Household items you are most disappointed to find you ran out of...

Posted on Sun 01/15/06 in My So Called Blog

This morning, I was nearly done cooking pancakes for breakfast when I frantically began to look for the syrup. I couldn’t find any. I began to recall that the last time we had pancakes – had we used the last drop of syrup? Had we not bought more since then? Didn’t I tell Beth to put it on the shopping list? Beth heard me mumbling from the other room and joined the search. She found it. And it was the best breakfast we’d ever had.

The night before, we grilled burgers and had baked potato fries for dinner. For about 30 seconds, I couldn’t find the catsup. I started to mentally prepare myself for having a burger and fries without catsup. I took a few deep breaths and began searching the fridge, shelf by shelf. I found it. It was the new squeezable upside-down kind. The odd shape and the white cap not being visible had been deceiving. But, everything was ok in the end. In fact, we had two more bottles in the pantry, which I had also missed during the initial, haphazard search.

For me, these two items are two of the worst items to run out of at home when I need them most. Below are my current top ten of the sort

1. DIAPERS – Standing at the changing table and looking to the diaper basket, then the storage drawer, then the closet… and seeing no diapers. You now have a naked baby and a diaper filled with stink. What do you do? What do you do?
   
   
2. SYRUP Pretty friggin bad to realize you have no syrup. There really is no substitute. Even with fruit or honey or powdered sugar, it’s really nowhere close to being as satisfying.
   
   
3. DISH SOAP After dinner, nobody wants to do the dishes if there is no dish soap. How long will dishes sit and soak until someone goes to the store to re-up.
   
   
4. CATSUP Hamburgers and fries NEED catsup. I’ll admit that I could be somewhat happy using BBQ sauce or Ranch dressing if there is no catsup around, but those supplements just aren’t that goo.
   
   
5. UNDERWEAR Laundry is backed up. All your undies are in the hamper. Do you recycle or go without?
   
   
6. BEER Especially after a day of yard work or during a football game.
   
   
7. STAMPS I rarely ever stock stamps. They are expensive and I always forget to buy them.
   
   
8. MILK It is true that when I was younger I ate my Cheerios with orange juice. I was allergic!!! But, now, I wouldn’t think of it. When I make a bowl of cereal at 4:30am, it is heartbreaking to find no milk in the fridge.
   
   
9. DISC SPACE I hate when I stop paying attention to my available disc space on my computer’s hard drive, and then, I need to save something and have to start carelessly deleting files I sorta wanted to keep.
   
   
10. PRINTER INK Last minute school project; Mapquest directions to dinner; Midnight plumbing repair guide from the Internet; documents you NEED to close on your home loan, today, right now… and your printer is out of ink. Sucks.