In 1973, I was living in Idaho, working a dairy.
Toilet paper was declared to be in shortage, and my boss' wife and daughter started running to town to buy toilet paper in BULK!
In a time when you didn't get a catalog unless you ordered from a company, these women had every catalog known to the free nation! I asked them what their problem was ... they couldn't have bought enough TP to equal what they had sitting around their houses!
Heck! We even had an outhouse sitting out back next to the garden ... I thought they would know how to "survive" ... they looked at me like I had three heads and headed BACK to town to buy MORE toilet paper!
We had just gone through all the "terror" of gas shortage, I would have thought that anyone could have understood how they were being manipulated .. but ... no such luck! LOL