Toilet rolls

My grandson has been travelling with his girl friend in Vietnam and on the family chats via what’s app he mentioned they didn’t use toilet paper there. Apparently there is a water spray/gush that comes out of the wall. Also I read about midwives advising new mums to sit on the toilet, lean back as far as poss and pour a container of water over themselves. To think that I used to take toilet paper for granted.

Maybe people tear off a sheet and use it as a nose wipe so avoids buying tissues as well. Who knows. Heard somebody has £900 of toilet tissue. That should last them until 2197 I would think. It will settle down soon as the hoarders won’t need or have space for any more. Noticed everybody was buying beer from shop near me yesterday. They will all be alcoholics soon. That’s the next thing folks will hoard. Nice but not a necessity so we should be OK

I don't monitor my use of toilet paper, (why would I) but I do wonder how much some people use in a week to necessitate all this panic buying.
I bought a pack of nine rolls and a had a pack of four two weeks ago; neither have been opened and I am using the rolls already in place in my loos, about three in each. I think about a roll lasts at least a week, but there is only me, no visitors at present, but equally I am not using any facilities elsewhere. Something to check to pass the time?
The point of this long and probably boring thread is to wonder what general household consumption is, and why the panic buying, discounting medical needs and families with young children.
Perhaps sheets of paper need to be held in Miss's cupboard and handed out as they were in the days of school outdoor toilets!

It was a quiet Monday morning in September 2053, when John woke up. He needed the loo but for John this wasn’t just another day. This was the day he would open the last package of toilet paper his parents bought in 2020. ?

GagaJo stress and worry can lead ones body to mimic the symptoms one is worried about - and you have had a very stressful week.

Just noticed this in MailOnline. Confirmation of my upthread post.

A family of four self isolating shopping for 2 weeks times the whole country = empty shelves in no time - I don't buy the line about panic buying, it's blamey, and even if I did: saying so will only encourage others to stockpile more out of fear.

ananimous.....there is a fine line between stockpiling and panic buying!
Both involve overflowing trolleys and lack of goods for others.
At last, supermarkets are doing some restricting of food and toiletries, so when the shelves are restocked, goods will go to all....we hope!

My friend from Wuhan has said her relatives that have had it all had diarrhoea. I was a bit worried yesterday when I had a cough, sore throat, headache and the runs. Better today tho!

Having said that, no beer on the shelves at Tesco today. Now the pubs are closed, that will be the next panic buy.

As Monica says, I really think that as long as supplies keep coming into the shops, as time passes and this new way of living (and shopping) becomes more ‘normal’, the majority of sensible people will go back to their usual type of shopping, and the panic buying will hopefully subside.

There have been interviews with several toilet roll manufacturers. They all made it clear that they would have no problem meeting demand for the foreseeable future.

I think in a few weeks when all the panic has died down, goods will be stacked up in the supermarket will be stacked up and no-one will be buying because they are eating/ cleaning themselves through their stockpile.

Theory- toilet rolls take up a lot of space on the shelf, so initially a few people buying big packs leaves a shelf empty.

The following shoppers see empty shelves, think ‘toilet rolls in short supply’ and hunt down supplies to mass buy. And so it goes on.

Just a thought. No panic buying in this house.

GabriellaG & Elegran I haven't heard any reference to Covid-19 causing diarrhoea. I did hear one expert saying it doesn't. When I looked on the nhic website it didn't appear in the symptoms list. Keeping an open mind I guess it may happen in a few cases as a consequence of fever. Maybe, however, in the beginning not knowing much in the way of detailed specifics people had an associative idea of it being linked/similar to novavirus. Then before you know it as soon as some groups of people stockpile a certain product other people either think "what do they know that I don't" and they follow suit or they think they had better get some too before they run out thereby the inevitable unavailability ensues.

We used to use dry newspaper hung up on a hook in the loo at the end of the garden, I expect (if we had looked) we all had black bums!

One aspect of life I don’t really want to revisit.

Desdemona you havn't lived lol lol, think we/most of us remember the harsh newspaper..mind you when it had been hanging in the outside lave a few days it prob got quite damp" lol, I rem it at my grans house, outside.

I said damp newspaper because I would imagine dry newspaper to be very harsh on the backside.

Has anyone got ideas on what to do if there is genuinely no toilet roll to be had for weeks/months?

I thought maybe I would use tissues or kitchen roll (if there is any in the shops) or maybe damp newspaper - then bag it up and put it in the wheelie bin.

Probably fear of the virus gives them the s**ts.

Lucky girl, SIL will soon have a drain blockage. Drop a sheet of toilet paper in water and swish it round. It soon disintegrates. Kitchen roll, tissues and newspaper does not.

In a very small proportion of cases.

Apparently, diarrhoea can be one result of contracting Covid-19

If you can’t get out for a month you need loo rolls maybe? As well as soap, washing powder, basic foodstuffs etc . Why are we surprised?

i think the loo roll situation started by accident. someone, somewhere mentioned on facebook or twitter that they needed to get some loo rolls in in case there's a shortage when the coronavirus hits. that's all it took and, wham, no loos rolls to be had