• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        How do you go though so many light bulbs?? I haven’t had a single one fail in the past 2 years

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          9 months ago

          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.

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      9 months ago

      My folks were freaking out about no sanitizer anywhere. I have OCD. I just calmly went to my room and brought out my massive 1 L jug of sanitizer

      For once, that pain in the ass disorder came in handy

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      9 months ago

      That’s amazing!

      I mock threatened my friends that if I couldn’t buy toilet paper when I needed it, I was going to come over to their house and scoot my ass across the rug like the dog does.

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      9 months ago

      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.