A safe space to confess whether you panic bought toilet roll

Not toilet roll, apparently I had different priorities as I bought razors so I didn't get yeti legs 😂

My single neighbour living alone bought 4 lots of 18 rolls. We didn't buy extra.

Making sure my kids had food isn't something I feel ashamed of

I bought an extra pack of the biggest pack available on top of what I normally bought.

I think people think panic buying is buying 50 packs, but if lots of people bought an extra pack its a big impact.

I never panicked buy. Always buy in bulk and took advantage of clearance bargains at my previous job. One time, they got rid of about ten lines of antiperspirants cans for 50p-80p as had a range review. I bought about 14 cans for about £8.50-£9 in the summer of 2019. So until two years later I bought these again (had about four cans at home)

Same with cleaning stuff. Some lines shrink and the ones of the older size, get reduced to 30p.

I do miss the clearance bargains. Then another time, communication from HQ said to give jars of own label coffee to colleagues for free, as many jars had the wrong back label on them. The jars were 100g but label said 200g.

I believe it started a few days after scenes in Australia supermarkets. Then idiots here thought loo roll is made in China. No about 98% of loo roll here is made in the UK.

Then the media took photos of bare shelves and put them on the front pages. Some supermarkets were like that, bare. Whilst others were better.

The media panicked the general public, especially older people

I didn't...but I do have a lot stashed away anyway because I use the subscribe and save on Amazon. 45 rolls turn up every however often, and when the allotted storage spot starts overflowing I skip a delivery. But it does mean we currently have 178 toilet rolls in storage. Covid may well have influenced my mind though cause I find the store a comfort! Which is weird, I'll admit that!
But we didn't start the subscribe and save thing to build up a store...it was just the most cost effective way to buy them and I'm not great at keeping track of when I need to skip a delivery!

No because l was a crazy brexit woman who stocked up loads of stuff just in case, my DP laughted at my brexit cupboard, but was very useful in pandemic. Although she worked in a supermarket, so we were never in danger of running out of anything l suppose as staff got to shop before store opened. It was basically a supply issue with no drivers anyway, tbere was loads in the main warehouse.

The 80 year olds i know do a lot more than most batch cooking cakes etc to last the week making pie lids and pastys they are always doing it

No but did get dirty looks in supermarket doing a whole week’s shopping for 7 of us 3 teens 2 under 5 lots of nappies loo rolls generally 2 or 3 of everything. Partner had to go into about 3 shops for paracetamol and calpol so we had some in incase we caught it to get enough for a week for all of us.

I’m a prepper and always have been so no need for us. I generally keep six of everything in to be used on rotation. Loo rolls were shared with family though as they found there were none in the shop a few times.

Thankfully none because toilet roll had been on offer beforehand and I’d stocked up.

I ordered my usual big box of who gives a crap just before the news broke that there was a shortage.

The funniest example of panic buying backfiring was a few years earlier we had massive floods and all the water was out and due to a sewage overflow was going to be out for a couple of weeks. So I went to Tesco to get bottled water. The shelves had been stripped and people were coming out with literally multiple trolleys filled with it.

The cobra report that evening announced a long list of pick up points and every household got 12 big bottles of free water each per day until it was fixed. We all had bottled water for years and these people must have paid hundreds for what they got. I’m surprised the store allowed it, but it’s think rationing didn’t really happen until Covid.

Not sure it was panicked but I did buy a much bigger pack than usual once the shelves started to look bare.. I’ve continued to buy big packs since then tbh.

Threads about loo roll today. 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Interesting. 😁

No

Because I happened to have 180 rolls in the garage when it all kicked off. I had gone through a phase of having an Iceland home delivery and always just chucked a bale of toilet rolls on the till at the end to save me carrying them. It was an accidental overstock

I offered to give to a couple of friends but no one needed it

To an extent...

I definitely bought some before we needed to, only a small pack because I didn't have the choice but I was a bit concerned and would have bought a bigger one if I could have.

I think a lot of things were bought before I ran out because it was available and I didn't know if it would be again when I actually wanted it. Normally I would wait until we had actually run out but it's never usually a struggle to buy toilet roll, pasta or flour, I can just walk into any shop and buy them there and then.

No i was worrying about the same people coming into the shop every day and emptying the shop leaving nothing for others while breathing all over me and touching every thing.

They could have shared it. How much baking does an 80 year old realistically do?

No as I always buy my loo roll from Costco and have done for the past 17/18yrs. I’d not long been to Costco when lockdown was announced so we were set. I did share with my neighbour though and she shared bits with me as well.

As usual I think the press exaggerated this and started to encourage people to mass buy, they were taking pictures of people coming out of Costco with a large pack of toilet roll in their trolly. They were the normal size packs that you get in Costco. You can’t buy any smaller and they only had one in their trolley. It was suddenly front page news and photographed on the front pages of national newspapers and encouraged or frightened people to buy more.

We did a bit. Not tons. In fairness, we had 8 people in our house, for a variety of reasons.

No because I have bought in bulk from amazon subscribe and save for years and continued throughout the pandemic.

I saw the writing on the wall.
in February I bought loo roll and face masks from Amazon.
i already had loads of hand sanitiser.

I didn’t stockpile anything else, I had an agreement with an elderly neighbour that I would supply her with loo roll and food if she needed it.

We've always had a good stock of toilet rolls / kitchen rolls as alongside tins it's the one thing you can stock up on that keeps when on offer . I've even had it stored up in the attic before.
These days our preferred brand ( Cushelle quilted ) is £13.25 so we can't now afford it !