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Amazon Prime Day usually happens mid-July, but this year it'll be in October.

When the day finally arrives (and for many weeks before), we spend all day keeping track of the best deals you can get your hands on.

Though most people tend to shop deals on tech devices, school supplies, and larger appliances, I prefer to use Prime Day to stock up on toilet paper.

This year, it's likely that others will have caught on to my genius ways.

Read on for my hot take on why Prime Day is a great time to stock up on supplies, or head straight to our roundup of the best deals we predict for Prime Day 2020.

Each year before Prime Day, I go to sleep early and wake up at 3 a.m. to start covering all the best sales and deals.

As you can probably imagine, I don't get much of a chance to sit back and shop or stalk Lightning deals. Instead, I have one single objective each year — to buy as much toilet paper as I can fit in my storage closet and bathroom.

I truly believe that there aren't enough people who take advantage of the other side of Prime Day. With tech devices, TVs, phones, and speakers beating out home necessities as the most wanted and purchased items of Prime Days past, it's obvious that people know this is a great time to shop for bigger ticket items.

But with so many deals on household goods, why aren't more people stocking up on the basics?

This year, I imagine things will be different and more folks will use the opportunity to buy supplies (hopefully in reasonable quantities that don't make it impossible for others to stock up on essentials). But usually, toilet paper is the last thing on people's minds when Prime Day rolls around.

I understand people living in metropolitan areas are starved for space, but if I can figure out where to hold six months worth of toilet paper in my small Brooklyn apartment, so can you. Put the rolls inside of your suitcases. Add a roll holder in your bathroom. Whatever space you can make, I highly recommend that you make it — you'll be thanking me the next 40-something times your roll runs out.

I suggest bookmarking your favorite kind now and checking back over the course of Prime Day to see if it goes on sale. We'll update this article with the best deals we can find when the time comes, but in the meantime, you may want to make sure your Prime membership is up-to-date so you can take advantage of the deals.

Check out all of our Amazon Prime Day 2020 coverage: