Loo roll shortages/panic buying

We do use UHT skimmed milk, it is the only kind I find palatable, but all the other items are rarely on my shopping list. If I was stockpiling, I would be stocking up with herbs, sauces, tins of exotic items and frozen veg. Things that can give food flavour and taste, in the unlikely situation where big bags of basics were all we could get.

Pasta, is like most chicken absolutely such dull flavourless food you might as well eat cardboard. The only thing making either edible is all the flavoursome extras you add to it.

We were thinking of having the bidet taken out of our bathroom. Think we might keep it and not have to panic about loo rolls!

Perhaps we could all do this instead!

It happens with petrol every now and again, I never get swept up with the panic.
I really am puzzled about the toilet roll shortage, why bulk buy? I shall just adopt my Malaysian son in law’s culture and wash.
As for the hand gel, I have increased my gin consumption. I will keep you posted.x

ananimous - you say you have cut your soap in half to make it go further ?? - er yeah, right......

gillyknits oh to be able to lift my leg that high!!?

JaneA. I also appreciated her joke that she was having trouble cutting the toilet rolls in half

I really cannot understand the whole loo roll thing! Now if it was norovirus we were talking about, I could understand it!! However in Aldi this morning there was absolutely plenty of everything. No empty shelves at all. Maybe we Aldi shoppers have more common sense than Waitrose shoppers. Or maybe we just can't afford to panic buy and stock up.

A few days ago I heard that diarrhoea can be a part of the Corvid-19 virus for some sufferers. Perhaps that has prompted the run on loo rolls. Or maybe because its the one everyday necessity we couldn't bear to be without.

Running out of loo rolls would be a bit of a disaster for me as I suffer from IBS-D and get through quite lot! So I bought 2 packs instead of the usual one this week, but not stockpiling.

I'm sure supply will eventually catch up with demand for loo rolls and hand sanitizer. In the meantime I'm going to make my own sanitizer and perhaps a few simple face masks , just in case.

Yesterday at my local Asda an elderly gentleman was getting his weekly shopping and near to tears as his usual loo rolls where not available due to panic buyers he politely asked the assistant if there where any packs of 4 available and not the packs of 9 which they had he said his budget could not stretch to the larger pack,the young lady went into the stock room and wheeled out a cage full of packs of 4 and handed one to the gentleman when a manager came up to her and askd why she had brought out the cage of packs of 4 ? he said they where to go back into the stockroom until all the larger packs had been sold and not before I couldn't believe my ears he needs reporting to the management imo,if he had not been given the smaller pack he needed I would have gladly bought him the larger pack I wonder how many people have been forced to buy the larger packs when they didn't want them or need them,disgraceful management imo.

That's terrible, glammanana

It actually makes you wonder if the manager was deliberately trying to created the impression that there was a shortage of loo rolls in the store, to encourage customers to panic buy and increase his sales figures!

The ink comes off the Daily Telegraph too easily

Loads of toilet rolls in my local Morrisons yesterday when I popped in to get some cabbage, they were piled high in the entrance. I didn't buy any though because I don't need any at the moment - perhaps I was wrong. Saw on the internet that Americans are panic buying bullets! Each to their own concern about shortages!

Haha, kaycee, I thought I was the only one out panic buying a cabbage yesterday!

Can you not see how you are adding to the panic buying?
only 2 things this is going to do
1. put the prices up!!
2.prevent others from buying

I don't think I am adding to the panic buying NannaT04 - I just wanted some cabbage for lunch today and they didn't have any when I did my weekly shop! And I didn't buy toilet rolls. Just thought I'd comment.

Handmade sanitiser : 2/3rd cup aloe Vera gel. I cup rubbing alcohol (60% proof) couple of drops of lavender oil. Mix together and decant into small holiday bottles that you can get in a chemist’s. Washing nether regions instead of loo rolls: warm water in a jug, pour in between your legs while sitting on the loo for front bits, dry with normal hand towel. Same for back bits, but you need to use your other hand to wash yourself, reach through from the front. If you’re squeamish use latex gloves. (Don’t throw the gloves away just wash under tap and dry on a towel). You might run out of dry towels but as far as I know there no shortage of washing powder just yet! It’s a faff but it can be done if you’re desperate. (I was) You can use flannels or anything absorbent like j-cloths to dry yourself with.

I feel saddened by the attitude of some people with regard to panic buying, what a selfish country we have become, I have young grandchildren and I fear for their future if we have come to this, to be happy to deprive others to benefit themselves.

I for one am not panic buying loo roll. As it is we use way too much.
A more palatable idea than the water jug and left hand is- sit on the edge of the bath and use the shower that attaches to the bath taps to rinse. Or use a washing up liquid bottle, well rinsed of course haha- to create a pressure washing effect. Maybe TMI, but I am sure us GN'er's can be resourceful.

I will also make fabric dabbers from old t shirts if necessary for wee only trips to the loo.... They managed in war times with newspaper.

I was going to buy antibac soap but my husband says all soap is antibacterial?? Can someone tell me for sure? Anyway, I may be the only person who hasn't stocked up on loo roll.

On the plus side, I have a sack of flour and plenty of yeast.
We can do this!

Feeling angry with stupid hoarders!

Perhaps install one of these? You's never need a loo roll again!

www.sanicare.com/Bio-Bidet-BB-1000-Bidet-Seat-p/bb1000.htm

A bio bidet is a bit much for the battered budget at the mo $500!!! Reduced from $900 ??

These are a bit cheaper... shorturl.at/wBMQX but I don't know if any of them are any good?

I went in asda Friday and looked around , there were few loo rolls, no sanitizer as expected. I also found there were no tins of freybentos pies, plenty of other tinned meat tho. I don't buy either but was amused to find beers depleted. No paracetemols apart from the expensive ones of which I bought 1 box. Plenty of bread but no pasta. I had a mental image of a man sitting out his 2 weeks of quarrantine eating freybentos pies with a pile of pasta, drinking beer and needing his paracetemols for his hangover. Only men could panic buy like this. Does no one expect to have other illnesses in the next few weeks as there were plenty of other meds. I read on internet how to stockpile and it said to buy a variety of medicines, pasta and rice. I don't like rice and pasta occasionally so I'm not panic buying. I've only got an extra pack of kitten food as I couldn't make it

Is one of the symptoms of this virus diarrhoea?

What is all this with toilet rolls?

Oh, I see someone already mentioned that!

Some years ago on a visit to Poland when still a communist block, all waiting to go in the public loo were issued with a very limited piece of newspaper regardless of need!