I just realized I lost my mind over the past year

[LSFL]

Toilet paper, bottled water, pinto beans, cases of ramen, more guns than I have ever owned before and ammo out the wazoo. This is my spare bedroom. I didn't bulk buy anything, just picked it up when convenient. Lotta stuff in there. I just saw it with fresh eyes this morning. It's insane. What have I become? Anyone else go nutso?

Anyhow, Happy Thanksgiving from the ky looney bin. Be safe y`all!

[doc03]

1. So you are the guy that bought up all the ammo and toilet paper

[LSFL]

2. It just built up

I never bought more than a pack or to of anything. I am going to donate it for Christmas. God knows how many nights I may have spent in there in a mental fugue, clutching a pack of toilet paper and muttering about the Precioussss.

[marble falls]

3. Be sure to disarm yourself responsibly.

[Chainfire]

4. My wife would ask, "Where did you use it last?"

For the most part, my wife and I have sheltered in place. That has left me with too much time on my hands. Instead of being productive around my house, I have sat at the computer doom scrolling. I have mashed my buns so much, I have gained 8 pounds and my muscles have atrophied.

I have become Amazon and eBay's customer of the year. I have saved thousands of dollars by not eating out since Feb. There will be very few people who will not have long-lasting effects from this pandemic, a form of PTSD to shoulder going forward.

My wife and I keep reminding ourselves how much better we have fared than a lot of people. We have lost no loved ones to the disease, We are not very social, so we haven't missed a lot of close associations, we are retired, so we are not burdened by under employment. We live on acreage, so we can get out and walk without encountering others, our friends and family are all believers in the virus and share our caution.


Today will be different from other Thanksgivings. My daughter is 5,000 miles away and we agreed that it would not be practical for her to come home for the holiday. Even with that sadness, I go into today thankful and thoughtful and hopeful for the future.

[LizBeth]

8. +1, nothing like you, yet the same story. I agree it will leave an impact on who we are here on out.

A year give or take of adjusted behavior and thinking will always change how we walk forward I imagine. Those of us tht took this seriously and made life style changes.

[luvs2sing]

5. It's easy to do.

We don’t have guns, but I have slowly, one package a week, filled the (small) basement with toilet paper and paper towels. Oh, and those little bottles of hand sanitizer that you can keep in the car. I have a huge basket of them by the front door with disposable masks and gloves and disinfectant wipes.

[Hortensis]

6. Dunno about the guns, lock those up, but it's not over yet.

For instance, the chances are dangerously high that a second pandemic disease could break loose, out of a dozen considered high priority by the WHO and lethal to young adults and children. The craziness and disruption of the protections that stopped them in the past are planetwide, not just here. Two months here before the new administration is even sworn in, and after that crazy people will still be denying and deliberately spreading disease, or as they call it "fighting for freedom."

There are other dangers, as well. Not to scaremong, but just be real, we cannot live long at all without the current high levels of energy to our homes and our very complex, interconnected support systems. Several advanced foreign enemies are perfectly capable of collapsing selected parts of those, or all in worst case; one order to attack and right now suddenly becomes the good old days for whatever regions are targeted.

It does sound as if you can relax on the adding to, though, and start the eating down. Can't spend our lives waiting for nightmares to come real.

[LizBeth]

7. This time I did buy a 12 pac TP when needed, and then a week later grabbed another. Otherwise, nope.

All the same. Sometimes I have a stoked fridge. Sometimes an empty one.

[Chainfire]

10. I don't have to worry about toilet paper. There is a corn field across the street from my house.

We sort the cobs out, red ones in one pile, white ones in the other. You used the red one first, then use the white one to see if you need another red one.

Truth is, I put bidet toilet seats in my house when I built it. I recently upgraded to new ones with blow dryers. They are the most civilized appliance a person can own.

[DFW]

9. Our spare bedroom is cluttered too, but with different stuff

Mostly a big bed for visiting humans, so we had no room left for instruments designed to exterminate them.

Maybe we had the wrong idea? I'm sure more than a few Republicans would think so.