13 Things I Would Like to Have an Unlimited Supply Of
(I know...ended with a preposition...but it didn't sound right to say, "of which I would like to have an unlimited supply." Mea culpa.)
It goes without saying that I would like to have an unlimited supply of money, but that's not likely to happen. What I'm talking about here are the things we go through so quickly that we are forever running out of them and having to go to the store to get more. Wouldn't it be great to have an unlimited supply of:
1. Club Soda - this is my drink of choice. I always have ice and club soda in my Tervis Tumbler. Constantly hydrating. And constantly running out of club soda. So whenever I go to the store, I usually end up with about a dozen bottles in my cart.
2. And while we are at it...Tervis Tumblers! - Since I drink out of them all day, every day, they often get left at friends' houses or scattered around the house. If the dishwasher hasn't been run, then I'm stuck drinking out of, egad!, regular cups!
3. Cereal - My son can consume a huge box of cereal in nothing flat. We battle this by bringing it in from Costco in industrial-size boxes. Usually, we bring in a couple of those boxes, he looks up and says, "Oh, I'm sick of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Can we get Honey Nut Cheerios?" At this point, I usually fling the box at his head and start ranting and raving about how they only MADE one kind of cereal when I was growing up and how we couldn't even AFFORD that one kind of cereal and how we had to MAKE OUR OWN cereal from cardboard boxes. This usually encourages him to suck it up and eat the Cinnamon Toast Crunch until it's gone.
4. Milk - duh. See above.
5. Razors - specifically razors IN THE SHOWER! It doesn't help me if I have an unlimited supply of razors and I have to step out of the shower, dripping wet, to get them from underneath the sink.
6. AA Batteries - no snide innuendos about what we need THESE for. It just seems that no matter how many I buy in what gargantuan quantities, when I need them, we're all out.
7. Cordless Phone Handsets - we only have four. FOUR!!! Did you hear me??? When I was a kid we had two phones which you had to sit really close to in order to talk because you had to be connected by a CORD!!!! Now we have four, count 'em (oh, sorry, you can't count 'em because we can never find them!), four handsets. And there is never one around when you need one.
8. Golf Tees - These are not expensive items. And you can buy them in huge quantities. And usually they are everywhere...in the brim of my hat, in my pocket, in my golf purse, in the golf cart. But somehow I STILL find myself walking up to the tee, golf club in hand and unable to find a golf tee!
9. Wine - It's not that I drink THAT much myself. It's just that I never want to go to someone's house empty-handed. And I go to people's houses quite a bit. So it would be nice to have an unlimited supply of wine on hand for those occasions. I'm not a wine snob. $3 Buck Chuck is just fine for me (and most of my friends.)
10. Cell Phone Chargers - Never enough of them. Never where you need them to be.
11. Clean Towels - Somehow we have enough clothes that we don't run into "clean underwear crises" in my house. And socks? Forget it. We have enough socks to last us through the longest of laundry strikes. But clean towels are kind of essential. You wouldn't know this by the way my family treats a towel after use, generally balling it up on the floor or under the bed where it has absolutely no chance of being used again.
12. Ball-point pens - My needs are so simple. I'm not asking for rare jewels. I'm not even asking for someone to peel me a grape. But I would like one, just one, of the hundreds of pens that I purchase to be at my fingertips at my own desk!!! I buy packages of pens with such high hopes. I visualize myself with a black medium-point at hand when I need to write a check or jot down a phone number. I fill my desk drawer with them. But then it's time to write a check and the only thing I can find is a freebie from the Hampton Inn that runs out before I've finished writing the date.
13. Patience - No explanation needed.
What would you like an unlimited supply of?
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Having a child, you need an endless supply of batteries for their toys.
Posted by: Chelle Y. | June 18, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Great TT. I totally know how you feel about having an unlimited supply of things. I have a 3 year old and we never seem to have enough batteries to fill all the toys. Happy TT!
Posted by: Michelle | June 18, 2008 at 06:57 PM
There are several things of which I would like an unlimited supply (does unlimited also mean free?):
Wine, Tesco red label tea bags, Jaffa cakes, AA batteries, printer ink (black and coloured cartridges), cat litter (we seem to get through about a ton a week with our 3 felines), air tickets to anywhere I want to go to and of course gasoline/petrol/essence (depending on which country I am in). If I could have a free, unlimited supply of that last one, I'd forgo all the others.
Posted by: Nicholas | June 18, 2008 at 07:06 PM
Chocolate. And wine. And clean air to enjoy them in. Oh, and peace and quiet!
Posted by: SandyCarlson | June 18, 2008 at 08:39 PM
Yes, patience. Yes.... That's what I run out of when it's hot! :)
Happy TT!
Posted by: On a Limb with Claudia | June 18, 2008 at 08:45 PM
You forgot Tim-Tams. Look 'em up.
Posted by: gdaybloke | June 18, 2008 at 08:51 PM
Blasted cordless phones! They walk away from their bases and lay around in the strangest places. We lost one for 6 months once.
Not sure what I'd want an unlimited supply of. Pesky prepositions, perhaps?
Posted by: Carol | June 18, 2008 at 09:07 PM
LOL! Good one. As for me, well, pony tail holders. I never seem to find one when I need one.
Posted by: Linda R. Moore | June 18, 2008 at 09:13 PM
I could not agree with you more re: #5. I hate when that happens. Especially when the bathmat is in the washer. Slippery!
Posted by: MotherBunker | June 18, 2008 at 09:39 PM
I'll take all of those but just plain water to drink
Posted by: marcia @ joyismygoal | June 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM