I bought a house 6 months before lockdown.
I bought a super huge pack of charmin toilet paper at BJs. My ex bought a super huge pack of charmin toilet paper at BJs.
We had a laugh about all of our toilet paper.
As a joke I bought 2 more huge packs, because we had room and it was funny and had basically become an inside joke.
Then lockdown happened.
Toilet paper became a commodity.
I JUST (December 27th to be precise) ran out of the pre-covid toilet paper stocks we had.
I’ve always gone to Costco and gotten the big packs of toilet paper, because it was easier. However I had just screwed up the shopping list and got the big pack two weekends in a row. So I was set, in my bunker, for the TP wars
Cleaner and sanitizer were another story. I bought late, at scalper prices because that was the only choice. And that was for mostly normal use
Bulk non-perishables is always the way to go. I think my family buys tp, garbage bags, light bulbs etc maybe once every two years.
How do you go though so many light bulbs?? I haven’t had a single one fail in the past 2 years
We use incandescent bulbs as heaters to keep water pipes from freezing in the winter. When put in a brooder lamp housing they’re safer than dedicated space heaters on a thermostat and useful for places where heating tape isn’t practical (eg around a pressure tank)
We usually go through 8-10 100w bulbs a year across the three pump houses and crawl spaces We have to maintain. Running continuously they only have a life span of a couple months.
Very unusual situation of course. Idk i think we last bought LED’s for the actual inside of the house maybe 5 years ago lol.
I had signed up for a tp delivery service the previous September, and got 48 rolls every eight weeks, which was the “light use estimate” for a single person household.
I don’t know what the rest of y’all are doing, but I had used six rolls when the second shipment came in November. I passed it around to all my friends and forgot to cancel it, so I received a third shipment January. Of 48 rolls.
I now had received 144 rolls of toilet paper in four months, and I use it at a rate of 3.5 rolls per month.
I set a phone reminder to cancel it, and donated 48 rolls to a shelter. Then, in march, when my cancellation alert came up, I realized another shipment might not be the worst thing.
Then in April I got a bidet. I did manage to cancel my subscription, and left rolls on all my neighbors front steps, and I still had enough to last until may of 2021, when I moved and donated the rest.