You can never have too many:
I'll start: extension cords. Of various types and lengths. Now you--you can never have too many:
You can never have too many wax earplugs.
You will lose half-full boxes.
Your cat will chew the ones you left in reach because 5 years is not enough to teach you that lesson.
The one time you are absolutely, completely, nowhere-else-to-look out of earplugs, your parents will have a horrible row that you really did not need to hear as you were mentioned in it and you can't forget it even though they both have the nxt day.
You can never have too many bungee cords. I love them for stowing the camping equipment in the back of my truck; they keep boxes and containers closed that won't stay shut; their uses are endless. And let's not forget bungee jumping!
backups
prescription refills
bytes of speed in your internet access
hand tools
clamps
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dollars
choices (so long as you actually choose)
imagination (many/much)
Scissors - I try to keep on in every room because I hate hunting around for them
Reading glasses - same strategy as scissors, because no matter where I put a pair down, I can never find them
Backup pairs of sunglasses.
Backup pairs of sunglasses.
I went so far as to buy two extra pairs of frames, online, for my prescription glasses with magnetic clip-on shades. Just for the sunglasses part, which I lept losing. I lost the last pair of shades, into a lake, last summer.
So I went to get a pair of Transitions lenses for my recent vacation. Guess what? Those take at least 10 days to be shipped in from an external laboratory. What about the prescription, stand-alone sunglasses? Sorry, those aren't done in-house either. Lenses have to be cut at the manufacturer.
News flash: you can't just walk in and buy ANY KIND of prescription sunglasses. Don't believe the commercials.
I ended up getting $20 sunglasses at Walmart that go OVER my regular glasses. Those worked great, until day 2 of my drive back home, when the earpiece just fell off. The plastic failed after about two weeks of moderate use.
I went so far as to buy two extra pairs of frames, online, for my prescription glasses with magnetic clip-on shades.
Mine aren't prescription, but I have no fewer than 5 backup pairs in my closet. They're all identical--I am very picky about my sunglasses, so when I found the ones I liked, I bought them all. And
then I have the on-the-spot backup pair that lives in my purse, for the time between when I break/lose my real ones and when I arrive back at my house. These are far from the ideal size/shape, but they are made of thick plastic and very sturdy, so they will never get broken just by being carried around.
News flash: you can't just walk in and buy ANY KIND of prescription sunglasses. Don't believe the commercials.
Where did you go to get them? I got prescription sunglasses at LensCrafters and the only reason I didn't get them the same day was because I was too lazy to stick around the mall.
Every single eyeglasses store at the closest mall to my house. I believe it was a Lenscrafters and a whatever the other main one is. You can choose from a small selection of frames, with a smaller selection of lens options, but nothing that I was interested in was available in less than 10 days. The second store told me the exact same thing and even called around to other locations with no luck.
Right now there is a commercial on TV about how a guy gets an assignment in Miami, so he goes and gets a pair of prescription sunglasses. BULLSHIT. They ought to let you know up front, plan TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE if you want to shell over your hard earned dollars for a product they claim to have available for purchase.
I went so far as to buy two extra pairs of frames, online, for my prescription glasses with magnetic clip-on shades. Just for the sunglasses part, which I lept losing. I lost the last pair of shades, into a lake, last summer.
So I went to get a pair of Transitions lenses for my recent vacation. Guess what? Those take at least 10 days to be shipped in from an external laboratory. What about the prescription, stand-alone sunglasses? Sorry, those aren't done in-house either. Lenses have to be cut at the manufacturer.
News flash: you can't just walk in and buy ANY KIND of prescription sunglasses. Don't believe the commercials.
I ended up getting $20 sunglasses at Walmart that go OVER my regular glasses. Those worked great, until day 2 of my drive back home, when the earpiece just fell off. The plastic failed after about two weeks of moderate use.
Fitovers? I loved them. Mine didn't fall apart though. I was especially grateful that big sunglasses started to get in style again too.
eye mart express glasses in about an hour err 2 hours ;)
knives...
I'll say guitars and cars... both of which you probably
could actually have too many of...but I'd like to see how many it took to get me there, personally.
feet
:footpyth::footpyth::footpyth:
:biglaugha
You can never have too many friends (real friends). Or rolling papers. Or screwdrivers.
