Ignition Dimension (ID: chaintruth) original
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Author | Feng Xiaoting Tao Tao Zhang Lin
Xie Zhongxiu Lü Jingzhi Ma Shuye
Edit | Cao Yang
Only because he saw a long queue doing nucleic acid on the way to work, Xiyuan did not hesitate to change direction and rushed to Wal-Mart near his home, stockpiling two shopping carts of fruits and vegetables.
"I arrived at the door at half past ten, but thanks to Walmart, it was 11 o'clock." Xi Yuan wrote in the circle of friends, "I admit that I have some panic, of course, I hope it is a false alarm. ”
Photo/ Shopping cart of Xiyuan
Source/Courtesy of XiYuan
Not only XiYuan, under the repeated epidemic situation, in order to prevent the sudden visit of home isolation, the family began to incarnate as "hamster people", collecting the "hoarding guide" flying all over the sky, and taking the items mentioned one by one to the home became a norm.
"Hoarding" has also become one of the most frequent words in the circle of friends. "Hoarding materials has become one of the important ways to obtain a sense of security" has become the inner portrayal of many netizens. Greetings between friends and family have gradually changed from "nucleic acid" to "hoarding".
"At the beginning of last month, I bought 40 pounds of cat litter, and my first reaction at that time was that there were too many, so I let him return it all, and now I can only rely on the 'transformation' in the building group." Hu Jiajia, who has been under the closed management of the community for two weeks, has always been a young man who adheres to the doctrine of renunciation in the past, but now he "regrets it". "Yesterday I started to exhort my friends, and I was hoarding everything according to double the budget."
There are not a few friends like Hu Jiajia who have changed from staunch "breakawayists" to "hamster people". Once upon a time, when "breaking away" became a highly respected way of life popular among young people, the contrary habit of "hoarding goods" began to be criticized by countless people.
As a minimalist way of life, what "breaking away" advocates is a process of continuous self-sorting, and the direct response is to subtract life. In the days of normal life order, "breaking away" is certainly beyond reproach, but in some emergency situations, it is often some inadvertent "hoarding" that can play a great role. "Hoarding" is an important means of survival in the environment and time when it is difficult to forage, after all, "there is grain in hand, and the heart is not panicked."
In this issue of the tavern, we chatted with a few friends who more or less have the habit of "hoarding goods". In the process of "hoarding goods", in addition to bringing yourself satisfaction and fulfillment, what stability and happiness have you brought to yourself?
Among them, some of them encountered bad weather when they drove out, and fortunately hoarded a large amount of food and cooking utensils before leaving to survive; some people hoarded a year's worth of soy sauce, which was originally ridiculed by their families but accidentally became the most popular material in the building; some people followed the tradition of hoarding Cabbage for winter, but accidentally relied on Chinese cabbage to live a good life of "food worry-free"; some people hoarded masks because of rhinitis but accidentally became the "big red" of the family in the early days of the outbreak of the epidemic of "hard to find a cover".
Daily "hoarding" has unexpectedly become a "hot product" of course, it is worth rejoicing, but it is still necessary to remember that "hoarding needs to be appropriate".
Hoarded soy sauce, there are also "highlight moments"
Manda | 30 years old white-collar worker
As a "senior wool party" who has been wandering in the wool group for many years, "breaking away" has nothing to do with me, and "hoarding goods" is my daily life.
Of course, as a working woman with primary school students, time is often not enough for me, so most of the wool activities in the wool group of "0 yuan xue" and "anti-xue" have nothing to do with me, and I often participate in preferential activities that win by quantity, such as buying three boxes of Terunsu milk equivalent to 2.5 yuan / box, buying 6 boxes of laundry gel beads equivalent to 0.14 yuan / grain... Even so, why not be able to stock up on goods for a month or two below the usual purchase price.
But my lover couldn't understand my behavior at first, for him hoarding goods is to occupy the area, and it is completely wrong to buy it when needed. He insisted that "a house of one hundred and one square meters is not used as a storage room." Because what he said is not unreasonable, I never refute it, but I will still place orders when I see the right activity. After all, in addition to saving money and satisfaction, the happiness brought by hoarding goods will also have some unimaginable happiness.
