Fighting over toilet paper?!?!?!?

Blessing1

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:27 pm

Can someone please give me an explanation why people are fighting over toilet paper in the stores???
Would people rather starve than have a clean bottom??? Toilet paper is the least of my worries!!
I'm really finding it comical.

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Raw

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:29 pm

Right! I’m like, while they murder each other for toilet paper I’ll run and grab all the eggs.

sky

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:30 pm

And water. Why are ppl buying gallons of water?

(Very little toilet paper is imported from China. Most is made in the us)

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Chayalle

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:31 pm

I went to shoprite and the water aisle was half empty. I bought 3 cases of water bottles (my usual stock-up amount) at double the price I usually spend.

I have plenty of paper towels, toilet paper and tissues in the house B"H (thank you Amazon subscribe 'n' save) but stocked up on a big package of paper plates. The paper-goods aisle was also half empty.

I got pasta and sauce (my kids could live on that for a while), flour, sugar, and in the kosher grocery, bread and cheese.

No fights with anyone over any of these B"H.

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SixOfWands

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:31 pm

sky wrote:

And water. Why are ppl buying gallons of water?

Because we can still turn on a tap?

Are people really fighting over TP?

Blessing1

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:32 pm

Raw wrote:

Right! I’m like, while they murder each other for toilet paper I’ll run and grab all the eggs.

Yeah, totally!!

corolla

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:32 pm

Why is it that toilet paper is always considered Priority #1? What did people do before toilet paper? What about food, water, etc?

Chayalle

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:32 pm

sky wrote:

And water. Why are ppl buying gallons of water?

(Very little toilet paper is imported from China. Most is made in the us)

Some people only drink bottled water. I have relatives like that.

I once had a Shabbos guest who told me she only COOKS with bottled water.

Chayalle

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:34 pm

corolla wrote:

Why is it that toilet paper is always considered Priority #1? What did people do before toilet paper? What about food, water, etc?

I don't really want to know, to be honest.

Blessing1

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:34 pm

Chayalle wrote:

Some people only drink bottled water. I have relatives like that.

We also only drink bottled water. Tap water makes my stomach sick. But worse comes to worse chas v'shalom, we can survive on tap water.

Raisin

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:39 pm

I saw this guy in the supermarket pick up about 30 packets of spaghetti. He also had a couple of dozen tins of baked beans. Not much else but I have never seen a supermarket so empty. BH I did my shabbos shopping this morning.

I have stocked up on flour, rice, pasta, lentils and frozen veggies, and toilet paper but how much spaghetti and baked beans can you eat????

SixOfWands

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:42 pm

corolla wrote:

Why is it that toilet paper is always considered Priority #1? What did people do before toilet paper? What about food, water, etc?

The Sears Catalog. Before that, I don't think I want to know.

naturalmom5

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:47 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

We also only drink bottled water. Tap water makes my stomach sick. But worse comes to worse chas v'shalom, we can survive on tap water.

We just got a filter that goes on sink
The water tastes much better than bottled

lkwdlady

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 12:58 pm

Raisin wrote:

I was hoping that we would be getting rid of flour, pasta, spaghetti etc - it’s 3.5 weeks before pesach!

PassionFruit

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 1:21 pm

As Trevor Noah pointed out today, our bathrooms are equipped with SHOWERS.

I'm more afraid of Amazon and Wifi shutting down. Can you imagine?!!?!?!?!?

Elfrida

Thu, Mar 12 2020, 1:22 pm

lkwdlady wrote:

I was hoping that we would be getting rid of flour, pasta, spaghetti etc - it’s 3.5 weeks before pesach!

I gave in today and went and stocked up - but no chametz products! My cupboards are now full of rice, lentils, beans, tuna, salmon, baked beans and tinned and dried fruits. Some of it is even pesadik. Once I clean the freezer I'll add frozen vegetables, since most of them are also kosher for Pesach. I'd rather have been able to run down the food supplies as normal, but now I'm confident that we'll have what to eat, and I'm not worried about being stuck with huge quantities of chametz.