Loo roll shortages/panic buying

I'm sure we can all wash bums. What should we sing while we do it?

Anyone with copies of the Guardian newspaper could use that.

It was very normal during my childhood to go into outside toilets and see squares of newspaper strung up ready for use.

There is no loo roll shortage here. The only empty shelves I've seen are the ones that usually contain 3 kg bags of pasta. not much flour left either.

No baked beans or granulated sugar in my local shop today. I bought (expensive) caster sugar for my tea! There's a big box of old paperbacks in the garage, as the charity shop don't want them, so running out of loo roll is not much of a problem.

Plenty of toilet rolls in our local Aldi this morning, in fact I didn't notice any empty shelves at all.

Let's hope the drain clearing people don't get the virus .
They're going to be needed unblock waste pipes!

I needed loo roll today. Got the last pack in local Asda.

Aldi had full shelves this morning, only things out of stock were paracetamol and gel hand sanitizer, loads of sanitising wipes though.

I have got loo roll too, no problem. Only took one pack though. Not going to panic buy.

Mamardoit - I recommend the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sun and Daily Telegraph as loo paper.

Far more appropriate than The Guardian.

In some of the middle East countries people use a jug of water. I'm not sure how it works without soaking yourself.

As required.

With the mention of unwanted paperbacks, maybe the loo roll crisis will be handy for getting rid of all those unloved copies of Fifty Shades of Grey!

You wouldn’t put the pages down the loo, instead just do as they do in other counties and keep a special bin in the bathroom for used paper, which can then be disposed of with household rubbish.

Jane10

I remember sitting threading squares of newspaper onto string with my gran in front of a big black kitchen range, back in the day. My brother was allowed to use a knife to tear along the folds and I had the needle (a huge thing they used for sewing up woolsacks on the farm).
The resulting 'bum paper' was hung up in the outside privvy and we thought nothing of it, Nowaddays I often wonder if we had ink on our bottoms! That was in the days when we had one bath a week in front of the fire.
I liked SueDonim' suggestion of paperbacks

I couldn't believe the pasta shelves, didn't realise it was that popular, not even if we were in Italy! I would be stuck for toast in the morning if there was a shortage of bread. Any ideas what I could use (and store)? But why should there be a shortage or is it because you shouldn't venture out?

I've bought a few things in case I have to self isolate and I don't want other people to have to bother with doing my shopping. Sausage rolls and bread rolls in the freezer. Cheese and crackers. That's it. They'll all be used anyway. Also a packet of Dreamies for Baz!

Waitrose loo roll aisle this morning .

NAG55 - this is just shocking

Ridiculous!
The media, especially our local radio station, is making it worse by continually commenting on shortages.

I as amazed to be honest Jura.
As a result there were only a few boxes of tissues and kitchen rolls on the shelves .
The paracetamol / painkiller shelf was also completely empty , but there was plenty of food although the rice and dried pasta were a little sparse .

I went to the Co op this morning, and although the shelves were not fully stocked, there were plenty of 9- packs available. I bought one, as did most people, but there was no panic buying.

Here we are - a comprehensive guide for the awful emergency of no loo roll (and/or blocked sewer so using a hole in the garden). Here's what most people on the planet do:

gogoguano.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/a-guide-to-cleaning-yourself-without-toilet-paper/

I did an Asda online shop today. Between doing the order and paying for it, several items had gone out of stock. There were plenty of alternatives to all the basics though.

No need to worry!

Just checking in to this thread there has been no hand-bac in my area for last two weeks.
Today went to big Sainsburys with my daughter and shelves were completely bare of toilet rolls and kitchen rolls.
We went to the smaller Sainsburys and exactly the same.

I knew where I could buy some so went to local small 99p shop and she had loads in there. I normally would not buy too many but because supermarkets were empty I bought 5 packets of 6 in pack and my daughter did the same.
This panic buying is silly and if it is going on then the big supermarkets should only allow one large pack per person.

Did an Ocado online shop today, can’t be delivered before Wed!
Our usual loo rolls out of stock ( but Waitrose ones were available instead.)
Apparently the Sainsbury in nearby town are sold out of pump type handwash and also bars of soap.Nobody has ever been cleaner!
All crazy of course, a bar of soap lasts a very long time.
There has been a world wide shortage of Ibuprofen since Christmas, nothing to do with Covid-19 or Brexit btw.

Quite why anyone would need huge supplies of loo rolls is a total mystery.....don’t buy into the panic buying by adding to it!