I suppose if we psychoanalyze the situations, people are looking to control some aspect of times filled with uncertainty, but I'd stockpile whisky before I stockpiled paper products.
Why is it whenever there's any disaster (biological, natural, or man-made) to people stock up on toilet paper? The scenes of people 12-deep in WalMart lines with 128+ rolls of toilet paper leave me aghast.
I suppose if we psychoanalyze the situations, people are looking to control some aspect of times filled with uncertainty, but I'd stockpile whisky before I stockpiled paper products.
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Why is it whenever there's any disaster (biological, natural, or
man-made) to people stock up on toilet paper? The scenes of people
12-deep in WalMart lines with 128+ rolls of toilet paper leave me aghast.
And if you lived out in the boonies back during the depression and WW2 times the Sears Catalog was toilet paper after it expired. And the tissue paper off the Mandarin oranges at Christmas time was considered a premium. I don't get the toilet paper hording when I think of all the other things that you can run out of.
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