Do you still have toilet paper rolls stashed away in your home? How about other commodities that were in short supply?

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About 2 years ago, people were running out of stores with carts piled high with toilet paper. Were you one of them? Do you still have toilet paper stashes in your home? Do you have other commodities that you've stashed away?
I was at the store, and saw tons of toilet tissue. It brough to mind all the people running out of the store with hundreds of rolls.
BTW, they were on sale.
 

Definitely don't have extra toilet paper stash from when it was in short supply (barely got it in time back then), but yes I do have TWO backup packages nowadays as I guess a leftover anxiety about it. Guess it is time to get over the worry, except now I can tell myself it is inflation price protection, ha ha.
 
I never got into getting loaded carts of anything, mainly because I have a small 1 BR Apt with no spare storage space & limited budget. But I’m much more aware than before about having at least one back up item of favorite products when they start getting low, whether an extra box of tissues, a spare bottle of cleaner, a few extra banana, extra can of coffee. Getting it when the original starts to run low.
Just part of the Big Lesson I’ve learned during the PD, not to assume anything or take for granted that anything or any history can be relied on.
 
I have been overbuying almost everything lately because winter weather could potentially keep me from shopping and because of supply line shortages.
 
JaniceM said:
No, I don't have space to store extras of much of anything.
What I've noticed, though, is during the last year or so the price of TP has gone way up AND the quality has gone way down. Has anybody else noticed this??
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Measure a roll of TP It's narrow & also not as thick. I use to have to use a special holder so a roll would fit in my TP hole in the wall. Now a regular holder & there is still a lot of room. I only use Charmin as that is what my septic pumper told me to use.
Some of the others are made of sawdust or other things that don't digest in a septic tank.
 
I donated things - two large bottles of laundry detergent since I use a different brand now, some foods that still had a long date to food banks, etc.

@Gemma that was an interesting link. The one thing I wouldn’t do is use it on my iphone, it has special glass.
 
The answer is yes. Also, we like to keep a supply of many things on hand, just in case we don't feel like running out to the stores at the last second. I have a cute shelf in the bathroom stocked with extra hand cream, extra shampoo and conditioner, etc. Hey — it's like going to the store in there! LOL
 
Well, I should mention that my husband has stacked a bunch of toilet paper in my little walk-in closet. Guess we're not running out (in either sense — running low or running to the store).
 
I have always stocked up in advance and that had nothing to do with the hoarding period. I did stop buying Cottonelle which was the brand I bought for years. Quality went way down. I have started buying Amazon's brand, Presto and like it much better. My apartment is small but I have a storage locker downstairs and keep my stock of extra products down there and just go down and bring a few up when needed. The reason I stock up though has nothing to do with the media or anything like that but with my budget. I plan in advance when I have to buy certain things so I don't need them all at the same time.
 
Our garage is more like a storeroom because Hubby worries about running out of household supplies. Bog roll is just one of the products in abundance. When our grand daughter visits I give her a couple of shopping bags and tell her to go shopping in the garage. She lives on a disability pension and has trouble making ends meet.
 
When the pandempic 1st started, I couldn't figure out why people were rushing to buy toilet paper,and paper towels,made no sense to me
At the moment, I have 4 rolls under my bathroom sink buy when the 4pk is on sale
 

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