You can never have too many--
Or shirts!
You can never have too many pops in your fridge.
Or too many bats in your belfry.
Remember: you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.
Monkeys, obviously.
Or typewriters
Che Guevara biographies.
Copies of Catcher in the Rye
:eyebrow:
Brain cells
Don't believe that? Look who is running for office!! :eyebrow:
edible pets
can you eat it after you've named it? really?
I'm being a smartass but I was also farm raised so if it became hunger vs named creature... Children are the stumbling block always naming my potential food but once the kids are out in the world, I'm hoping to raise and eat more unnamed meat.
I'm being - smart--- but I was also farm raised so if it became hunger vs named creature... Children are the stumbling block always
understood, this is a very modest proposal
Mechanical pencils. You need lots because they're always disappearing.
Pens, pencils, lighters, and hair doodles migrate.
can you eat it after you've named it? really?
I could. Really.
lighters migrate.
I have and very occasionally do smoke, but I've been a non-smoker for the majority of my life. And even I know that lighters migrate. When I was a barmaid, when the majority of my friends smoked, when my gas cooker has a dicky clicker.... I've always carried lighters.
The one I have managed to keep the longest ironically exposes me. It's a Rokerij promotional lighter. I use it to light candles and incense, but even those are not allowed in my room, so it mostly lives downstairs.
Luckily, the 'rents have no idea that the
Rokerij is an Amsterdam coffeeshop (link NSFW for obvious reasons, also music starts automatically)
BTW - don't think that just because I only use a lighter for candles and incense, or because I can only do it downstairs, that my lighters are safe. No, I've had about four go missing in the same time period.
Little soft tinsel ball cat toys.
Its funny how they like to disappear. I have one left and it likes to go on vacation for a few weeks and then unexpectedly show up. I need more for Turbo but cant find them anymore. Someone here linked to them but of course I cant find the thread.
... I have one left and it likes to go on vacation for a few weeks ...
Probably a vacation staying at the Kitty Digestive Inn. ;)
I find myself agreeing muchly in this thread - it seems I've lost everything including my marbles.
Those sparkly cat balls - yes!
I get them free when I buy a Yeowww! cat toy - and from being in the same packaging they are doubly irresistible. Trouble is, they get scooted under and into things that even in Mum's pristine house are rarely investigated. So when we find them they have lost some of their punch.
A bottomless supply would be wonderful though.
I'm still running into some of Tajjy's (RIP baby girl) 'babies'...tiny hairy fake mice...in various spots around the house.
And Gaines unearthed an old catnip pillow thing I haven't seen in forever.
can you eat it after you've named it? really?
We had a bull named Dirty Ole Bastard, broke my hubs ribs I hope he was good with ketchup and mustard! :thumb:
Probably a vacation staying at the Kitty Digestive Inn. ;)
Actually, that would be Pico's Belly Bed and Breakfast. :D That dog loves to destroy them.
Containers of lipgloss...they migrate too.
Containers of lipgloss...they migrate too.
:yesnod:
Let's see....I have a flashlight in every purse or bag. I have a scissor in each room. I have tons of lipgloss, and either a lipgloss or lipbalm in each bag or purse. I have a pen and a small writing pad in every purse or bag, etc. I have a lighter in every purse or bag. I have some kind of mint or breath freshener gum in every purse of bag. And yes, I have a copy of my keys in every purse or bag. And all this shows what a ditz I am. :p:
Oh yeah, I also have ibuprofen and hand sanitizer in all my purses and bags too. :p:
You can never have too many ........ LolaBunnies!!
Damn straight! :blunt: :lol:
Apostrophe's, even if you don't deserve them. :right: :p
Crickets and Tree Frogs chirping in the night.
Crickets and Tree Frogs chirping in the night.
Oh, hells no!!! I hate the damnable tree frog.
You can never have too many--cans of pinto beans.
I want some, and I'm out.:cuss:
Containers of pasta and pasta sauce.
Hot peppers in your garden!
Hot peppers in your garden!
Oh hell yes!! :D :lol:
Orgasms.
Agreed.
Dangerous though.