When I moved out of my parents' house, I started a collection of napkins. That is to say, whenever I had napkins left over from eating fast food, I set the extra napkins in the kitchen to use later. This continued after Lesley moved in and for several months we had such a good backlog of napkins that we didn't have to use any of the napkins that we bought from the store.

It seemed that our napkin collection began to dwindle when we moved here and it ran out not too long after that. Since then, we've relied almost exclusively on our package of store-bought napkins (the first package of napkins Lesley bought after moving out of her parents' house). We've definitely eaten out less since moving here, but that's probably more due to having few fast food and even fewer fast casual restaurants nearby, than to any type of conscious decision. Not only are there fewer of those places nearby, but some of our old favorites don't even exist up here. Not having those places around isn't much of a big deal, it just means we'll have to buy some more napkins sometime soon.