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In reply to the discussion: Question: Why are people stocking up on toilet paper? [View all]mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)104. When we had flooding
My sis came and stayed with me. I live far enough out of the flood zone so I wasn't impacted to much. She had no power for a week and lived in the flood zone. Luckily her neighborhood did not get flooded. But her water and gas were turned off. The water coming through the tap was non potable.
Like she said water, water everywhere and none of it to drink.
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I always get mine at Costco and was a couple weeks out from needing more. It's eastern Washington
brewens
Mar 2020
#38
I went monday. I'm in a town of 50,000, in an area just big enough to have a Costco.
brewens
Mar 2020
#61
One 12 pk last more than a couple weeks. Don't know why people need 4 or 5 or 6.
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#78
I suspect you don't take Metformin. With that, eating is a trigger for a lot of us each time we eat.
Shrike47
Mar 2020
#87
Because this is the one thing that you will run out of - that will make you leave your house
jpak
Mar 2020
#21
I was at a Costco the other day, and people's carts were brimming over with plastic water bottles!
klook
Mar 2020
#40
It assuages one of our most basic-level fears, dealing with bodily waste. That, along with
chia
Mar 2020
#28
Wow. I never knew. I put one in my Amazon shopping cart for future consideration.
Hekate
Mar 2020
#86
I ordered two toilet mounted bidets which ought to greatly cut down on the TP used.
Kaleva
Mar 2020
#39
Spam.. .ugh. haven't tasted it since I was a kid. Can still imagine the taste and consistency
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
#55
That's my reason. There may be a period of time in particular hard-hit areas when going
wiggs
Mar 2020
#127
I was in Costco yesterday in the Bay Area and EVERYONE was buying toilet paper
DonaldsRump
Mar 2020
#82
Yeah craziness, but if you really need some and Costco is out, Big Lots and Meijers each had plenty
Captain Zero
Mar 2020
#130
Whatever you would do for an impending natural disaster, do now? Quarantine without notice...
Hekate
Mar 2020
#85
Everyone I know will not be quarantined at the same time. I will promise them, and they can promise
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#91
i asked that too!!!!! and I live at ground zero for this virus....i watched the news and saw all the
samnsara
Mar 2020
#103
future weeks long or months long quarantine is real possibility, unless you have
beachbumbob
Mar 2020
#108