My wife asked, “why did you buy more salt?”
And I said smugly, “To cook and preserve food with if the grid goes down. What else would I be buying it for?”
And she said, “Oh, I thought you might be buying it to make industrial chemicals, you know they use salt for that.
It’s used cleaning as well.
De-icing sidewalks, maybe?
How about using it as a poison ivy remedy, or weed killer for that grass in the sidewalk?
You could use it to fix that hole in the laundry room sheetrock if you mix it with a little water and cornstarch.
It’s good for putting out grease fires too.
And since the grids going down, you might want to buy some to put in the water you’ll be using this winter to rinse your clothes with; just a little bit will keep them from freezing on the line,” she said smugly.
And I said… I said nothing because I wanted to live long enough to see doomsday.
Timothy French 