Just signed up to Who Gives a Crap! Awesome. They actually ran out during lockdown, lol - how ridiculous. I want Jamie to connect our Asian bidet hose thingie so I can do away with toilet paper altogether.
My mind is utterly blown by the calender thing. Oh. My. Giddy. Aunt. What a revelation.
I want a bidet, too. I don't expect it would completely remove the need for tp - I mean, you'd need to dry off unless you have some fancy-schmancy thing that blow dries your butt, lol - but you'd be using a lot less!
EVERYONE ran out of tp at the beginning of the pandemic. It was the WEIRDEST thing. Like, the 'rona doesn't give you the sh*ts. So, why??? I never understood. 😂 When I went to the grocery store, it looked like this:
...that's the aisle where all the paper products go: toilet roll, paper towels, paper tissues. BARE.
Some things are still hard to come by, and it doesn't always makes sense to me, either. I can find cream at health food stores but not the regular grocery anymore - and it's been that way since March. You can forget it if you like to use those Clorox wipes or Lysol, those have both been gone, too. Like I understand that one at least - they're about disinfecting surfaces. I don't use either of them, but I understand why they're selling out. But by the same token, after hand sanitizer had a run on it, nowadays you see hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE and ten thousand different brands that didn't exist before for it, too. But that hasn't happened for the wipes or the sprays. It's very strange.
It's good practice though for what to be prepared for when disruptions to supply chains happen. Learning to do things in different ways, make your own, and substitutions you can make is always good knowledge!
yeah, the TP was so bizarre! I think some shops were even refusing refunds under lockdown here when people tried to bring it back haha!
I definitely rethought my whole preparedness. I mean, I was more prepped at home in Australia and had a huge summer harvest coming and chickens etc, and lots of bulk rice, milk etc, tins - I always have bought in bulk. But then of course I was locked down in England haha - the irony!
I swear I'll never be unprepared again!
Shops here were refusing returns, too. Like, sorry, you were selfish and either wanted to price gouge people during a panic or just plain selfish because you thought the apocalypse was happening, you are stuck with your selfish decision now! I was for it as far as refusing returns. People were ridiculous.
I think it's fantastic. What asshats. Apparently we had buses coming down from melbourne to raid the rural supermarkets, so the local supermarket was asking for ID to make sure you were a local. I missed all of that because I was in the UK tryng to find bread yeast :P
I think it's fantastic. What asshats. Apparently we had buses coming down from melbourne to raid the rural supermarkets, so the local supermarket was asking for ID to make sure you were a local. I missed all of that because I was in the UK tryng to find bread yeast :P