life on blades.
7.62 X 51 (.308) rifle ammo.
Body fat.
You know they’re not technically the same calibre, right? 
(It’s not a good idea to make a habit of firing commercial .308 Winchester calibre ammo out of firearms chambered for the 7.62x51 NATO calibre round, because of slight differences in headspace, pressure, and case thickness)
Cotter pins in various sizes. A long story short: short-sighted man fails to plan ahead, buys enough crap to cover all bases.
I wonder if I can use them for something beside their intended purpose. Maybe I can make a cotter pin gun.
Sexy. I’m not running out of that any time soon.
Bowl blanks and wood in general. I do woodworking, but I think I like buying (or finding) wood more than actually working on projects. So if I see a chunk of wood that looks like it might make a good bowl, I’ll grab it. If I did a bowl a day for a year, I might possibly use up all the bowl blanks I have sitting around the garage waiting for me to get to them.
Pens. I bought a case of Papermate Med. Pt. ballpoint pens years ago, and I’ve opened maybe one box.
#2 American Brand Pencils.
I loved these as a kid, and my mom bought me 2 gross as a joke “going to high school” present.
I still have at least 150. I’m always prepared for tabletop gaming.
I hit every store I could find when I heard they were ceasing American production. I bought fifteen pairs of black high tops, of which I think I have twelve left. But doggone it, if I have anything to say about it, when they finally scrape my carcass off the pavement, my Chuckies will still say, “Made in U.S.A.!”
Does Turtle Wax count? I have, somewhere, one tin of it. I always thought it was funny that they’d give out “a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax!” as consolation prizes on game shows - one tin is a lifetime supply.
And probably needlework projects. I’m set with just cross stitch alone, I think.
I could well have a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax (almost a full tin).
I might have a lifetime supply of 1,1,1 trichloroethane if I take it easy with the stuff.
I’d love to have Crafter_Man’s ammo. Well, not his, but a lifetime supply of .308. At least 50,000 rounds, but my consumption would probably increase after retirement so maybe double that.
Fabric, and possibly paperbacks.
Ya know, I thought that you could buy one package of coffee filters and be good for life.
Oh sure, I’d periodically during moves, toss the old ones, pick up a new pack, just in case, ya know…
Then…that fateful day came, I had my first child, forgot what sleep was, became a coffee junkie and then, oh the day…the day I ran out of coffee filters. This was not the world I lived in, this was not the world I know. I am in a parallel universe to the one I lived in for 38 years, the land of eternal coffee filters was closed to me.
I shamefully used a paper towel to make the coffee and I swore, by my life and my love for it, that I would NEVER go filterless again!
I bought another package, surely the first one was mistaken…this one for sure will last me until I die. Right?