Tiny house community shares giant message of love, one roll of toilet paper at a time

At a time when emotions are running high, people are living in fear and the shelves are bare, the tiny home community has banded together to send a message of love and sharing. They collaborated to produce the short YouTube video Pass it on: One roll of toilet paper at a time.

Living in quarters without a lot of room to hoard, United Tiny House Association founders John and Fin Kernohan came up with the idea of a film to ease the urge to hoard toilet paper.

Filmed in Australia, Belgium, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States, the short film features more than 30 television celebrities, best-selling authors and other tiny home residents.

It opens with an ominous message of the apocalyptic mindset toilet paper hoarding has created. Then it quickly moves to a message of sharing and love. In the film, smiling tiny homers catch a roll of toilet paper, take only what they need and throw it out the window for the next tiny homer. If you don’t need it, don’t hoard it.

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