My first day of “working from home” was 3/19 and on that day, I went to Costco and Shop Rite. Among the things I bought that I haven’t used yet was a 25 lb bag of rice ($10, Costco), and 8 small-ish containers of powdered creamer (for the coffee) ($8 or 10, Costco). At that point, the news outlets were talking about people possibly having to stay home for two weeks straight, and so in my shopping, I figured for those two items, they’d be good to have in the house, would not go bad if things returned to normal sooner than expected, and the outlay of money for them was not too significant.
I’m not a big meat eater so I can go a long time without having meat in the house or craving meat. Basically I want milk in the house for the coffee, coffee, tea, fruit, bread and some fun snack foods and I’m good.
I bought two 30 roll things of toilet paper in the two weeks prior to the closure of everything, and then at Costco two weeks ago, I bought another 48 roll package. I’m all set with that and I calculate it should last until around Christmas. If anybody I know says they’re low, I tell them they can have some of mine if they want to. Nobody’s taken me up on it yet.