I don't recall any of those "In Service" lessons recommending hoarding a year's worth of T.P. I'm trying to imagine someone's basement with that much T.P. to last a family of five (or Mormon family of 8-12), Think what that stuff would sell for now if they had put it away in the 60's and the mice hadn't made their home there.

At the grocery store last week I noticed that the T.P. and Coke aisle were both empty. The prophet should have let us know what was truly essential at end times!!!!

I'd want to know the answer if I were Pooped, too.

I'm not that delicate, as you know.

On my mission, when things started going really crazy, several of us sisters and brothers got fed up with the institutional and cultural dishonesty. The Mormon curse words--darn, dang, shoot, heck, flip, fudge, gosh, goldarn, etc--seemed to reflect the church's mendacity and superficiality.

In a couple of branches we got jars and established a rule: get caught using a substitute curse and plop a set amount of cash in the communal pot. We used this practice to teach ourselves to use the real words rather than sounding like timid old ladies. It gave us a small sense of genuineness, something important in such a counterfactual environment. So no, Goddamn it, I do not say "poop" when I mean shit.

Now where did I put those fucking pearls?!

I know.

The problem is that I threw them at my kid and now I can't find them. Commercial genius that he is, he probably sold them on Ebay!

Well damn. Some Relief Society somewhere must have directions for making Ho-Made toilet paper.

You are a bad boy, Shinehah. A very bad boy!

Not a fond memory?

No, I just don't remember any Hos in the room!

in-around Seattle, a group of los mormones bought a carload of (Utah) coal & buried it in their back yards. This was back in the days when consumers could buy 1 carload which is now about 100 tons...
Today the railroads only deal in unit train-loads to power companies.

I swear it's true, I knew some who did!

No, because the church was in the business of selling wheat. They weren't in the business of selling toilet paper.

I think there is more truth there than people realize. I always thought those welfare canneries where people would go and work and then buy what they canned were kind of scammy, even when I was a TBM.

My mother always had several 96 roll cases of TP in storage. My husband and I continue to have a rotating storage and have not had to buy TP since December. I grew up thinking that was normal.

Hell, I haven't even bought a tank of gas since mid February. It is finally below half. I should start looking for a station so I can fill up before Fourth of July.

I have .70/gal discount accrued with a supermarket, and about .50/gal accrued at a warehouse store's gas station. I'm not quite halfway through the tank I topped up April 30 (paid .80/gal with points then current). Both these discounts will expire on or around June 1.

Oh, the agony! The cheap Yankee in me wants to drive across the state just so I'll have an empty tank to take advantage of this.

On a serious not, everybody: If you're parked in stasis, take your car out for a 5-10 mile spin twice a week, just to make sure your battery's charged, tires are exercised, fuel moves through the system, fan belt(s) don't get brittle, etc.

Total Propaganda

Towels Please!

The Book of Mormon Toilet papers

T Who???

My daughter told me about it. I know her MIL well and I asked her about it. She said she buys it for all of them, her kids and grandkids included. She had been buying up diapers as her DIL was due to have a baby in April (and did).

Before my ex left me, I didn't buy a 2 year supple or a 1 year supply, but I had a lot of TP and a lot of laundry detergent as those are the things my mother always ran out of when I was growing up, but alas, when I was a poor single mom, I quit doing that. I was down to about 4 rolls. My boyfriend gave me some of his until I was able to get some. BUT then now I've been buying for my 2 disabled brothers and myself, so I pick some up every time I go to the store.

But, no, I don't believe they taught us to buy TP and those 72 hour kids definitely didn't have TP in them.

Do a quad and church "history" books count as TP?

Only if you don't mind having dirty hands. The Book of Mormon, for instance, disintegrates under the slightest bit of pressure.

I'm Pooped the adjective not Poop the noun. But you made me think about my first day unpacking in the dorm at BYU. Those closet doors slid like greased lightning and heavy. I managed to crush my thumb pretty hard and screamed "Damn !" The whole floor came running to my room to see what had happened.

Remember, my dad was not LDS. It just "pooped" out of my mouth (the verb).

I don't recall The Brethren telling members to store TP, but back in the day, members often had their own take on the storage. My parents' neighbor stored cosmetics because if times were really bad, she said she didn't want to go around looking like a hag. My mom saved and rotated feminine hygiene products. She had three daughters besides herself to worry about in that regard. I believe we had a stash of TP and other paper products, too. Since my mom is now post-menopausal and her daughters all live elsewhere, I certainly hope she's allowed her stash to deplete.

"...lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.” Brigham Young Discourses

Mormon Church Food Prep: 200 years of stirring up fear and spending dollars but still never getting it right.

How many lifetimes and % of retirement savings have been drained or otherwise wasted by this erroneous advice? Yet even the most heathenest of nonmembers in CA have more toilet paper than the average person in Utah.

Shows you what is real when the poop hits the fan.

No mention was evermade non perishables.

Wheat. Honey. Powdered milk. Textured vegetable protien.

100 pound bags of potatoes from the elders quorum fundraiser.

My parents stored toilet paper, salt, spices and soap and detergent.

We also canned from the orchards and garden.

Dad had a meat locker full of beef and critter of the year (elk, antelope or what ever we hunted.)

Many of my elderly relatives hoarded cloth, buttons, needles, thread, yarn, hand me down clothes galore.

In the 80s I was the emergency prepardness person for three weeks. When I gave my one and only presentation focusing on storing non food items I was released.

Someone somewhere has so much "non-essential" TP it is about to make their shelf break.