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Everyone likes the toilet paper example for that time period because of how absurd sounding it is, but that's not all that happened. Lots of other things also vanished off the shelves because people suddenly started buying a ton more than usual - bread and peanut butter being the two that stood out most to me.



There was a shortage of five-gallon buckets. I still haven't figured that one out.


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