I firmly believe so. But I belive its not just coming out of one orifice.

Why? Are all the uSA paper mills cranking out TP on strike? I'm sure the vast majority of TP brands is made right here in the USA.

Just me and the Wife.

If you do,
you'll be back here telling us how great it is
and how you should have done it long ago.

Hey, I got one of those plunge things!

A tentative deal has been reached on the strike.
No need to hoard any more TP. :)

How can anyone think we import toilet paper?

^^^ If the word 'shortage' is mentioned...people think of tp first.

People are stupid and the internet spreads the stupidity.

LOL
Exactly. Idiots don't get that far in the thinking process.

It is a good idea to keep bulk necessities and cash on hand if you have plenty of storage space. It allows you to save money by buying during sales and allows you to manage you shopping trips better. I always keep supplies (which have been pretty nice during long power outages or shortages of staples) and rotate them . A good snowstorm can make travel dangerous and keep the power off a couple of weeks in many places. Keeping cash on hand is also helpful. Friends that laughed at my preparations fked around and found out. The typical person would only last days if isolated. Preventing that for one's family has always seemed to be a man's responsibility to me.

Lots of good folks in rural NC right now are without food, water, gasoline, or toilet paper. I bet that they wish they had prepared a bit better. The few things they could buy were cash only...and lots of folks do not keep a cash stash.

^^^ That's exactly what my sister in NC said today. Cash is the only way to get gas or groceries where she lives.
When the CC readers won't work....cash will.

I remember when I was younger how swiping the card was a totally different than it is today. I don't know how long ago they stopped using the old school stuff if the readers went down.

No reason to panic buy TP. Just keep an adequite supply on hand like everything else. Like a generator and gasoline.

The old card readers used a carbon copy that was mailed in to get charged to a persons account.
I think they quit using them in the 80's.

A few years back, we lived in an apt complex. Someone tried to drive a too tall moving van into the parking garage and tore a bunch of plumbing pipes up (they actually wedge the rented van in the garage and abandoned the van with water and sewage running off of it and their dog shut in the back).

We were chatting with some folks that lived in a house behind the complex, and they said that they generally keep a bunch of old plastic gallon water jugs full of tap water stored, that they rotate through so that if something happens, they have a bunch of bottled tap water on hand. I thought that was pretty cool and not something that I'd ever done or heard of.

Since moving into a house, in the country, we've been working on that. We've got a second fridge in the garage/out-building. Neither of us likes the idea of water stored in plastic long term for consumption. But we get this stuff from time to time (the grandsons love it, it's got to be better than soda).

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It comes in 1.5L glass bottles. We wash the bottles thoroughly. We have a water distiller and distill water that we store in them. Then we're keep them in the spare fridge which I believe will also work as a heat sync to help the fridge stay cooler if the power goes out. Storing tap water, even filtered through a filter (like a Brita or something similar), in glass bottles, eventually the inside of the bottle gets nasty. But the distilled water seems to stay clean. I do occasionally use the water and wash the bottles again. They never feel nasty, but I figure it can't hurt.

So we have quite a bit of distilled water stored in glass containers that should last a long time without being an issue.

I think most stores had them on a shelf well into the 90s, and probably until at least 2000-2005 if not later. If there was an issue, power outage or something, they would do the swipe thing, and then manually key the charges into the POS machines when the power came back, but had the old carbon style receipt in case someone tried to complain.

I had a store break one out but I can't remember how long ago that was. I know it wasn't in the 80's though.

Yep. Keeping a good supply means you never have to go fight the panicking crowds. That give you time to do more important things to prepare for the impending disaster. Lots of lithium batteries, medicines, ammo, some sort of means of cooking (gas stove or camp stove) are also good to stock. Many folks need to boil their water now.

We keep water too, but we also have a well. It needs electricity for the pump, but ours has a massive pressure tank (bigger than the two water heaters)...so hundreds of gallons there. You can buy a crank for most wells so you can pump manually.