Preppers were right! No toilet paper in the stores due to Coronavirus scare.

[gtaus]

I am not a prepper, but hat's off to them who planned ahead for something like this Coronavirus scare that has resulted in a run on all toilet paper in our local stores. I was in our local Menard's today and the toilet paper shelves were completely empty. One of the salespeople told me that if I needed toilet paper, there was still one store in town that had some but it was expensive. The only toilet paper Menards had left were a few rolls of RV toilet paper and that was something like $4.50 per roll. Personally, I don't think about toilet paper very much, but Dear Wife is almost in a panic about this situation. Evidently, WalMart ran out of toilet paper a couple days ago. Just wondering if anyone else has seen similar things in their towns/cities?

Since I am just rambling with my thoughts, let me say that I have tried, for years, to convince my wife to stock up on toilet paper, etc... when we see a good sale at the store. I personally like to stock up on non perishable items when those good sales come around. But Dear Wife does/did not want to have months of sale items stored in the house. I am not a prepper, but do consider myself frugal, and would like to stock up on non perishable sale items for later use. Having said that, maybe the preppers were more right than given credit for as this Coronavirus scare has some (too many?) people in a panic.

This might be one of the few times in our 30+ years of married life that Dear Wife might consider my approach to stocking sale items not such a silly notion. I think that idea (that maybe I was right) has more chance of killing her than the Coronavirus itself!

 

[BlueBaby]

You might want to stock up on whatever poultry feed that you will be needing if you have a place to store it properly also, since so many places are shutting down now because of this scare.

 

[Aquatic_blue]

Or maybe it was the preppers that
bought so much that now we have a shortage lol.

We bought a large package a week or so ago, not halfway done yet so I haven't revisted the tp aisle. Not sure if we are having shortages.

I can't imagine even considering paying $4.50/roll! How about order online? That's what I would do if we couldn't find tp.

I have heard of others online that are having tp and hand sanitizer shortages.

Why tp though? How is this related to illness? Hand sanitizer, I get. Tp, I don't, unless you were using it to wipe hands or afraid of store closures.

 

[Halfpasthen]

I am not a prepper, but hat's off to them who planned ahead for something like this Coronavirus scare that has resulted in a run on all toilet paper in our local stores. I was in our local Menard's today and the toilet paper shelves were completely empty. One of the salespeople told me that if I needed toilet paper, there was still one store in town that had some but it was expensive. The only toilet paper Menards had left were a few rolls of RV toilet paper and that was something like $4.50 per roll. Personally, I don't think about toilet paper very much, but Dear Wife is almost in a panic about this situation. Evidently, WalMart ran out of toilet paper a couple days ago. Just wondering if anyone else has seen similar things in their towns/cities?

Since I am just rambling with my thoughts, let me say that I have tried, for years, to convince my wife to stock up on toilet paper, etc... when we see a good sale at the store. I personally like to stock up on non perishable items when those good sales come around. But Dear Wife does/did not want to have months of sale items stored in the house. I am not a prepper, but do consider myself frugal, and would like to stock up on non perishable sale items for later use. Having said that, maybe the preppers were more right than given credit for as this Coronavirus scare has some (too many?) people in a panic.

This might be one of the few times in our 30+ years of married life that Dear Wife might consider my approach to stocking sale items not such a silly notion. I think that idea (that maybe I was right) has more chance of killing her than the Coronavirus itself!

My friend just messaged me that the local Walmarts are all out of toilet paper. I told her if it comes to it I have enough cleaning rags to get us through, God bless lmao.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

people are getting so stupid with this whole corona virus stuff they should of been washing hand more regardless of an illness and since its airborne washing hands wont help since people still dont know how to cover their mouths!!

 

[Mylied]

Or maybe it was the preppers that
bought so much that now we have a shortage lol.

We bought a large package a week or so ago, not halfway done yet so I haven't revisted the tp aisle. Not sure if we are having shortages.

I can't imagine even considering paying $4.50/roll! How about order online? That's what I would do if we couldn't find tp.

I have heard of others online that are having tp and hand sanitizer shortages.

Why tp though? How is this related to illness? Hand sanitizer, I get. Tp, I don't, unless you were using it to wipe hands or afraid of store closures.

Because it's a snowball rolling down hill. Some people were like, hey what if the stores shut, I like a clean butt, let me get a few packs of tp. Then people started talking about getting tp. Then people started getting nervous that other people would buy all the tp and started stocking up. Then opportunistic people saw a chance to make quick buck and buy tp to sell for outrageous amounts online. No more tp.

It's not a problem I'm having in my rural town but my brother near Atlanta says stores are getting low.

 

[BlueBaby]

Or maybe it was the preppers that
bought so much that now we have a shortage lol.

We bought a large package a week or so ago, not halfway done yet so I haven't revisted the tp aisle. Not sure if we are having shortages.

I can't imagine even considering paying $4.50/roll! How about order online? That's what I would do if we couldn't find tp.

I have heard of others online that are having tp and hand sanitizer shortages.

Why tp though? How is this related to illness? Hand sanitizer, I get. Tp, I don't, unless you were using it to wipe hands or afraid of store closures.

Maybe they want to be sure that they can wipe their butt's in case they have to be quarantined for 2 week's?

 

[featheredplanets]

It’s the same here in England. All the supermarkets are sold out of toilet paper, hand wash, bleach/cleaning products, hand sanitiser, pasta, tea bags, tinned foods. We haven’t stocked up but my parents are going to because you can’t even just buy for necessity, we needed TP and had to travel to the town over. People are just getting greedy. Those who can’t afford to stock up won’t have anything come next week.

people are getting so stupid with this whole corona virus stuff they should of been washing hand more regardless of an illness and since its airborne washing hands wont help since people still dont know how to cover their mouths!!

It’s not airborne, it’s that it spreads through bodily fluids so droplets from coughing and sneezing can be breathed in or wiped on your face. That’s why you should cough into a tissue, not your bare hand.

 

[BlueBaby]

It’s the same here in England. All the supermarkets are sold out of toilet paper, hand wash, bleach/cleaning products, hand sanitiser, pasta, tea bags, tinned foods. We haven’t stocked up but my parents are going to because you can’t even just buy for necessity, we needed TP and had to travel to the town over. People are just getting greedy. Those who can’t afford to stock up won’t have anything come next week.



It’s not airborne, it’s that it spreads through bodily fluids so droplets from coughing and sneezing can be breathed in or wiped on your face. That’s why you should cough into a tissue, not your bare hand.

Oh boy, now they will be cleaning out the Kleenex tissue isle!

 

[sylviethecochin]

Or maybe it was the preppers that
bought so much that now we have a shortage lol.

Prepper: someone who is prepared before the scare happens.
Panicker: Someone who sees a scare, and goes nuts buying toilet paper.