Bidets are for washing and tp is for drying.

A few assholes bought as much TP as they could, also hand sanitizer and other items, to hoard and sell at exorbitant prices to make a profit off the pandemic. They made their homes and apartments into little warehouses.

I'm not sure how much we brought, but majority if it's still stored in our garage, don't seem to be running out of it anytime soon XD

The universe has a weird sense of humour.

No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts

As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.

As a bum gun user, this. Never need the paper unless you want to pat to dry, and then the paper is clean anyway.

Toilet paper is for sneezing, picking up bugs, or dinner table napkins.

There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.

Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.

People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it's huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it's not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).

Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn't know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to "higher priority" stores.

Im glad this was not one of those weird items that everyone lost their minds over unnecessarily.

I mean, there were times without these mondern diapers. If you have a baby you will have plenty of different cloths that you can use as a diaper if necessary. Just like your able to get clean down there without TP. Bizzare times indeed.

Random bonus fact: Back then many Babies were potty trained by the time they were one year old just because its more work to diaper your child up with cloth diapers and clean them after use.