If you panic buy loo roll

CleoPanda Sun 27-Sep-20 15:29:11
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Like a few other posters on here, I’ve subscribed to the Who Gives A Crap site - sustainable business, recycled or eco friendly bamboo, 50% of profits to providing toilets to disadvantaged communities, deliveries to suit etc. They also sell tissues and kitchen towel.
One off purchases or 15% off with a Flexible subscription. Rolls are double size.
Never be without a loo roll!!

Kim19 kitchen toll doesn’t disintegrate like toilet roll, it can cause ‘fat bergs’ and block drains.

How about those of us who don't have a 'good' reason telling us why here? I resorted to kitchen rolls in the last insanity. Not so bad but more expensive, of course.

My neighbour still has half a garage full of loo rolls, and she's busily stocking up again. There are only two of them, neither is ill. In fact they have both carried on their business throughout lock down.

They have had grocery deliveries every week and shopped all through lock down. Alongside the loo rolls are two freezers that they bought during lock down and keep stocked and a cupboard full of tinned goods. She could probably feed the whole street for a week.

I'm not spying on her, she very proudly told me all this while I was chatting to her one day outside her house, and even lifted her garage door to show me. Sadly she doesn't know why she is spending all that time and money, neither is she interested. I think it has turned into a hobby.

I was in Asda yesterday. Loo roll aisle virtually stripped bare, but plenty of pasta, flour and tinned stuff. I will see what next week brings.

A friend once told me that she hated asking permission in class to visit the toilet at the rural primary she attended in the 1950's. The teacher asked in front of the class if you needed one sheet or two and then made a great performance of getting the loo roll out of her desk and peeling off one or two sheets.

Grannynannywanny

I liked the explanation given for stock piling loo rolls back in March....
When someone sneezes everyone else poo’s their pants?

Me too, Grannynannywanny!!

I have an inflamatory bowel condition so we always buy big packs (24) of loo rolls every week. During lockdown I bought a couple of packs of 100 each as backup. We have only just finished them. I'd rather have too many than run out!

Our daughter is currently installing new bathrooms in her house, she has had “bum guns” put by the lavatories!

At first I thought she was bonkers but they are excellent, really hygienic and great for cleaning the loo.

Bowel cancer, irritable bowel, Crohn’s disease all good reasons for keeping a stock of loo rolls.

I believe Covid does cause gastro problems.
It has been documented.
One of my sons was very ill with covid. When he was well enough to speak to me on the phone he had to dash off several times to the loo. (Racing his wife and children who had it too).

When I cleared my Mum's flat I found her stockpile of loo rolls. She must have bought a packet of 4 every time she went out. And they were all pink - didn't match our bathroom at all.

I always bulk buy toilet rolls. Yesterday, I found a large pack had been delivered, fortunately to the back door.

Aepgirl

It’s just selfish. There is plenty to go round provided everybody just buys what they need.

Can you define ‘what they need’? Someone shopping every day might only need to buy once every 4 trips, whereas a monthly shopper would need a bumper pack. A large family needs more than a single person and someone with digestive issues is going to need more again.

Rationing is silly. It stops people shopping for others, and forces everyone to do more regular shops than they might prefer. Also, everyone shops differently. Some shop in bulk and others go much more regularly. Neither is wrong.

Some people get twitchy if they don’t have full cupboards, whereas others prefer a ‘just in time’ approach to shopping. Both systems are fine.

Seriously- nobody is going to start using more loo roll, so when everyone is comfortable with the numbers they have in stock it will all settle down. This is becoming another one of those ‘I do it this way, so anyone doing it differently is stupid and selfish’ things.

I think people have already started to panic buy as I ordered my usual 9 roll pack to be delivered with my Sainsburys order yesterday, Usually a 9 pack per month,but they delivered an 18 pack because they’d run out of my 9 packs.... and so it starts.

EllanVannin

Blowing noses on and spitting into if need be when coughing as they're cheaper than tissues and can still be safely disposed of--down the loo.

This....it's soft enough not to excoriate your nose and cheaper than tissues...and dissolve easily disposed down the loo.
Have allergies so prefer it on regular use.
Also easily inserted as an extra filter layer in a mask and again disposed of down the loo. Less landfill waste.
Saying that I buy 9 rolls per week and try to keep a month in stock.

It’s just selfish. There is plenty to go round provided everybody just buys what they need.

I used to bulk shop, this July I finished the loo rolls I bought back last December. Now I'm embarassed to be seen buying large quantities ;)

One loo roll lasts me a week and a half People use way too much. I don't want to fill up my toilet cassette with it.

I have IBS so use more toilet rolls. My son has Crohns so his family also need more. BUT do not panic buy!!

I have memories of us running out of loo roll on occasions when I was a child (and it was the horrid, hard, shiny Izal stuff) and I think that's stayed with me. When I'm down to my last 50 or so rolls I always buy more. It's not exactly panic buying as I only buy a pack of 16 but I might then buy another one a week later, if I've taken the car to the supermarket. I like to keep a lot of kitchen rolls too.

(Gastric problems are actually on the very long list of symptoms, especially in children ?)

We bulk buy online, have done for years, much cheaper. No supply problems last time.

I buy mine online every 9 months or so - 54 rolls at a time. Due to order again next month & feeling irrationally guilty already even though it’s my normal order!!
I use a LOT when my Crohn’s disease is active so like to keep a minimum stock of 10 rolls ?

I have never understood panic buying at Christmas let alone now.
Wherever families are spending the Christmas Break there are no more of them so the same amount of food is consumed -well perhaps a bit more- wherever they are.
As regards toilet rolls I hope that shops do limit them .
I rarely eat pasta so somebody can have my allocation.