@thismyusername They have boxes of 36 or maybe it is 48 Poms (or something close to that) brand at Sam’s club around here. $17 and decent toilet paper.
@RedOak@narfcake Costco still has the proper 4.5" width paper available (Northern and Charmin, maybe their house brand). Everyone else carries the narrowed down stuff that won’t fit our holders.
Plus the Northern they started carrying again this year is better quality than anything we were able to buy since Northern dropped width and quality earlier this decade.
@duodec yep, Costco/Kirkland still 4.5 inches wide. Been tracking it for years. Same roll count, same sheet size, same sheets/roll. Only the price changes.
I detest Costco’s penchant for hooking us on new products and then promptly dropping them. SAMs has far more stable product lines. And their prices, while not always the same/lower, tend to be very similar.
I also detest their penchant to run from SAMs with ever-increasing bigger sizes in many places. Example: AA Kirkland batteries - 72!?! Are you kidding me? What was wrong with 24?
However, one big benefit to Costco - honest packing size/pricing. They tend not to maintain price via the slimy package down-sizing. I’ll vote 10 times out of 10 to raise price rather than decrease package size.
Also, Costco sells more consistently higher quality stuff when the brands are not the same or are the store brand.
@chienfou That far undersells Costco. For us, Target is in the same category as Walmart - rarely shop at either. One is clean, expensive and crappy and the other is dirty, cheaper and crappy.
SAMs is not in the same league as Costco but it is worlds more useful to us than either Target or Walmart.
Double rolls should just be called rolls of toilet paper, because they don’t even make what is considered a single roll, anymore. And triple rolls should be a roll and a half.
Next time you go to the register with toilet paper and a cart full of food, ask the cashier, “do you think this will be enough toilet paper, for the food I have?”
Hey, where are you stealing toilet paper from that has good enough toilet paper that you’d be willing to use it instead of shelling out the dough for the real stuff?
27-pack at walmart of Scott. It comes in a 3x3x3 cube, which I call the "poop-cube"
Mainly buy this size because it fits perfectly on the shelf near the bathroom.
@RedOak ah, rice paper… I well remember the brownish, shiny paper squares of TP they used to use in Europe 40 years ago. It was amazingly strong, but not a very efficient product, mostly just smearing stuff around until you gave up…
@chienfou When I was single (many, many years ago), I had a roommate move out in October, and I stayed by myself in the apartment until January. I left the same TP roll for the next renters that my roommate had left for me.
Another bulk shopper at Sam’s club. Plates, paper towels and toilet paper. I can’t seem to buy these enough in quantity. Reserves of something that critical make me sleep better at night.
Every time I see the single rolls of toilet paper, I have to stop and wonder who actually buys them. I guess, if you really have to go, when you’re on the go…
We used to get the super-mega rolls of toilet paper of Charmin or Kirkland from Costco. Then, when we had our septic system pumped out, the looked & said “You must be using Charmin or Kirkland toilet paper”. That crap just doesn’t break down. It said ‘septic safe’ on the package, but I guess that means it doesn’t explode your system or something.
We now get a brand that is friendlier to our hard-working septic system (Angel Soft), 12 or 24 to a package of those big rolls.
If you’re on a sewer system, it really wouldn’t matter.
@RedOak septic safe is supposed to break up very easily when it gets wet. I’ve used Charmin in my septic system for years and I’ve never had the septic guy say anything about it. He said it always looked like I wasn’t putting any of the bad things down there.
Unlike “flushable” which just means it won’t clog your toilet.
@RiotDemon Yah, I realize what septic safe means. my comment was sarcastic, should have included /s. Moist in this case was not the septic system or the toilet bowl.
It does seem like a company selling the volume of Costco (Kirkland) or Charmin would realize they had an issue and course correct if their product were not truly ‘septic safe’.
Man in bathroom stall: Crap… no paper
Man in next stall: Bummer Dude…
Man #1: Any chance I can get some paper from you…
Man #2: Nope, only 4 sheets in here and I need them…
Man #1: OK…got change for a 5?
