Hi Ann,

I guess that is why we are junkies! 

You must be an Any Soldier Junkie when -- you have finished packing a box with gifts to send to friends in another State and you reach around to start filling out a Customs form. 

Pan

......if you go to get into the shower and realize you don't have any body wash left, but then you remember you have about 10 bottles in your soldier stuff.

Vicki 

VickiV:

......if you go to get into the shower and realize you don't have any body wash left, but then you remember you have about 10 bottles in your soldier stuff.

...when you nod, sucking silence in response to the teen (who as a tot at midnight always wanted kitchen water, not bathroom water):   "Ma, I need Axe please" and I say, there's plenty in the Warrior-drawer.  And he tells me, "No Ma, I need bodywash, that supply is for the AnySoldiers." 

You must be an anysoldier junkie if you are on a first-name basis with the post-office clerks!

Acoustic:

You must be an anysoldier junkie if you are on a first-name basis with the post-office clerks!

And if I may add...at more than one post office!!   

 

...when you haven't chosen so many "new" contacts lately as one, two, three prior ones have emailed to say, "could you remember us? we're going right back out"

Could I remember them?  I don't believe I'll ever forget...

..... You keep track of prior contacts to see if they will be rotating back to combat or leaving the service, in order to set you AS annual support budget.....

Does it count if you haven't yet sent out a package, but you have written out a two-page "plan" on how to aquire everything you need, up to and including burning through the rest of your minutes on your "extra" cell phone talking to people about bulk order shipments and the price break you can get....not to save money, but to get more stuff?

When you finally get around to filing your replies from the contacts in an alphabetical accordian file after 3 years, you find that you only have the Q, U, and X names with empty slots (wrote to a Q and U, just didn't hear back).

Gran

New Supporter,

I think you are a "Junkie in training" or "Junior Junkie", but you are going to get there.

Gran

Gran:

New Supporter,

I think you are a "Junkie in training" or "Junior Junkie", but you are going to get there.

Gran

WHOOHOO!!!!

a_mom_from_SF:

...when you haven't chosen so many "new" contacts lately as one, two, three prior ones have emailed to say, "could you remember us? we're going right back out"  ...

wrote & wrote, packed boxes and nevertheless find yourself requesting yet another address that (you know) was just meant for you. 

...........when I work part time solely to support what my husband calls my "Soldier habit".

........... when all of my family and friends go on any vacation they know that I expect all the unused coffee packets and hygiene products from their hotel rooms. 

..........when I go on vacation I bring my own hygiene stuff so that I don't have to use the stuff the hotel provides and every day I take everything they provide and hide it in my suitcase to bring home and mail off.    If they have really good stuff I ask the front desk for extras.

 ........when I search catalogs and web sites for any type of freebies to get to mail to them

 ........when you can't go into any store without picking up something that you can send to a soldier.

 

...when your sister in law brings back a very expensive chocolate sampler from Switzerland after returning from Europe and the first thing you think is there is a female soldier that is more deserving of this then I. Carefully packaged and will be the first thing she sees when she opens her box.

Wish I could box up and send that coo coo clock my husband received from his sister. Midnight has a new meaning in my life.