Stopped at a few garage sales last Friday, while out doing our shopping.
When was the last time you bought 1800, that’s right eighteen hundred, of anything for 50 cents. I never have, not even a packet of those tiny, tiny seeds. Usually the most you get is a couple hundred of those for a buck or more. So what did I get? Nine, 200 count packages of food service gloves. Now you might wonder what did he buy those for….and I didn’t really know myself at the time. The box was marked $1.00 but I couldn’t see wasting a whole dollar on something I didn’t know what I was going to do with anyway. But I had this subconscious tugging at the back of my head and a little voice that said “Buy em now and you’ll figure out what they can be used for later.” I listen to that little voice in my head because sometimes it knows more about things than I can deliberately think of, but my conscious mind fought back. It winced and said “but not for a whole dollar”. The problem is that I still think a dollar is worth more than it is, my memory keeps taking me back to when it really was. So the two parts of my brain reached a compromise. If I could get the 1800 food service gloves for 50 cents they would both be happy and I could stop fighting with myself. So I made the offer and darned if they didn’t take it. Now I am the proud owner of 1800, YES 1800, food service gloves. So now what do I do with them, sure I can use them when I paint and when I change the oil in my car and other equipment. But if I optimistically figure I can use one a week that’s only 52 a year which means I’ll be pushing these things around for 34.6 years. If I could figure out what else I could use them for so I could use up two per week, at least they would be gone in only 17.3 years. Just to see how strong they were I used one while weeding my strawberry patch. No tools just a gloved set of fingers. I was amazed at how tough they were. I finished the whole patch, about 30 minutes work, and the glove was still in tack.
Okay, one down 1799 to go.
I would really like to try to use them up in the next ten years. Any suggestions?
Originally posted: July 11th, 2007