I would normally buy packs of 12 at the grocery store. I got a temporary 3 month BJs membership for a free trial, and the last time I went there I bought a huge pack of paper towels and I believe a 30 pack of toilet paper.
I think this was over 8 months ago and I still have a bunch.
@MrsPavlov just laughed and said “With all the shit around here I ought to be buying it by the truckload.”
FML
um… where is 6?
who wrote this poll?
@thismyusername you really like paying more for things that have no shelf life? Or maybe your space is really limited?
@medz they come in 6 packs… only… can’t find them at sams, cant find them at costco, only in 6 packs in normal ol’ stores.
but even if I did like paying more… that doesn’t really excuse the poor pollmanship does it?
@thismyusername They have boxes of 36 or maybe it is 48 Poms (or something close to that) brand at Sam’s club around here. $17 and decent toilet paper.
The Costco pack is 24, right? I haven’t had to buy any in quite a while …
@narfcake _ _ _ _ _ minds think alike. Posting at the same time. It has been a 30-roller since the beginning of toilet paper. 5 packs of 6 rolls each.
@RedOak @narfcake Costco still has the proper 4.5" width paper available (Northern and Charmin, maybe their house brand). Everyone else carries the narrowed down stuff that won’t fit our holders.
Plus the Northern they started carrying again this year is better quality than anything we were able to buy since Northern dropped width and quality earlier this decade.
@duodec yep, Costco/Kirkland still 4.5 inches wide. Been tracking it for years. Same roll count, same sheet size, same sheets/roll. Only the price changes.
I detest Costco’s penchant for hooking us on new products and then promptly dropping them. SAMs has far more stable product lines. And their prices, while not always the same/lower, tend to be very similar.
I also detest their penchant to run from SAMs with ever-increasing bigger sizes in many places. Example: AA Kirkland batteries - 72!?! Are you kidding me? What was wrong with 24?
However, one big benefit to Costco - honest packing size/pricing. They tend not to maintain price via the slimy package down-sizing. I’ll vote 10 times out of 10 to raise price rather than decrease package size.
Also, Costco sells more consistently higher quality stuff when the brands are not the same or are the store brand.
@RedOak yea… in my mind Costco is to Sam’s as Target is to Walmart. (to quote the SAT…)
@chienfou That far undersells Costco. For us, Target is in the same category as Walmart - rarely shop at either. One is clean, expensive and crappy and the other is dirty, cheaper and crappy.
SAMs is not in the same league as Costco but it is worlds more useful to us than either Target or Walmart.
Missing option: 30. How can you forget that choice?
30 rolls in the Costco Kirkland pack. The only sane choice.
I buy mine at Sam’s. It’s 5 packs of 9. 45 isn’t on the list, so I voted 48
Whatever is cheaper by the ply at the moment.
Only so much room in the bathroom; only so much I’m willing to pay for at once before it’s my roommate’s turn to buy.
96 one ply. lasts foh ev ah
@chr Single ply?!
/giphy horrified
@chr how many layers do you fold that into?
Double rolls should just be called rolls of toilet paper, because they don’t even make what is considered a single roll, anymore. And triple rolls should be a roll and a half.
Next time you go to the register with toilet paper and a cart full of food, ask the cashier, “do you think this will be enough toilet paper, for the food I have?”
@TheCO2 Dollar stores still have the single roll stuff.
@narfcake Does that even count?
I’ve been getting the 80 roll box. I’m not kidding. https://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Pacific-Envision-Embossed-Bathroom-Tissue/dp/B0040ZFAQ0
@Fish_Kungfu Cheap 2-ply toily paper scares me
@Fish_Kungfu I use to buy this much, when I was single. It would last me more than a year.
Hey, where are you stealing toilet paper from that has good enough toilet paper that you’d be willing to use it instead of shelling out the dough for the real stuff?
I go to Big Lots and buy a case or two of the cheapest (per square-foot) stuff I can find. Lasts 12 to 18 months!
I get the 30 roll pack at BJs.
27-pack at walmart of Scott. It comes in a 3x3x3 cube, which I call the "poop-cube"
Mainly buy this size because it fits perfectly on the shelf near the bathroom.
