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My toilet paper routine, which started even before covid, is to buy about 400 rolls of toilet paper from Costco, and then I never even think about buying toilet paper ever again for a couple of years. And then one day it runs out and I realise the infinite toilet paper stash was in fact finite after all. As if that isn't bad enough on its own, I then discover that while inflation has been running at 9% a year for everything else, it was more like 100% a year for toilet roll.

A different class of problem with this technique is when I bought 150 old-style lightbulbs just before they got banned in the UK. At the time, I really hated LED lights because they flickered, and so I could use them in areas I just passed through, but nowhere I sat and spent any time. I still have about 120 of them left because, of course, LED bulb tech has got better and I now only have 2 lights in the house that still use the old bulbs. They don't get much use, one is in the loft and one is in a cupboard.