“Toilet Paper: Man’s Best Friend. Some Things Never Change. Does This All Sound Familiar?”

I was 2 when this happened
Amazing to read this we are a nation
That is obsessed with TP
it’s starting to make sense now

Speaking of those taking advantage of the TP shortage and selling it at marked up prices on Ebay, look what happened to these two Brothers from Hixson, TN when they tried to sell hand sanitizers on Amazon after purchasing 17,700 bottles.

“He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html

“On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.”

“Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods. The major metro areas were cleaned out.”

“Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.”

“The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.”

“Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.”

“Bowling Green Business Offers Free Toilet Paper To Customers”

https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Bowling-Green-business-offers-free-toilet-paper-to-customers-568812451.html

“An axe-throwing business’ special offer is raising eyebrows on social media.”

“In a Facebook post, Flip ‘N Axe is offering free toilet paper to customers who purchase an hour of axe throwing time.”

“At the time of the posting, the business stated they had 1,000 rolls of toilet paper to give out.”

“WBKO reports the owner of the business works at a janitorial company and has access to quite a lot of toilet paper.”

https://www.wbko.com/content/news/Flip-N-Axe-free-toilet-paper-Facebook-post-has-many-talking–568808151.html

“Amidst Toilet Paper Runs, Florida Man Busted”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/tp-theft-arrest-609348

This Dude stole a Roll of TP worth $1.00 and was booked in a County Jail on a $5000 Bond:

“A Florida Man was arrested yesterday for the 1 AM theft of some two-ply bath tissue from a neighbor’s vehicle”

“Safraz Shakoor, 25, burglarized a Dodge truck parked in the driveway of a residence a few blocks from his Clearwater home.”

“Shakoor was recorded on a Ring video surveillance camera entering the unlocked truck’s backseat and swiping “a roll of toilet paper from a 6-pack of Smart & Simple bath tissue.”

“A pack of the toilet paper–perhaps the cheapest brand on the market–sells for $1 at Dollar General (though the retailer is currently out of stock, according to its web site). The product is described as “Made in the USA from 100% recycled fiber.”

“Defendant consented to search of his person and a single roll of toilet paper was found in his right front pocket. The seized item matched the Smart & Simple toilet paper swiped from the Dodge. During post-arrest questioning, Shakoor “denied entering vehicle.”

“Shakoor was arrested on a felony burglary charge and booked into the county jail on $5000 bond.”

And Now The History Lesson of the Day: “When Was Toilet Paper Invented and What did People Use Before?” https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/when-was-toilet-paper-invented-what-did-people-use-before-history/ “Toilet paper has not been around for the majority of human history, so we’ve had to make do with an eclectic array of cleaning materials. Anything we can get our hands on, essentially. Some options of nature’s toilet paper sound sensible enough – leaves, grass and moss – but comfort was clearly not always a priority, if the use of wood shavings was to go by. Washing the backside in water, or snow in colder climes and sand in hotter ones, became a relatively hygienic practice around the world too. For some regions of the Middle East and India, though, people saw, and still see, their left hand as the right tool for the job (as long as it’s cleaned thoroughly afterwards).” “The Ancient Greeks used sherds of clay or pottery; the Romans, in their communal toilets, shared a sponge on a stick rinsed out in a bucket of saltwater (or a vinegar solution); and in pre-colonial American civilisations, let’s just say that they didn’t just use corn cobs for eating. In some societies, cloths or materials like wool, lace and hemp became the wiping choice for the wealthy, but, seriously, humans used anything. Not even mentioned yet are stones, seashells, fruit skins and fur (well, it’s good enough for animals).” “As for paper, perhaps it should come as no surprise that the first to see its benefits in the bathroom were the Chinese. The earliest-known record comes from AD 589, when an official named Yan Zhitui wrote that he “dare not use” any paper on which has been written quotations from the Five Classics (seminal texts in Confucianism) or the names of sages for “toilet purposes”. In the 14th century, the emperor issued a decree calling for paper measuring two feet by three feet for his bathroom needs.” “Yet it would still be centuries later that toilet paper truly got on a roll, as it were. People had begun using old magazines, but, in 1857, New York-based entrepreneur Joseph… Read more »

“Completely Neurotic’: Psychologists Explain Why People Hoard Toilet Paper During Coronavirus Outbreak”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/completely-neurotic-psychologists-explain-why-people-hoard-toilet-paper-during-coronavirus-outbreak

“Shoppers are wiping stores clean of not only disinfectants and food, but also toilet paper during the coronavirus outbreak.”

“Psychologists offered some insight into why the toiletry is flying off the shelves across the country.”

“In times of uncertainty, people enter a panic zone that makes them irrational and completely neurotic,” Dimitrios Tsivrikos, a lecturer in consumer and business psychology, said to CNBC. “In other disaster conditions like a flood, we can prepare because we know how many supplies we need, but we have a virus now we know nothing about.”

“Tsivrikos called toilet paper an “icon” of mass panic.”

“It’s about ‘taking back control’ in a world where you feel out of control,” Paul Marsden, a consumer psychologist, said about the buying spree.”
Sander van der Linden, an assistant professor of social psychology at Cambridge University, said people are engaging in “fear contagion.”

“When people are stressed, their reason is hampered, so they look at what other people are doing. If others are stockpiling, it leads you to engage in the same behavior,” he said. “People see photos of empty shelves, and regardless of whether it’s rational, it sends a signal to them that it’s the thing to do.”

There are some of us who remember the gas shortage/gas lines in the 1970s.

Somehow, we survived.

Then, some of us remember or remember their relatives living during WWII who had ration books for meat, flour, sugar, butter, gas, nylon, etc.

Somehow, they survived.

And who could forget the Prohibition period….

😎😉

Wonder what would happen if bean sprouts experience a “shortage”? Would folks hoard beansprouts even if they don’t consume it?

Can you imagine what would happen if Coffee, Beans or Grounded, became a “shortage”?

Or Sodas? Bandages? Rubber Bands? Soap? Shampoo? Blowdryers? Razorblades? Scissors? Dog and Cat Food? Broccoli? Cheese?

Bacon? Chocolate? Butter?

See where I am going with this?

We Always Want Something When We Can’t Have It.

The 2 brothers who bought all the hand sanitizer then tried to sell it for profit, well they ended up donating it all.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-brothers-give-away-hand-sanitizer