Mum hits back at critics of toilet paper supply

A MUM of 16 has hit back after being shamed for buying a large amount of toilet paper, calling on people to show more kindness to each other as panic buying continues.

Shoppers have hit supermarkets this month to stock up on essential items amid fears a coronavirus outbreak could see supplies affected, with toilet paper the most in demand.

Jeni Bonell, a Toowoomba mum of 16, shared on Facebook how she had been slammed by another shopper for buying up big on toilet paper.

But Ms Bonell, who regularly documents her family life on YouTube and Facebook, explained that buying a large amount of toilet paper was just a fact of life when you had as many kids as she did.

“No lady, you don’t get to stand behind me in the checkout line in the grocery store, with your voice dripping sarcasm and your crinkled brow,” she wrote. “As you ‘loud-enough-for-me-to-hear-you’ say, ‘Welllll, there goes ALLLLLLL the toilet paper now …. hmmmmpffff.’”

Ms Bonell wrote that she “will not apologise for buying toilet paper for my family which is undoubtedly bigger than yours”.

“And I will not let you make me feel guilty about it one little bit,” she said. “Perhaps taking a deep breath would help or try smiling.”

Ms Bonell ended her post by saying that while the world was probably in the grips of a coronavirus pandemic “there’s been another one that’s been brewing for a long time”.

“That’s a worldwide lack of good manners with a symptom of unkindness that seems to accompany it,” she wrote.