A girlfriend told me she went shopping yesterday and still couldn’t find any toilet paper on the shelves. My usual reaction to this is an eye roll and an under the breath sputter of “people be crazy”…. but this time I thought I’d do a little research.
Exactly.
It’s not an intestinal virus FFS! Why is everyone still hoarding the Charmin?
Whaaat!
The average American uses 141 rolls a year?
Christ on a cracker, that’s 2.71 rolls a week… per person! My husband and I have only used 2 rolls in the last 3 weeks…. together.
What are you people doing with it….
Wallpapering the bathroom while you sit?
Panic Room…
2020 style.
I was 9 years old during the embargo, so can someone please explain why toilet paper prices were raised? Did people use it as an alternate energy source?
If so, how many miles per roll did it get?
And speaking of alternatives….
A million dollars worth of bidet attachments in a day.
Take that Cottonelle!
So concludes my treatise on toilet paper.
But let me leave you with this… when you’re a writer researching a topic for an article? I’m not sure it gets any better than being able to quote a source named Tushy.
This is truly ridiculous, the stupid people buying TP AND not knowing why. It’s true about what they say regarding lemmings, if one jumps the others will follow. 🙄
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Only in the beginning, I imagine.
Other people may have done it (after the fact) because they assumed (correctly) there would be a shortage?
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Yes, but the ones panicking are the ones creating the shortage they’re panicking about!
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Ha! True enough
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Each time I go to the store something new has been cleared from the shelves. It’s nuts…. though ironically, there are plenty of those.
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My 4 year old granddaughter hasn’t learned how NOT to waste the “butt wiping” paper, yet. …Sadly neither has any of the 17, 18, or 19 year old’s that reside here.
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Good luck with that…
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Dora the Explorer’s Arch nemises (Swiper) is always trying to steal her stuff.
Swiper — no wiping – or hoarding, for that matter! grrrr
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Makes me feel so unsanitary … I doubt that I use a roll a month.
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Everything in moderation…
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The amount that is used (or in some cases wasted) is determined by the quantity AND quality of what one is eating.
My teenage children eat garbage. Garbage in — Garbage out
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You’re on someone’s list for sure now.
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I wonder what kind of list that could be….?
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HA!
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We have toilet paper under control now where I live. In fact, there is so much it’s spilling over in the aisle. People have moved on to DIY projects now and there’s a rush on IKEA stuff. Crazy people…
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We don’t have IKEA… so it’s toilet paper or bust.
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Despite the absence of tp in stores, there was a Bounty (pun intended) of paper towels last time I shopped….but there’ll probably be a shortage of that too as soon as people realize they can wipe their rears with “The Quicker Picker-Upper” (soon to be also known as THE QUICKER POOPER UPPER).
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Paper towels are rare up this way as well. Clearly Mainers have already taken that leap….
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Like (I wish WordPress would get its act together — sometimes when I click “Like it takes, sometimes not (like now).
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I see your like and raise you a sorry about that.
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You have to read what you post—they raised the price in 1973 to stop people from hoarding!!
You can get large rolls (1=4) of Charmin in Dollar Tree!!
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Not in Maine. They’re sold out too!
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Took me three weeks to go through my previous roll. Not bad for a guy who was counting his cheese slices, yesterday…
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As long as they’re not interchangeable you should be fine.
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I would say people started hoarding it initially because they weren’t sure, at the beginning, whether they’d be able to get out again to get any. When all this started, I don’t think any of us knew whether we’d be able to leave our houses or whether anything would be left open. And because of the way the supply chain works, it’s going to be quite a while before it gets back to normal.
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Yes… but why toilet paper of all things? That’s not the first place my mind goes when faced with an apocalypse.
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That stat about American TP usage seems odd to me unless some people don’t buy tissues and use TP instead? A thought, desperately trying to understand that stat, I am.
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I know, it’s bizarre….
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My local Holiday market was COMPLETELY stocked with TP yesterday. I was shocked. I didn’t need any so I didn’t buy any, but the secret of their success is notable: one package per customer. No hoarding allowed. Christ, other stores, be on board with this.
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That’s the policy here now as well. But I think families are sending multiple members in for their ration!
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That’s it! We’re gonna have to chip people. If your family bought TP in the last week it’ll show up on the scanner and you’re denied!
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Works for me.
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We bought a package about a month ago and we’ve barely dented it. We’re FOUR OF US and I’m the only one who goes to work, so I’m the only one who goes someplace else at times, and three of us sit to pee and don’t shake to dry, so yeah, WTF are people using it for?!?
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Your guess is as good as mine…
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Now that’s funny!!!
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My understanding of the shortage is that back when Covid-19 first started spreading in China, it wiped out a toilet paper factory and they had to close down. Turns out this company supplies North America, and so everyone lost their minds and started buying it all up. THAT’S where all this originated. 🙂
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