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Originally Posted By: Grace&Violets

I'm glad someone bumped this thread. I hadn't seen it yet. It reminds me of the blizzard we had in CO a few days before Christmas 2006. We couldn't get out of our cul-de-sac for days. No one could. My BIL & SIL finally were able to get out of their house and get to us so we could get to the store. I was hosting Christmas dinner at our house and didn't have everything to make my meal, yet! We could have survived for a couple of months on what we did have, but it wouldn't have been our traditional Christmas dinner. Plus, we were out of fresh milk for the kiddos. Anyway, we got to the Safeway and the pictures that were posted in the first few posts were pretty close to how things looked at our store. Except our store was way worse. There were about 2 packages left of toilet paper, just a few gallons of milk left, NO water, NO fresh veggies, although there were some frozen, which is what I bought. There were NO canned veggies, except maybe some okra(which may be big in the south, but not here). I've never seen anything like it in my entire life. Even though I prep, it pretty much freaked me out! This was just a few days without deliveries. I started imagining what it would be like if it lasted a week, or more than a week. They would have to close the store. I heard from some workers there, that they were real close to closing the store, but they had just received a delivery from a truck that braved the roads and it gave them enough stock to keep open one more day. It was actually creepy. Made me glad that I keep so many preps. DH teases me that we could tp our entire town with our preps, but he also knows that he will be happy, if anything does happen. I know our neighbor family was happy, because we ended up feeding their entire family the first night. They had been planning on being out of town for Christmas, so they had not bought groceries and had made sure they had NO food in their house. Not hardly a can! I can't even imagine!

Originally Posted By: Joebelle

Try using an old teacup, a scrap of yarn and a little stuffing to make adorable pin cushions for the sewers on your list. Just stuff a scrap of fabric with polyfil and tie. Then you hotglue to the top of a teacup. They are really adorable and can be put together and embellished with all those litle scraps you can't seem to throw away. Teacups are way cheap at thrift stores and so the whole project is handmade and very inexpensive. My kids made them last year as gifts and they were a big hit!

Originally Posted By: Cat

(With apologies to Shari Lewis...)

~~This is the thread that never ends;
It just goes on and on, my friends...
Somebody started writing it, not knowing where it'd go,
And now it just keeps going on forever, don't you know...~~