WTF?!? I just have to ask: what is is it with all the “toilet paper prepping?”

Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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I honestly don’t get it. This BS forced me to buy two packs extra, simply as a hedge against the nutters cleaning everything out. As I said on the “prices and shortages” thread, a single 12 pack lasts me a month. Thus, two more and I’m set until June. But I honestly don’t understand WTH is going on with these nutty TP hoarders. For that matter, how much hand sanitizer does one need? I’ve been a prepper for a long time (though not so much since I lost my house in 2011), but I always prepped “evenly” across the various needs.

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R

Rucus Sunday

Veteran Member
Dennis Olson said:
I honestly don’t get it. This BS forced me to buy two packs extra, simply as a hedge against the nutters cleaning everything out. As I said on the “prices and shortages” thread, a single 12 pack lasts me a month. Thus, two more and I’m set until June. But I honestly don’t understand WTH is going on with these nutty TP hoarders. For that matter, how much hand sanitizer does one need? I’ve been a prepper for a long time (though not so much since I lost my house in 2011), but I always prepped “evenly” across the various needs.

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To be honest, we stocked up at Costco about 2 weeks ago (just before the big TP panic) only because I knew a TP panic would occur, and panic begets panic. Same with other paper products and sanitizers. That's really the only reason -- based on past experience. TP is one of those daily products that we don't want to be without. I also see the possibility of future panics involving other products depending on what happens with the virus and how it's reported. Most sheeple only drive in one of two gears: complacency or panic.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
For people that have large families and the realization hits that stuff might get scarce I’d probably buy a case myself. Since my minimum is 100 rolls that allows me to be like everyone else and buy a four pack or twelve pack occasionally. What I find interesting is people emptying out bottled water. They’ve got taps in their homes and they can store as much as they want for virtually nothing.
 
Kris Gandillon

Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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Hfcomms said:
For people that have large families and the realization hits that stuff might get scarce I’d probably buy a case myself. Since my minimum is 100 rolls that allows me to be like everyone else and buy a four pack or twelve pack occasionally. What I find interesting is people emptying out bottled water. They’ve got taps in their homes and they can store as much as they want for virtually nothing.
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Many people do not drink tap water at all. They live off bottled water.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
anxiety is relieved when one finds a piece of the tangled skein to take control/hold of.
TP is affordable, highly desirable, always going to be used, and thus acquiring it serves to be a low risk, high reward endeavor. Myself, I'm coming off a few days illness- I NEEDED the extra rolls :(
 
CaryC

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Bps1691 said:
If you've ever wiped your rear end with a wadded up newspaper, Sears Catalog, leaves in the forest or a corn cob, you'd realize why some are a wee bit paranoid about good quality TP.
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It's not paranoia when they are really after ya. I mean out of TP.
 
1911user

1911user

Veteran Member
We buy when on sale and keep enough TP stock to easily last until the next good sale or 2.

There was also the time in late 1973 when Johnny Carson made a joke on TV about a toilet paper shortage. The shelves were bare of TP the next day. He immediately apologized but it still required a month before normal TP supplies were on the shelf again.
 
Scarletbreasted

Scarletbreasted

Galloping geriatric
In days of old, when knights were bold, and paper 'twernt invented, they wiped their arse (bum) with a blade of grass and walked away contented!

Back in the days of my youth and in my parents parents day's in the bush, your toilet paper WAS pieces of newspaper - (or similar) threaded onto a piece of baling twine, with a baling needle (Sheep shearing country) and the twine looped over a nail in the "long drop" dunny (toilet) - NB: This was long before the night cart collection days!!!
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TxGal

TxGal

Day by day
I think it's safe to say that most women use more TP than most men. In a household of mostly the female gender, it doesn't take long to go through a fair amount of TP. Women generally don't want to run out of TP any more than feminine hygiene products....I won't go into the details, simply don't think it's necessary for adults here.

As to bottled water, out here in the country our tap water is pretty dreadful with a heavy chemical taste. Some of our family members, and I'm one of them, experience digestive upsets after drinking it more than rarely. We do have a Berkey system, but save that for emergencies. As long as we can get bottled water, we'll buy it...otherwise, the Berkey goes into use.
 
FaithfulSkeptic

FaithfulSkeptic

Carrying the mantle of doubt
We don't really need toilet paper. We have one of those star washers installed on our toilet. The only thing you really need the TP for is drying off after the wash, and that can be done using anything ... including a hair dryer.
 
kyrsyan

kyrsyan

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I can somewhat understand the TP. If you were facing a vorus that causes a lot of bathroom usage. IIRC, that is not an issue with this one. But hey, it will store and get used.
Bottled water I don't get. Buy a filter. Even a midgrade filtet handles a lot. I went on a family trip in the TN mountains. The place we were staying at did not filter the water for the complex. That was some nasty tasting water. I pulled out a simple water bottle filter and started filtering the water for my son's tea. Instant improvement. That poor little bottle got some heavy use that week. Now I've got one of the $20 Sawyer filters for that type of problem. I'd rather put that much into a good little filter than cases and cases of bottled water.
 