This is not, recently the community closed management for several days, from time to time there are people in the building group seeking a certain item with no surplus. An enthusiastic owner simply moved a small table, put a hand-painted poster, and put on a little surplus items in the home, and the "love and mutual aid gas station" began to operate. Soon, several "material donors" filled the small tables. You can donate money, you can also take it yourself and exchange it, anyway, the original intention is to help each other.
I inadvertently saw that the owner of the building group sent a picture to see that the owner put a bag of fans, at that time I wanted to cook a fan to change the taste of the family, so I asked my lover to take some home things to change the bag of fans. Originally, my lover thought that if it was over, there were no surplus items at home, and it didn't matter if fans didn't eat. But when I knew everything about the inventory at home, I carried my lover into the kitchen, opened the locker and saw the box of 6 large bottles of soy sauce neatly stacked, my lover's eyes lit up, silently giving me a thumbs up.
Originally thought that this matter was over, but what I did not expect was that the soy sauce exchanged by my family turned out to be a welcome material, and the neighbor who received the soy sauce also specially sent a thank you in the building group, and then the owner took the empty bottle to share the soy sauce.
Photo/Excerpt from Manda's forwarded chat history
Source/Courtesy of Manda
Later, I looked at the dialogue of the owners in the group and found that the condiments were particularly popular, and many neighbors wanted soy sauce, vinegar and hot sauce, which may be the day when everyone did not expect that condiments would also be "cut off". Since then, my lover's attitude towards my hoarding has also been a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree reversal, "The next time there is an activity, you can continue to pay attention." ”
Hoarding cabbage
It allowed me to live a "snack-on- and constant" quarantine
Kiki | 23 years old intern staff of the company
How much do Northeasterners love hoarding? Before winter comes, truckloads of cabbage are pulled to the side of the road, and people carry them home with woven bags or electric vehicles. The reason why this situation is played out in the northeast is because the northeast used to show a state of scarcity of vegetables every winter. The cheap and vitamin-rich Cabbage has become the most suitable "winter dish" for northeasterners to eat.
But now, with the improvement of material living standards, in the wet market and supermarket, there are many varieties of green leafy vegetables, and there are fewer and fewer northeasterners who hoard vegetables, especially young people like me who feel that hoarding vegetables is more troublesome, and it is fresher to eat and buy now.
Our family of three lives with grandparents, and for the elderly, hoarding vegetables is a gene carved in their bones, so no matter how I persuade them, they still have to obediently help their grandparents buy cabbage every year.
Our family lived on the first floor, and when we bought a house, we were interested in the small courtyard in front of the door that was attached to the first floor. In the first few years, my mother planted flowers in the courtyard, and my father also built a leisure area for the courtyard, with this beautiful courtyard, we would often play in the courtyard, or invite our friends to enjoy the flowers and drink tea.
But since the grandparents were brought in two years ago, the courtyard has changed dramatically, and except for a small piece of land that retains some flowers, the rest of the place has been planted with tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables. Dad's recreation area was also transformed into a place to hoard cabbage.
Although most of the family was unhappy about Grandpa's renovation project, we did not say anything in order to make the old people adapt to life here and have something to do. Until this year, affected by the epidemic and the community was suddenly sealed, I felt the wisdom of the northeast people hoarding vegetables, and the true meaning of "there is an old family, such as a treasure". Everyone in the owner group was caught off guard by the sudden closed management, and I looked at the kitchen and balcony of the house full of rice and flour grain and oil, and a yard of vegetables, melons and fruits, and felt a full sense of security.
In order to solve everyone's eating problem, the property quickly coordinated several vegetable shops that were closer, but the price of 24 yuan and 6 tomatoes still discouraged some people. Young people mostly use their mobile phones to grab food, but the elderly who live alone make it difficult. There are old people in the community who want to buy cabbage with us, and we send them directly. Every three to five minutes, there will also be neighbors across the fence of the courtyard with grandparents to ask for onions or cucumbers. Although we said that there was no need to exchange, we still couldn't stop the neighbors from "throwing" things directly into the yard, sausages, milk, potato chips, chocolate... In terms of eating, it can be said that my life has not been affected by the epidemic at all.
Because I had more time, I also learned to grow vegetables with my grandparents. I heard that in a few days, our community will be unsealed, and the spring blossoms are the season for sowing, and maybe in a few months I will be able to eat the vegetables I personally planted.
