I think we, or at least I, got a little carried away with Covid hoarding. I just brought in the last

[flashman13]

of my Costco toilet paper which I bought in early 2020. LOL

[MLAA]

1. I hear you, I have about 8 containers of Clorox wipes

[applegrove]

2. I have that many too. I can use them to clean my bathroom, I figure.

[MLAA]

4. I've started using them for wiping down just about anything that doesn't move, or at least

moves slowly!

[applegrove]

7. Ha! My statement was aspirational. I have not cleaned my bathroom with them yet.

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[barbtries]

10. those I never had too many of.

they were so hard to get that I bought baby wipes and soaked them in alcohol. i also bought a box of alcohol wipes, which I use now for my Ozempic injections.

I do have several cans of Lysol around here. But at the time could not get disinfectant wipes, could not get hand sanitizer, could not get Barq's Root Beer...the struggle was real. I still wash my hands a million times a day and i guess i always will.

[Chainfire]

3. The only thing that I hoarded was food.

And that just to keep me out of the stores. To my knowledge, our local stores did not run out of toilet paper. It may be because I live in a poor county and people just couldn't afford to hoard.

[zuul]

17. I only hoarded cat food.

For some weird reason, there was a shortage of canned cat food. I could find it on Chewy but not in stores. I think it might have had something to do with aluminum shortages. The can shortage seems to be over, but now there seems to be a shortage of cat kibble. When I go to the store, the kibble section is always almost empty. Weird.

[Chainfire]

21. Do you have a cat?

[zuul]

24. No.

[maxsolomon]

5. So you bought 3 years worth of toilet paper at once?

I didn't get carried away like that. At all.

Assuming you're not joking, how much TP did you buy?

[flashman13]

14. I seem to remember 3 48 roll bags.

[maxsolomon]

15. well that's hoarding, but it wouldn't have lasted 3 years at my house

too many people. too many ladies.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. I still have some TP from then too, LOL!

My "reserves" that I never needed to break into.

[barbtries]

8. okay you got me.

i finally had to buy toilet paper late last year. lol

[Backseat Driver]

9. I've got two very large boxes of 48 rolls TP, LOL! Just wiped out the 3rd opened box.

Luv that recycled/no plastic Who Gives a Crap subscription every 4 months. Didn't use as much as I thought I'd need to use, but won't ever run out due to empty shelves again. LOL! Alas, only one unopened Clorox wipes container from a bulk six-pack that I still use to wipe down doorknobs and faucets, lots of liquid hand sanitizer in a giant bottle, and slowly working on one of two large bulk boxes of emergency Bisquik; wish the bacon, sausages, and syrup would last as long, LOL! During the escalation I bought delivered free-range pastured ones from local country vendors delivered to the door through Market Wagon at less cost than at the grocery though they were brown eggs (no difference in taste); now it's roughly the same money for the best ones. In addition, I stole feral Pekin duck's eggs from their nests around our complex; no fear!

[FSogol]

13. Wiped out? I see what you did there.

[Mossfern]

11. I still have

some packs of the crappy thin brown paper stuff that was the only toilet paper available at the beginning of Covid.
Guess I'll save those for the next apocalypse.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Ha

I was thinking Covid was nothing very early in it. A freind and mentor returned from China and told me that the entire world is about to shut down. I ordered a giant pack of TP that night on Amazon, it took them 3 weeks to deliver it, but I was stocked fine throughout.

[brewens]

16. I loaded up March 02, 2020 thinking it was just Costco I might want to avoid for a couple months.

I also figured I'd go grocery shopping in the middle of the night to avoid crowds. I ordered masks a few days before that just in case.

I wasn't even thinking there would be hoarding and stores closed a week or two after that. I saw one other woman at Costco that day that may have been doing the same thing.

I wasn't quite ready for another TP pack but got one anyway. One of those lasts me a long time. I am keeping my "hoard" though. I have a few dozen things that keep well that I put on my list as soon as I use one to always have a backup at least.

[PatSeg]

18. Hey, you can never have too much toilet paper!

I make sure I am always overstocked on toilet paper. Running out is not an option!

I think we all may have done a bit of hoarding back in 2020 and some habits don't change easily.

[Raftergirl]

19. My grandmother had a habit of buying in bulk when anything was on sale.

When she died I went with my Aunt to get rid of stuff in their Florida home. We opened one closet and there were several hundred rolls of toilet paper. Some were so old the cardboard rolls inside had disintegrated. This was in 1972.

We also found several hundred boxes of lime green jello. They weee $0.07 a box.

[boston bean]

20. I hoarded masks once they became somewhat available.

[Hekate]

22. I've got an awful lot of big hand sanitizer bottles left over. Don't know if Costco wants them back

…but they don’t seem to have any benzene or “forever chemicals” listed on the labels, so I might just keep them around as a lifetime supply. I’m definitely taking back the unopened hand wipes that say they kill 99.9% of germs & viruses, as they apparently do that with forever chemicals. Things for wiping down surfaces are something else I have to check the labels on, and see what’s unopened.

What an experience we all lived through — and it’s not truly over, though having the vaccines is very reassuring.

Here’s the article link I got from DU in May:

🌸
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/11/concern-over-increase-in-disinfectant-wipes-linked-to-health-problems

Common disinfectant wipes expose people to dangerous chemicals, research reveals
Researchers say wipes contain chemical group called ‘quats’, which are linked to serious health problems
Tom Perkins
Thu 11 May 2023 06.00 EDT
Since the pandemic’s outset, the global use of disinfectants has gone through the roof. Clorox dramatically boosted production of its wipe packs to 1.5m a day by mid-2021, and an industry trade group said 83% of consumers surveyed around the same time reported they had used a disinfectant wipe in the last week.

But as schools reopened, a group of toxic chemical researchers grew concerned as they heard reports of kids regularly using disinfectant wipes on their classroom desks, or teachers running disinfectant foggers.

The researchers knew the disinfectants did little to protect consumers from Covid, and were instead exposing kids at alarming levels to what they say are a dangerous chemical group – quaternary ammonium compounds, also known as QACs, or “quats”.
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[Earth-shine]

23. In the post-apocalyptic world, toilet paper will be a valuable commodity.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. I will be a memory before my supplies of 99% isopropyl alcohol and clorox wipes are consumed.

I also have a similar supply of aloe vera for mixing with the alcohol to make hand sanitizer.