@KMakato that’s funny - the Kirkland 30-toll bag fits perfectly in the shelf where we store it.
@RedOak nope, that’s kismet
According to my 24 pack of charmin super triple mega rolls it’s like 400 regular rolls.
I compare the area in square feet on each package, then compare prices. Time consuming, but efficient.
@meshneiarin but how do you factor in the consistency and thickness of the paper from thick pillowy tissue to transparent rice paper?
@RedOak ah, rice paper… I well remember the brownish, shiny paper squares of TP they used to use in Europe 40 years ago. It was amazingly strong, but not a very efficient product, mostly just smearing stuff around until you gave up…
@RedOak I only compare square footage between plies that are apples to apples, and certain brands fall into thickness “tiers”:
Tier 1 - Charmin, Cottonelle, fancy pants stitched multi-ply, etc.
Tier 2 - AngelSoft, Quilted Northern, etc.
Tier 1 - Everything else (1-ply, sandpaper, etc.)
with a little planning and good bowel training a guy can go for MONTHS on one roll of TP. (assuming you do most of your business where you work…)
@chienfou If you don’t mind wiping with onion paper.
@chienfou When I was single (many, many years ago), I had a roommate move out in October, and I stayed by myself in the apartment until January. I left the same TP roll for the next renters that my roommate had left for me.
@smyle exactly!
Another bulk shopper at Sam’s club. Plates, paper towels and toilet paper. I can’t seem to buy these enough in quantity. Reserves of something that critical make me sleep better at night.
Every time I see the single rolls of toilet paper, I have to stop and wonder who actually buys them. I guess, if you really have to go, when you’re on the go…
@TheCO2 Single rolls are popular with the homeless population. They carry one in their possessions, wrapped in plastic bags.
Cottonelle KCC-17713 60 rolls/case. I work with a distributor so I get a pretty nice discount.
And I’m pretty sure all those 1-ply options out there still have wood chips in each sheet.
We used to get the super-mega rolls of toilet paper of Charmin or Kirkland from Costco. Then, when we had our septic system pumped out, the looked & said “You must be using Charmin or Kirkland toilet paper”. That crap just doesn’t break down. It said ‘septic safe’ on the package, but I guess that means it doesn’t explode your system or something.
We now get a brand that is friendlier to our hard-working septic system (Angel Soft), 12 or 24 to a package of those big rolls.
If you’re on a sewer system, it really wouldn’t matter.
@daveinwarsh I’m curious - does ‘septic safe’ in this case mean, ‘more easily self-destructs upon hitting anything moist’?
@RedOak septic safe is supposed to break up very easily when it gets wet. I’ve used Charmin in my septic system for years and I’ve never had the septic guy say anything about it. He said it always looked like I wasn’t putting any of the bad things down there.
Unlike “flushable” which just means it won’t clog your toilet.
@RiotDemon Yah, I realize what septic safe means. my comment was sarcastic, should have included /s. Moist in this case was not the septic system or the toilet bowl.
It does seem like a company selling the volume of Costco (Kirkland) or Charmin would realize they had an issue and course correct if their product were not truly ‘septic safe’.
Meh ! TMI !
Where is the option for none
/giphy bidet ?
@salaosantiago I wish <3_<3
@vanslaterco you can get a bidet that attaches to your toilet. Fairly cheap for the base models.
Man in bathroom stall: Crap… no paper
Man in next stall: Bummer Dude…
Man #1: Any chance I can get some paper from you…
Man #2: Nope, only 4 sheets in here and I need them…
Man #1: OK…got change for a 5?
@chienfou I guess he didn’t know how to use the shells…
@duodec (whispers sweet nothings to the citation machine…)
However many I have set for subscribe and save on Amazon for so long now… cause who needs the hassle of shopping for toilet paper.
I would normally buy packs of 12 at the grocery store. I got a temporary 3 month BJs membership for a free trial, and the last time I went there I bought a huge pack of paper towels and I believe a 30 pack of toilet paper.
I think this was over 8 months ago and I still have a bunch.
Hooray for bidets!
/giphy bidet
