Holy Paper Towel Batman!
Posted by nathan on 13 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: my life.
Last night before Emily got home, I was straightening up around the house. I was organizing the hall closet, and realized we have accumulated a stockpile of paper towels.
Several months ago I had shoved one pack of six to the very back of a shelf, so Emily didn’t know it was there, and we then bought another six pack. I knew we had two rolls left, so this past weekend, we bought another six-pack.
So last night, I consolidated all the paper towels. We have three unopened six-packs and two rolls…so that is a total of 20 rolls of paper towel.
Oh well, I guess we’re ready in case the price of paper towel skyrockets.
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on 13 Sep 2007 at 11:38 am 1.
Penny said …
Reminds me of a story I heard in college–the great toilet paper shortage in the 1970’s. Johnny Carson jokingly said there would be a shortage of toilet paper. So all of his viewers got freaked out and bought up all the toilet paper until there was none left on the shelves anywhere. Johnny went back on the air and told his viewers that it was a joke, but the shortage continued to feed the frenzy. The shortage continued for 3 weeks, until Scott towels were able to restock the shelves.
This was the only time in history that the consumer created their own shortage!
Here, I found an article on it, although it’s much much more than anyone needs to know:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/toilet_paper/