If you panic buy loo roll

I get mine from a company called Who Gives a Crap. I have the ‘made from bamboo’ option. No splinters. Comes every few months in a box of 40. No plastic and each roll wrapped in black and white paper in lots of different designs.

50% of their profits go to building toilets in the third world.

I was giving it away at the height of the panic buying.

Loads of bogroll when I shopped yesterday and no limit to the number of packs you could buy.

It is madness. I am glad some supermarkets seem to be putting a limit on certain items.

And there is a Brexit link too.
Brexit preppers like to have a lot of loo roll.
Although the paper itself is made in the UK, the actual wood pulp comes from Scandinavia.

This all originates from Australia.
At the start of this year / the pandemic a rumour went around that loo roll factories would be repurposed to make face masks.
So the Aussies bought a lot of loo roll.
And it spread without people understands why they were doing it.
So there is actually absolutely no reason to do it.
The last time I actually went in a supermarket at the beginning of Marchall the soap had gone.
I knew that loo roll would be next so I got a pack of 24.

When Supermarkets put a limit on how many items you are allowed to buy it causes a sense of panic buying even when there is no shortage

I would like to think that supermarkets would restrict the number of loo rolls any one person could buy as it could cause arguments in the stores if some selfish individuals are seen pushing loaded trollies around.

Ditto dried pasta and tinned tomato products which were also difficult to find before.

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

It’s a vicious circle. As soon as people know that there could be further lockdowns they go into siege mentality. Not only now in the pandemic but look when we have one day of snow, and I mean in towns no isolated country areas. Bread and milk disappear as soon as they are put on the shelves!

I do the shopping for my mother who is 92 and she puts 4 toilet rolls on her list every week. When I unpack her shopping I sometimes find it difficult to find places to store it (she lives in a small flat) - on the shelf in the bathroom, on top of kitchen cupboards, in the wardrobe, in a cupboard - all full! And, woe betide me, if I 'forget' to get some one week!
When lockdown first started she also bought a packet of 16 from one of her neighbours - but apparently they weren't up to standard so she has been giving them away - who to I daren't ask!

An ordinary sized tissue is hardly going to cover a sneeze.

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.

Because if you are locked down for several weeks because of quarantine or government edict, you want to know you have enough to see you through. If DD's consumption is a guide to normal family usage these days, a family of four will need 8 - 12 rolls a week. A pack of 50 will only last one month.

I don’t mean ordinary usage, but why buy packs of, say, 50 odd just because there is a pandemic?

Some people get through vast quantities of loo roll, I think they put it to all kinds of other uses. I know if DD visits for a week it means at least 2 and sometimes 3 extra rolls of loo paper get used.