In Hunting for Supplies

• You can't walk past a co-workers (or neighbor's) trash can without checking it out for useful items
• You *save* the underwires that work their way out of your sports bras in the wash, and try to think of a way they can be made into a craft or toy
• You go to the liquor store for the boxes! (box ovens, of course)
• Your neighbor has saved three huge garbage bags full of foam rubber pieces for you...and within 60 seconds you've thought of a dozen different ways to use them
• Your cleaning lady asks you before throwing away cat food cans and plastic milk containers
• Your dad, who is a cross country trucker, knows just what truck stop to stop at to get you some more of those great big pinecones you're always looking for AND takes the time to pick you a whole bag full
• Your sister goes to Florida for vacation and brings you home a huge bag of Spanish Moss and you're thrilled
• Your brother calls you up long distance to tell you his beaded car seat just broke and if you want them he'll save all the beads for you and when you see him the next time he not only brings the beads but he also has taken the time to separate them all for you
• After a major ice storm that brings down hundreds of trees you think "Wow, we're set for firewood for a long time"
• You hunt garage sales for troop equipment, and you have your friends keep their eyes open too!
• You hunt used book stores for anything that would help your troop (I found "30 Paper Airplanes" and thought, "Aha! The Aerospace badge!")
• You get really excited when you find out that your dad is still saving coffee cans behind your mother's back!
• You get upset when your husband dares to think that he can use that tuna can you have been saving
• You encourage your kids to eat tuna fish sandwiches to get the empty cans
• You make the rounds at all the local dollar stores periodically just to see if there might be something interesting to make swaps or crafts with
• You make the rounds at a half dozen or so used book stores every 4 to 6 months to see if you can find any old Girl Scout handbooks
• You buy rolls of wallpaper from the clearance bin for a dollar or two a roll with no specific project in mind, you just know you'll think of some way the girls can use it. (This may also include almost any item in a clearance bin for a dollar or two.)
• You and your family of 7 are drinking all of your milk out of quart waxed cardboard containers because you saw this really cool way to cook hotdogs from the cyber cookbook and you need 30 containers by September!