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How many people are in your house? My family of 3 goes though about 1 roll per person in a week, and we aren’t super conservative about it, so a 12-18 pack shou

How many people are in your house? My family of 3 goes though about 1 roll per person in a week, and we aren’t super conservative about it, so a 12-18 pack should last us a month. Personally, I think it’s the people buying 4 24 roll packs (or an equivalent number) at a time for the same size family that need to calm down.

0x202020 7y ago
I wish my household had normal TP usage. My fiancée and I both have Crohn’s disease, we probably average a bit more than a roll per day for just the two of us. On top of this we both take immunosuppressants, so we are at very high risk right now. We bought an industrial size pack from Sams Club when things started to get bad, but now we are on “don’t think about leaving the house any more than taking the dog out” levels on advice from our doctors, and that pack is depleting more quickly than I see this dissipating. We have a friend that works at Walmart back home and he is going to see if he can purchase some for us then ship ~1000mi as no one else obviously has any for shipping
- Symbiote 7y ago
  Have you considered a bidet? Others with the disease strongly recommend them.
  - 0x202020 7y ago
    I don’t mind it, but my SO could never get used to it. We may be revisiting them soon though, thanks
- gvjddbnvdrbv 7y ago
  Don't go out of house for toilet paper! Just use shower. It sucks. But struggling to breath sucks more.
SkyBelow 7y ago
>people buying 4 24 roll packs While these are very visible events, do they actually have a significant contribution on the shortage compared to all the other shoppers having a slight increase in desire to buy toilet paper. It is possible even the visibility of the panic buyers loading up as much as possible has more of an impact than their actual purchase. Take someone who buys 8 of those mega packs. Plenty right. But the picture going around might convince hundreds that they should pick up a single pack when otherwise they would have waited until their existing stock was lower before restocking. I'm guessing only someone with access to the actual store records would be able to pull a report to clarify one way or the other.

0x202020 7y ago

I wish my household had normal TP usage. My fiancée and I both have Crohn’s disease, we probably average a bit more than a roll per day for just the two of us. On top of this we both take immunosuppressants, so we are at very high risk right now. We bought an industrial size pack from Sams Club when things started to get bad, but now we are on “don’t think about leaving the house any more than taking the dog out” levels on advice from our doctors, and that pack is depleting more quickly than I see this dissipating. We have a friend that works at Walmart back home and he is going to see if he can purchase some for us then ship ~1000mi as no one else obviously has any for shipping

Symbiote 7y ago
Have you considered a bidet? Others with the disease strongly recommend them.
- 0x202020 7y ago
  I don’t mind it, but my SO could never get used to it. We may be revisiting them soon though, thanks
gvjddbnvdrbv 7y ago
Don't go out of house for toilet paper! Just use shower. It sucks. But struggling to breath sucks more.

SkyBelow 7y ago

>people buying 4 24 roll packs While these are very visible events, do they actually have a significant contribution on the shortage compared to all the other shoppers having a slight increase in desire to buy toilet paper. It is possible even the visibility of the panic buyers loading up as much as possible has more of an impact than their actual purchase. Take someone who buys 8 of those mega packs. Plenty right. But the picture going around might convince hundreds that they should pick up a single pack when otherwise they would have waited until their existing stock was lower before restocking. I'm guessing only someone with access to the actual store records would be able to pull a report to clarify one way or the other.