There are certain items around the house that you usually buy in bulk. These might include toilet paper, paper towels, dish liquid, detergent, bath soaps, canned goods (pantry staples), etc. If you are like me, an avid coupon clipper, you might buy a bunch of this item at one time, enough to say last a couple of months. Well, as busy as I am (being a mom and teacher and whatever other hat I am wearing that day), sometimes I admit it I forget to take inventory of what I need before I go shopping. These items often get overlooked because they are not a weekly shopping item. And sometimes, I hear the dreaded...."MOM--- we're out of toilet paper" only to go to the toilet paper storage and find there is none there. Then its a mad dash to the nearest store to buy a ridiculously expensive small pack of toilet paper just so somebody can get off of the toilet. ADMIT IT WE HAVE ALL DONE IT....well...I say no longer shall I hear those words....I am putting a stop to it.
Here is my suggestion, I have only recently started trying it out, but it seems to be working wonderfully. I take a 'lovely, I-don't-know-what-I-would-do-without" sharpie and I number each roll of toilet paper that I buy from the store on my bulk shopping trip. I do the same with paper towels and every other bulk item I buy. Here is the brilliant part (at least I think so), I store them in the cabinets backwards with number one all the way in the back of the cabinet and so on and so forth until they are all stored and the highest number is showing in the front. Then, say I have 20 rolls of toilet paper, when I see number 10 in the front, I know it is time to add it to the grocery list.
