The crazed toilet paper hoarding?

[misanthrope]

This is what happens when no one remembers cloth diapers.

[Jamastiene]

1. Maybe it is happening because people DO remember them, lol.

The "good ol' days" aren't so good when you stop and think about all the time, effort, and energy and the mess. People are used to things being simpler and easier and more convenient. Maybe it is the reverse.

[misanthrope]

3. I didn't say they were "good"

but the knowledge I can go other routes should I run out of rolls from an eight-pack would keep me from taking TP others could use. Sure it wouldn't be as convenient as the modern standard, but it would keep me from acting like a selfish lunatic.

Everyone is still using TP at the same rate they were a month ago. It's just not on shelves because of panic.

[LizBeth]

2. My niece just told me she is down to 5 in a house of two. She is getting 'fraid.

[misanthrope]

5. Five rolls would last us over a week

Maybe two weeks or more.

[LizBeth]

8. Ya. Just can't be foudn in the stores. Our store have everything and no TP.

Hasn't for a while.

[KentuckyWoman]

9. Great time to learn new skills.

A good bit the world manages to go without any TP.

I'm not saying it's fun, but it's going to come out of their bodies TP or not TP. Better learn some skills.

[CottonBear]

4. I used cloth diapers and cloth wipes for my child.

I still have the cloth wipes. I’m using them for pee but not poo at this time.

We only have 10 rolls of paper for 3 people for however long until there is TP in another of our local stores.

I’m the only woman in our home. Well, the doggie is a girl.

[misanthrope]

6. There would plenty of TP if people weren't buying months' worth

The problem is the mania.

[CottonBear]

11. You're exactly right! My local Publix manager just told me the same thing.

I’m in super conservation mode RE: paper products.

[pat_k]

7. When I first heard about the disappearing TP, I couldn't figure it out...

That is about the last "emergency" item that popped into my head.

Of course, no one wants to run out, but gee wiz folks. Buy up a year's worth so others DO run out in a couple weeks because it can't be found? That's just being a total asshole.

[misanthrope]

10. Agreed. What would you rather run out of

TP or food? But there's food in the stores.

[Warpy]

12. Or ypu are still thinking about

actually finishing that copy of "Atlas Shrugged" you started to read in college.

[misanthrope]

13. I didn't have it but Mom did

My mother thought it was a testimony of her intellectual prowess to tell people she had read it. When I glanced at her old copy, it didn't take long to realize Rand wasn't a very good writer. When I learned about Rand's theme and thesis, I wondered how my mother balanced its message with her Southern Baptist loyalties. The co-existence made little to no sense.

But Mom had deeper mental issues.

[Warpy]

14. "The Fountainhead" was the gateway drug

because if you read it when you were about 16 or so, you could sort of buy the premise. The movie, of course, was one of the silliest things ever made, but Rand was fairly persuasive to teenagers in that one book.

"Atlas Shrugged" is a good thing to have around if you didn't manage to score any bog rolls before the hoarders swooped in. My copy was paperback, thick, and on very cheap paper to accommodate her 20 page polemics that she substituted for pillow talk. There were a lot of those.

Most of the teenage Objectivists I knew got their senses of humor back halfway through that thing. I admit I skipped a lot of the diatribes in order to finish the plotline, but finish it I did.

Put me off the virtue of selfishness and the vice of altruism for life. The old bag had it exactly backward, having been petted and pampered in early childhood, only to have everything upended by war and revolution. She could never let go of the loss of her privilege and her extreme rage against doing anything for anyone else made her the darling of plutocratic Republicans.

She's bum fodder, best for wiping the arses of working people.

[JCMach1]

15. Americans have just never heard of the dark magic of

Washing your damn butt!

Rant over

[SlogginThroughIt]

16. Toilet paper is going ti he the least if our worries very soon

[smirkymonkey]

17. The Wegmans I went to today would only allow one pack per customer.

I think that is a good policy. Retailers need to do their part to prevent hoarding as well by placing limits on how many items a customer can buy. It's not fair to let certain people stock up at the expense of others.

[misanthrope]

18. Agreed. The more egalitarian, the better.

I'd still rather stock up on dried beans and rice.