Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Some Notes on Usage

We've been trying to keep track of some of our food consumption since October.  While we haven't been perfect at it, we've done okay.  If I multiple what we've used over the last 3 months by 4, I can get an idea of how much of each item we'll go through per year.  Here's what we estimate we'll use each year:

Toilet Paper: 365 rolls
Cereal: 24 boxes
Chicken Broth: 40 cans (we were surprised that we use that much...)
Cream of Chicken: 24 cans
Cream of Mushroom: 24 cans
Egg noodles: 8 bags
Enchilada Sauce: 200 oz (they come in 2 different sized cans)
Green chilies: 24 cans (the larger, walmart can, 7 oz, I think)
Jello/Pudding: 16 boxes (strawberry and chocolate so far...)
Mac & Cheese: 16 boxes
Olives: 20 cans
Ranch: you can never have too much ranch...
Diced tomatoes: 40 cans (probably more if we had had more)
(Rotel) diced tomatoes with green chilies: 36 cans
Gold Fish: 480 oz
Tortilla chips: 24 big bags (again, probably more--I'm not convinced we recorded all of them)
Body Wash: 12 big bottles (maybe a little more...)
Deodorant: 12 sticks
Toothpaste: 96 oz (I think...this one's a little odd--we wrote down 24 oz in Oct and haven't written anything since)

I'll use these and the other info I have for my initial guess at a year's supply, then, we'll continue recording items and make adjustments as necessary.  We'll also add other items as we recognize that we're regularly using things that aren't getting recorded (like meats and breads).

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hair, or Who is that Beautiful Short Haired Woman?








After allot of internal conflict, Laura decided to donate her hair in honor of Laila and Benjamin. Her donation had to be at least 10 inches long. Laura hasn't had hair this short since elementary school. She'll be sending it to Locks of Love.