Did you stockpile toilet rolls at the beginning of COVID?

No. I stockpiled nothing for that pandemic; and so-called "panic buying" is greedy and selfish.

Many shops rightly rationed the numbers of anything you could buy, to prevent such antisocial behaviour.

There were some temporary shortages of some goods early in the pandemic but otherwise I was able to shop adequately in the normal way, locally, without problems.


However, when first started living in my own home I did slowly build stocks of loo rolls, soap, household cleansers and lamp bulbs, simply buying two or large packs instead of one at odd times [i]and[/i] when plenty were available. I was not forecasting external disasters but my own possible, future inability or incapacity, and indeed used some of these stocks when convalescing from two operations.

The lamp bulbs? Pointless as although I was not to know it at the time, the common room-luminaire filament types became still legal to use if you already have them, but not sell by way of trade, and were replaced by miniature flourescent and now l.e.d. versions. I kept a few but took most, about 30 or so, to the Council waste yard in a recent clear-out.

with 8 bathrooms for 3 people now, think I have enough for a lifetime

Not until they became difficult to find.
Although i did fill a freezer with milk; bread; butter; veggies and meat from the Butcher.

I figured if that's how it was going to be we ought to try and be as self sufficient as possible

No I bought cottonelle flushable wet wipes. No one panic bought those.

No. I did buy a massive pack of them at the beginning of last year and I still have some left!

nah, i would make sure and take a shit at work or out in public if possible, therefore, conserving my own limited supply.

no, and the ones that hoarded it, therefore creating the shortages, deserve to be dropped in a sewage sludge tank...🤔

Not for myself, but as my partner had to self isolate while I carried on working, I did buy lots for him.

My folks always would stock up on sales before Covid. One of their staples toilet paper.

I was living in Melbourne during lockdown for Covid. Hardly anything was on the shelves. NO toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, pain medicine, cold medicine, masks, gloves, sanitiser, flour, sugar, pasta, rice, noodles, fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh milk, cereals, soups, eggs etc

I'm proud to say I did not alter my buying behaviour one bit.

Yes. There are still a couple of packages left in the garage.

We kind of already had a small stockpile of like 30 rolls. I ended up giving six rolls to a neighbor. The first few months of Covid dug into our stockpile but didn't deplete it, and we were able to restore it later in the year. Since then I've decided maintaining 30 rolls is good, but I doubt we have any 4 year old rolls around.

I've always had thing for making sure we have enough tp, so it was already normal for us to have plenty on hand, but I did increase the stock a little bit as the shortages worsened. Now I have no less than 50 rolls in stock all the time

I had a roommate who always insisted we have two months worth of toilet paper. I bought a package one morning and that day heard there was a shortage. So I went back to Family Dollar the next day and bought the last package of Charmin. We were fine.

My son gave me tp for gifts like christmas, fathers day, birthday.. but in 2019 i put in a bidet so i hardly used the stuff. I still have some left.

@Rusham yes will of as they became gold dust same with kitchen rolls 😆mind you i would not fancy wiping my are with that lol

I didn’t stockpile anything. Was lucky to find everything during that time. Just needed to look ahead and not wait until last minute.

I did manage to order a box of TP from Betty Mills, and I also stocked up on baby wipes and wet wipes.

I always keep a stock anyway so i just carried on topping up what we used.

my wife did and we still have 4 cases left

No, and I made fun of people who were.