Buying in bulk is a guaranteed return on investment, though. (And that’s especially true in the Donald tariff era.)
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
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.
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.
The universe has a weird sense of humour.
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
Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I’m always full of shit
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.
And then there are big brains with bidets
As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.
Get one. Your bum will thank you for it
I’m just happy that the newest electrical code is allowing electrical outlets closer to bathtubs. Otherwise I’d never be able to have a powered bidet on my toilet.
Did GFCI not allow for it?
I’d have to go look up the exact wording, and it’s on my drive that I don’t have hooked up right now. GFCI was required for any outlet in a bathroom, but there was still a ban up until the most recent edition on any outlet within the… shoot, the word/phrase escapes me, something like ‘shower space,’ which includes the area with four horizontal feet of the edge of the bathtub. I have a toilet right next to the shower/tub combo, and a door next to the toilet, which meant no outlet allowed near the toilet and thus no electrically powered bidet.
We ran a power cord under the door. It is too important
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.
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
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…
70% of humans have never used toilet paper before.
Like living or ever existed?
In this thread.
Lol
do bidet remove all need for paper? I thought i still needed it for drying.
You still need paper. For some poops, you’d need power washer pressure to remove allll the poop
Hmm seems difficult for the ticklish
Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
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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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
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.
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.
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.
Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.
