ODFG! Just please. No more stockpiling!

[Babysharkdoodoodood]

DH was away for work this week and mentioned he'd been to Tesco for a few bits. Just in case. It was still in the boot last night.

Fast forward to today. I said I'd like to pop to Costco to get some belly pork strips and we were running low on bog roll.
I nip to the loo and come back to a trolley full of cleaning stuff, kitchen roll and water.

Then had a little nap when we got home (medical issues exhausting me atm). DH unloaded the car.

Photos attached with what I woke up to. 'Scuse kitchen mess.

Ha ha. My DH has done a supermarket run tonight to stock up. I saud it wasn't necessary and we don't have a lot of spare cupboard space.
He's left it in the boot until the morning.
Now I'm scared

So you’re the reason I can’t wipe my arse this week 😉🤣🤣

I’m just jealous, I would love to stockpile like this - corona or no corona!

We have nowhere to put it! It's going to have to go in various rooms.

Why is the stupid twat stockpiling water?🤣🤣🤣🤣

Are you telling us or telling yourself?
That’s just fucking ridiculous.
A friend had actually run out of loo roll today and couldn’t get any.
Absolutely insane.

Tbf, that’s not far off a normal Costco shop.

They don’t really sell stuff in normal quantities, so if you want loo roll, then you get about 40 rolls. If you need kitchen roll, then it’s 20 odd massive rolls or nothing.

Whenever I go, for ‘just a few bits’ I always manage to end up filling my car up (and it’s not a small car!) even without buying random assorted crap I don’t really need...

Bonkers. Especially the bottled water

Selfish bastard.

He does know he's possibly preventing poorer people from being able to get these items, because they don't have the money to splash out in a panic?

@WorraLiberty TBF Costco had enough loo roll for most of the surrounding area, and they were rationing one multi pack each. Portsmouth Tesco apparently has huge pile as well.

As for the water, it's sparkling, so can't even cook with it.

But I don't know why so much kitchen roll? I only just got a 3 pack from Morrisons last week, he got another 4 pack from Tesco and a huge pack from Costco. We don't even use it that much. But it'll help bulk out the compost bin, as his idea is that we use it to dry our hands instead of a towel.

The food is not so bad, as I can just work my way through it. I've told him that he can put it away.

Rookie mistake no1: advertising your Prepper stash in identifiable kitchen photos!!!

Come the imminent breakdown of society due to Coronavirus [and/or
The Zombie/Nuclear Apocalypse (delete accordingly)], the local marauding hordes'll now know exactly where to come...

Sidenote:
am sure this current obsession with stockpiling loo rolls will prove totally redundant when massive rations of pasta/rice takes effect.
My money's on senna pods/prunes/syrup of figs rapidly becoming scarce items.

To be serious,though, I'm inclined to agree with @WorraLiberty:
"He does know he's possibly preventing poorer people from being able to get these items, because they don't have the money to splash out in a panic?"

This isn't panic buying. You ain't seen nothing yet. If the virus does hit, the shops will be stripped.

The people stocking up now are taking pressure off from when the real panic buying starts.

Isn't that pretty standard for a trip to Costco!

If you try and not eat all this food that you are stockpiling,and just drink water for two weeks,you will be much fitter and slimmer.and obviously won't need all those toilet rolls.. It's called the corona diet.

Ridiculous. That actually looks very wasteful.

He has clearly bought into the mass hysteria bollocks.

I am so sick of this shit.

I'm in an at risk group for the virus, and yet I'm not freaking out wanting to buy stupid amounts of loo roll, hand sanitiser, and other stuff I don't need large amounts of.

I just need a normal amount of things and I can't bloody get any because people are being fucking stupid.

It's not the zombie apocalypse, and what I'm ALSO sick of hearing, is able bodied healthy folks saying that it's only the old, disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised people who are at risk, like we're totally bloody expendable.

I would like to see supermarkets apply limits per person on essential items, to prevent this crap happening. But we know that won't happen because capitalism.

I think he has bought a sensible amount - would it be enough to last a few weeks?

It's becoming a real possibility here in Aus that sone schools will be shut and the children told to stay at home. We were advised by our DDs school on Friday that the school may shut on Monday and to make the necessary preparations (girls advised to clear their lockers).

If this happens, I will be more than happy to have a stocked pantry and enough food for our family for the duration.

There is a difference between madly stockpiling and sensible preparation.

Few weeks ? We get thru about 1 roll of paper towel every 2 months (!)

You're well sorted for Pepsi, too, OP.

I dunno. Do folk get saturated with panick-buying, decide "ok that will do" and then revert to just keeping the stash topped up, or do they just rev up and up and want more and more? I would have thought all this panick buying will lead to a boost in GDP, actually.

@penisbeakers,

Agree with all your points.

Am sure you did, but just checking everyone realises my earlier comment re "Apocalypse" etc. was not Corona-scaremongering, but very much sarcasm aimed at a few who keep stating elsewhere that all infrastructure as we know it will grind to a halt by about Monday as if official fact, thus inevitable?

Contingency preparations are sensible, but causing others unnecessary worry isn't.
Pretty unfair, actually.

That actually looks very wasteful.

It's only wasteful if it's not used.

WTF is wrong with tap water.

Can anyone explain to me why people are panic buying water? Are the taps suddenly going to run dry?

If you need to Self isolate a family member to one room, bottled water means they do not have to leave the room to go get a drink. That would be my thinking.
But, I always have bottled water as we live in the arse end of nowhere with low water pressure so yes no mains water is a real possibility here

He does know he's possibly preventing poorer people from being able to get these items, because they don't have the money to splash out in a panic?

Absolutely .

I feel sorry for the people who can't afford to stockpile and now can't get the things that they need because of selfishness like this. My local supermarket is completely out of dry pasta, which is something that poorer people use a lot of. I volunteer at a homeless hostel handing out food parcels to local people who are struggling and we are going to be short of staples because of this kind of behaviour. Pisses me off.