Sunday, 2 September 2012

Toilet paper rolls (literally!)

Toilet paper rolls!
Here they make 2- and 3-ply (!) quilted toilet paper that is so heavy, when you get towards the end of the roll, it unrolls itself onto the floor. Bonkers, or what?

When we were in graduate school in the States, we lived in a house with five students. There was an almighty row between two of them over how much toilet paper one should use (reflecting on household costs, of course). One said you only need three sheets, while the other would pull off two or three swaths of TP. The argument eventually broke up the household. The one that left would have liked this British quilted TP; she could have used only two sheets and saved even more money!
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1 comment:

  1. dweeb3 September 2012 at 12:44

    In cost terms, multi-ply is indeed cheaper once one learns to use only the needed amount. In Japan, public toilets tend to have shamefully thin single-ply, a false economy which often forces one to pull off a metre or more of paper. Of course, Japanese toilets often have rinse and blow-dry functions, obviating the need for t.p., but what's the comparative cost of electricity vs paper per, um, poop?

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