...purchasing frenzy to buy weeks worth of bread and milk and ... either eggs or toilet paper....
Another "staple" that vanishes from the shelves is kitty litter. People keep it in the car for traction if they get stuck. Leaves me wondering about the people who -- when the conventional stuff is sold out -- buy the kind of litter we use -- pellets of compressed sawdust, not sand/grit. This stuff falls apart back into sawdust when it gets wet, so it would be useless for traction.
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Another "staple" that vanishes from the shelves is kitty litter. People keep it in the car for traction if they get stuck. Leaves me wondering about the people who -- when the conventional stuff is sold out -- buy the kind of litter we use -- pellets of compressed sawdust, not sand/grit. This stuff falls apart back into sawdust when it gets wet, so it would be useless for traction.