Masks for rhinitis hoarding
Save my life when "a mask is hard to find"
Bai Bai 丨 Accountant 25 years old
I am a rhinitis patient who sneezes wildly every year when the spring changes seasons, so hoarding masks has become a daily routine. But unexpectedly, it was my "desire to get rid of it quickly", and the rhinitis that tormented me every year made me feel red, which actually saved me from the difficulty of not having a mask at the beginning of the outbreak of the epidemic and when it was "difficult to find a mask", and even became a "red person" in the family.
It was the winter of 2019, and there were actually a few masks at home. One day my boyfriend and I were out shopping, and when we passed a pharmacy, my boyfriend thought of my rhinitis and proposed to buy a little more to keep at home. At that time, the mask was very ordinary, no need to make an appointment and did not need to rush to buy, we probably bought four packs of disposable masks, a pack of 10, vaguely remember that the price is 10 yuan a pack of another. I also bought three packs of N95 masks, a pack of 3, the impression is 15 yuan a pack. In this way, before the outbreak, I had about 50 masks in my house.
Later, the masks I bought lay quietly in the home medication cabinet, waiting to be activated when I had a rhinitis attack the following spring. During this period, my mother felt that the humidity on the mountain was heavy because of running up the mountain, and she would occasionally use it. Other times, the presence of masks is not very strong.
Until January 2020, the epidemic broke out, and Academician Zhong Nanshan said in an interview with CCTV News that there must be a phenomenon of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus pneumonia, and wearing a mask can be prevented. For a time, masks have become a hot commodity, not to mention that disposable masks have risen from 1 yuan / to 6 yuan / one, 8 yuan / one, N95 masks from 5 yuan / to 20 yuan / one, 30 yuan / the price soared. The biggest problem is that you can't buy it at all, ask everywhere, pharmacies say no, there is no goods on the Internet, and the manufacturers that our family can contact are all out of stock.
At this point, the masks I hoarded because of rhinitis played a great role. At that time, it was also very provincial, and only people who went out to buy vegetables could wear it, and no one else could move. Looking back now, the funniest and most sour thing is that when we went to my grandmother's house to visit the New Year, we brought more than half of the masks in the family, and then distributed them to our uncles and uncles, and each household could also get 1 N95 mask and several disposable masks. The mask I brought with me was even hilariously called the "hard currency" and "best souvenir" for visiting relatives and friends.
In this way, the masks I hoarded barely supported our family and our relatives through the "hard to find" time at the beginning of the epidemic. Until later, the supply of masks gradually recovered, first the government put it in, and then the market went to normal. But now I still have a stock of 50 masks at home.
Maybe everything in life is interlinked, and although rhinitis is unbearable for me, it also saves me from a "mask crisis". Thinking like this, there are not so many complaints about some small troubles in life.
Accidental hoarding of cat food saved my baby
Bell | 29 years old Pet Hospital Operations Manager
Because he has two Muppets, he has an inexplicable love for pets. So when I jumped ship before the Spring Festival this year, I chose to go to a pet hospital institution in Shanghai as an operation manager in several opportunities.
Usually, I have no habit of hoarding goods at all, even to the point where I need to order temporary takeaways even for toilet paper. However, because of the new employees, the company rewarded employee benefits, and the pet product brands we worked with can enjoy a 30% discount on the whole market. Just in February, when my cat food was almost exhausted, I used the employee benefits to buy a bunch of cat snacks, cat litter, cat food, and a lot of cute trinkets. When the courier arrived home, my boyfriend laughed at me for being uncharacteristic, saying that I had hoarded the wool entirely for the sake of the company's wool.
At the end of February, my boyfriend and I broke up for some reason. Because the cat was bought by two people, it was planned to take one by one. However, considering that they may be anxious when they suddenly separated, both cats were temporarily placed with me.
It was supposed to be around March 7, and the neighborhood where I lived began to be blocked. In the beginning, the community was blocked, but everyone could still go downstairs, and I often went downstairs with two kittens on a leash to run and bask in the sun. Later, the control was upgraded and it became a home, and I and the two cats also lived a life of not leaving the door.
Because I usually work 996, my own home has basically not been fired, and the kitchen utensils and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home were all purchased when I first moved in. And I didn't stock up on any vegetables or dry food in advance, and I only had a bag of rice and a bag of noodles at home. So when I first blocked the community, I was very worried about how to solve my own food and clothing.
