• SlippiHUD@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Can you imagine, you bought a pallet of TP in 2020, and you finally run out in 2025 just intime for there to be No TP because of tarrifs.

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      4 months ago

      As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.

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      4 months ago

      Had a bidet going into the pandemic. I’d bought a big (grocery store big, not Costco big) package sometime before the runs. I’m still not quite through that pack.

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      4 months ago

      Wife is not a fan of bidets, I wonder if having a toilet do the same is reasonable? I donno never tried it but always wondered

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    4 months ago

    Why do people hoard TP?

    Like… So many useful things…

    Water

    Non-Perishible food/snacks

    FM/AM Radios and Two-Way Radios

    Satelite Phones

    Self-Defence weapons (Or Firearms, if you are in such a jurisdiction that allows it)

    Tools

    But no, they went for the toilet paper… 🤣 🤦‍♂️

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      There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.

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    4 months ago

    Shockingly I am one of them.

    But we didn’t hoard.

    My ex used to work at a bjs and there was a sale the summer before lockdown AND we’d just bought a house so she had bought like 10 packs…. Had to fill all our empty storage.

    Anyways.

    October 2024 I purchased my first toilet paper again since 2019.

    I guess technically we didn’t buy any DURING the pandemic…

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    No joke but this somewhat describes me… I never hoarded TP, but I tend to buy toilet paper in large quantities (too lazy to go to grocery store) anyway, so I think my COVID stash lasted longer than my apartment at that time… I think I only used up all of it 2-3 years later. My then-roommate even took half of my stash when he moved out since I had so much lol

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    4 months ago

    Just get a bidet. if you are feeling fancy, get that one like those in japan. You will be converted.

    If you got electric issues, get a spray jet.

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      A few assholes bought as much TP as they could, also hand sanitizer and other items, to hoard and sell at exorbitant prices to make a profit off the pandemic. They made their homes and apartments into little warehouses.

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      I’m not sure how much we brought, but majority if it’s still stored in our garage, don’t seem to be running out of it anytime soon XD

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    4 months ago

    When some finally got back in stock we got some but it was awful quality. We got some better stuff a little bit later. So we have a box of single ply in our garage still lol. I can’t imagine using it now though, probably covered in cobwebs and dust.