[Ellendra]

where it's been about a year since the collapse, and the group is running out of toilet paper.

Seems that would be the time to start selling bidets.

[hennie pennie]

No, there is no functioning marketplace by that time, later on some small village barter place is developed, but civilization has fallen apart, then are bands of marauders, etc.

It really makes one pause... what does one do when there is NO marketplace, there is NO inexhaustible supply of "stuff," not anywhere.