Fortunately, our community delivers dishes very timely, often sending some cabbage, radishes, and eggs to the door. I usually rely on takeaway for a living, so I have to rely on myself, cooking myself and "fooling" myself.
In contrast, my two kittens have a much more comfortable life than mine. The cat food they hoarded was enough for them to eat for half a year, and the hair cream they bought together came in handy just in time for the molting season. Every day there are a bunch of snacks "waiting".
Now, the company has changed to an online office, and I have meetings, eating, shoveling, feeding cats, and exercising with yoga mats every day. I feel fortunate that this accidental hoarding makes me feel fortunate, and it also makes me feel that pets do not have the right to choose their owners or the ability to take care of themselves, and really need us to take and protect them more seriously.
Hoarded hygiene products have become "hard currency"
Wei Lai | 31-year-old worker in a large factory
I personally have always had a habit of hoarding daily necessities, especially toilet paper, paper and hygiene products that girls need.
The reason for this habit is because of a "troublesome thing" that happened when I was young. In the past few years from junior high school to high school, perhaps because of the excessive pressure of study, my body hormones have some disorders, resulting in irregular menstruation. There will often be several months of no menstruation, or sudden menstruation and delay in leaving.
I remember once, when I was queuing up to go to the toilet, menstruation suddenly came, I was a super social fear person, usually and classmates rarely talk about gossip, but at that time I could only blush and ask for help from the classmates in line next to me. As a result, the classmate behind me was a self-familiar warm-hearted, she did not bring herself, but raised her voice to ask the girls in line behind me. After a while, the girls in the whole bathroom were twittering, "Who has a sanitary napkin to borrow the girl in front of you!" ”
After that "social death" experience, I developed the habit of carrying sanitary napkins with me. After work, I went out to live alone, and naturally developed the habit of buying more toilet paper and sanitary napkins. My good girlfriend came to live at my house, looked at the "mountain" of hygiene products in my bathroom, and would always laugh at me and say, "What? Are you afraid that people will stop production in factories? ”
But what no one expected was that one day my hygiene products would become "hard currency".
I live in a neighborhood in Minhang, and in early March, a cleaning aunt in our community was diagnosed, and on the same day I received an urgent notice asking me to hurry home and isolate. Because the incident was sudden and it was not clear how long the isolation would last, the owners spontaneously began to barter each other.' Your onions for my leeks, your soy sauce for my salt and so on.
One day, I saw a message in the owner group, it was a girl who was very embarrassed to say that she needed a sanitary napkin. Because I had the same experience, I understood the other person's mood very well, and I wrote privately to her that she had.
The next day, I packed two packs of sanitary napkins and stuffed some toilet paper in my hand and put them in front of her door. The other party had to transfer money to me, and I felt that I didn't receive a few dollars. As a result, when I got up the next day, I saw her send me WeChat, saying that she had made beef buns and put them in a drawer at my door. I opened the door and held the bun that was still warm, thinking that the change of sanitary napkins for buns was really warm and funny.
Nowadays, the quarantine has exceeded twenty days, more and more people in the owner group toilet paper and kitchen paper are in a hurry, I look at my "inventory" adhering to the principle of helping, and I have also received a variety of exchanges of goods, vegetables, lotions, mineral water....
I think it is also a kind of luck that a small habit can help everyone in a special period.
Four days and three nights in a snowstorm
Water, rice noodles and cooking utensils saved lives
Chu Chu | 24 years old international student
4 hours of mobile phone signal, completely lost contact with the outside world, four days and three nights trapped in the snowstorm wandering... I never imagined that last Christmas's trip to the North would be the most thrilling moment I've ever experienced in 24 years of my life.
Last August, I came to Rhode Island in the northeastern United States for graduate school, which is my first time in North America. New to a place, always full of curiosity, coupled with the young newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, I and two other girls, a boy, during the winter vacation, embarked on a journey to northern California in search of the Aurora.
As we made our way north, the wind and snow gradually increased, and we walked into the inaccessible area at high speed. The snow was too heavy to shovel, and almost all the roads around it were blocked. Our car was also stuck at the entrance, and we spent 7 hours in the same place. There are no hotels around, and 4 people have to turn the car into a motorhome.
