Panic buying

I still have some Velcro rollers from the 1980s. There must be some way I can upcycle them now that my hair is no longer long enough to need them.

Maybe getting dog's hairs off the sofa?

Or even keeping the dog off?

If I was you merlotgran I would sell them on ebay because they seem to be as rare as hens teeth

Good thinking, May7.

lemongrove I spotted a very large black spider in the hall the other night, DH had already gone up to bed, we had locked up so I left it where it was.
No doubt it is busy somewhere festooning the house with cobwebs.

It's probably already been mentioned upthread, but it made me laugh when I heard about this hashtag:

#toiletpaperapocalypse

Some very funny stories about toilet paper on the radio today from a reporter in Australia-

I went to my local Waitrose today and the loo and kitchen roll aisle had many large gaps. Hand gel was non existent. All I bought was a loaf of bread and tomatoes. Bottled water was also leaving the shelves rapidly.

Lemongrove, when you've cleaned out all the wardrobes and washed the windows, there's plenty more here!

Now that I know what a velcro roller is - I might use extra time to style my hair!

Why are people stockpiling loo rolls? Food I can understand, but should (oh, horror of horrors) we run out of loo roll, there's bucket loads of paper in the house (newspaper, printer paper, paperbacks) - so we'd manage.

No hand sanitiser, toilet roll or tinned potatoes in the supermarket this evening.

And yet, I'm guessing, due to the reduction of people out shopping, items are very neatly lined up on the shelves, produce perfectly piled into pyramids .. Very strange ..

No bread or longlife milk. There was toilet roll. You could also buy Thins, bagels or rolls. Plenty fresh produce. Im not buying bottled water, I did buy a large bottle of diluting juice. What did annoy me, no Galaxy Counters anywhere. Are folk stockpiling those too?

We did notice people buying packs of bottled water too. But why water I'm sure we could manage with tap water?

I just got a small Sainsbury delivery. The driver said he has 16 crates for one customer. Another customer, a doctor interestingly (not sure he should have told me but no name) bought 30 packets of weetabix. I am now a bit worried about shops running out of stuff.

I’ve just been to my local Sainsbury’s. There’s not any soap at all! It was the same on Tuesday. I spoke to the lady on the till, and she said some came in yesterday, and people were queueing down the aisles with it! So what happens to the rest of us, who are not panicking, but need soap for when they do a poo, or for anything else for that matter?? There’s going to be more of a problem than the corona virus, when nasty bacteria start propagating. Surely shops should be rationing these items. I was pleased to find there were plenty of my favourite chocolates, and they were on offer?

Absolutely not just buying my usual what is really interesting is what did everyone use to wash there hands before this virus I for one have always gor soap in bathroom and kitchen no need to rush out and buy more

I bet that once some people get the soap home, they won’t actually use it any more than they did before. But it will be a security blanket knowing it’s there.

There was plenty of soap in non-supermarket shops yesterday; we needed some anyway.
TK Maxx for nice soap for the shower, The Range and B&M had 'ordinary' soap.

How ridiculous ... shame on them and anyone who joins them.

Quite looking forward to finally run everything down and use up every little bit of stuff I have here.

Are people staying at home now? Went to an NT place today, its a beautiful day, especially after yesterday. Its not a house just somewhere to have a walk and a cake. Almost no one there, didn't expect hordes but it was almost deserted.

Sad to say, there’s been panic buying in my local Asda. No dry pasta at all! Ditto long life milk and paracetamol.
I forgot to check the loo roll aisle, since we didn’t need any.

And plenty of long life milk too (I usually put some into the food bank).

The Food Bank. That's a thought. Folk who use that don't have the option of panic buying. I hope donations continue.

That's what I heard - that donations are down.

Perhaps, once all the panic is over and people realise they don't need 50 tins of beans or 20 packets of pasta, they might donate it to food banks.

The American Communicable Disease Commission published a formula to make your own hand sanitizer.
3parts liquid soap, 1 part alcohol (if you don't have alcohol, substitute liquor, but it must me at least 60 proof, add essential oil drops if you want it to smell good). This only works if it is used!
Use common sense...not fear.
Greed spawned from fear is so very sad and cruel to all society. Those that price gouge during this are beyond deplorable.

We passed a sign outside a small shop today which said
'PLEASE come in and panic buy'!!

I didn't think of foodbank users. How sad.