Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back
While the toilet paper shortages that hit the United States during pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 ultimately eased up, they’ve had a lasting impact on one industry: the bidet business.
“The industry here in the U.S. just blew up. You couldn’t get a bidet if you wanted to,” says James Lin, founder of BidetKing.com, an online marketplace for all varieties of the bathroom appliance. “We all sold out. … There was a huge scramble to get more.”
my old bidet was a bit cheaper and splashier, so I bought 2 18-packs of white cotton rags. Folded’em all nice, used one to wipe after everything was clean to dry off. Now I’ve a new bidet, and it’s less splashy, pretty much zeroes in on the starfruit to the point I don’t really need to dry off afterwards.