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Post by papaof2 on Feb 22, 2021 17:43:44 GMT -6
Better half was at the grocery store today and the paper aisle was full - paper towels, toilet paper, everything!
We've been doing bulk buys from Amazon and costco.com for several years, so the grocery stock level of paper doesn't affect us directly - not with xx rools of TP under a twin bed upstairs: about a 6 month supply. Cottonelle has 64 roll packs, Marathon has 96(?) roll packs so a single purchase covers a lot of days...
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Post by willc453 on Feb 26, 2021 11:54:12 GMT -6
In Nevada, paper products have been normal for past 6 months? Was going to visit cousin who asked me for tp & paper towels. I gave her what she needed from my stock as her ss monthly check doesn't go that far. This was when she remembered I prepped and why would I stock such stuff? I said look at who asked me for this stuff. If you'd have bought extra even once a month, you wouldn't of been caught short. Also gave her 5 boxes of Winco's brand mac n cheese as I like the stuff and have a lot of them in my stash. Reason for this was she and my aunt hit the food bank on a regular basis, taking whatever's available. What they don't like nd won't use, they give to me. I HATE green beans for example, but when offered, I take 'em. I know that when you're hungry, you're not suddenly so picky.
And when the great tp, etc. shortage hit, I was laughing my ass off at those people. Younger brother was kind of in a panic during this time as he was down to ONE roll and of course, couldn't find any. So he comes over to ask if I had any. Gave him a 4 pack from Dollar Tree and saying this is why I prep. I buy 2 different toilet papers....the good stuff that comes in a 12 pack and costs 50 cents a roll. The other is from Dollar Tree and their stuff is 25 cents a roll. But I don't use as much of the good stuff. Besides, easier to pass out 4 packs to family than breaking down a 12 pack.
I know a lot of people have jars of honey, but anyone think of all those free condiments at truck stops, fast food places or 7-11? Dollar Tree supplies me with boxes of tea bags, but those packets of honey came from many truck stops and KFC when I eat there. Salt, pepper, honey and hot sauce all get tossed into individual zip lock bags. Tea bags either get food sealed as a whole or a dozen per food sealed package, along with packets of honey. I've also food sealed 2 packs of cigarettes at a time, with 2 boxes of paper matches. I've smoked 'em when I didn't run to the smoke shop and they've been food sealed for at least 6 months....couldn't tell the difference.
And here's a question some may be able to answer and also going to post it at SB some time soon. Been buying those small liquor bottles, the kind the airlines sell. Cousin said she'd buy some off of me and I had a small tub w/locking lid in the kitchen where they were stored and had been for several years. Most of them were in plastic bottles and found 9 of 'em empty?! Seal wasn't broken, but the bottoms had bulged downwards. 3 of them had maybe half an inch of liquor in them. Will liquor evaporate if stored in a plastic bottle? All these bottle had been stored at room temperature.
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Post by gipsy on Feb 26, 2021 13:25:46 GMT -6
The plastic will seep into the liquor and kill the flavor. get glass instead and the will last forever
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Post by willc453 on Feb 26, 2021 14:28:19 GMT -6
But this doesn't explain the evaporation. Also, some of the liquor (like tequila) are in a glass bottle and none of them evaporated.
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 26, 2021 15:28:22 GMT -6
Some plastics are food safe and some aren't. I'll guess the food safe plastic doesn't react well to ethanol alcohol and the alcohol-resistant plastic (91% rubbing alcohol bottles at the drug store) isn't food safe.
If the plastic deformed, it may also have tiny holes in it and there goes your spirits. Use glass containers for firewater because the "fire" in it melts plastic ;-)
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