There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.

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.

The universe has a weird sense of humour.

If you bought today, still during pandemic.

Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?
- Correct despite downvotes
- Maybe im overthinking it, but couldn't it have always been deemed endemic? I googled ts and cant grasp it 😂

And then there are big brains with bidets

As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.
- Get one. Your bum will thank you for it
I'm just happy that the newest electrical code is allowing electrical outlets closer to bathtubs. Otherwise I'd never be able to have a powered bidet on my toilet.
- Did GFCI not allow for it?
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

Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.

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.

People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it's huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it's not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).
Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn't know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to "higher priority" stores.

70% of humans have never used toilet paper before.

Like living or ever existed?
- In this thread.

That was a bizarre time period. I wonder why moms didn’t start hoarding baby diapers at the time. Can you imagine what happens if the supply chain collapses and you run out of diapers? Having enough toilet paper will be the last of your worries at that time.

Fortunately, all of those fears were unfounded, but they were also directed towards some weird items too. If you want to worry about something, toilet paper isn’t really very high on that list.

We had a baby that was finished breast and on to bottle milk in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns.
There were some shortages but I distinctly remember there being two boxes of formula left after a mild shortage, some mild concern setting in but suppressing the monkey brain and leaving one behind as I thought about the other parent that was going to come along behind me.
I think mums and dads are more likely to think about the other baby and be less grabby (edit: of baby products). Pure speculation. We didn't have much toilet roll hoarding here though either.
Im glad this was not one of those weird items that everyone lost their minds over unnecessarily.
I mean, there were times without these mondern diapers. If you have a baby you will have plenty of different cloths that you can use as a diaper if necessary. Just like your able to get clean down there without TP. Bizzare times indeed.
Random bonus fact: Back then many Babies were potty trained by the time they were one year old just because its more work to diaper your child up with cloth diapers and clean them after use.
- Right, you just use, you know, non-disposable diapers in that case.

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

i haven't used tp since the pandemic. I tried a bidet and I never went back

Bidets are for washing and tp is for drying.

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.

I dont even use 12 rolls in that time. wtf?
That feels, excessive.
- Ever lived with a woman?
I started tracking 2 weeks ago for fun. So far its 1 roll in 3 days avg for 2 people using this bathroom.
The result May change if you are using mega rolls or normal ones or w/e else is there.

Where do they keep it all? How much did they buy actually?

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.