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Americans Who Hoard Toilet Paper are Probably not Ready for Wars With Iran and Russia

Just think of the cheerleaders who won’t be joining the forces at the front.

ScottCDunn
5 min readOct 6, 2024

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A couple days ago, my wife told me that a Costco store in Downtown Salt Lake had run out of toilet paper. OK, I thought. That’s just one Costco.

Two nights later, my wife asked me to get some toilet paper while running some errands. I went to the local Costco and found a large empty place on the floor where the toilet paper can usually be found. There was none to be had.

I asked a worker on the floor at Costco. “There’s plenty of toilet paper. People are hoarding it due to the dockworkers strike. We’ll have more tomorrow.” Thank God I have a bidet.

Back in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal announced that bidet makers were having their moment. “In the midst of a global pandemic, relatively inexpensive add-on bidets — widespread in many parts of the world but never popular in the U.S. — are experiencing a hyperaccelerated transition through the life cycle of a new direct-to-consumer fad.”

But there is something else.

Since 2022, I’ve been watching one war, then last year, two wars. One in Ukraine, and the other in Israel. I’ve…

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