Maren said, “mom, do you have any toilet paper rolls? I want to use them to hide the bare curtain rods in my living room. I found this life-hack online and they should work nicely”.
The mom said, “Sure honey, unfortunately I just pitched a bunch into the recycle bin but I will save a few for you”. The mom goes and gets a plastic bag and hangs it on the basement door handle. Soon enough there have been enough bathroom visits to empty numerous toilet paper rolls, and the bag starts to fill. The dad delivers the first batch of perhaps a dozen to Maren, making sure that they aren’t all crushed and that Fabby the cat does not chew up the plastic bag that they are contained in.
A new bag is started, and is gathering more empty toilet paper rolls. Maren says “Thanks dad, I probably have enough now but a few more won’t hurt. I can use them for spares. I will recycle the rest”. When the bag is full again dad delivers it to Maren as well, again making sure that its precious contents are not crushed and that Fabby does not chew up the new plastic bag. But before dad can leave the house a new plastic bag is added to the basement door handle. Maren assures dad, “I don’t think that I need any more emptied toilet paper rolls”.
Over time the bag on the basement door is refilled and redelivered to Maren, making sure that Fabby does not chew the plastic bag. Eventually stores stop using plastic bags and the mom and dad start to set empty Amazon grocery delivery bags next to the basement door to gather more tubes. These tubes are delivered straight to Maren’s recycling bin, unbeknownst to the mom. The dad tells Maren “that can be our secret”.
In the fullness of time, the mom and the dad move into a senior cooperative. When the mom and the dad have visitors from the senior cooperative, mom’s new friend Barbara notices the empty Amazon grocery delivery bags in the corner of the front vestibule full of empty toilet paper rolls. Barbara asks the mom “what do you do with the toilet paper rolls?”. The mom responds “my daughter Maren has a project that she uses them for, I forgot what it is but she needs them so I collect them”. Barbara sensing a project of great import, starts to collect her emptied toilet paper rolls to the mom in Amazon grocery delivery bags that she gets from her son.
Barbara’s friend Jim sees Barbara delivering bags of empty toilet paper rolls to the mom and wonders “what is up with that?”. Soon Jim and his wife Sandy are collecting Amazon delivery bags full of empty toilet paper rolls to the mom and dad’s home and they are in turn delivering all those bags to Maren. Word gets out, one thing leads to another, and soon the entire senior cooperative is collecting toilet paper rolls from the mom’s and dad’s daughter Maren. Word spreads to other senior cooperatives and assisted living centers all over the city and now truckloads of Amazon grocery delivery bags full of empty toilet paper rolls are being regularly delivered to the daughter Maren.
Maren has long since given up trying to stop this, and instead has had to turn it into a full-time business of creating custom designed planners made from recycled toilet paper rolls and empty Amazon grocery delivery bags.
Eventually, after creating large and successful toilet paper roll planner business, Maren sells her business to Amazon, she moves into a home with a large screened-in porch with Fabby the cat where he can watch birds all day and they live happily ever after.
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