My Story: Paper Products

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Paper Products

I debated whether to go to Clara's today or not, but I called her daughter to make sure it was okay with their family and when she said it was, I decided the social interaction was equally important.

On her grocery list were: paper towels, napkins, Kleenex and TP. Oh man. Only the hardest products to get your hands on. This week since she's hearing better, she was more aware of the Coronavirus and how its spread throughout the world. She was disappointed that I said she couldn't go in the store, but happy to have a drive at the very least.

Walgreens toilet paper, tissue and napkin aisle today.

I showed her a photo I took last week of the empty paper aisle at Target and told her we'd go to all the stores in the neighborhood and see what we could find.

At Walgreens, they didn't have anything.
At Macey's at the top of the hill they had paper towels and napkins. Win!
At A Fresh down the hill they had more Kleenex and another roll of paper towels. (Which the checker asked if I wanted to exchange for the 6-pak they kept behind the counter. Each store would only let you buy 1 of any of these products, but a 6-pak counted as 1. So I bought it.)
The Macey's down further didn't have anything she needed either. But they did have chips and peppermint patties which she was out of.
Finally, the I stopped at the dollar store to get her word searches. They were out of most of them but had 2 books left. AND they had toilet paper! Very small rolls, but still it was something!

She's successfully stocked up. And we had fun driving around town searching.

Also, Luke and Will got home tonight! And the Church made an announcement that the missionaries who are home will be released and can choose to be temporarily reassigned by April 30, or wait to go back for another year. Being released is probably a good idea if they're home that long. Have I already said, "These are CRAZY times?!"