Popsicle Sitcks…
I once was at an auction, and an “unmarked, un opened box” came up. WOW! that 2 X3X1 (Feet) Box could contain anything…!!!
So I bid a buck…bidding was fast and furious… but I won!
I estimate that I own 8800 popsicle sticks… and I only paid $8.75!!!
Regards
FML
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Cinnamon. Yep, the spice. McCormick brand, no less. Over thirty years ago,* I found one-pound containers improperly marked at $1.00. I suspect they should have been $10.00. Not being proud, I purchased four. A bargain is a bargain is a bargain. I still have two and a half containers left. We will NEVER run out of cinnamon.** It’s a secure feeling.
*I know it was pre-1977 because I had the cinnamon when I moved across country before the kids were born.
**Well, I suppose I could run out. But at the current rate, I’ve got another 50 years worth, which would make me 107. Maybe I should stock up?
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Ugh! You know spices lose their flavor, right? They don’t go bad, generally, but they do go bland.
Tea bags. I have to order the kind I like online; they aren’t carried in stores around here. So the minimum order is 8 boxes of 80 tea bags. I’ve just opened the second box. The rest will last me until at least December.
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I have a lifetime supply of Mach 3 razors. Once I turned 18 I was getting free Mach 3s everywhere I turned. I can’t even begin to tell you where they came from, except for the one Gilette sent in the mail. I must’ve gotten the other ones at college football games or something. Anyway, I use an electric razor, so they’ll all sit around unused.
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I’ll take them. Seriously. I use a Mach 3 and I had to buy some new razors for it the other day, those bitches are expensive!
Disposable razors.
I have three.
Tris
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Pens. I bought a case of Papermate Med. Pt. ballpoint pens years ago, and I’ve opened maybe one box.
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Since I’m a major packrat, I know from experience that pens don’t last forever. I bought a whole bunch of different kinds of pens including the ones you’re describing about 5 years ago and there are only a couple that currently work. I don’t know what happens, but I think the ink dries out or something. And running it under water doesn’t help.
Rubberbands. In college my roommate and I started a rubberband ball. It’s sitting right next to me (we started it about 5 years ago and I still add on a layer here and there as the outer ones dry out and start cracking, it’s not fun sitting at the computer and randomly getting hit in the face with a rubberband). It’s been a while since I weighed it, but IIRC it weighs about 10 lbs, that would put it at about 12 THOUSAND rubber bands.
Candles. I must have over 100 candles in my two room apartment. I buy them, but I have such a fear of fire I rarely use them. I like to pick them up and smell them.
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Um, you know… If you’re looking to clear some space I’ve got a place outside Jefferson that is tragically low on .22 right now 
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Jefferson the town? As in South Park?
I have 40 that I shoot on south of Como.
Small world.
Scrapbooking materials
Among a multitude of scrapbooking materials, I am the proud owner of a circle cutter.
Total investment: $2,604.49.
Total return: 2 half-finished memory books which cover birth through age 9 and 7 respectively for each of my daughters. (They are now 15 and 13.)
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Ugh! You know spices lose their flavor, right? They don’t go bad, generally, but they do go bland.
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Virtually all do, but cinnamon “keeps” pretty well. I have noticed that the quality of some spices has declined, not sure why that is, including Cinnamon. I buy from Pennzeys mostly, so presumably it is representative of the market.
Computer keyboards. I’ve got several IBM Model M keyboards stored away, just in case.
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Jefferson the town? As in South Park?
I have 40 that I shoot on south of Como.
Small world.
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We’ve only 6 east of Fairplay, and since it’s closer to Como and Fairplay the address is Jefferson, so we go with that.
Kitchen garbage bags. I like the handle tie type. last time we ran out we were at Sam’s club and they were out of the handle tie type, but had the regular kind. Almost 400 of them in the box. We are down to less than 1/2 a box, but it seems like the roll in the box does not get any smaller.
I can’t wait for them to be gone, but I wonder if it will happen during my lifetime.
Oh and for my wife, fabric. She is a firm believer that she who dies with the most fabric wins. She has fabric in stock from when she worked in a fabric department at Montgomery Wards in the mid 1970s.
Those things that are poked into corn on the cob to make it easier to hold onto. I don’t know how we ended up with so many of them.
3.5" floppy disks. I used to go through them at a huge rate, the last box I bought had 250 of them in it, I had used about 50 before CD-R started to become widespread and I bought a CD-R drive, after that, I’ve used maybe 10 of the disks in the last 7-8 years.
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Virtually all do, but cinnamon “keeps” pretty well. I have noticed that the quality of some spices has declined, not sure why that is, including Cinnamon. I buy from Pennzeys mostly, so presumably it is representative of the market.
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Hardly representative - Penzeys’ is, like, ten cuts above anybody else, at least in terms of freshness. You’ve seen a drop in quality from Penzeys?
I keep meaning to try their “real” cinnamon, but never get around to it.
Kids.
I have 8. Oldest = 24, youngest = 1.5. I’m 56. I figure that’s a lifetime supply.