Once again, the Authorities are going overboard. A recent news story reported the confiscation of meth making materials from a home with small children. No one was arrested, no one was charged (yet), and the report included the information that no apparatus for making meth was found.
The news story concluded with a picture of the (presumed) confiscated goods. A plastic bucket with a brush, some plastic or rubber gloves, and a whole bunch of cleaning supplies.
My brother remarked that they wouldn't have confiscated anything for a box of Nyquil and a bottle of Drano. Maybe, maybe not. Small town police departments have a way of deciding guilt first, then looking for proof.
Anyway, anyone can have a lot of any or many things, depending on how or where and when they shop.
We get one check a month -- not welfare, if it matters to you. So, I try to buy everything I need, or may need, at one time. This includes 2 boxes of mucinex-d type medicines and 2 boxes of Alka Seltzer Plus. Both are dr reccommended for my husband, who has COPD. He can take the mucus tablets 4 times a day if needed, but 2 x seems to keep that problem at bay. The alka-seltzer plus helps, as well as helping with hydration. But that's relatively unimportant.
I also buy Thera-flu and Benadryl and sometimes generic children's dimetapp.
Plus I buy toilet bowl cleaner and occasionally Drano.
I'm not making meth -- I'm budgeting.
Other budgeting strategies include buying in bulk, especially at shopping clubs. One of my niece-in-laws has been an intense couponer, which also can result in buying in bulk.
Is she making meth? Am I making meth?
No, but apparently, if the authorities come into my home, or hers, we run the risk of having our responsible spending confiscated and our names going into public record for suspicious activity. Because we shop smart.
Law makers are once again responding to lawbreakers by making it more difficult for the law abiding to just live their lives.
Perhaps the popular definition of insanity should be legislated, and then --THEN -- someone will have the legal right to say That Does NOT work.
The news story concluded with a picture of the (presumed) confiscated goods. A plastic bucket with a brush, some plastic or rubber gloves, and a whole bunch of cleaning supplies.
My brother remarked that they wouldn't have confiscated anything for a box of Nyquil and a bottle of Drano. Maybe, maybe not. Small town police departments have a way of deciding guilt first, then looking for proof.
Anyway, anyone can have a lot of any or many things, depending on how or where and when they shop.
We get one check a month -- not welfare, if it matters to you. So, I try to buy everything I need, or may need, at one time. This includes 2 boxes of mucinex-d type medicines and 2 boxes of Alka Seltzer Plus. Both are dr reccommended for my husband, who has COPD. He can take the mucus tablets 4 times a day if needed, but 2 x seems to keep that problem at bay. The alka-seltzer plus helps, as well as helping with hydration. But that's relatively unimportant.
I also buy Thera-flu and Benadryl and sometimes generic children's dimetapp.
Plus I buy toilet bowl cleaner and occasionally Drano.
I'm not making meth -- I'm budgeting.
Other budgeting strategies include buying in bulk, especially at shopping clubs. One of my niece-in-laws has been an intense couponer, which also can result in buying in bulk.
Is she making meth? Am I making meth?
No, but apparently, if the authorities come into my home, or hers, we run the risk of having our responsible spending confiscated and our names going into public record for suspicious activity. Because we shop smart.
Law makers are once again responding to lawbreakers by making it more difficult for the law abiding to just live their lives.
Perhaps the popular definition of insanity should be legislated, and then --THEN -- someone will have the legal right to say That Does NOT work.
