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I had to travel 30 miles to find toilet paper
Yep I'm gonna share my adventure today.
I went to 3 stores total. Two Walmarts and a United Supermarket. All aisles cleaned out. So you can imagine like how irritating it is. I just want some for basic use. I go home with some items I decided to get anyway. Couple of canned goods (whatever was left) and whatnot. Its about 7 PM. Figured I'd drive to Canyon, TX to check the local allsups down there. First one I went to had a good amount. I bought five 4 packs. Figured who knows when they'll be back in stock. Lady at the register told me what was their shipment today and one lady came and bought $92 worth of toilet paper.
WTF...
Upside. I did get two corn dogs and some chicken nuggets 
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https://www.newser.com/story/288168/family-buys-12-years-of-toilet-paper-by-mistake.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
Think you've stocked up on toilet paper? Well, there's an Australian family that bought a 12-year supply back in February before coronavirus worries even struck the country—and they did it by mistake, USA Today reports. Haidee Janetzki says she made a slight error when ordering the TP online from the company Who Gives a Crap. "It asked for the quantity and I wrote 48 thinking I want a box with 48 rolls in it," she tells the Australian Broadcasting Co. "A couple of days later, I got an email saying the order was on the way, and that was all good." Sure enough, all 2,304 rolls arrived at their home in Toowoomba, roughly 80 miles west of Brisbane.
"On a Monday there was a knock at the door at it was the courier. He said, 'I've got two pallets of toilet paper for you,'" says Janetzki. "We checked the credit card statement to try to figure out what'd gone wrong and turned out I'd ordered 48 boxes, so it was legitimately my mistake." As husband Chris puts it: "At the time I thought, 'Holy crap.'" But the family is offering some of the TP in a fundraising drive for their daughter's school, so the children can visit Canberra and Sydney later in 2020.
Think you've stocked up on toilet paper? Well, there's an Australian family that bought a 12-year supply back in February before coronavirus worries even struck the country—and they did it by mistake, USA Today reports. Haidee Janetzki says she made a slight error when ordering the TP online from the company Who Gives a Crap. "It asked for the quantity and I wrote 48 thinking I want a box with 48 rolls in it," she tells the Australian Broadcasting Co. "A couple of days later, I got an email saying the order was on the way, and that was all good." Sure enough, all 2,304 rolls arrived at their home in Toowoomba, roughly 80 miles west of Brisbane.
"On a Monday there was a knock at the door at it was the courier. He said, 'I've got two pallets of toilet paper for you,'" says Janetzki. "We checked the credit card statement to try to figure out what'd gone wrong and turned out I'd ordered 48 boxes, so it was legitimately my mistake." As husband Chris puts it: "At the time I thought, 'Holy crap.'" But the family is offering some of the TP in a fundraising drive for their daughter's school, so the children can visit Canberra and Sydney later in 2020.
