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Welcome back to We are the Hansens. I am so
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glad you're here today. Whether you're in the car, holding laundry,
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or just taking a well deserved break, it's just me
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and I've got a fun topic that every big family,
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or really any family, can relate to. That one household
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item we always run out of. Now, in a family
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as big as ours, we run out of a lot
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of things, milk yep, socks constantly. But if I had
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to pick just one item that seems to disappear faster
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than I can buy it, it would have to be
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toilet paper yep, the good old TP, the necessity that
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never seems to last as long as I think it should.
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I swear I can buy the biggest pack at the store,
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the one that you know barely fits in the shopping cart,
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and within days we're down to the last few roles,
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and no one ever wants to admit they use the
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last of it. There's always that moment of panic when
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you realize too late that someone didn't replace the role. Now.
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I don't know if my kids are eating it, wrapping
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themselves in it like mummies, or just using it way
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more than necessary, But I have seriously considered guys installing
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a hidden camera in my bathroom just to solve the mystery.
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Of course, I would never do that. I'd never get
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a moment of privacy again if I did that. Over
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the years, we've tried different strategies to keep toilet paper stocked.
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We've had one roll per bathroom, rules, grab an extra
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when you go shopping, and even a failed attempt at rotationing.
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But no matter what, there's always a bathroom where someone yells, Mom,
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we're out of toilet paper, or I hear somebody banging
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on the wall, Mom, I need toilet paper. I've thought
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about signing up for one of those auto delivery services
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where toilet paper just magically appears on our doorstep every month,
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but I don't even know if that would be enough
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to keep up with us. Toilet paper might be the
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number one thing we run out of, but there are
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some strong runners up, one being paper, towel or napkins,
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dish soap, toothpaste. Somehow we have thirteen kids and five
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hundred empty toothpaste tubes, but never an actual full one
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when we need it. Hair ties, hair ties, and brushes,
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I should say, because I think we have one black
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hole in our house where all hair accessories disappear forever. Socks.
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I buy socks all the time, and yet no one
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can ever find a matching pair. I have to come
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to accept that socks are temporary purchase in our home.
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And usually the kids will run in and go through
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their dad's drawer and pull a pair out and wear
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those because they can never find any batteries. The second
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we need one, they're all mysteriously gone. Remote controls, kids, toys, flashlights,
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everything dies at the same time. Every single thing, including
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our thermostat, never have batteries for a thermostat, pens I
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buy them in bulk, and yet when I need to
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write something down, there isn't a single one in sight.
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Where do they go? A mystery for the ages trash bags.
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Somehow we always run out exactly when we have the
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biggest mess to clean up. Never fails. Dish soap We
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go through so much dish soap. The other thing, laundry
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soap and fabric softener. That stuff goes through our house
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like water goes in and write out never ends. The
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funny thing is, no matter how often we run out
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of things, we always make it work. There's a certain
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charm in the chaos of a big family, and sometimes
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it leads to the most hilarious stories, like the one
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time one of the kids decided to substitute napkins for
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toilet paper and left a trail of them in the bathroom,
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or when one had to use use an old birthday
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party plastic tablecloth as a makeshift trash bag because we
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were completely out. We've also had to use Walmart bags
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as trash bags. In the end, these little moments make
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up the fabric of our family life. We laugh, we adjust,
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and we keep going because that's what families do. At
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the end of the day. Running out of things is
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just part of life with a big family. We laugh
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about it, we adapt, and we add it to the
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ever growing shopping list, and sometimes we just have to
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get creative, like when there's no toilet paper and you
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hear someone hollering from the bathroom room hoping for a rescue.
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That happens almost once, maybe twice a week here, so
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I'm sure other families have had the same situation happen.
