If you bought today, still during pandemic.
There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.
Submitted 1 day ago by omxxi@feddit.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I’m always full of shit
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 22 hours 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 19 hours ago
Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 hours 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.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
megacolon
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 11 hours 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 hours ago
Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You ooga booga throw shit at the enemy
Then while they are bamboozled, you go grab their TP
Obviously
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And then there are big brains with bidets
Flemmy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.
kurikai@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Get one. Your bum will thank you for it
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 day 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 1 day 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 21 hours 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
Ledericas@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
70% of humans have never used toilet paper before.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
whaleross@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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.
zlatiah@lemmy.world 15 hours 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
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day 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 21 hours 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 1 day 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 22 hours ago
Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Costco
iamanurd@midwest.social 1 day 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 1 day ago
Oh so clean
Geetnerd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, this is shit, literally.
In my 2 person home, we go through a 12 pack in 2 weeks.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I dont even use 12 rolls in that time. wtf?
Geetnerd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When you’re the caretaker of an 88 year old mother with diabetes, you go through that much.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That feels, excessive.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 21 hours 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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I would need an entire room full.
How little are y’all shitting?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Bidet
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Bidet users stocked up on TP during the pandemic?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Now imagine having to go through a roll a day
JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 hours 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.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The universe has a weird sense of humour.