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Arya Quinn:
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--- Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 24, 2023, 10:21:39 PM ---I'z gonna hoard all the goldz and jewelz and toilet paperz. :mischief:
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One of the most bizarre consequences of the Covid pandemic.
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The toilet paper "shortage" was such a wild thing to me once I learned how it started. People believed there would be a shortage in Australia because they thought a lot of toilet paper came from China, so went mad and panic bought. The rest of the world followed suit.
People panic bought other stupid stuff too. At one stage my local supermarket ran clean out of custard creams.
That was a dark day.
Gopher Gary:
I've always hoarded toilet paper and it was a running joke among my family members to make fun of me about it. They don't make fun of me anymore. :zoinks: We were all grateful for my toilet paper hoard when it was needed, but I actually hoard less toilet paper now than I did before the pandemic. During the pandemic, I doubled my food hoard but it was difficult to manage so I've since gone back to my pre-pandemic food hoarding amounts. When I scaled back the food, I also decided to hoard less toilet paper because the shortage proved it didn't make sense to have so much. I still probably have too much and it would long outlast the food, but I can't bring myself to have any less. I don't know why I need so much toilet paper, but I just do. :dunno:
Gopher Gary:
--- Quote from: Arya Quinn on January 04, 2024, 05:18:48 PM ---People panic bought other stupid stuff too.
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Trying to find pet food was probably the thing that stressed me out the most. I live in a disaster prone area and when there's impending doom, people shop like they're going camping because power outages are likely. People buy up all the gas, ice, beer, lunchmeat and bread. :lol1:
Icequeen:
--- Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 06:02:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: Arya Quinn on January 04, 2024, 05:18:48 PM ---People panic bought other stupid stuff too.
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Trying to find pet food was probably the thing that stressed me out the most. I live in a disaster prone area and when there's impending doom, people shop like they're going camping because power outages are likely. People buy up all the gas, ice, beer, lunchmeat and bread. :lol1:
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That was a problem here too...for awhile the only place I could get cat food they would eat was online, and that wasn't always a given. I got into the habit of checking every other day and ordering well in advance. Paper products we had bought by the case for the bar, but since that was closed we just divided them up and used them.
Pyraxis:
I'm kind of used to hoarding groceries because I have to eat gluten free, and the grocery stores are always hit or miss whether they carry or keep in stock any given product. The supply trucks only come monthly instead of weekly and they're always discontinuing things because they didn't sell in whatever brief period the grocery manager is examining. So when I see something I like, I get three or four.
Having the cub made it worse because it became so much harder to get to the store. No more last minute runs when discovering halfway through a recipe I'm missing something, and little kids are too prone to tantrums if you run out of their favourite flavour of the week.
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