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[Juliet]

Hoarding
Now, I take a shopping list to keep me from buying something twice. Might not sound to bad but when you get home.....Now how did I do that?

[Zenobia]

Hoarding reminds me of Y2K. Everybody stocked up on canned stuff. Weirdly enough, I don't remember hearing anything about anyone hoarding toilet paper, like they did last year.
The grocery list works well if I remember to take it to the store with me...instead of leaving it home on the shelf.
Shopping is a lonely experience lately. We're still on the one person per household thing, due to covid.

[Juliet]

Y2K failed impressions
I still have no idea why it was so important to hoard toilet paper.....
We did see a woman at the grocery once with a cart full. The look on her face was one of, don't touch my stuff.

[Zenobia]

Nonevent...

I didn't get it either. I read an article online, titled something along the lines of "The Psychology of Why People are Buying Toilet Paper during The Pandemic." last year. I'm not so sure it made it clearer to me.

[Juliet]

More to come
Recent ransomware attacks will create other shortages, one thing to mention and is good advise

BACK UPS
If you have a recent back up of data, don't pay the ransom.

[Zenobia]

I remember making a backup using CDs many moons ago.

I've never been a victim of ransomware so far, but I've often thought how rage inducing it must be to have to pay the ransom. I think the feeling of violation would be almost as bad as having your personal things held ransom.

[Juliet]

I think, companies and businesses should do some type of daily backups.
If they were to boot up the computers one morning and see a ransomware note, hey no problem, made a backup last night before this problem hit.
Taking the time to backup could save some millions of dollars.

I call that being Frugal