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Old 10-26-2006, 08:16 AM
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Default Re: Laundry: frugality vs hygiene

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Originally Posted by mountainmist
I cannot imagine any family in this day and age, when again and again and again, all Americans are urged to prepare for national emergencies, terror attacks, horrendous winter storms, hurricanes, industrial accidents, etc...... I can't imagine not having enough sheets for each bed in the house to last for a month without having to use the washing machine.
I'm sorry, but this just struck my as hysterically funny!!!!

If tornado rips through my town, if a terrorist bombs the nearby industrial plant, if we have a blizzard that shuts us in for a week, one of the LAST things I'm going to be worried about is sheets!!!

I'm all for emergency preparedness, but I thought of it more in terms of medicine, fuel, food, and water, not bed linens.

Seriously, if it came down to it, dirty sheets might be unpleasant but they're really not going to kill you. I don't consider them part of my emergency plans!
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