# Necessity is the mother of invention. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466 "2011-11-01T05:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/1 "2011-11-01T05:49:46Z")
Having to innovate a smoking apperatus can be a mother. When you buy papers, why can’t the next to last one have a color indicator letting you know you’re about to run out, like at the end of a roll for cash register receipts? Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/2 "2011-11-01T05:53:02Z")
Sometimes invention is the mother of necessity. “I can’t live without my cellphone!” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/3 "2011-11-01T05:56:51Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Having to innovate a smoking apperatus can be a mother. > > When you buy papers, why can’t the next to last one have a color indicator letting you know you’re about to run out, like at the end of a roll for cash register receipts? > > Just sayin’. Buy two packs. When you open the second one, buy a new one the next time you’re at the gas station. When you open that one buy a new one the next time you’re at the gas station… You’ll never run out and you can pick them up when you have time instead of using apples or running to the gas station at 2 in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/4 "2011-11-01T06:05:23Z")
You guys don’t have ‘five leaves left’? There’s [even an album of that name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Leaves_Left). These days Rizla+ always have a “get more papers” ad just before the end of the pack. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/5 "2011-11-01T07:11:50Z")
I just erased everything I was talking about, because I’ve looked at the Rules but haven’t really read them. Somewhere, at some thread, I remember some poster blowing the whistle beause somebody was talking about weed. Call me later. We’ll talk. (Thnx for the tip about Rizlos or whatever. Maybe they’re not just regional.) I had something so funny to say about that. But it’s ALL SPOILED NOW. lol) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/6 "2011-11-01T09:59:24Z")
there are message boards online for people with interest in rolling papers that doesn’t include where to get shag tobacco … =) Oddly enough, my roomie Phlip is a tobacco smoker that rolls her own because it is cheaper than buying pre-rolleds. She says it keeps her from chain smoking because she always has to stop what she is doing to roll one. Works for me. I am still trying to get her to quit. ---
**Author:** ![lurkedtolong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@lurkedtolong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkedtolong)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/601466/7 "2011-11-03T01:22:49Z")
i use elements papers. They have a yellow paper that says "YOU HAVE 5 PAPERS LEFT. You need to remove this paper before you can get to the last few, so you can know a day before you need to get papers again.