Posted on 03/14/2020 6:37:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Ahhhhh.....yes.....1973.....The Year of the Brown Fingers.
Those were the days. I remember one local TV station, had a lady on doing a viewer commentary about the toilet paper and other shortages. The hilarious part is when she spoke of toilet paper, she whispered the word “toilet paper”.
Stranded. Stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you’re Stranded and you ain’t got a roll. Be a brave young man and wipe with your hand. And prove you’re a man.
The only shortage I remember is the gasoline shortage at Christmas during the awful Jimmy Carter term. Driving on fumes, hoping there would be a gas station open in the next Texas town made for a memorable trip.
Thank goodness...... one wipe left!
BTW: I have plenty of wash cloths. Just hope there’s not a water shortage.
Remember washing cloth diapers? I do!
WE CAN DO IT! BE BRAVE AND DIG IN! :))
If you don’t have any toilet paper just go to the nearest restaurant or airport and use their restrooms. Apparently there are no people there.
Carter was 77-81
I’m old enough to remember it also, right down to the 2-roll limit - although I don’t remember 4 months of it - wow! And even though it wasn’t a ‘thing’ back then, if preppers had been around, they would have coasted right through the that panic, just as we’re doing now (while watching the panicked Flubros at Costco).
I remember that panic well, and have often brought it up as compared to this one.
Anyone remember the sugar shortage and panic?
If you’re afraid of running out of toilet paper, get a bolt on bidet, It attached using the toilet seat bolts, takes about 15 minutes to install and comes with all the fittings you will need. They sell 2 varieties, one that uses cold water only and one that has cold and warm. The cold water version costs about $39 and the warm water version about $79. Our toilet paper usage has been cut by more than half (still need to blot the water off your butt).
Some say this started in Australia where they import most of their TP from China...fear of supply cut-off early in the WuFlu outbreak (January). I have no idea why it spread to the USA.
3 shells?
Headlines in some of the newspapers the day after Carson’s quip read “The Great Wipeout.”
I remember 1973 for *that* gasoline shortage but I don’t recall (or at least didn’t notice) a to shortage. I turned 12 yo that summer.
I don’t remember the TP but my husband worked for a contractor and there was a shortage of everything, including toilets.
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