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.
There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.
Submitted 3 months ago by omxxi@feddit.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 months ago
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The universe has a weird sense of humour.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I’m always full of shit
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 months ago
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 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 soul and most of my organs out the next morning
ButteredMonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 months ago
megacolon
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I love a happy ending.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
And then there are big brains with bidets
Flemmy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.
kurikai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Get one. Your bum will thank you for it
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 months ago
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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why do people hoard TP?
Like…
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… 🤣 🤦♂️
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You ooga booga throw shit at the enemy
Then while they are bamboozled, you go grab their TP
Obviously
brisk@aussie.zone 3 months ago
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).
One 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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
70% of humans have never used toilet paper before.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
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.
khannie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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. Pure speculation. We didn’t have much toilet roll hoarding here though either.
toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org 3 months ago
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.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Costco
iamanurd@midwest.social 3 months ago
This was me until very recently. I even gave toilet paper away at work when we were short. Bidet seats for the win.
kurikai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh so clean
zlatiah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i haven’t used tp since the pandemic. I tried a bidet and I never went back
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Bidets are for washing and tp is for drying.
palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just get a bidet. if you are feeling fancy, get that one like those in japan. You will be converted.
Geetnerd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
That feels, excessive.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Ever lived with a woman?
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s seems reasonable to me. It’s 6 per one person in 2 weeks. There are times where I think I’d use more, lol.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I started tracking 2 weeks ago for fun. So far its 1 roll in 3 days avg for 2 people using this bathroom.
The result May change if you are using mega rolls or normal ones or w/e else is there.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Where do they keep it all? How much did they buy actually?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk 3 months ago
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
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 months ago
When times are tough, you’ve gotta use both sides.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Buying in bulk is a guaranteed return on investment, though. (And that’s especially true in the Donald tariff era.)
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I would need an entire room full.
How little are y’all shitting?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Bidet
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Bidet users stocked up on TP during the pandemic?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Now imagine having to go through a roll a day
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you bought today, still during pandemic.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Correct despite downvotes
XnxCuX@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe im overthinking it, but couldn’t it have always been deemed endemic? I googled ts and cant grasp it 😂