Buying Durables
Target completion: One week prior to run
Durable items include toiletries, socks and underwear, and food distribution items. Make sure you’re fully stocked a week before your run.
Each group should put together toiletry kits in advance of the run. Collect travel sizes of the various items (no full-size items), and assemble into kits using gallon size ziploc bags. Some drug stores will sell travel sizes in bulk at wholesale if you explain what you're doing. And Midnight Run can supplement what you're missing.
If you can't assemble full kits, bring what you can. Individual items are welcomed as well, and more appropriate for some. Bring 40 to 60 kits, and some loose items as well.
Toiletry items, in order of importance:
Purchased clothes:
- Soap
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Shampoo
- Washcloth
- Razor
- Shaving cream
- Deodorant
- Lip balm or moisturizer
- Feminine hygiene products
Purchased clothes:
- Underwear – Jockey style, about 10 pairs in each even size from 32 to 42
- Socks – 50 pairs of tube socks, white or dark
- Long underwear – 10 pairs (top and bottom) in each size from M to XL
- Other – Supplemental hats and gloves to fill out supplies
- Paper cups – 150, to serve soup, coffee and lemonade
- Lids – 50 for hot items
- Spoons – 75 for soup
- Paper towels – Two rolls
- Garbage bags – Five, one for each stop