Ya. It was when I first learned the difference in feedstock between consumer and commercial TP. IIRC there was not shortage of commercial TP which uses recycled paper.Remember all the shortages when people were hoarding? I remember toilet paper, eggs and other stuff when the shelves were empty.
I got off lucky. Had just restocked on the big packages from Sam's Club along with paper towels, so a single man was set for awhile.
Those were some crazy times.
As I recall, I didn't see any TP on the shelves in my area until mid-May of 2020, and, ironically, that was at Menards.
I presume that means single-ply, see-through paper !
I remember the Dynaglass tires, dad had the snow tires with studs.
The odd thing is that certain things seemed to be difficult to get depending on region. My uncle and grandparents in Kentucky said that Tylenol and pain medication was almost impossible to get, yet where I live no issues.I had a bad habit of "stocking up" on things like TP, nitrile gloves and N95 masks pre-"the virus that shall not be named". Menards made it easy because they would regularly have "free after rebate" deals on things like the gloves and masks. I wear a mask when I do yardwork to keep the allergies at bay and minimize the dust/dirt inhaled, and use the gloves when I change the oil on the fleet and other sloppy tasks so they get used. In late 2019, I finally came to my senses and stopped taking advantage of those sales because they were coming along pretty regularly so why use up the storage space? Then the shortages hit.
We were fine, rode out the shortages with no problem, but this just reinforced my "stocking up" instinct and I didn't need that.
I'm not as bad as I used to be, but I will grab a pack of TP when I have a coupon and the store has a sale, just in case. Same with nitrile gloves and dust masks.
Worse was people who bought gennies for Y2K then wanted to return in the first few days of January
