Hoarding toilet paper. Photo: DigitalMammoth/Shutterstock.com

Chances are, you’ve run out of toilet paper, unless you are the type who bought eight boxes of it. Since the coronavirus outbreak, toilet paper has become a commodity more precious than gold, with shelves that hold them emptying faster than those that stock milk. While researchers, psychologists and even economists are collectively scratching their heads over this bizarre behavior, we, on the other hand, have a practical solution for you—use a stick, just like the ancient Chinese and the Japanese have.