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Deena in GA

Administrator
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Its one of the main things that I do NOT want to run out of!!! We go through a 12 pack a week. And if things get really, really bad, we expect that some, most or all of our kids and their families will end up here. Since we have five children, their "other halves", 15 grands and four great-grands, that's a lot of people. They won't show unless they run out of their own supplies, but some of them live in town and may need to come out earlier.
 
The Snack Artist

The Snack Artist

Membership Revoked
Dennis Olson said:
I honestly don’t get it. This BS forced me to buy two packs extra, simply as a hedge against the nutters cleaning everything out. As I said on the “prices and shortages” thread, a single 12 pack lasts me a month. Thus, two more and I’m set until June. But I honestly don’t understand WTH is going on with these nutty TP hoarders. For that matter, how much hand sanitizer does one need? I’ve been a prepper for a long time (though not so much since I lost my house in 2011), but I always prepped “evenly” across the various needs.

/rant
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I went out and bought a pack of smokes. I'm ready!
 
FaithfulSkeptic

FaithfulSkeptic

Carrying the mantle of doubt
How can anyone go thru the amounts I'm reading above? Sure hope you don't have septic systems because if you do, you'd better start saving for a new one. Buy one of those keester sprayers and use it. They're only about $30 and take about 1/2 hour to install. Yeah, it's cold water but don't be a sissy and butch up.
 
nebb

nebb

Veteran Member
I haven’t bought a roll of TP in 5+ yrs.......went kinda overboard since y2k. Left some in Penna when we moved in 2016 and still looks like we won’t be buying for at least another 5yrs. All rolls still in good shape....got it stashed everywhere
 
Hognutz

Hognutz

Has No Life - Lives on TB
TxGal said:
I think it's safe to say that most women use more TP than most men. In a household of mostly the female gender, it doesn't take long to go through a fair amount of TP. Women generally don't want to run out of TP any more than feminine hygiene products....I won't go into the details, simply don't think it's necessary for adults here.

As to bottled water, out here in the country our tap water is pretty dreadful with a heavy chemical taste. Some of our family members, and I'm one of them, experience digestive upsets after drinking it more than rarely. We do have a Berkey system, but save that for emergencies. As long as we can get bottled water, we'll buy it...otherwise, the Berkey goes into use.
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About the same here with the water, except we have iron, it will kill your kidneys....
 
naturallysweet

naturallysweet

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My understanding is that the panic started in Hawaii. Someone spent the week touring the state with flu-like symptoms, then tested positive as soon as they got home. People panicked, and everyone rushed off to Costco. The problem is for Hawaii is that pretty much everything on the shelves does not come from Hawaii. It comes in on a boat. So stocking up on toilet paper actually make sense.
problem is that with our just-in-time system they had enough toilet paper to last a week. Not for half the residents who had family in China ,or knew someone who had family in China, who rushed out and bought a three month supply of toilet paper for the coming lockdown.
There is a toilet paper plant a couple hours from me. I'm really not worried about the long-term supply of toilet paper. I did buy a couple of months extra lately, but only because it was a really good sale.

Everyone else is just stocking up because they are acting like sheep. If one sheep jumps for fun. All the other sheep behind them jumps in the exact same spot.
 
WriterMom

WriterMom

Veteran Member
Dennis Olson said:
I honestly don’t get it. This BS forced me to buy two packs extra, simply as a hedge against the nutters cleaning everything out. As I said on the “prices and shortages” thread, a single 12 pack lasts me a month. Thus, two more and I’m set until June. But I honestly don’t understand WTH is going on with these nutty TP hoarders. For that matter, how much hand sanitizer does one need? I’ve been a prepper for a long time (though not so much since I lost my house in 2011), but I always prepped “evenly” across the various needs.

/rant
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I agree wholeheartedly - this whole TP craze (and everything else craze) is getting on my nerves!
 
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Faroe

Un-spun
We have what I would consider to be a "normal" amount- a bunch in the closet, and bunch piled up in the shipping container. Plus, about 10 years of phone books. I figure we're good.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Dennis Olson said:
I honestly don’t get it. This BS forced me to buy two packs extra, simply as a hedge against the nutters cleaning everything out. As I said on the “prices and shortages” thread, a single 12 pack lasts me a month. Thus, two more and I’m set until June. But I honestly don’t understand WTH is going on with these nutty TP hoarders. For that matter, how much hand sanitizer does one need? I’ve been a prepper for a long time (though not so much since I lost my house in 2011), but I always prepped “evenly” across the various needs.

/rant
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Some people are reselling it on eBay, out west and in Australia chinese natioinals are buying it up and are shipping it back home to family and friends, apparently, there IS a shortage of TP there.

What I've been telling people is decide how much you and your use in a week and then buy enough for four weeks, just in case you end up quarantined for 28 plus days. Ditto for diapers and baby formula. I pretty much had to browbeat my cousin into believing that IF she gets the virus she won't be leaving the house and she wanted to know why not! Sigh. Millennials are PITA.
 
Tweakette

Tweakette

Irrelevant
People are often not home all day - they are at work and the kids are at school. A lot of peein' and poopin' happen outside the house.
In a quarantine situation they'll probably need 3-4x the amount of TP they went through during non quarantine times, simply because everyone is now home 24x7.
I don't think people really know how much they'll need, but whatever that is they're afraid they won't be able to get it when needed. Voila - TP hoarding .
 
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