Disaster Dates 2020: The Year That Made Us All Want to Crawl Back to Our Parents' Basements

March 2020: The Great Toilet Paper Heist

It started innocently enough, with people buying a few extra rolls for "just in case". But soon, people were clearing out entire aisles and stockpiling enough toilet paper to last until the apocalypse.

May 2020: The Zoom Fatigue Initiative

We thought it was just a novelty at first, but soon we were all trapped in endless virtual meetings, our faces glowing with a desperate "I'm on camera" anxiety.

August 2020: The Great Lawnmower FiascoSeptember 2020: The Great Outdoors

When the weather got hot, we all thought it was a great time to get out of the house, but it turned out we all just ended up stuck in a never-ending loop of lawn care, from mowing the lawn to fertilizing it, to...well, mowing the lawn some more.

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October 2020: The Great Pumpkin Spice PanicNovember 2020: The Great Thanksgiving Dinner Disaster

We thought it was a good idea to cook a big turkey for the family, but soon we were all arguing over whose turn it was to do the dishes and whose fault was it that the cranberry sauce had been laced with poison (just kidding, that was just Aunt Mildred).

The rest of the year was a blur of cancelled flights, delayed packages, and endless scrolling through Twitter for any sign of hope.

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December 2020: The Great Christmas Cookie Catastrophe

We thought we were making a good thing with the 12 days of cookies, but soon we were all fighting over who got to eat the last one, and whose fault it was that the cookie jar was empty (again).

And just like that, we made it to the end of the disaster-filled year.

See how 2021 did, or didn't, improve