Now imagine having to go through a roll a day
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…
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.
Jokes on them, I stopped shitting years ago. Now I’m always full of shit
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 in the IV 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 entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts
Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍
best of lemmy
It was pooposterous
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.
I love a happy ending.
megacolon
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.
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.
Yeah, this is shit, literally.
In my 2 person home, we go through a 12 pack in 2 weeks.
That feels, excessive.
That’s seems reasonable to me. It’s 6 rolls per one person in 2 weeks. There are times where I think I’d use more, lol.
Ever lived with a woman?
Opulence and overconsumption are a privilege issue.
I dont even use 12 rolls in that time. wtf?
When you’re the caretaker of an 88 year old mother with diabetes, you go through that much.
And since you’re a ignorant young male, women dab their urethra after they piss, which my mother does at least a dozen times a day.
You’ll understand after you move out of your parent’s house.
And when one of you “Well, Akshully…” cunts try to save face, you’re wrong, and ignorant, and sound stupid to actual adults.
Damn thats wild :o
Why so hostile?
Why such a bitch?
Why so ignorant?
Oh that’s right, spending on your life online, instead of touching grass.
Because people who have no idea what they’re talking about are stating:
"Hurrr, hurrr, I’ve never gone through that much…’
Well, now you’re learned something.
You don’t need to attack people in order to teach them something. It seems like there’s other things going on in your life that are bothering you. I hope things get better for you soon man.
Seems like you’ve got some feelings you should work out fam. I get it but like expressing it this way you just look like an asshole. Hope your day goes well
I’m not your "fam.’
I’m educating young people who haven’t gone through it yet.
“Educating” my ass; have you ever thanked a teacher for calling you a wrong stupid cunt?
If I want to educate you on the proper way to respond to someone stating their own possibly-naive experience, I’d undermine my effort if I let my own cunt face follow it up with “Now go wipe your mom’s ass for the umpteenth time cuz you’re a shitty teacher.”
Sincerely, I don’t feel the kind of hostility towards you that that example suggests. But if you feel insulted, reflect on that and go from there.
You aren’t ‘educating’ you’re being a dick.
You’re not educating anyone, you’re just being hostile for no reason.
Because they’re going through some really hard life shit right now and wanted to get it off their chest.
I get that but it doesn’t give them the right to be toxic to innocent people.
Are you doing a “well, akshully” here while also complaining about that very behavior?
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.
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.
Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.
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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.
Costco
This was me until very recently. I even gave toilet paper away at work when we were short. Bidet seats for the win.
Oh so clean
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
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).
Once 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I would need an entire room full.
How little are y’all shitting?
Bidet
Bidet users stocked up on TP during the pandemic?
You take a single sheet to dab water / double-check cleanliness.
You stocked up for that?
Buddy you might want to go back and read all these comments in context real fast cuz you’re missing something here.
I reread the thread and I still don’t get it.
Pretty clearly the post wasn’t about bidet users, because bidet users taking a long time to use TP isn’t noteworthy at all, so people replying that they use bidets is deadly boring.
What other context would I be missing?
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
