Lot of rolls!

I think that the stock-pilers think the same, that they've only bought what they need. But who needs so much food and other stuff? They've bought far more than for two weeks.

@porwest I think the hoarding of toilet paper and canned food was totally pointless. I suppose some people still have toilet paper bought March last year.

@Torunn lol. I think you're right. Hope they have lots of beans stored up too so they can use some of that toilet paper up.

@Torunn To me the entire reaction and response to this was just plain dumb. But that's just my opinion, of course.

@Torunn I thought about that when I wrote the previous comment, that wouldn't be an easy decision to make. Maybe I would take some of photos of the art work before I used it as toilet paper

You could buy one extra roll to make toilet paper art? ;-) I've seen lot of fancy things online lately that people have made with toilet paper. I just haven't had the time to try myself yet, and I'm a bit skeptical, 'cause if you make art with it, would you use it as toilet paper afterwards? It might just be a waste of paper.

@Porcospino That's the thing, is it for toilet paper after making art of it would be like sacrilege! So what do you do if you day stand there, and that's the only toilet paper you have left?

Yes, no people losing their jobs in the toilet paper industry. Maybe they could employ some of the ones loosing their jobs if this continues? I remember when the Icelandic banks had a crisis some years ago, there were actually talk about sending a ship with extra toilet paper to Iceland 'cause they didn't have money to get what they needed to make it.

@moffittjc That's great! There'll be quite a few who haven't savings etc to rely on, and I think that doing something for the money is nearly always better than sitting at home. It hasn't started here yet, 'cause they've increased the number of days you get full salary if you're temporarily laid off to 20 but after Easter many'll be getting less money and wanting something to do. That's more or less exactly when the planting season starts, so this year they hope Norwegians will want to take temporary jobs in agriculture. Normally there'd be people coming from Poland and Lithuania.

@Torunn We have several businesses here in our city that are trying to hire hundreds of workers on a temporary basis just to help out people in need. When the crisis ends and people can go back to work at their regular jobs, the businesses will release those temporary workers they hired. Glad to see some businesses stepping up to help out.

There must be lot of people who still has enough toilet paper for years.

@noni1959 My mother really couldn't get why people were hoarding TP because she always does. She has enough for herself for half a year, at least. Maybe that's why I didn't stress, I thought that if I ran out, I could get some of hers. But I did check my food stores last March. I didn't realize of much food I usually have around, too much really. I think I'm back to the same levels now, so I must plan dinner and eat some of it.

@Torunn Probably do. My family teased me about my hoard but for awhile we couldn't get it so when I could, I went every couple days to Costco to get some.

@Torunn And there are masks at the hardware which we've been told are adequate for this virus.

@JudyEv Yes, if you know where to shop, you can find more or less everthing elsewhere. I've for some reason ordered anti-bac online. It seemed like such a good idea, but I'm allergic, so I use soap. And I'm not going anywhere I need it right now, I wonder if I should give it to my parents? I ordered two, and my parents are way into the risk-group when it comes to age.

@Torunn We have one bottle of sanitiser in the car and only use it when we drive somewhere and come home again. I'm tempted to order more online as I don't know how long this will last. We're 72 so in the risk group too.

I still imaging lot of people building castles with their toilet paper hoard. I could have filled one of my storage rooms of course, then filled the other two with anti-bac and canned food. But no hoarding means that I now don't have a big problem with food that I have to throw away.

@suni51 I don't think you'd be able to return anything bought at a grocery store here, unless it was already bad when you bought it. So those who went shopping the Thursday the schools closed are still stuck with all their canned food and breakfast oats.

@Torunn True, and our supermarkets realized this hoarding practice at an early stage and refused to return sold material which is not a common practice here but all stores have return and replacement practice in place.

Noone has said they would. I asked if you would.

I've got two big packages without having hoarded more than usual. The prices on anti-bac has gone crazy though, 5 times the price of before the pandemic.

@Torunn Same here.

My neighbour had seen a bloke buying 40 bottles of ketchup. Rather strange.