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“Marcella, do you recommend a brand of wet wipes? I seem to buy the sort that dry up on me. What is the quantity you would recommend to store per person and for how long.”

I wrote an article on these wipes and I'll find that and post it. No, I won't do that - I'll just look those up on the Walmart website to get the latest price and the right name and post that. It is the Walmart brand of wet wipes for adults, not the baby ones as they are not flushable - don't get the baby ones. I wonder how long ago you bought the ones that dried up? The packages look different now than some I stuck in the car some years ago. Those dried out and I don't remember the brand of those.

Now, figuring the number to get, we have to think in terms of a long term emergency and how we are going to adjust our living due to being in an emergency situation. I don't know if potties will work or not, but in case they do, we want the flushable kind that don't screw up the plumbing.

Now, can we talk? This is talk about personal body habits but we are all alike and our bodies work the same so it's no big deal for me to talk about it. Besides, I was an EMT and I've seen the parts of numerous bodies and I can tell you males are like males and women are like women and it isn't going to change and we might as well get used to knowing about bodies. I am exempting homosexuals with changed body parts as I haven't seen those manufactured parts - yet. :o)

I'll throw a curve in here and say buy some boxes of cheapest tissues (like Kleenex but cheap ones). There are cheap Walmart boxes of 500 tissues each. That's a lot of tissues - buy two or three or four boxes for women in the house in time of emergency. When a woman urinates, use a tissue to blot and throw it away in the trash, don't put it in the potty if the plumbing is working. I just saved a more expensive wet wipe - just use a tissue and that does the job for urination.

Now, we are left with bowel movements for both sexes. What I did is figure how many times a person might have a bowel movement in one day and this person isn't sick with diarrhea. I live by myself but could have three more people here in an emergency, so I guessed how many a person might need. In your case, you know for yourself and maybe you have to ask your family members how many times they go. Then, you have the normal amount for a day. Multiply by 31 to be sure you have enough for the months that have 31 days. Now you know how many for a month and multiply that by 12 and you have the amount for a year for the number of people in the house. Then, add some more to have in case someone has diarrhea from any cause. Of course, lower the number of months to multiply if you aren't storing for 12 months.

You can flush these wet wipes - remember, you cannot flush the baby wipes.

Let me go to Walmart on the web and find the wet wipes I got, plus the Walmart tissue (like Kleenex) I got. I'll come back and post that.