MAGA’s gonna party like it’s 2020!
Y’all are gonna roast the shit out of me, but I really have a strong urge to buy toilet paper before all the weirdos start clearing the shelves (which I am fully aware makes me one of the weirdos)
Bidets are good, decreases your TP expenses long term. Just a bit to pat dry.
Having just spent 2 weeks in japan, I’m not looking forward to my first poop at home. Am going to be looking at cost of upgrading.
just get one that fits under your toilet seat they’re like 40 bucks and take 5 mins to install
Feh, you vastly underestimate how crap I am at plumbing.
Like the comic relief janitor of old, I have a gift for picking up every wrong part before I find the one I need.
If you’re that unsure of your abilities, spend a bit more and get one of the replace the whole seat kind of bidets. Literally All I had to do was disconnect the waterline, install the t-junction, then reconnect the waterline. Plug the provided hose into both items, install with some thumb screws and enjoy your wet butthole.
The waterline for my toilet is inside the cistern
It doesn’t hook up to the wall anywhere you can hook into?
They’re thumb nuts, you don’t even need tools. There are pictures. It’s really easy.
I wonder where most bidets are manufactured
Buy them now while you can leverage remaining on shore inventory.
Also, get your car maintenance done now.
I want one so bad, but I can’t get the husband on board. I have considered just buying it and installing it myself via the “do it anyways and ask for forgiveness” method, but dunno if butt spray is a battle I’m willing to choose yet. I just want to convince him it’s a good idea.
They’re very easy to install. It’s almost as easy as installing a shower head.
There are also compact battery powered portable handheld bidets that work about as well as the real thing. I have one I take with me on trips.
I have a portable one too and it’s not exactly what I’d call discreet but sure gets the job done. Honestly can’t recommend it for travel though because in spite of the “portable” label, it’s terribly bulky and causes me no end of grief when trying to take it on an airplane. Your experience may be different, here’s the one I’ve got.
How many pumps would you recommend for taco night?
This is what I use at work:
It’s just a cap that you can put on almost any soda bottle or water bottle.
I keep an old 20 oz soda bottle in my office to use with it.
Great for travel and very discreet.
Assuming your financial decision making for a purchase of that magnitude isn’t at the “we need to make this decision together” threshold: do it.
He doesn’t HAVE to use it just because you bought/installed it.
Yeah, I can get one on Amazon right now for less than $50, so I can definitely afford it with my own spending money. I really should just do it.
If he doesn’t like it he doesn’t have to use it.
He’s scared he’ll like it to much.
Get one with a heated seat and he’ll forgive you even if he doesn’t come around to the butt spray. Heated seats are something I never knew I needed and now that I have it I can never go back. I cringe whenever I’m at a friend’s house and I need to sit on their cold toilet seat.
Weirdo here: I hate warm toilet seats. When I sit on a warm seat all I can think about is the hairy, pimpled 400lb ass of the Iowa-bred long haul trucker named Rooster who just finished up his hour-long battle with the consequences of eating a 32 oz bag of beef jerky in one sitting, and is about to go troll for some lot lizard tail.
Doesn’t matter if it’s in my own home, warm seat = Rooster’s ass.
I like my toilet seat like I like my pillowcase - Ice fucking cold.
I invested in a bidet shortly after the pandemic mania. I laugh in the face of toilet paper.
We chose to do a little bit of “buying ahead.” Where I would buy one pack of TP, I bought a second one, and when we use the first I’ll get another. Nothing we’re not going to use within a few months anyway, not looking to build a TP throne but just a bit of cushion. We were already mostly doing this anyway since covid because it seems like there’s random shortages here and there that didn’t happen prior, or at least not enough to notice.
Really, nothing beyond what I’d want to have for a natural disaster where we’re on our own for a few days. Trying to be prudent without being a weirdo.
I mean this is the reason there are shortages. People fear shortages, so they buy extra so they wouldn’t be hit with the shortages, actually causing the shortage.
The whole toilet paper thing was hilarious
Just take a shower of you’re out of tp, you twat.
You’re so aggressive for no reason. I didn’t even remotely suggest I actually bought the TP I was just commenting on my silly thoughts. Lighten up. It has to be miserable being so miserable.
Buy a fucking bidet
PLEASE GO PANIC BUY
United States of Corporations
This rhetoric is just trying to butter us up for the impending next round of price gouging.
