Today's Facebook memories reminded me both of the time when I had 14 bars of soap at home and thought that was A Lot, and then the fact that I started dating ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hyounpark about six months after I wrote that post, and at some point, realized he had 140 BARS OF SOAP in his utility closet.
ursamajor: Honey, did you realize you have A HUNDRED AND FORTY BARS OF SOAP? ... how much soap do you go through?!
hyounpark: BUYING IN BULK WORKS!
ursamajor: Is this the same reason why you have a THIRTY PACK OF TOILET TISSUE in the same closet?!
At the time, my post-college housing experiences had all been of the sort where there was barely room to store a four-pack of TP in the bathroom. But also, the closest place that sold toilet paper (whether Star Market in my Somerville and Cambridge apartments, or the 7-11 in my Fenway apartment) was never more than two blocks away. Hyoun didn't *have* a walkable grocery and household supplies option at the time; he always had to hop in the car. We've gone back and forth on having easy grocery access in the interim decades, but we're back to the level of "the supermarket is only three blocks away so we can get TP and soap whenever" level of convenience, for which we are both massively grateful.
Old habits die hard, though, especially when pandemic-reinforced. After the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020, where we got on a waitlist to order bamboo toilet paper in bulk from a hipster brand off the internet (?!), Hyoun will now walk home from the supermarket with a 30 pack of toilet paper.
Back to soap: I have no idea if we went through 14 bars of soap or not in the four years between us starting to date and getting married, because my skin is dry enough that I rarely use bar soap unless I don't have an alternative; it's moisturizing body wash for me all the way. But in the 19 years since that post, we have managed to get down to eight bars of soap waiting in the wings, plus the existing bar in the shower. I guess maybe we need to pick up some more soap the next time we go on a Target run? Not 140 bars worth, though, ROFL!
And while I was trying to find that post, I found the shower time survey (🔒)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
belladonna posted from even longer ago. Hahaha omg, I'd forgotten how long these surveys were that we all used to do. We'll see how far I get into this before life happens and I post it incomplete.
( shower survey, 22 years later redux )
hyounpark about six months after I wrote that post, and at some point, realized he had 140 BARS OF SOAP in his utility closet. ursamajor: Honey, did you realize you have A HUNDRED AND FORTY BARS OF SOAP? ... how much soap do you go through?!hyounpark: BUYING IN BULK WORKS!ursamajor: Is this the same reason why you have a THIRTY PACK OF TOILET TISSUE in the same closet?!At the time, my post-college housing experiences had all been of the sort where there was barely room to store a four-pack of TP in the bathroom. But also, the closest place that sold toilet paper (whether Star Market in my Somerville and Cambridge apartments, or the 7-11 in my Fenway apartment) was never more than two blocks away. Hyoun didn't *have* a walkable grocery and household supplies option at the time; he always had to hop in the car. We've gone back and forth on having easy grocery access in the interim decades, but we're back to the level of "the supermarket is only three blocks away so we can get TP and soap whenever" level of convenience, for which we are both massively grateful.
Old habits die hard, though, especially when pandemic-reinforced. After the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020, where we got on a waitlist to order bamboo toilet paper in bulk from a hipster brand off the internet (?!), Hyoun will now walk home from the supermarket with a 30 pack of toilet paper.
Back to soap: I have no idea if we went through 14 bars of soap or not in the four years between us starting to date and getting married, because my skin is dry enough that I rarely use bar soap unless I don't have an alternative; it's moisturizing body wash for me all the way. But in the 19 years since that post, we have managed to get down to eight bars of soap waiting in the wings, plus the existing bar in the shower. I guess maybe we need to pick up some more soap the next time we go on a Target run? Not 140 bars worth, though, ROFL!
And while I was trying to find that post, I found the shower time survey (🔒)
belladonna posted from even longer ago. Hahaha omg, I'd forgotten how long these surveys were that we all used to do. We'll see how far I get into this before life happens and I post it incomplete.( shower survey, 22 years later redux )
