Sit-rep in your area?

[Phase2]

I'm having the same problems with chicken feed.

Just contacted the local Rural King. It showed "limited quantities" for the specific feed I'm looking for, so I called in to check if any was actually there. The person there said that someone just came in and cleaned them out. This is feeling a lot like the ammo shortage.

 

[Lex Concord]

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Dollar Tree has a great toilet cleaner called The Works. It works great and it's only $1. I saw it last time I was there. (Maybe a couple weeks ago.)

It is very effective. Active ingredient is ~Sulfuric~ Hydrochloric Acid.

 

[Snapdragon]

It is very effective. Active ingredient is Sulfuric Acid.

Then in theory, one could buy sulfuric acid drain cleaner and dilute it if the dilution ratio was known. But it's very risky stuff to deal with.

 

[Alpo]

Sulfuric acid with a common drain cleaner (sodium hydroxide aka lye) is not a good thing.

 

[Snapdragon]

I wouldn't dream of mixing any other chemicals with H[SUB]2[/SUB]SO[SUB]4[/SUB]. In fact, I probably wouldn't dream of diluting it with water without doing a lot of research. It was just a thought. I can find other ways to clean my toilets.

 

[Lex Concord]

Then in theory, one could buy sulfuric acid drain cleaner and dilute it if the dilution ratio was known. But it's very risky stuff to deal with.

It’s actually Hydrochloric acid. Started to doubt myself while grabbing a bit before heading out and looked up the MSDD

 

[Rookie]

Years ago, I worked at a small grocery store. I hated the smell of bleach but liked the smell of ammonia. So, I mixed them. The owner wasn't happy and I learned a valuable lesson...

 

[Snapdragon]

It’s actually Hydrochloric acid. Started to doubt myself while grabbing a bit before heading out and looked up the MSDD

 

[Alpo]

I wouldn't dream of mixing any other chemicals with H[SUB]2[/SUB]SO[SUB]4[/SUB]. In fact, I probably wouldn't dream of diluting it with water without doing a lot of research. It was just a thought. I can find other ways to clean my toilets.

My wife uses Steramine.

 

[Route 45]

My wife uses Steramine.

We use that for various disinfecting tasks. Cheap and plentiful.

 

[snorko]

I wouldn't dream of mixing any other chemicals with H[SUB]2[/SUB]SO[SUB]4[/SUB]. In fact, I probably wouldn't dream of diluting it with water without doing a lot of research. It was just a thought. I can find other ways to clean my toilets.

Billy was a chemist's son, but Billy is no more.

For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.

First thing that popped in my head.

 

[Ingomike]

Dollar Tree has a great toilet cleaner called The Works. It works great and it's only $1. I saw it last time I was there. (Maybe a couple weeks ago.)

Also works great for cleaning boat bottoms that are stained instead of a commercial acid wash. Also great to clean stainless ready to polish...

 

[K_W]

TP plentiful, but paper towels are non-existent. Word is that will be the case for a while (remainder of 2020).

 

[Snapdragon]

TP plentiful, but paper towels are non-existent. Word is that will be the case for a while (remainder of 2020).

Time to use real towels or washrags. If I didn't have plenty of paper towel already, I'd buy a couple dozen shop towels or cheap hand towels. Even washcloths would work if they are the larger ones.

 

[Route 45]

TP plentiful, but paper towels are non-existent. Word is that will be the case for a while (remainder of 2020).

I've had great success finding paper towels at Dollar General when the big box stores are out of stock.

 

[Snapdragon]

I've had great success finding paper towels at Dollar General when the big box stores are out of stock.

Same might go for the toilet cleaner. Also, Family Dollar owns Dollar Tree (or the other way around?) so FD might have the Works toilet cleaner.

 

[NKBJ]

About chicken feed...
A niece is inprocess of setting up another household and will be raising chickens* again for eggs, meat and scorpion control. She will be using grain they grow to supplement the feed. Which calls for a grinder.

*She loves her miniature velociraptors.

 

[Expat]

because of the words of warning. i bought a couple packages of Bounty paper towels yesterday.
I also found 2 bottles of Lysol toilet bowl cleaner at Walgreens so of course I bought them. so that should get me by for a couple months.

 

[ajeandy]

Odd but paper towels were almost gone at the local wally world today...The only thing in stock was a 12 "mega roll" pack for $20

Plenty of food though, rice, beans, canned goods, etc....PPE and vinyl gloves as well.

Menards had pretty much everything...food grade storage buckets which I picked up a few with fancy screw-off sealing lids. They had tons of PPE including gloves.

 

[rosejm]

Yeah, shop around. Mix up your categories (big-box/local, grocery/home-improvement/farm-fleet/"pharmacy")

All this stuff is out there, but I'm seeing LOTS of "help wanted" signs in every window so the production, distribution and stocking is hit-or-miss.

Not likely to have a choice in brands/size/flavors, but you don't have to do without.



My biggest concern with restoration of our economy is the lack of useful "help".
Both from the quality/quantity of product & service being produced perspective, as well as the reduction of GDP that comes along with our businesses not being fully staffed.