I absolutely HATE buying toilet paper, napkins, facial tissue, paper towels and paper plates. I hate it. It's a waste of money in this house. The kids wipe their pinky on 30 pieces of tissue and then throw it out, in a wad, in the trash can. When I empty the trash and see mounds of tissue untouched except for the first piece I die a little inside. They wipe with facial tissue if they run out of toilet paper instead of getting up and getting a roll of toilet paper...are you following me on this?
A box of facial tissue is $1.39 and a roll of toilet paper is .25 cents. But who cares because they aren't buying it. The kids use one roll of toilet paper a day. They blow their noses with it and they wipe the sink with it. I bet they use it to write letters too.
My paper towel is always gone before I get a chance to put a hand on it. Paper plates? Ya know how they stick together when you try to take one? My daughter had 4 paper plates and didn't know it. She thought she only had one. I died a little more inside.
The casino has these great thick nice paper towels in the VIP restrooms. I grab the entire stack that's put out for about 300 people and stuff them in my purse, take them home and my house uses them in one day. I can't keep up and I can't afford the paper addiction in my house. I'm thinking about going on the show Intervention and getting help for my kids addiction to paper products.
I tell my kids that they will soon be wiping, blowing and cleaning with book pages, newspaper or magazine from now on. They aren't scared.
I have hidden all of the paper products in my closet and will soon be auctioning off one square of toilet paper to the highest bidder.
The funniest thing about this entire story is that when they use a plastic disposable cup and they're done drinking out of it...they put it in the sink to be washed along with the straw. Why can't they do that with the toilet paper? EWWW that's gross but isn't recycling in?
2 comments:
I agree with you!!
You did make me laugh!!
Good. Hide it all and when they ask for some tp, tell them you "can't spare a square." (that's for all of us Seinfeld afficianados). I've caught Maddie using 20,000 tp squares for one little pee pee. It's got to be a young girl thing. Or, a thing for people who don't have to work for a living.
And tell my lovely nieces that putting Kleenex in the toilet is really bad for the septic system (or whatever the system is that handles that stuff) and that if they clog it, they will have to pay for the plumber AND stand behind him as he roto rooters out the toilet with his butt crack in their face. That oughta work.
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