toilet paper apocalypse

[deird1]

Aussies really suck at prepping.

Apparently every supermarket in the entire country is now sold out of toilet paper. My local supermarket certainly is. They're also sold out of flour, spaghetti, rice, bread, and long-life milk.

They're not sold out of dried lentils/chickpeas/beans, or dried soup mix, or dried fruit, or canned vegetables/fruit.

Apparently everyone in Australia thinks that one should spend food shortages having nothing but plain white carbohydrates – in which case they'll all be so constipated that I'm not sure why they'll need so much toilet paper.

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[lizbee]

We were feeling extremely good about our prepper shopping list (rice, pasta, lentils, coconut milk, tinned tomatoes, I'm gonna test out a mung been dhal recipe to see if we like it enough to add to our regular rotation, frozen veggies, cask wine, tonic water, cat food) ... and then we realised we're almost out of toilet paper. And the shelves were bare.

(And my BFF, who lives in Osaka and hasn't been following Australian news or social media, texted to ask if we could send a package of bog roll, because it cannot be had in shops for love or money and Amazon is price gouging. I thought it was a joke! It was not.)

[deird1]

... and then we realised we're almost out of toilet paper. And the shelves were bare.

Oh dear!

I feel very sorry for all those people who don't stockpile and just happened to run out of toilet paper this week. (We had just bought more, so we're fine.)