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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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... 🤣 🤦♂️
Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.
You ooga booga throw shit at the enemy
Then while they are bamboozled, you go grab their TP
Obviously
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.
i haven't used tp since the pandemic. I tried a bidet and I never went back
Bidets are for washing and tp is for drying.
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.
Where do they keep it all? How much did they buy actually?
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.
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
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…
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
When times are tough, you've gotta use both sides.
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.
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.
Buying in bulk is a guaranteed return on investment, though. (And that's especially true in the Donald tariff era.)
Now imagine having to go through a roll a day
I would need an entire room full.
How little are y'all shitting?
Bidet
Bidet users stocked up on TP during the pandemic?
You take a single sheet to dab water / double-check cleanliness.
You stocked up for that?
Buddy you might want to go back and read all these comments in context real fast cuz you're missing something here.
I reread the thread and I still don't get it.
Pretty clearly the post wasn't about bidet users, because bidet users taking a long time to use TP isn't noteworthy at all, so people replying that they use bidets is deadly boring.
What other context would I be missing?
If you bought today, still during pandemic.
Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?
Correct despite downvotes
Maybe im overthinking it, but couldn't it have always been deemed endemic? I googled ts and cant grasp it 😂
It's endemic when it's just always there, like the common flu. Even if the numbers fluctuate. When it first appears and spreads across borders it's pandemic.
Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I'm always full of shit
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
Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍
It was pooposterous
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I love a happy ending.
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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Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
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