That's great. It's good to see panic buying on the Steam marketplace too.
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Fun reading:
Florida man arrested for felony theft of 66 rolls of toilet paper from hotel
Deputies pull over stolen trailer full of toilet paper in Guildford Co.
Armed robbers steal hundreds of toilet rolls in Hong Kong
Thief smashed car window and stole toilet paper
Kaysville Police: Someone stole the toilet paper from the department’s restrooms
British Shopper Robbed for Toilet Paper in Broad Daylight
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Maybe they know better and it will be the new currency after global economy collapses.
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thats so expensive and people have been buying it why people why
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Smokes, green, water, Cola caps? Ha! Toilet paper is the real post-apocalypse currency.
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If you don't always NORMALLY have at least three "large packs(24+)" of toilet paper, you've been living wrong. Always consider emergencies!
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Exactly! What else are you going to use to paper your neighbor's balcony when he's blasting music late into the night??
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It just depends on your lifestyle, I'm lazy so I buy a bunch - or top up sometimes - during a sale and then not have to move bulky toilet paper packs for half a year. That's the main reason for me anyway. I haven't bought any toilet paper since this frenzy and glad I didn't need to, not that we're going to run out of it in Canada.
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In Finland it took them an extra shift on Monday at paper mills to produce all the paper hoarded by people on Fri-Sun. If we run out of paper in countries filled with mainly forests then there is something far worse wrong.
I buy mine in 6-packs that last about a month for me. Also because my butt deserves the best quality, there was always plenty left while the cheap sandpapers were hoarded.
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It's just a logistics issue, so it would affect you there too if Finns weren't so level headed. Australia started this toilet paper hoarding phenomenon and it produces most of its own toilet paper (and a lot of the Asian stuff is made with Australian woodchips), so manufacture isn't the issue but storage and transportation. A dozen panicked people can quickly clear out all of the shelf space that is allocated. The supermarket can restock the shelf but they can only store so much on-site. I have similar toilet paper philosophy and usage as you but there has been literally no toilet paper on my supermarket shelf every time I've been there in the last three weeks.
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There are no logistics issues as the paper mills can supply 1 hoard worth of paper every day and it will be the hoarders who will run out of space first at home to store 100 years worth. Like I said shelves were empty on the weekend a week ago but full again on Monday as soon as paper workers went back to work and put in an extra shift. Your supermarkets must be quite small if dozen people can clear their supply out, but then again I'm always thinking of hypermarkets of 10k-50k m^2 :)
Finland is a major producer of paper and paperboard, and accounts for a large percentage of the world export market (10.7%).
Also our main producer is #4 biggest in the world so they should never face problems of providing enough for our 5 million people even if the next pandemic will be a stomach based one.
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Ah-ha! The hoarders have already thought of that. When they run out of storage, they keep buying and send it overseas: https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1240937374663630855
Take that, neighbours!
Yeah, most of our supermarkets are relatively small and distributed throughout the suburbs. They are essentially just big enough and numerous enough to drive independent corner stores, delicatessens and greengrocers out of business.
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There's a supermarket in my block so I've gotten used to just buying stuff for the week, it's less than 50m from my front door.
Also over here supermarkets limited the amount of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc. per person pretty much as soon as the panic buying started. So you can get toilet paper no problem, prices went up tho.
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Admittedly used to be 3, now 2, so 24 rolls per person which equals just 2 packs of the regular 12-pack. Doesn't really sound as much right.
Water is fine but don't you still need toilet paper to wipe dry? :X
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See, this is exactly what I've been thinking. Before all of this I never even considered that there are people who actually only go to buy more toilet paper when they are on their last roll, seems like madness and a risk I'm not willing to take!
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Nah. I live in a small flat where space is at a premium and that much toilet paper would last me well over a year.
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Construct shelves near ceiling to store it without loss of floor space? :P
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I could do that but I am comfortable with my toilet paper holdings. I don't bother buying any more until I have less than a week's supply.
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It really is! I can eat nothing but beans for couple days in summer heat and yet my ass will feel so fresh.
I recommend getting one of these: https://www.oras.com/en/products/bathroom/
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Or, you know... just get this one at a fraction of the price (if you don't have it yet after the past sale): https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/762800-%3A2017tp%3A
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if you post that on reddit, I guarantee you the prices of this emoticon will skyrocket too :D
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Don't worry, this tp brand is still cheap https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/762800-%3A2017tp%3A
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They just need a 5 year plan of selling more and more and when the crisis is finally over they can just buy a private jet for the class to fly around in.
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That made me craft a badge.
First try.
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Now comes the hard part, sell it now or wait til the price skyrockets even more.
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I thought 'Profile Limited' games didn't have trading cards. I wonder why this game does?
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There have been various levels of limited for ages. It should rather be called "Gaben will roll the dice to see how this game works out" or something.
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https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/636700-%3Atoilet_paper%3A
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