Toilet Paper Shortage

Cling2myguns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVHYTdGUAZM

My wife went to Wally World today, in NE TN, and the shelves are bare there too. Who would have ever thought that people would hoard toilet paper. SMH

jimdeere

And it ain’t like we can use the Sears Roebuck catalog, either 

mark christian

I seem to recall a toilet paper shortage in the early 70's. I think I was in the 7th or 8th grade and there was no TP to be found in the local stores, but my mother could shop at FedMart (if anyone remembers that place), and could buy toilet paper there, although there was a limit.  

Ricci.Wright

Those people all talk funny and when was the last time you saw a Woolworths ???

charliemeyer007

https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/

Ricci.Wright

Funny but just about two minutes before I read this I brought in a 6 roll pack of Quilted Northern toilet paper in here to my office bathroom from my car.

montanajoe

Cling2myguns

mark christian said:

I seem to recall a toilet paper shortage in the early 70's. I think I was in the 7th or 8th grade and there was no TP to be found in the local stores, but my mother could shop at FedMart (if anyone remembers that place), and could buy toilet paper there, although there was a limit.  

Johnny Carson caused it I believe.

hillbille

 if you get real desperate, just turn it over and use the other side...........

jimdeere

chollagardens

I don't see any toilet paper shortage until the election is over.

gruntled2

But after the "great sugar shortage" the price of doughnuts never went back down after the "temporary" sugar surcharge. There are stupid people now who will pay a Dollar & even more for one doughnut.

mac10

local Kroger today just about cleaned out (small town)  so I bought the stack of yesterdays news papers ...the best selling it in Russia used to be the Pravda news paper  ,,newspapaers will state a come back

4205raymond

Not to get to far off track was in Shoprite this AM. No hand sanitizer at all  They were almost ready to fight over last few sanitizer wipes. Food was starting to look pretty sparse also.

  Amazing what mass media can do to some peoples mind. Soon the non-prepers  will be looking for roadkill if the likes of CNN keep it up.

Ditch-Runner

 last night on the news they reported ebay would no longer allow sales of hand cleaner and surgical mask  and some other items in high demand due to the panic .  called it  price gouging  was there reason and causing shortages at local stores ... but if someone is willing to pay what ever they are making  the price  in a auction 
is that not normal business to make as much as you are able  
  

asop

This is all just a marketing ploy of that toilet water supply attachment A. H. flush device

mark christian

Seems like there was also a shortage of pennies during the 70's. That was one screwed up decade. I just checked and I have 80 rolls of TP (plus 2 in the hangers), which should be enough.

Grasshopper

 Plenty of everything around here. Course we are rednecks and cowgirls.

select-fire

Just so it isn't made in china

Butchdog2

My dad a WWII vet said all they were supposed to use was one square, rationing, there was trick to it.

Involved folding the piece correctly, twice it think, tearing off a small corner then poking you finger through the hole that was created when making said hole. Slide finger all the way through and then proceed to clean the affected area, Slide paper off of finger, this cleans the finger, and then use the small "corner" piece to clean from under the fingernail. Should work with a little practice.

Ha ha, look at Corona hording  video.

4205raymond

Butchdog2 said:

My dad a WWII vet said all they were supposed to use was one square, rationing, there was trick to it.

Involved folding the piece correctly, twice it think, tearing off a small corner then poking you finger through the hole that was created when making said hole. Slide finger all the way through and then proceed to clean the affected area, Slide paper off of finger, this cleans the finger, and then use the small "corner" piece to clean from under the fingernail. Should work with a little practice.

Ha ha, look at Corona hording  video.

The Right Way, The Wrong Way, The Army Way -----------No Way 

mac10

tp gouging on ebay now

Locust Fork

I went to Sams this afternoon with my daughter to help watch my grandson while she loaded up on the bulk baby stuff she needed.    I was SHOCKED to find how bare the paper towel shelves and toilet paper isle was.   Its crazy what people will hoard and what reason do they have for this nonsense?      How on earth does a rumor get spread around that toilet paper will not be available in the near future???    

mac10

I bought up a stack of yesterdays news papers for emergency

cbxjeff

mac10, considering what I read in the papers anymore, that's a good use. 

brier-49

mark christian said:

I seem to recall a toilet paper shortage in the early 70's. I think I was in the 7th or 8th grade and there was no TP to be found in the local stores, but my mother could shop at FedMart (if anyone remembers that place), and could buy toilet paper there, although there was a limit.  

