April 1, 2025

We Are the Hansons | The One Household Item We Always Run Out Of!

We Are the Hansons | The One Household Item We Always Run Out Of!

In this hilarious and totally relatable episode of We Are the Hansons, we dive into the chaos of big family life—and the one household item that mysteriously disappears faster than snacks on movie night! Is it toilet paper? Paper towels? The elusive left sock? You’ll have to tune in to find out. We share funny stories, vent our family frustrations, and laugh through the madness of managing a household where something is always missing. If you’ve ever opened a cabinet and thought, “HOW are we out again?!”—this one’s for you. Grab your coffee (if there's any left) and join the conversation!

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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