Family says they bought 12-year supply of toilet paper by accident amid coronavirus scare

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Family says they bought 12-year supply of toilet paper by accident amid coronavirus scare
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An Australian woman took stockpiling to new heights - by accident.

The Janetzkis typically order 48 rolls every three months, but they bungled the order after switching to a new service.

She mistakenly ordered 48 boxes of the company’s toilet paper, which comes in 48-roll boxes. That amounted to over $2,000 of the stuff. This was in February, she told the Australian Broadcasting Company, a few weeks before the country was impacted by coronavirus concerns. She and her husband Chris, naturally, stacked all these boxes up in their garage to make a TP throne,

Australia is facing a toilet paper shortage — similar to the one some Americans are now facing — due to panic buying induced by coronavirus fears.Chris, on the other hand, doesn’t get the non-accidental kind of toilet paper hoarding:"I couldn't believe that people have been mass-buying toilet paper like that," he told ABC.

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