Frustrated mum-of-16 regrets NOT panic buying during the coronavirus outbreak
Writing an open letter to stockpilers, mum Jeni Bonell - who usually spends £232 on herfor the latest news & updatesThe mum, from Queensland, Australia, has 16 children aged between 29 and four and usually buys 24 rolls of toilet paper and 36 litres of milk as part of her usual weekly shop.
"We didn't 'stock up’; we didn't buy more than we needed. We shopped our normal fortnightly or weekly shop and for many of us our budgets certainly didn't allow for [£500] worth of stockpiling either.
As well as making their food shops more stressful, the mums are also having to fork out for petrol to get to and from the supermarkets on their extra trips. As a result, the mums say they feel the need to justify their shopping habits to people who assume they're on benefits - despite the fact they all work and pay for Australia's Medicare healthcare programme.
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