If something seems too expensive, don’t buy it and opt for goods with less headway for markup. Start cooking scratch meals and cut out the prefab stuff; you’ll take more time for food prep, but it will save you thousands in medical bills later on.
Yup. Your new best friends are rice, beans, white sugar, molasses, (did you know that brown sugar is just white sugar plus molasses?), salt, all purpose flour, oatmeal, and lentils. Bought in bulk. And use your local ethnic markets for spices and bouillons; They’re often 3-5 times cheaper than your local grocery store.
You can just buy one or two things per paycheck, if you can’t afford all of them at the same time. Or hell, get some friends together and split a bulk bag. I have a 10 pound bucket of rice (split from a larger 25 pound bag) that I have been working on for literal months. A 20 pound bag of rice can keep you full for so fucking long, as long as you store it properly.
Then you just add extra things when you can. Maybe you have potatoes, an onion, a clove of garlic, and some pork this week. So you make a loaded baked potato soup. Also, learn to dress up instant ramen. A scoop out of a giant bag of diced frozen veggies will do a lot. If you can afford it, add a soft boiled egg too.
“Nobody has time for flour, cuz you need to wait for it to rise!” Use baking powder recipes, or flatbreads instead. Learn to make biscuits and scones, if you want to bake. Tortillas are stupid easy to make; They’re literally just flour and water, pressed flat (fucking use an empty wine or beer bottle if you don’t have a rolling pin) and cooked on a flat hot surface like a skillet. I could literally fit the entire tortilla cooking process, from raw flour to finished tortillas, into an uncut 5 minute TikTok tutorial if I wanted to. Congrats, now you have tortillas for 2¢ each, instead of a 10 pack for $5. And they’ll fucking taste better than the store-bought ones, because they’re fresh and hot.
“I don’t have a rice cooker so I can’t make rice!” Do you think people have been using electric rice cookers for thousands of years? My brother in Christ, people have been cooking rice using the “just put a fucking vessel over fire” method for over nine millennia now. Will you likely fuck it up the first time, and accidentally make porridge? Yeah. But that’s a learning opportunity, and you only spent like 5¢ making that mistake because the rice is so fucking cheap.
“I can’t afford fancy cookware!” Go hit your local thrift store. I guarantee they have an entire shelf full of cast iron cookware and baking sheets for like $1 each, that you’ll be able to hand down to your grandchildren.
How I make rice - it turns out quite nice every time -
1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water. If we plan on eating a lot of rice, 2 cups of rice, 4 cups of water.
Boil water. Add a pinch of salt, depending on my mood. Once water is boiling, turn heat down to lowest possible setting, put in rice, and put on lid. Set timer for 18 minutes. Do not open lid. When timer goes off, turn off heat, take off lid, fluff rice.
We could surely find a rice cooker, and probably a very fancy one, but I don’t really see much use for it and it’s just another appliance we have to find a place to put…
Also - it’s weird you bring up the molasses thing - my wife just told me about this in the past year when she mixed up a batch of brown sugar. I’ve lived for decades and had no idea.
I havnt finished reading Ive just gotten excited when you mentioned the sugar and molasses information.
For years I’ve only bought pure cane sugar. It is interchangeabe with white sugar, it also still has its molasses. If a recipe calls for a half cup of white sugar and a half cup of brown sugar, I just use a full cup of cane sugar. This works beautifully. Even a recipe that calls for caster sugar. I have placed it in the food processor and ran it for a bit to make it more fine, no issue there. It worked in the recipe beautifully. I do have molasses in my cabinet for its purposes, because they are some, but I don’t understand why today we need white sugar and brown sugar differentiated when we have regular cane sugar. To bake a white cake (The only instance I can think where you would need white sugar at the moment) is pure vanity, not practicality.
I’m so glad you’ve mentioned it here
Man, I’m really hoping our OT provider is able to help my kid overcome ARFID, because feeding him is hard enough as it is. We try to home cool stuff, but the tism gets the best of him and he won’t eat a lot of ‘normal’ foods. Good times.
Anything that hurts americans is a good thing.
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Indeed. It is quite fascinating how much pain Americans can endure.
Some things should suddenly get much cheaper as well, like Pork.
Curious as to why you say this?
China stopped importing it.
Pork should become stupid cheap.
