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I accidentally stocked up months ago. There was a sale in early January at the local Giant Food, and I bought like three 6 packs of it. I walk to the store, so carrying them home each time was a ballache, so I figured I’d be advanced lazy and just stock up.
Had no idea they’d become a hot commodity 2 months later.
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Check at hardware stores like Home Depot and Lowes. Also RV stores have special TP for RVs, which you can get but costs more than the mall brand.
Janitor Supply stores may have the massive rolls instock for public bathrooms, but that stuff is a little abrasive…
they’ve figured out what they are for and bought them all up at my local stores.
Unfortunately, even “flushable” wipes shouldn’t be flushed. Go look up “London sewer blob” and be grossed out.
Same problem as wipes.
Newspaper is really bad to use. The chemicals in the ink reacts with urine and can cause skin discomfort amongst other things…
What’s wrong with “home made” wipes? I used them when I had babies at home, along with “home made” diapers. Better than dumping crap and chemicals into the local landfill to end up in the water table.
It’s easy enough to make washable wipes though! If you conserve the TP for err… messy jobs… and use the washable for everything else, it works pretty good.
Instructions:
- Cut an old t-shirt or similar fabric (old towels, cloths, bathrobes, flannel jammies) into pieces about 4 x 8 inches
- put wipes in a large ziplock baggie with a little water (and a smidge of lotion if you want)
- have a pail/garbage bucket/whatever with a lid, fill it part way with water, a little vinegar and a little laundry detergent.
- after use, put wipe in bucket
- drain bucket into toilet, then toss wipes in with laundry (or if you’re a very brave soul and use them for everything, pre-wash or wash separately)
- rinse bucket, dry wipes (if it’s not freezing there hang them out in the sunlight to dry - sun is antibacterial) and start fresh
- laugh at the people who hoard TP and fight over it in the supermarket
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If you need too, a make do subsitute to a half bidet is to take a dollar spraybottle (well cleaned and no dangerous chemicals in it, of course) and then just turn it to the max pressure spray setting and use it as a imprompu bidet upside down. (if you need to, you can adjust what water level it draws by trimming the plastic straw lower so that upside down it’s able to spray longer before refills.)
You might not be able to completely 100% replace tp, but it will help you ration it and get a clean go with one or two wipes, Spray, and wipe again to dry without the disgusting. (This man reuses old tp, finds out why!), no, just don’t.
Well, i suppose With the rationing, if you really wanted too, you could maybe stretch it by going with one piece the first, and then spraying and folding it the second over reusing shirts rather than hands. but yeah, if you just spray it’s like the first piece of tp cleans most, the spray gets it cleaner, the wipe dries it all off.
If you had like three minutes to spray you probably could just use water but kinda sounds like a waste of time if you have a 2nd piece of tp before, but maybe you could if you legitimately ran out or were on a last roll and/or desperate or didn’t want to go back with public contact with hundreds of panicking people that panic buy 5 years of tp at a time.
If you have a shower massage, use that til you can get a hand held bidet attached to your toilet.
You’ll save a lot in TP and be ever so much cleaner.
Well, as I am into a culture that primes taking a bath and washing your body instead of passing a piece of paper and calling it clean, I dont have problems with toiled paper shortage.
That might be the reason I dont have problems with colera, and other problems that filthy “rear ends” cause.
Also why higiene is never a problem around here.
But by all means, get your toilet paper. I see the tourists here are making lines to buy it.
Could just invest in a dang bidet and be done with it.
I would try Sam’s Club or Costco. I believe they restock nightly. I got mine at Sam’s.
Yesterday when I got to work (4am) my tp aisle was stocked!!! We had a huge shipment come in. When I left at 1pm it was about 1/2 gone.
Yes I bought a small package. 6 roll package, just to be on the safe side
If we have more today, I’ll probably grab a bigger pack. There’s an elderly couple in the area, were gonna check on them this weekend to see if they have everything they need. If not, I’ll go shopping after my next shift.
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Walmart in my area seems to have run out of inventory. The paper goods, canned food, and frozen food aisles are barren and have been since last weekend. The only thing they were re-stocking were a few cases of frozen pizza.
My 90 year old Great Aunt said to use leaves. 
I’m not a Druid! I’m a Holy Paladin. (Not a Hunter, either, although I do post with my Banker.)
I have a bag of clothes for Vinnies, but have decided to tear them all into strips and use if the need arises! (I washed cloth nappies, how bad can it be?)
Omg. It would be bad.
I have 15 rolls still, so hopefully the supply is filled. In Australia the GvT will fine the Hoarders.
Good luck!!!
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You guys deserve it. I said to a grocer cashier the other day, thank you for your service. They have to work while watching everyone else buying up food and supplies.
To everyone out there keeping supply chains going, from farmer to truck driver to stockperson: thank you.
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It’s listed under Wikipedia with the name: Fatberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
A fatberg is a congealed mass in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed non-biodegradable solid matter, such as wet wipes, and congealed grease or cooking fat. Fatbergs became a problem in the 2010s in Britain, because of ageing Victorian sewers and the rise in usage of disposable (so-called “flushable”) cloths.
I admit that I find that name a bit more amusing than I should.
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Most of the world doesn’t use TP. You’ll be fine w/o it.
Missinformation.
Ohno I should buy more today at my supermarket. 
You can’t even spell the word, yet people are supposed to consider you an authority on the subject?
You are aware that ultraviolet light is used in water purification systems to kill bacteria, right? Maybe you should try looking up where you get ultraviolet light. If you’re going to argue that it’s blocked by ozone, I think you should go stand outside in bright sunlight without clothing for a few hours and see what happens!
Do it for science!
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Just for the heck of it, I took a trip to Walmart after work and there were a few people buying TP but not many. Place had an entire wall full of it, so either people are blowing this way out of proportion or they just stocked back up since it was early in the morning.
I bought a bunch over the past week. I got them at family dollar, local stores (small ones) and walmart.