- When you have always hated to shop but find yourself sneaking out at lunch to go shopping for the Soldiers!
- When you are shopping and see a really cute pair of shoes and put them back because you think "I can send a really good care package for what they cost!!!!"
- Finding twin sheet sets on clearance and buying all that they have, even if you have no twin beds or don't know who needs them, but you save them because someone will need them soon.
- when you don't have a spare room, so the packing factory is what used to be your living room....
- when you stalk the $1 shop when you see the truck come in with all of the new stuff...
- ..when you go shopping and buy a trunk full of stuff, but don't realize until later that you still have NOTHING FOR DINNER.
- When you drive 14 miles one way to pick up a bag of condiments someone had on your local Freecycle site- totally true I knew I had a "problem" then.
- ...when you have to move to a larger apartment to accommodate all the Soldiers' Angels supplies. been there, done that
- When your husband and kids ask, "Is this for the soldiers' or can I eat it?" before eating anything in the pantry.
- When you miss a day at the PO, and they thought you were in a wreck or in the hospital.
- When you go to a different post office and ask the clerk for Customs Forms...he comes back with 50, hands you two and attempts to put the other 48 in his slot...only to be told, "I need the 48, you keep the two."
- When your son visits, goes to his old room (which is now SA Headquarters) and says if he had kept the room that way when he lived here he would have been grounded.
- when the only t.p. in your house is in a ziploc in the "carepackage" room.
- when you wake up at 4am and you are sitting up in bed stuffing boxes and your dog is looking at you like you just lost your mind...and your tongue tastes like bubble gum from all the envelopes you've licked...
- When you run out in your pajamas to Walgreens because the sale ends at midnight and it's 11:45 and you just have to have that Camo Santa hat... and when you get there they feel sorry for the crazy lady and let you buy hand warmers over the limit of 4....
Troop supporters, can you add to this list? What other compulsive habits have you accumulated? Feel free to post yours in the comments section.
2 comments:
When you are standing in the check out line, and see mints in tins that are race cars with the Army logo, and buy out all the rest of their supply! :)
Pretty funny replies - and so true. Several times, my husband has said, "Wow, you bought me..." Then I slap his hand and say, "No, that is for my soldier." He has learned to ask before he just tears into something. I have come home from the store with all sorts of things for my soldier and forgotten the usual groceries for my family. And yes, I search the items in the check out line for special little things for my soldier.
Laurie, I want to send you a Christmas card. Could you email your snail-mail address tobylou@sbcglobal.net
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