Was I unreasonable to "panic buy" on Saturday?

Sorry I took so long to reply, I was just crying into the abyss because your response was soooo cutting 🤣

I imagine that won't be a problem

Well obviously someone is mad in this chat. The o.p who has clearly set out why she wasn't panic buying or...the "friend" who has said this without reason...come on people

That is an hilariously shit response 🤣 you obviously tried to go for a number of standard “winning PA responses on an internet forum” yet still managed to make none of them hit 😭😭

I don’t live in Ireland but last week I added a few extra long life bits to my shop just in case we have any issues here. Not much, just a few bits, but definitely some would say that if everyone does that then you have a panic buying situation as the supply chains wouldn’t be prepared for it. I don’t care though, I never again want the fear of stepping into a supermarket while heavily pregnant and seeing just empty shelves all around like I did in Covid. Ever since then I’ve always been a little better prepared, I don’t think that’s a bad thing,

You’d rather contact all those people and raise a welfare concern about your own children than go to supavalue? wait until there is an actual problem rather than panic buying expensive food.

^fixed your typo.

I'd ignore your relative from now on.

I’ve built up approx 3 months of dried, canned and frozen food, and I just keep that topped up. I really recommend this. It helps ride out storms, and shortages but also means I’m not running to the shop, out of turn, because I’ve run out of jam or tea. That’s saved me a small fortune because I always end up buying stuff I didn’t know I needed if I step inside a supermarket.

I built mine up slowly, and just focused on the things we use regularly. I keep my petrol tank topped up at the moment, only buying €10-20 at a time but just not letting it run low, so that hopefully I’ll get through a shortage.

It isn’t ideal when people change their habits suddenly because the shops aren’t set up to deal with that. But I wouldn’t risk bare cupboards with a young family either. It is what it is.

Tell your relative to go away and cop on. If the protests hadn’t ended today I bet lots of deliveries would have been cancelled this week so you’d have been left high and dry. DPD cancelled all deliveries on Saturday . DH got up at 7 am on Saturday to go get petrol and luckily our local filling station had gotten a delivery so he got both our cars filled. By 10 am they had run out. So things were strange and unpredictable.

If you didn't purchase any toilet roll, and no extra bread, that was not "panic buying" in the real sense 😉

You were anxious (understandably) and picked up a limited selection of your regular items.

We often do little top shops if we’ve run low or something has happened out of our control. Very normal. If you’d brought all the pasta and loo roll in sight then that would be panic buying!!

You’d rather contact all those people and raise a welfare concern about your own children than go to supavalue? 🤣🤣

My relative was just telling me about this. I didn’t realise this was happening.

I think you were fine.

When COVID was starting I saw people in supermarkets with multiple trolleys. I wouldn't think twice about buying that mid week. You're fine.

After covid I will always be making sure that I have enough in for my child. In your situation I would make sure I had enough basics in for a couple of weeks.

We shopped as normally as we could of covid and it really screwed us over. I would go to the supermarket and not be able to buy pasta or tinned tomatoes. We ended up eating some crap meals.

I don’t think you did anything wrong @ahsurelookit. We just spent a week in Ireland, and by chance filled up on Wednesday before we knew about the protests. (The tv in our holiday cottage only had Disney+ and Netflix!)

I don’t think you’ve done anything wrong. Just hedging your bets a bit.

Good luck going forward. If there a shortage of Tayto crisps, I’m afraid that was down to us bribging a few bags home.

I don't really understand why you did it.

I would have waited until Monday to see what happened and if the delivery didnt arrive then I would have gone to the shop. If the shop was out of food, I'd probably call the council, MP, social services, GP, anyone really and raised a welfare concern. It would have been sorted out. Noone is going to let kids starve.

I'm in Dublin ireland and I just topped my diesel up to a full tank as most garages are running out. We couldn't get petrol for my mams car today it was sold out. I haven't panic bought anything only dog food. Once they are OK we will survive. Sure alot of the protests have stopped now

Your relative would rather you could not feed your DC? Panic buying g is when you buy about 200 rolls of toilet paper.

I’m sure a lot of people are getting afew extra bits in and it’s not like you were buying 20 bags of pasta, 24 tins of beans/soup/tomatoes to create a huge stockpile was it??? That happened during Covid round here (East Midlands) and people went crazy and all our local shops were then limiting people to just buying a couple of each thing.
I really wouldn’t worry at all, sounds like a regular top up shop to me x

Your relative is a loon. Although Covid taught us how much the people who love to criticise revel in a panic buy telling off

My DH is about to go to Supervalu in a hunt for bread for his sandwiches tomorrow. Wish him luck...

How does your relative know the minutiae of your life?

I would panic buy a little 😬