While I'm a big advocate of bulk buying and food preparation for the sake of economy, I have often complained about panic buyers who deprive everyone else of essential items.
My determination not to give in to pre-lockdown panic left me short of several basic cooking items for most of 2020, all of which I found ways to do without.
Other things proved more tricky. I do wish I had stocked up on hand soap and I definitely regretted not panic-buying toilet paper.
It's a situation I don't want to repeat but, dear readers, there are many advantages to still buying your daily newspaper!
My brother-in-law is a self-confessed panic buyer and a hoarder. In fact a visit to his house is like a tour of a well-stocked village shop.
He began panic buying before Brexit and sat back laughing at the chaos others faced when lockdown loomed. A quick restock of the cupboards post-pandemic has left him riding out the cost-of-living crisis on cheap beans and inflation-busting bog rolls.
Yet he is not quite so clever or serious as a window cleaner from County Durham, who predicted the pandemic and began stashing food in various places around Great Britain back in 2016.
This story is from the June 18, 2022 edition of The Herald.
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