• @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I bought a house 6 months before lockdown.

    I bought a super huge pack of charmin toilet paper at BJs. My ex bought a super huge pack of charmin toilet paper at BJs.

    We had a laugh about all of our toilet paper.

    As a joke I bought 2 more huge packs, because we had room and it was funny and had basically become an inside joke.

    Then lockdown happened.

    Toilet paper became a commodity.

    I JUST (December 27th to be precise) ran out of the pre-covid toilet paper stocks we had.

    • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      71 year ago

      That’s amazing!

      I mock threatened my friends that if I couldn’t buy toilet paper when I needed it, I was going to come over to their house and scoot my ass across the rug like the dog does.

    • @Icalasari@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      My folks were freaking out about no sanitizer anywhere. I have OCD. I just calmly went to my room and brought out my massive 1 L jug of sanitizer

      For once, that pain in the ass disorder came in handy

    • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      21 year ago

      I had signed up for a tp delivery service the previous September, and got 48 rolls every eight weeks, which was the “light use estimate” for a single person household.

      I don’t know what the rest of y’all are doing, but I had used six rolls when the second shipment came in November. I passed it around to all my friends and forgot to cancel it, so I received a third shipment January. Of 48 rolls.

      I now had received 144 rolls of toilet paper in four months, and I use it at a rate of 3.5 rolls per month.

      I set a phone reminder to cancel it, and donated 48 rolls to a shelter. Then, in march, when my cancellation alert came up, I realized another shipment might not be the worst thing.

      Then in April I got a bidet. I did manage to cancel my subscription, and left rolls on all my neighbors front steps, and I still had enough to last until may of 2021, when I moved and donated the rest.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve always gone to Costco and gotten the big packs of toilet paper, because it was easier. However I had just screwed up the shopping list and got the big pack two weekends in a row. So I was set, in my bunker, for the TP wars

      Cleaner and sanitizer were another story. I bought late, at scalper prices because that was the only choice. And that was for mostly normal use