I think the average is one roll per person per week or so.
Depends on the roll! Some brands have a lot of air between the layers, to puff up the roll. When you get down to business, it seems like there are all of ten sheets on the roll.
Some brands are offering “giant rolls, more sheets.” Ideally, those are the rolls you want, but sometimes the rolls are so fat, they won’t fit in your TP holder.
The mongo rolls you find in public restrooms are hideous. Sometimes the paper isn’t strong enough, so when you try to unroll a good sized pad, the paper keeps breaking. The supersize rolls are NARROWER than the home version of TP. And then commercial TP oftentimes has the absorbency and softness of waxed paper.
But for the ultimate experience in public restroom TP, go to Europe! Their TP is GREY, with SPLINTERS!
~VOW
I use a lot more toilet paper for #1 than for #2. Mostly because I pee a lot more often than I poop. I also probably use 3 times as much TP as my husband.
And women also use TP when they have their period. Sometimes a lot of TP.
Also, I’ve been buying commercial TP for more than a year, now, mostly because I’m lazy and prefer to buy a giant carton by mail. It’s been hard to find, too.
I looked at a janitorial supply house (admittedly, one that sells on-line to anyone) and they were out of the rolls that don’t fit home fixtures, not just the regular rolls.
I find this all rather mysterious.
Oh yeah, I should have thought of this. I think everyone pees more than they poop, so I see your point.
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I see toilet paper in many stores. What I haven’t seen anywhere in weeks are sanitizer, wipes or aerosol disinfectant.
Just checked for TP on Amazon. On the left side of the screen you can refine your search and they give you the option of
“new” or “used.” :smack:
I was at the supermarket yesterday, and they had piles and piles of toilet paper; not only that, but the grocery store I walked past on the way to the supermarket had two huge shrink-wrapped pallets of TP outside.
The whole thing is a supply chain blip, nothing more. We went into lockdown here a few days before you did; wait a bit and things will straighten out.
When in college in 1972, I got to know the dormitory maintenance engineer (i.e., janitor). The year our dorm went co-ed, he was complaining endlessly about how he had gone through his entire annual budget for toilet paper in less than two months.
This is true. And it’s also true that there were stories about empty shelves for at least a couple of days before there actually were empty shelves. These “clever” people poking fun at what were at the time non-existent hoarders were unintentionally telling people they’d better grab a stash of TP while the grabbing was good. It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but it’s just like the toilet paper shortage in the 70s that was triggered by a joke Johnny Carson made in his monologue that week.
You dont have to remind anyone of that who has several daughters.
Don’t forget - 51% of the population use TP after a pee, not just after a dump. Instead of using the TP at work for their pee a lot of women are now at home peeing and therefore using more of their home stash.
Granted that I use more TP for a dump than a pee, I pee a lot more often. So when I’m home all day yeah, I do use a more TP from the home stash.
Opened this thread with no more that a mild interest in the subject matter, but now I’m burning with curiosity.
Why do you feel a need to empty your pockets when you poop?
Also, during menstrual cycles, women will use toilet paper to wrap up used pads and tampons.
My stuff tends to fall out on the floor when I lower my trousers and sit down, particularly if I’m wearing chinos or dress slacks. Ideally, I use the top of the TP dispenser if it’s flat or at least horizontal. But in many public restroom stalls you find dispenders with those sloping tops that you can’t put anything on without it falling off. I think a lot of places changed over to those back in powder cocaine era of the 1980, to make it more difficult to snort a few lines while using the stall. Not every establishment had to worry about cokeheads abusing their facilities, of course, but still the sloping-topped TP dispensers became the most common type AFAIK.
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Since commercial TP demand has dropped so much, maybe the suppliers are not making as much of it, preferring to just warehouse their existing supplies until businesses open up again and need to order it. AFAI can understand they pretty much have to do that way because if they kept pumping out commercial TP at the usual rate they would have to store it somewhere. TP is a bulky product.
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Here’s what I’m pretty sure is happening in my neighborhood. It’s been happening for weeks.
That first big wave of panic shopping cleaned out the stores, including whatever they had in the back. This left all the shelves empty.
The stores have a standing order for toilet paper consisting of what would normally be needed to replenish their fully stocked shelves during normal conditions. The amount varies depending the on the size and traffic of the store, but it’s a relatively small amount each of every brand and size.
I think the stores have been getting that in a shipment that they probably get daily ( or at least multiple times a week) from their distributor. They put it on the empty shelves in the overnight and it’s there when the store opens at 7AM. It’s gone within the first hour or so. And, because of shortages, they can’t increase the order or they can only increase it minimally.
This has been going on for weeks now, with no signs of it letting up. I’m convinced it’s mostly psychological. If you go the grocery early and you see a few packs of toilet paper on the mostly empty shelves, you’re going to buy a pack or two, especially if that shelf was empty the last several times you shopped.
People will do this no matter how much toilet paper they’ve stockpiled. I think they will continue to do this until at least some of the stores are able to fully stock the shelves once again.
Thank you!
Or until they finally run out of storage space.
Or until they realize that they’re not going to be able to resell for 500% markup without being shamed on social media or having legal problems over price-gouging.