'Tis the season for me to become homicidal over chapstick.

[LaraMN]

I buy that crap EVERY damn time I go to the store, and yet every time I go to use it, ALL my tubes are missing!

I want to know what it is that some mysterious entity is doing with all the disappeared socks and tubes of chapstick. Criminies, you can order far more appropriate paraphernalia online now, in the privacy of your own home.

GIVE ME BACK MY CHAPSTICKS, YOU THIEVING BASTARD(S)!

[miss_american_pie]

1. My kids eat ours

There aren't nearly enough hiding places in this house. :hi:

[LaraMN]

3. Yeah- SophieMN can go through a whole tube in one evening.

As evidenced by the "Cinderella chapstick" episode of October '06. I don't think my kids are actually eating it, though. You kinda' can't blame them sometimes; I always had a horrible urge to eat the bubblegum flavored stuff.

[miss_american_pie]

4. OMG!

I just read your sigline. :rofl:

[LaraMN]

6. I was going for festivity.

:D

[billyskank]

15. Like, literally?

[miss_american_pie]

19. Yes

It seems to be an 18 month to about 3 year old phase. Actually consuming chapstick.

And it's not the worst thing they've eaten, either. ;)

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Well, last time the Cheetos went suddenly missing like that...

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

5. Yeah. I better check his usual stashes.

I ran out of toilet paper again today, and he might have stowed some of that away as well. He's quite a fan of the 2-ply.

[billyskank]

17. *burp*

:hide:

[Dangerously Amused]

18. EEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!

Do you know where those Cheetos have BEEN?!?


:scared:

[billyskank]

20. .

[RetroLounge]

7. RetroGirl has her own Barbie and Dora chapstick

I find that if I use Carmex, no one will want to borrow it. Or kiss me, for some reason...

Caribou Coffee has a nice mint one called Bou Balm

RL

[LaraMN]

12. Oh- plus, Carmex is tingly!

:bounce:
I'm a big fan of tingling!

[RetroLounge]

13. I really like Carmex too...

addicting stuff...

:bounce:

RL

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Buy tinted lip balm like Burt's Bees

No one will mess with it because "it's lipstick". :rofl: Actually, my sister does this, and it works like a charm.

[MorningGlow]

9. Maybe it was the South Park underwear gnomes

Seriously, I feel your pain. I am addicted to the stuff too but mine all go missing as well. Doubly hard for me, as I will only use strawberry flavor, which are never in the checkout "impulse buy" rack (only cherry there--ick ptoo)--I have to go hunting in the cold and flu aisle of the supermarket to find my precious strawberry Chapstick.

It's a sickness, I know.

[JackBeck]

10. Do you have any cats?

If you do, check under the couch.

[LaraMN]

11. Nope- no cats.

Just small, devious children bent on depriving me of moist, pliable lips.

[madinmaryland]

14. So that's why I have at least eight sticks of that crap!!!

:evilgrin:

[billyskank]

16. Does this merit a:

[TommyO]

21. I found three tubes in my winter jacket

maybe they're yours. Send me your address and $200 to cover postage and handling and I'll get them back to you in six to eight weeks.

[nytemare]

22. I am addicted to chapstick.

I feel your pain. Since high school, if I don't have chapstick, my lips start to fall off and hemorrhage. When I do housecleaning, I sometimes find the tubes, and wonder how the hell they got where they are.