We are on the precipice of something HUGE.
Where does one buy paper napkins these days?
I previously posted about my foibles with Subscribe and Save, and how having a lot of extra garage space turned out to be a way I accidentally suddenly owned cases of paper napkins.
The Time I Accidentally Became a Hoarder
I remember the first time I heard about Amazon Prime. I thought it was a truly silly idea - who would pay $79 a year for the right to buy stuff with free shipping? These are the questions you ask yourself when you are not the world’s richest man. Like almost everyone else I know, I soon became an Amazon Prime member, and fell even deeper into the well w…
Quite literally, the last time we bought paper napkins was December 2017. (I just checked Amazon.) We are almost six years into what we bought. Sure, we also use cloth napkins when we get fancy, but I also gave away several packages during COVID when folks freaked out and bought paper products for reasons I’m still trying to understand.
It’s absurd. I still don’t know what I was thinking - but mostly, it was that I was NOT thinking, and that’s part of what I’m sure makes Subscribe & Save so effective. We have also bought - and I keep saying “we,” but it’s really me - way too much laundry detergent, vitamins and dog treats - but nothing has gotten as out of hand as the napkins, mostly because we bought a lot, but simply don’t use them nearly as fast as Amazon “suggested.”
But folks, I’m here to tell you that we are almost there.
Two. Two packages. There’s a world that’s not too far away when we actually have to buy paper napkins.
And yes, we have gone through all our subscriptions and made the requisite changes. Jeff Bezos can have some of our money, but even we have limits.