It's True It's true!!!!

 Smiles

 Amy

You MUST be an AnySoldier Junkie if...  when your (hunky, 100% fat-free, male) friend is helping you clear the deepest depths of pantry of non-diet food, comes upon your major stash of Hershey, remarking "Babe, these gotta go", and you unhesitatingly respond, "whoop: directly into field for CHOCOLATE SEASON!"  (laughter)

You seriously consider getting a second job at Dollar Tree so you can 1. make money to spend there, and  2. get an in store discount so you can get more...

You ask if they have "gift cards" at the post office...as you want anyone buying you Christmas gifts to give you postage for packages...  BTW The PO doesn't yet have those...sigh....

Debbie

a_mom_from_SF:

You MUST be an AnySoldier Junkie if...  when your (hunky, 100% fat-free, male) friend is helping you clear the deepest depths of pantry of non-diet food, comes upon your major stash of Hershey, remarking "Babe, these gotta go", and you unhesitatingly respond, "whoop: directly into field for CHOCOLATE SEASON!"  (laughter)

Thank you Ma'am.  In the gray winter sky area in which I live, I will never again see those gray skies - they have been permanently replaced by visions of chocolate in the clouds:)  And winter will now forever more be known as 'Chocolate Season' around here!

Not to mention the fact that you have just inspired an idea for a contact's gift that I've been scratching my head over for two months now.  (A simple box of chocolate just won;t cut it here).  Sooo...  from coast to coast a big Thank you  from me to you:)

Ann

 Whoa Ann,  you may have started something. Visions of Sugar Plums my foot! Visions of Chocolate Snowmen......And chocolate ornaments on the tree.....and walking in a winter chocolate land........

YUM

But I promise I will share with the troops....may end up doing a one for them one for me two for them three for me one for them..................

 Your name is on the first few topic threads of this forum!

Wow, SpaceCadet, did that ever take me back... to SGT Steve's second tour... and me, with my nose pressed up against a hardware store window, pining for the most tactical, most durable looking all-in-one multi-tool I had ever seen.  The flutter of friends eschewed my interest, "you don't need that, you've got a toolbox", never seeing the ache in my heart for that costly un-obtain-ium, which I knew might be useful to a stranger I had never met.  Not as good as a tool in hand, but I wrote SGT Steve about my experience and my gratitude (for him & his buds) keeping me safe.   

a_mom_from_SF:  LOL!  I checked out the multi-tools.  I've found that the brand Leatherman is the best.  I wanted to buy 100 of the most expensive ones and send to a aircraft maintenance crew but that darned money thing got in the way.

you steel yourself in a not-so-lovely public restroom, because you know it's probably a lot more than what some of the troops have in the war zone.

Oh, is that ever so true!  I could not believe what some of them have to use! 

Also, here's a story of another anySoldier Junkie!  She is definitely one.  She had no choice but to go along with her mom and aunt to a local casino (it was the aunt's car).  So she put in some money into a slot machine, was losing and bemoaning the fact that she was losing.  "Gosh darn, I could have used that for my soldiers!"  Then her winning streak started picking up and she was $25 ahead.  She cashed out and said "That's it.  This is for the soldiers!!" 

And she gleefully watched us losing our money!!!!!  But not for long!!!!

Bea

You don't gripe AT ALL and tell your neighbors not to gripe about not having hot water for 4 days since you know our troops have it alot worse.  You just use the baby wipes you were planning to send to A-stan and then go out and buy another box to send!

diane

You have to look for the table you plan to serve Thanksgiving dinner on...under all of your soldier stuff.  Yes, it all lives on the formal table in the living room (sadly, in view of the front door)...I just can't seem to get it all put away...it's so much easier to pack when it's all in sight.  Unfortunately, you can't serve dinner to the in-laws from a flat rate box!

24 hours and counting...

Kate

wickedbrowndog:

You have to look for the table you plan to serve Thanksgiving dinner on...under all of your soldier stuff.

Then, when you move it, it looks worse but you figure "Hey...great conversation starter!"