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Was about to say this. Ironicly no capitalist will be happy to see the price go down. And its easier to have solidarity among the pork owners.
Solidarity? I thought it was spelled c.o.l.l.u.s.i.o.n.?
<insert quote from Grapes of Wrath>
Correct… but i wonder if the massive corpo farms that generated that would lower prices or let it rot at a high price and write it off as a loss?
The “should” in my statement was very intentional. Will it? I don’t know. But given massive amounts of excess product in the supply chain, it should
McRib comimg back!
Everyone ready to start intermittent fasting without choice?
It’s one way to lower the obesity rate.
Strategic… They stopped paying for wegovy first to get people desperate.
Food is one of the few things we export more to China than we import.
Grateful at this moment for my wife who grew up food insecure who stocked up several months of food. That will run out though eventually.
I’ve been seeing a lot of tiktoks about raising meat rabbits lately
AI Answer to how many you’d need
To sustainably feed yourself with rabbits, you’d likely need a small breeding colony of rabbits. A few does (female rabbits) and a buck (male rabbit) could produce enough meat for one person. A guideline is one doe and a buck can produce about 2-3 dozen meat rabbits per year, says Polyculture Farming. More Details:
Breeding:
A small breeding colony of rabbits, like 2 does and a buck, could potentially produce 40-50 rabbits per year, enough for a small family, according to Mother Earth News.
Meat Yield:
A rabbit can yield a significant amount of meat. One rabbit can easily feed a family of four, and they are generally sold whole, weighing just under three pounds, says Countryside Magazine and FoodPrint.
Sustainability:
Rabbits can be a sustainable meat source due to their relatively efficient conversion of feed to meat compared to other livestock. Individual Needs:
The number of rabbits needed would depend on your individual meat consumption and preferences.
None of those weepers have the stones for raising rabbits.
Faster than you think. I’ve lived off zero a few long stretches, it get really irritating when you realize you’re out of fat to lose.
WTF, this bullshit again.
Well… look who’s president again. Just saying
I’m going to make another sticker that instead says “You voted for this.”
I think the “too much winning” is the best
Tbf, a lot of Dem voters sat it out, allowing him in. Don’t forget that special class of virtue signalling moron.
If they sat out then they werent Dem voters
Almost like the system isn’t “people promise they’ll vote for us and we can phone in our election” or something, eh?
So true. No idea why you are getting voted down.
(non) Voters remorse. Adults not taking ownership of their mistakes.
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He’s history’s greatest monster!
I have the worst timing …. I’ve been trying to eat my way down to an empty freezer. I bought a chest freezer in covid and kept it full ever since, but it really needs to be defrosted. I still have more stuff in there than can fit in all my coolers and in the fridge.
But maybe I should restock while I can and try again to defrost in four years
You think things will be better in Trump’s 3rd term? 🤔
There any sense on what would be good to stock up on now? When I’ve searched this, the advice is usually pretty worthless. Just advice indistinguishable from general prepper stuff. I’ve seen recommendations to stock up on things like flour, things that the US produces domestically in abundance. But some necessities are going to be more vulnerable to disruptions in shipments from China than others.
Anyone find a good guide or have a sense of what basic household necessities are going to be most vulnerable to disruption of trade with China? I’m not concerned with things like consumer electronics right now, those are luxuries. I’m talking basic food and household staples. I don’t need the standard prepper list that’s meant to prepare you for grave natural disasters. What’s really needed is an analysis of precisely what necessities are most likely to be interrupted by this.
Has anyone seen such a list, or have a sense for what necessities are most vulnerable here?
It’s impossible to know, the economy is complex. Even your example of flour may be affected. Many things aren’t done by hand, and if a machine used in producing flour needs parts that’s sourced from China, there could be a problem that disrupts production. Many things from China comes by ship there’s already been a significant drop in shipping from there. Remember it takes more than a month for a ship to cross the Pacific, and from there it may need to go by rail to where you are. If you live towards the east coast, it will take longer, and if there’s disruptions at the Panama Canal, there could be even more of a delay.
Shipping was busy before the tarrifs, companies were frontloading and warehouses are full. But if people start panic buying, that’ll empt the warehouses really quick and it could be months before anything new gets shipped in and who knows what the prices will be?
Some stuff that’s made in China might be fine if no one panic buys is. Some things made in USA there may be shortages or massive price increases because they need materials from other countries to manufacture them.