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And I tell my kids all the time, you know,
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when you're using toilet paper, you don't need half the
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roll to wipe your tiny heine you need enough, but
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not over enough. It's almost like you just know the
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right amount. These kids definitely don't know the right amount,
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because they will wipe once, throw it in the toilet,
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and wipe about five more times with different sections of
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toilet paper and throw them all in the toilet, and
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guess what. Then we have a flooded mess in the bathroom.
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And then they're yelling the toilet's plugged and it's overflowing.
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It never ends, guys, never ends. I feel like a
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broken record sometimes when I'm telling them you don't need
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to use all that toilet paper. And then this is funny.
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Madison or Torren, both of them have done this. They
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go to the bathroom and there will be no toilet paper,
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and they will sit there pounding on the wall or yelling,
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and I pretend like I don't hear them, because I
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tell them, make sure there's toilet paper before you sit down. Well,
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they don't, and they're sitting there and then all of
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a sudden, my phone will ring and it's Maddie in
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the bathroom, and I don't answer it, and I just
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sit there and wait a couple minutes, and I'll get
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a bunch of texts, I need toilet paper, Please bring
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me TP. We're out of toilet paper in the bathroom.
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Somebody help. I'll needless to say, I just sit there
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and laugh, but I do take them toilet paper. I
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just want or to try at least to remember next
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time you go to the bathroom, check the role before
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you sit down. It happens way too often here. They
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should know this by now. The other thing I was
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talking about is napkins. It is horrible. Or when you
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have a guest come to your house to eat dinner
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and they say, do you have a napkin? And I'm like, nope,
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Because guess what if the kids run out of toilet
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paper and I hadn't made it to the store yet,
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they use the napkins. And they also go for the Cleenex.
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If there's no toilet paper and there's no napkins, the
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next best thing to wipe your butt with is soft cleanex,
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so they go for that. So needless to say, when
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we need Kleenex in the house, we don't have it
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because the kids used it to wipe their butts and
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didn't tell me and used it all. They also like
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to if they spill something in the kitchen use half
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a package of napkins, so there goes that. The only
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other thing I can think of that we run out
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of in our home is shampoo and conditioner. We sometimes
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run out of body wash. I'm pretty good about catching
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the body wash before it's empty because the kids bathe
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every single day, so I'm really good at catching them
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if they run out, so I always get it when
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it's half full. I usually pick up another container of
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body wash for them because otherwise they won't have any.
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Now we can keep a bottle of shampoo in the
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house and that will last. I mean, they don't need
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a lot of shampoo, so you know, they get their
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head sudsy and everything. And it's the conditioner that we
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run out of because we all have long hair, very
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long hair. My hair used to be at the back
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of my knees, Madison's was almost to the back of
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her knees. Torrens is way down there too, and Anna's
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is down there. We all have long hair and it
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is really hard to brush our hair if we don't
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have conditioner, so we definitely use a lot of conditioner
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in our hair. I think, you know, they say you're
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only supposed to use like a quarter size of shampoo
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and a quarter size of conditioner in your hair every
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time you wash it. Well, they always say you're not
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supposed to wash your hair every day. I have noticed
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on me and my girls that if we don't wash
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our hair at least every other day, it is so
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greasy and I can't do that. So for us, with
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all our long hair, our hair gets washed every other day.
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I cannot go without washing my hair. So we do
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definitely go through a lot of conditioner. We have tried
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like the leaving conditioner and the detangler spray and stuff
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for the girls, and it's just too much. It's too hard.
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Our hair gets so ratty. If we don't have conditioner,
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it's not worth the torture to brush through. And then
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the hair ties. We could have a brand new pack
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of hair ties and two days later nobody can find
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a hair tie to use for their hair. So that's
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the other thing. It does get very frustrating sometimes, but
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I mean we deal with it, we get through it,
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we move on. Happens so much that we've just grown
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used to it. If you're listening to this and nodding along,
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just no, you're not alone. Every household has that one
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thing that always runs out too fast. I want to
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hear from you what it is for you and your family.
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next time, May your toilet paper rolls be full and
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your socks always have a match