I’m out of tofu! The horror!
We shop at Costco and TP there has been hit and miss for the past couple of weeks (Seattle started their whording earlier than other parts of the US). Of course, now we are running low. Sometimes it’s a little hard to tell as we have 5 bathrooms. Typically, we buy the Costco mega pack, which then gets distributed to the different bathrooms. Then as one bathroom runs low, raid other bathrooms. It’s not like we keep a central supply, so it’s happens that we run low before restocking. We have run low and the past couple of trips to Costco had no TP, including today.
The local supermarket household paper supplies was bare. Drugstore next door had several brands of TP with a limit of two packs per person. I horded and bought 2 packs or 12 rolls. Still a far cry from the mega pack sold in Costco, but whatever. Immediate shortage averted as a total of 12 rows of charmin should last 4 people a few weeks. Dunno. Never really tracked the amount before.
Early Feb I went on Amazon to buy hand sanitizer. All the small personal packs were sold out or had a 2 month delivery. The 4 pack of Amazon brand quart sized bottles were available for quick prime delivery, so I got those. I took one to work, save 2 for home, and 1 for someone that needs it. I don’t think that is hording but maybe…
The only thing I’ve done differently due to the pandemic is to continue my natural stockpiling, instead of running down supplies, which I would otherwise be doing right now as I’m going to move to a new house in a few weeks. Thanks to a Costco trip a few weeks ago, I have plenty of tp, canned goods, and frozen food.
When I was in my mid-20s I moved to a tiny Pacific island, where the ship with food and sundries came once a month. Because of that, we kept track of when the ship came in and always stockpiled at least a month’s worth of supplies. While I only lived there for three years, it became a lifelong habit and the only time I’ve ever not stockpiled is if I’ve been short on space or have been planning a move.
There are few downsides, if you do it right. Occasionally I have overbought (not deliberately, usually, but because I was buying in bulk and didn’t have the choice of buying a smaller bulk) and wasted a few things that went bad. But with a little common sense and a large freezer, stockpiling is a great strategy even in normal times.
I have 60 rolls of TP (two big packs,) I don’t think that’s hoarding, but it was still available at the time so that’s what I took.
60 rolls would be more than a year’s supply in my household of 2.
I bought a couple of small bottles of sanitizer because I went o’seas. Came back and I think we have 20+ rolls of dunny paper…enough to last us a month, especially as my daughter is off on a 2 week FIFO stint tomorrow. She’s got an addiction to TP. 
I’m more worried about kitty litter. If the cats have nowhere to crap, I’m going to have to kill them and make dim sum.
I stopped at HyVee the other day just to get my one pack of TP for the next month or so. I was behind a lady getting about 3 cases :rolleyes: I felt so embarrassed for my ONE, hoping no one thought I, too, was panicking. I haven’t even thought about buying hand sanitizer, since I got soap at home and I don’t go out much anyway. All the panic hoarding is beyond ridiculous.
I saw a meme the other day showing a line of 6 or 7 people with carts full of TP and paper towels with the return counter in the background, captioned, “what you’ll see come April 1st and the rent is due.” I had to laugh.
Not a hoarder, but several months ago Costco happened to have a sale on toilet paper, so I bought the maximum allowed: four big packages. That’s 144 rolls. Enough to last quite a while.
I am not a hoarder, but I buy paper towels and toilet paper for my business from Sam’s Club. I coincidentally was at Sam’s shortly before everyone started buying, and I bought paper towels and TP for work and home. We have plenty of storage space at home so I always buy 45 rolls for me and 45 rolls for my gf.
We are set.
So no; no one is admitting anything.
I’ve got 5 unopened 12-packs, but I’m not hoarding. I bought three about a month ago when there was a really good sale. After all, it won’t spoil, and I’ve got space to store it. I never buy hand sanitizer - we have plenty of soap in the house.
I did buy 3 quarts of strawberries today, but they were on sale and we lurves us some strawberries. I don’t think that counts.
I had hoarder tendencies before all this horseshit started.
In my fantasy world, I have a huge storage shed in AZ, lined with shelves, stocked with necessities. And I have a spreadsheet tracking everything.
It’s MY fantasy, I can have whatever I want!
~VOW
I haven’t quite overcome my shopping habits that were normal for me when I had two more teens at home, plus I have two kids in elementary school and stock up on a year’s supply of hand sanitizer and Kleenex (plus crayons, notebook paper, etc.) when it’s on sale in August.
So I already had the equivalent of 72 rolls of paper, an 8-pack of paper towels, about four bottles of hand sanitizer, and another six packs of snot paper on hand when the panic began. I’ll admit that I bought another twelve rolls of bath tissue when I bought groceries Thursday, plus a spare month’s worth of feminine hygiene products.
But I also generally begin to stock hurricane season supplies around this time of year, so that I can rotate last year’s stock and not get hit with a big expense in late spring.
Not sure if that counts as hoarding or not.
(But honestly, there are about five mills that produce household paper goods - tissue, paper towels, diapers, etc. - within forty miles of my house. And they haven’t closed. I’m just prepping for if I get sick and can’t shop for my family. If things get bad, I have options: my daughter works at the grocery store and can bring supplies. My daughter’s manager at the grocery store lives across the road from my mom. He will set aside items and deliver to her if her ongoing hoard run low. And if worse comes to worst? My aunt is in a stroke rehab facility right now. I have access to her house. If I have to? I’ll go raid her pantry, freezer, and toilet paper supply!)
I hoarded early. Just my style.
Nothing crazy about this! I have my Jeep festooned with tools, spare parts, food, water and medical supplies. All carefully cross indexed by location and alphabetical order.
I’ve never had to walk to home.
My lovely wife just updated the freezer inventory. There are a number of unlabeled mystery foods we froze for some reason. I have one container thawing now for further investigation.
At my local Wal-Mart Supercenter this morning they were out of: toilet paper, paper towels, hand sanitizer, napkins, most household spray cleaners(Lysol, Spic and Span, etc.). OTC medicine such as Tylenol and Motrin were mostly gone. Feminine hygiene products were in short supply.
As for food: no milk at all, canned pasta, ramen noodles, boxed pasta, most pasta sauce, canned beans, canned meat. Most instant rice was gone as well instant potatoes. A lot of boxed breakfast cereal. The frozen pizza section was wiped out; the bread section was mostly wiped out.
The local dollar and grocery stores were wiped out of toilet paper and paper towels. And hand sanitizer. A lot of the food sections were depleted but most of them weren’t completely empty like Walmart’s were.
I have enough hand sanitizer to last me a very long time, but that’s only because I realized last year that the big half-gallon jug costs only about twice as much as the little pocket-sized ones I had been buying.
On toilet paper, I could probably go a couple of weeks with what I have, but I’m at the point where I ordinarily would be buying another four rolls. Would, if there were any to buy.
I just noticed that the lens cleaning wipes we stock are isopropyl alcohol. Since we have several large boxes, they can serve as wipes if need be. Praise be, I won’t have to use the cheap vodka!
Nope, unless you count the fact that I’m bringing my desk bottle of hand-sanitizer home with me. It’s about 1/3 full.
We have plenty of TP on hand already, but I’m starting to try to use less.
Not hoarding, but looting the stalls in the admin building and putting up stickers that read “Employers must wash hands after using toilet.”