Comments on: Stocking Up

By: donab

donab — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:25:14 +0000

I’m afraid I don’t have motherhood as an excuse. I started hoarding napkins long before I got knocked up.

By: kristen from motherload

kristen from motherload — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:53:10 +0000

Well I hoard napkins too, but I thought that was required behavior as a mother. Like taking sugar packets from restaurants when you’re a senior citizen.

By: dona B

dona B — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:46:45 +0000

I started putting tampons in the outside pocket of the diaper bag when my period finally started again. I guess I thought it had been so long I might have forgotten what cramps feel like and I’d leave the house unprepared. I guess I put them in there a few times, because my toddler discovered that pocket the other day and emptied it and found six of them. Assorted varieties here, too.

Of course, we were at the park when this happened. On the day when all the daddies were there. Including a kind of hot one who happened to be sitting really nearby.

I also hoard napkins in the car. My Prius has two glove boxes. One contains only napkins and it is full.

By: kristen from motherload

kristen from motherload — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:58:39 +0000

That was actually me, HouseTalkN! I needed MORE tampons.

Oddly, I don’t keep sunscreen in my car. And I have two lily white blonde girls. What have I been thinking?! You can bet I’ll start loading bottles of it in there on a regular basis now.

Look for me on the next episode of Hoarders: The Car Edition.

By: HouseTalkN

HouseTalkN — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:30:29 +0000

Someone broke into my car and made away with a bag they must have perceived as my purse. Imagine their surprise to find emergency tampons, band-aids and sunscreen!
Kerry at HouseTalkN

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:20:31 +0000

You had me at “temperate Berkeley Hills…” Oh Kristen, you have the gift…That was one inspired paragraph. Happy new trip around the sun my young friend!!!!!! Glad you got to celebrate numerous times. See you again in a matter of weeks.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:48:05 +0000

Maybe your glove box rummager was post menopausal, and thus no need for lady products? I’d like to imagine a coven of mid sixties urban grandmas sneaking around at night fucking shit up.

By: kristen

kristen — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:42:54 +0000

Ha! I’m like that with restaurant leftovers. I’m at the point where I say to my husband, “Let’s take this home, refrigerate it for a few days, then throw it out.”

By: Leigh Ann

Leigh Ann — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:40:00 +0000

Oh, I know how fast those damn Wheat Thins can go. One minute you’ve got a whole box, and the next it’s a Wheat Thins crisis. And black beans? I open a can, use 2/3 of it, save the rest, and forget so then the next time I need some I open another can, use 2/3 of it, save the rest…..you get it. I’ve probably thrown out an entire pallet of beans in the past year alone.

By: Mary Patrick

Mary Patrick — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:13:39 +0000

I don’t know how old you turned, but apparently not old enough to know that there is a delightful stage of pre-menopause that will have you soak nine tampons in less time than in takes to scream “Anarchy of the Uterus.” Your accidental stockpiling of tampons is a wise investment in your future.