Did you stockpile toilet rolls at the beginning of COVID?
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No.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
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.
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.