So the generic prepper stuff is pretty much the best anyone can offer you. Make sure you have a month’s supply of everything you need, more if possible. You’d need to know the specifics of every industry’s material needs and also know what people might panic buy to be able to be more specific than that.
This is why Trump’s broad tariffs are insane, it’s just pure economic chaos that’s going to hurt Americans more than it will hurt anyone else in the world.
I think the tp during COVID was kind of a fluke. It could have been anything. Laundry detergent, some food product etc. TP was just what the news hung their hat on so it’s what everyone thought about when they went to the store.
I’m personally buying rice, beans, and lots of spices to make some delicious meals and wait out the price shocks of food.
Besides that, I mean what do you really need need when it comes to this stuff? I can think of a few things but it’s a very short list. Really we’re just going to have to ride it out and hope it doesn’t get bad bad
Supposedly the TP issue was that the supply chain was segmented out by office TP and home TP, can’t easily switch over easily but everyone was crapping at home.
Who are all these psychopaths crapping at work
I avoid that scenario as much as possible 😅
Same, especially if it’s a high-traffic one. Our office has one shared for the floor, with 2 other businesses on the same floor sharing it. It’s like Grand Central Station in there…
Dear God, that’s horrifying!
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.
That’s why I poop on company time.
(Except I’m salaried and WFH but the principle is the same.)
Haha yeah I guess in that case I poop at work on company time too.
I’m still in the group chat for the office nearest me and there was a LOT of outrage last week because the company mysteriously removed all of the bidets. I was outraged on their behalf!
Keep in mind that flour might be in abundance now, but if everyone in the country buys it, the supply might drop quickly.
Apart from that, dried beans and lentils are probably a good source of nutrients, easy to store and last for a while.
My advice is if you need something electronic or mechanical and it’s expensive buy it now. I just replaced my hvac last month because I know this summer will be a mess. Most air conditioners are made in Asia. You want an e-bike, buy it now.
The more parts something has the more likely it’s going to be affected by tariffs.
Start growing some food if you can it’s a great way to be more resilient. I’d recommend buying things like coffee and tea and chocolate that are not easily grown in the US. There’s actually a pretty bad chocolate shortage right now I believe.
Also for other stuff, buy used, in thrifts or on eBay. Not only are you recycling, most sellers are individuals rather than big corps. Also, if you have old stuff you are not using, it’s a great time to sell. My eBay sales are up 10% this year.
Big fan of buying used on eBay, here. Works amazingly for clothes, too. They aren’t nearly as poor quality or as dirty as people would imagine. I can get brand new shoes or pairs of pants for $10-$20 per pair!
I just want to add this here, in the hopes that people see this.
From what I have read the shortage of toilet paper during Covid that became a meme representing the whole experience of supply chain shocks is actually misplaced.
The major reason there was a shortage of toilet paper was not really because there was a panic buy of toilet paper that cleared the shelves out, or rather that happened only after there was a genuine shortage cause by the fact that a massive amount of people moved from using toilet paper at their jobs, in their employers bathrooms, bought from a B2B company and delivered by a truck specialized in delivering supplies for businesses… to buying toilet paper from distribution networks positioned to deliver products to consumers in grocery stores and such.
Those are seperate logistics networks with seperate companies, seperate delivery trucks, seperate everything, distribution and sales of toilet paper not smoothly adapting to the shock of Covid was a product of this, not just some purely irrational fear in consumers, there is a legitimate reason it happened and it won’t likely happen again unless there is mass unemployment… at which point there are bigger problems….
If you’re just worried about the possibility of shortages and not being able to get food easily then stock up on things that will last a long time in the freezer, is something that you will regularly use regardless, and won’t break you to buy in bulk.
Even with some of the prices already going up a little bit chicken is a good example, you can go by huge packs of it at Costco for a reasonable price still at the moment and other similar stores, vegetables like broccoli florets tend to hold up decently in the freezer for a little while (4-6months) and there multiple types of bread that deal well with being frozen and then later thawed out if you use bread a lot.
Basically instead of trying to hyper optimize like some type of prepper just look at what you generally go through, evaluate what out of that is something that will last in a freezer for a good amount of time, and then bulk up on it and just continue using your food like you normally would. Worst case scenario you saved tiny bit of money by buying in bulk which usually comes with a slight savings. Best case scenario shortly after your bulk buying price is Skyrocket and you can try and ride it out off of your supplies.
