Here in Canuckstan, the land of ice and snow and spicy Caesars, we have not reached such a stage of technological sophistication as the Tear-a-Square. But we manage. We deploy the self-reliance inherited from our ancestors, the settlers and the people of the land who built this country. When we require a quarter-sheet of Bounty for such sundry purpose as to wipe down a butter knife after making a sandwich, we rip off a half sheet of Select-a-Size and then rip it crosswise by dint of brute force, just as lumberjacks did hundreds of years ago when roughing it in the northern wilds.
@wolfpup: I bow to your superior rusticity, oh dear and noble Pup!
384 is kinda close to 365. Which means however many days a single roll lasts, that’s how many years of TP you gave them. Plus a couple.
Around here wife and I seem to change one about every 10-14 days. We don’t have any back stock, but your parent’s hoard would last us to age 80-ish. Yipes!
One of my bro’s also did long haul trucking for a few years. He calls it his audition for host of Dirty Jobs.
One of this employer’s standard routes was from a ginormous slaughterhouse to Wal*Mart distribution centers around the Midwest. At the slaughterhouse live cows went in one end and trimmed, weighed, vacuum packed, frozen cases of steaks, burgers, etc., came out the other end and into his truck’s reefer trailer for delivery to the distribution centers. A surprising number of those cases got damaged by the loading process.
My bro was an honest guy; he wasn’t the one vandalizing the cargo. But he ate a lot of free steak in the months he worked that run.
Well, this must have been in 1973 (plus or minus a couple) so it was in days of ‘normal’ tp rolls. No double rolls. No triple rolls. No MEGA (i.e. quadruple) rolls, so they must have gone faster.
OTOH, does anyone really believe the new MEGA rolls actually have four times the tp on each roll as the old time rolls? I do not. I never even believed the ‘twice as much’ claims.
I don’t believe the mega crap any more than Maga crap.
One takes shit away, the other adds it.
Mr Wrek came upon a deal of tp…I can’t say how. But we ended up with 3 cases of it. I’ll end this by saying it was the famous John Wayne paper we’ve all heard tell of.
During the pandemic TP crisis, everyone screeched if you mentioned it. And went to being conservative with the good stuff again. We never had to break into the cases.
All I have to say on the TP topic is that many years ago, observing that my preferred brand along with many others went on sale periodically at around half price or even less, I’d always buy lots of it on sale and hoard it so I’d have a big buffer to last until the next sale. I mention this because this ingrained habit served me very well during the early stage of the COVID pandemic when everyone was wailing about not being able to get TP at any price. Like an enterprising squirrel, I had enough stashed away to last years!
As for the extra-large rolls, I don’t think I’ve ever seen “mega” rolls. But so-called “triple rolls” are great. I was reluctant at first to buy them because I wasn’t sure they’d fit in the holders, but when a friendly cashier once pointed out that the triples were on sale for less than the doubles I was buying, I got a big pack. They fit fine – just barely – but they fit. I don’t really care if the marketing term “triple” is accurate – they are as big as will fit in a standard TP holder, and they minimize changeout frequency, aka “janitorial maintenance”.
Less packaging is one of the selling points of my standard TP - Cottonelle. The 12-roll packs have only the outer plastic wrapper, so you can break into it anywhere. Ever since my room-mate and I ran out of paper 24 hours before we to leave college for the summer, I’ve always been a stickler about having a couple of 12-packs stashed in the back of a closet or whatever.
Yeah, that part of Covid wasn’t a problem at all.
So today for me it was the lotion pump. Why squirt straight down directly into my hand when you can go indirectly via my shirt?