I work with a man who also worked at Kimberly-Clark in MA. We took a ride up there during the strike , he opened a warehouse to show me the place was stacked floor to ceiling with TP. The shortage was BS to get the price up, just like most of the "shortages" in the 70's

He Dog

Ricci.Wright said:

Those people all talk funny and when was the last time you saw a Woolworths ???

Woolworths is very much in business.  It is an Australian grocery chain.  I have shopped there in Darwin more than once.  I did not see those two, however the people do talk funny mate.

thunder9158

used to have inlaws in milwaukee that bought into the panic in the early '80s.  they had more toilet paper stocked in their basement than would fit in a full size pickup bed-- for the two of them. now that i'm single that much would last me a decade? it was triggered by a newspaper article about about cleaning up the fox river and how a paper plant would be temporally shut down for two weeks. there was really no shortage until the public all started buying years worth in week

mohawk600

corn cobbs and Sears catalogs

Rocky Raab

Show me a current Sears catalog, spike. Or a Herter's.

Old-Colts

Since we were getting low on paper towels and toilet tissue, we went to SAM's Club today after Church. No problem, they were fully stocked.

US Military Guy

KenK/84Bravo said:

Just got back from a very small grocery run. (Specific items/in and out.) Plenty of Toilet paper. (Bought a larger pack than normal.) Noticed their instant rice, was wiped out. (One thing I was in for.)

Commented on the TP situation on the internet, to the guy that rang up my groceries. He stated, "Yeah, we have heard about that. Australia and Japan, so far."

I was able to score, Hot Wings, Beer, Peanuts, Rice, TP, what more do you need?

I see what you did there.

hillbille

  ifen you get real desperate, take one of the empty cardboard tubes, to your least favorite restraunt/establishment, go in bathroom and refill your roll from them............... you can leave a dime if you like

Butchdog2

No TP necessary here, I have TOTO Washlet. If you ever try one you will do what is necessary to have one.

Nothing better for roid relief.

I think this discussion has gone to pot.

SCOUT5

This made me look.  I've only got about 65 of the "mega rolls", I may have to slow down my eating to make them last.

Brookwood

I can still remember the great TP shortage back in the 70's.  Public restrooms were the place many got their supply's!  Also, any work place custodian closets were targets for those low life thieves!

Another memory about hearing the day to day life of a Soviet citizen and the long lines where they waited to get their rations of TP.  Just before the wall came tumbling down.

These days, I don't even use TP anymore.  I treat myself to those wet wipes that are enriched with aloe and chamomile.  Soothing and clean as a whistle without any of those nasty streaks left in my drawers! 

spasmcreeksrun

if i can just make it till the catalpa trees leaf out....wont need any toilet paper.......

Old-Colts

spasmcreeksrun said:

if i can just make it till the catalpa trees leaf out....wont need any toilet paper.......

Be sure to remove all of the Catalpa worms before you use the leaves! 

SCOUT5

KenK/84Bravo said:

This discussion has gone down the Crap Hole.

"65"rolls of TP? You apparently have issues, Sir.

You're right.  With an emergency food supply of beans and rice 65 rolls is hardly a good start.  If there's any left on the self I'll add more stock this week.

SCOUT5

Old-Colts said:

spasmcreeksrun said:

if i can just make it till the catalpa trees leaf out....wont need any toilet paper.......

Be sure to remove all of the Catalpa worms before you use the leaves! 

Yep, otherwise it'll be hard to tell when you're done.

spasmcreeksrun

get the worms off first .for fishbait.... and to keep the horn from sticking yer butt...you guys trying to spoil a good whizz