Looking back now, we were able to "live" out of the snow without being "starved to death", and we need to be especially grateful for the super matching food that went to Walmart to buy wildly, many snacks, a box of water, and meat, vegetables, instant noodles, etc.
In fact, if we follow the normal travel plan, we don't need to buy so much food at all, but at that time, everyone felt that after all, people were outside, in case it was inconvenient to replenish food on the way, wouldn't it be very troublesome.
In addition to stockpiling a lot of food, we also brought our own cooking utensils before we set off. I remember that I was really stuck in the snow and couldn't move, we took the pot and gas stove ourselves, and in order to eat hot food, we opened the car door and lit the stove in the snowstorm to cook fish and cook meat. Salmon is fried with rice, and instant noodles are cooked with cabbage. To tell the truth, it is not delicious, but at that time, for us, it was enough to fill our stomachs, especially if there was a warm nest, even if it was crowded, it was very satisfying.
Photo/ Frying salmon in a snowstorm
Source/Chuchu provided
This extremely cold climate made me realize what a wise choice it was to bring your own cooking utensils. The reason why I had cooking utensils was originally to eat something delicious and improve my food when I couldn't find a restaurant along the road. After the extreme cold came, they became an indispensable artifact for increasing heat and warming the body.
Later, the car was finally able to move some steps on the flat ground. But we faced another problem – the car ran out of gas right away. Fortunately, we insisted on driving to the gas station, but the gas station was on the slope, and the snow was too thick for the car to climb up. At this time, one of the companions found a well-wisher to borrow an oil drum, went to the gas station to pick up a barrel of oil, and manually added it to the fuel tank. At that moment, I realized that it was also very necessary to stock up on oil, and if there was a next time, I would have to prepare gasoline.
In the end, with the emergency support of water, rice, noodles, cooking utensils and the timely supply of gasoline, we crossed the mountains and finally arrived in San Francisco. Although this experience still makes my heart palpitate, if I had to choose again, I would still take the risk.
After all, youth is only a few years, but the premise is that I will definitely prepare double materials.
Water hoarded in the trunk and traffic jams came in handy
Zhang Qi | 30-year-old financial editor
As a married person with "children at home", it has become common practice for families to travel by car during the holidays, and I am used to putting one or two boxes of water in the trunk of the car in case of emergency.
For my insistence, my family was very opposed. They feel that the water consumption of the trunk is small, and in the unventilated environment, the water is exposed to the sun during the day and becomes cool at night, and it is very unhealthy to drink it again. My husband always carries the water away while complaining, but I listen to it and quietly fill another box.
I didn't expect that my unintentional habit of "hoarding water" would one day come in handy.
On National Day the year before, our family went out with two other families. On the day of returning to Beijing, the three of us set off early in the morning, but we still did not escape a "block" word. All the way on the highway to stop and stop, sometimes a blockage is two or three hours.
Traffic jam on the highway, looking at the headless traffic jam "long dragon", although adults can endure, but children will eat when they arrive at the meal point, and they can't wait at all. Let's not say that there is no food or drink on the highway, even if the three of us have self-heating pots and self-heating rice on the car, there is no water, it is also "difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice".
There were nearly ten people in three families, and the water consumption was very large, although we bought some drinking water before leaving, but we did not expect to be blocked for so long, and the water we bought was quickly drunk.
When I was worried, I remembered that there was a box of water in the trunk, so I quickly took it out. A tank of water can not only be drunk, but also can heat up the self-heating pot and self-heating rice, not to mention how much it works. In this way, the three of us relied on this box of water to return to Beijing for more than 7 hours without hunger or thirst, and when we finally arrived in Beijing after dark, a box of water was also "wiped out" clean.
After that traffic jam, my family no longer objected to me having water in my trunk. Now our home trunk, a long-term storage of a tank of water, is to prevent unexpected situations, in case of emergency use.
It may be difficult for us to predict what kind of accidents we will encounter in life, but "planning ahead" to stock up on some emergency items may one day come in handy.
*The caption and some of the illustrations in the text are from Visual China.
*In the text, Xiyuan, Hu Jiajia, Chuchu, Manda, Qiqi, Bai Bai, Bell, Wei Lai, and Zhang Qi are pseudonyms
*Disclaimer: In no event shall the information herein or the opinions expressed herein constitute investment advice to any person.