Avoid the toilet paper problem by getting a bidet, I spent money on the nice $300 one it has heated water which I like and now a single pack of toilet paper from Costco is like almost a Year’s worth of toilet paper because I only use it to help dry a little faster than the weird but hair dryer does so i use almost nothing
If it’s really like Covid, toilet paper will be the first thing to go.
I agree.
90% of toilet paper is apparently domestically produced in the USA.
Doesn’t matter. The shortage wasn’t rational then and it won’t be rational this time. It will just be the first thing people hoard.
I installed a bidet like two weeks before that entire shortage started. I have never felt more smug about a decision.
Any fellow bidet user should feel smug about it, I say in half jest. Not using a bidet is barbaric, I say in full seriousness.
Can never go back after getting one
More hotels need to have them 😫
Couldn’t agree more. Went on vacation couple weekends ago and felt like a fool using TP
There’s travel options that are a bit like using one of those picnic ketchup bottles. But if you’re like me, you want to blast your ass with a pressure washer and a squeeze bottle just won’t cut it. Some people suggest using a travel water pik but I haven’t tried it myself.
We got a new toilet several months ago and it took some time for the new bidet to get here. Those couple weeks have never felt more disgusting and it removed absolutely any doubts about their superiority.
We have started a sort of bidet pyramid scheme and have converted so many people. Housewarming? Bidet! Christmas? Bidet! Birthday? That calls for a bidet!
I must admit we’re a bit selfish in that we want to minimize the likelihood of bidetless crapping when we’re away from home.
Come to find out, thanks to bidets thorough, frictionless cleaning they’re incredible for people who suffer from hemorrhoids. They’re really hygienic and beneficial and everyone should just get on board already.
I feel like these articles might not be true and then we all act like the sky is falling and then it doesn’t. Like yesterday I saw posts about Trump wearing blue. But lots of people wore blue. I think there’s bait going around
I agree, the news is just trying to distract and put us against each other. The real problem is the about classes
Especially Math.
Ugh woke calculus was the worst
I refused to be indoctrinated once they started talking about decimals and fractions… …as if if God didn’t make all numbers whole.
Like yesterday I saw posts about Trump wearing blue. But lots of people wore blue
Do you really need it explained that the joke is conservatives whine about whatever the “other side” wears?
Would be great if that was the joke. But it wasn’t.
If you deposed your dictator this wouldn’t be happening.
Nah, just roll over and yell “FREEDOM”.
Let’s see how long they can survive on thoughts and prayers.
Let me put it this way. Today I spent over $700 on a massive amount of groceries and various toiletries.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?
Like I know you said groceries and various toiletries but the curiosity is tickling me.
Probably a lot of non-perishables, or like those camping meals with a 10-year life span.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?
Eggs.
4 of them to be precise.
Yes, USD. I bought some fresh food (and do so regularly), but also a ton of non-perishables: lots of canned food, various kinds of rice, cereals, oatmeal, lots of water, etc. Protein and carbs. 48 rolls of toilet paper (I have a bidet so this will last me about two years), and so on.
I’m building up my reserves. I have a large pantry and several large cupboards to keep it all in, and could probably buy another $700 worth and have a place to keep it. I also cook at home for most meals and so I rotate through these food stuffs faster than you’d expect. There’s no canned food older than two years, and most items are newer than six months. I generally buy more than I need, but not usually this much.
I’m not a “prepper” in an “underground bunker” sense, but I do prepare for emergencies and instability, whatever form it may take: political, yes, but I also live on several fault lines, so “the big one” might happen at some point. In the winter, ice and snow occasionally confine me to my home for a week or two at a time. They’re all the same to me from a planning perspective.
The original price was $850, but I clip coupons and maximize sales and brought it down by over $150.
48 rolls of toilet paper (I have a bidet so this will last me about two years), and so on.
Seriously, you have a bidet. Plop a small bottle of handsoap near the toilet and squirt a small bit on your wiping hand while the spray does it’s thing and you clean off using the soapy fingers. Let the bidet rinse your hands and asshole for a few more seconds. Keep a towel nearby for drying your hands and ass, that is replaced as you feel and serves only that purpose. If you do it right, no fecal matter will be on your hands when you dry and you can wash them again at the sink.
Toilet paper is just a waste.
A few dozen eggs?
