There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.
There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.
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Can you imagine, you bought a pallet of TP in 2020, and you finally run out in 2025 just intime for there to be No TP because of tarrifs.
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The universe has a weird sense of humour.
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i haven't used tp since the pandemic. I tried a bidet and I never went back
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Bidets are for washing and tp is for drying.
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Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I'm always full of shit
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No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.
So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.
So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.
I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts
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I love a happy ending.
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Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍
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When I was a child I also had this, but for three days.
None of you can imagine the relief I felt when that enema worked. Hardest part was keeping everything in for 5 minutes.
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megacolon
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Just get a bidet. if you are feeling fancy, get that one like those in japan. You will be converted.
If you got electric issues, get a spray jet.
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Why do people hoard TP?
Like... So many useful things...
Water
Non-Perishible food/snacks
FM/AM Radios and Two-Way Radios
Satelite Phones
Self-Defence weapons (Or Firearms, if you are in such a jurisdiction that allows it)
Tools
But no, they went for the toilet paper... 🤣 🤦♂️
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Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.
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You ooga booga throw shit at the enemy
Then while they are bamboozled, you go grab their TP
Obviously
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People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it's huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it's not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).
Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn't know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to "higher priority" stores.
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And then there are big brains with bidets
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As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.
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Get one. Your bum will thank you for it
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As a bum gun user, this. Never need the paper unless you want to pat to dry, and then the paper is clean anyway.
Toilet paper is for sneezing, picking up bugs, or dinner table napkins.
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You can get fancy bidets that have blow dryers in them if you want the drying part
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Had a bidet going into the pandemic. I'd bought a big (grocery store big, not Costco big) package sometime before the runs. I'm still not quite through that pack.
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Wife is not a fan of bidets, I wonder if having a toilet do the same is reasonable? I donno never tried it but always wondered
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Where do they keep it all? How much did they buy actually?
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A few assholes bought as much TP as they could, also hand sanitizer and other items, to hoard and sell at exorbitant prices to make a profit off the pandemic. They made their homes and apartments into little warehouses.
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I'm not sure how much we brought, but majority if it's still stored in our garage, don't seem to be running out of it anytime soon XD
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When times are tough, you've gotta use both sides.
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Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
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There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.
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Shockingly I am one of them.
But we didn’t hoard.
My ex used to work at a bjs and there was a sale the summer before lockdown AND we’d just bought a house so she had bought like 10 packs…. Had to fill all our empty storage.
Anyways.
October 2024 I purchased my first toilet paper again since 2019.
I guess technically we didn’t buy any DURING the pandemic…
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That was a bizarre time period. I wonder why moms didn’t start hoarding baby diapers at the time. Can you imagine what happens if the supply chain collapses and you run out of diapers? Having enough toilet paper will be the last of your worries at that time.
Fortunately, all of those fears were unfounded, but they were also directed towards some weird items too. If you want to worry about something, toilet paper isn’t really very high on that list.
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We had a baby that was finished breast and on to bottle milk in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns.
There were some shortages but I distinctly remember there being two boxes of formula left after a mild shortage, some mild concern setting in but suppressing the monkey brain and leaving one behind as I thought about the other parent that was going to come along behind me.
I think mums and dads are more likely to think about the other baby and be less grabby (edit: of baby products). Pure speculation. We didn't have much toilet roll hoarding here though either.
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Im glad this was not one of those weird items that everyone lost their minds over unnecessarily.
I mean, there were times without these mondern diapers. If you have a baby you will have plenty of different cloths that you can use as a diaper if necessary. Just like your able to get clean down there without TP. Bizzare times indeed.
Random bonus fact: Back then many Babies were potty trained by the time they were one year old just because its more work to diaper your child up with cloth diapers and clean them after use.
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Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.
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No joke but this somewhat describes me... I never hoarded TP, but I tend to buy toilet paper in large quantities (too lazy to go to grocery store) anyway, so I think my COVID stash lasted longer than my apartment at that time... I think I only used up all of it 2-3 years later. My then-roommate even took half of my stash when he moved out since I had so much lol
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Buying in bulk is a guaranteed return on investment, though. (And that's especially true in the Donald tariff era.)
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Costco
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This was me until very recently. I even gave toilet paper away at work when we were short. Bidet seats for the win.
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Oh so clean
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Some appear to be holding their shit in until the next pandemic. Or to use it as a projectile weapon in the Mad Max apocalypse.
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Yeah, this is shit, literally.
In my 2 person home, we go through a 12 pack in 2 weeks.
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I dont even use 12 rolls in that time. wtf?
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When you're the caretaker of an 88 year old mother with diabetes, you go through that much.
And since you're a ignorant young male, women dab their urethra after they piss, which my mother does at least a dozen times a day.
You'll understand after you move out of your parent's house.
And when one of you "Well, Akshully..." cunts try to save face, you're wrong, and ignorant, and sound stupid to actual adults.
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That feels, excessive.
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That's seems reasonable to me. It's 6 rolls per one person in 2 weeks. There are times where I think I'd use more, lol.
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I started tracking 2 weeks ago for fun. So far its 1 roll in 3 days avg for 2 people using this bathroom.
The result May change if you are using mega rolls or normal ones or w/e else is there.
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When some finally got back in stock we got some but it was awful quality. We got some better stuff a little bit later. So we have a box of single ply in our garage still lol. I can't imagine using it now though, probably covered in cobwebs and dust.
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Now imagine having to go through a roll a day
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