Hoarding

I've given up hope of being able to get any more dried milk -- if only I'd bought it when the bag first started to run low, instead of waiting until I actually came close to running out, at which point all the world and his wife suddenly decided the world was about to end and they needed the hitherto-despised dried milk right now.

Had to buy fresh from the supermarket in a plastic bottle; I'd forgotten how much extra space it takes up when it's not dehydrated, not to mention how much extra plastic waste this is going to generate and how much extra it's going to cost :-(

Meanwhile I've gone out and bought replacements for all the other things that have been low in the cupboards for a while, like lemon juice, Marmite, cinnamon, lard, tinned tomatoes, etc., in case I have the same experience again and the products simply disappear without ever restocking at the point where I actually run out. Which of course means that I'm now part of the problem myself.( Read more... )