Anyway, no, I never cheap out on TP. You do so at your own peril. My workplace cheaps out with the rough two-ply stuff – though I suspect as with many workplaces, this may be more an issue of preventing theft (because no one wants to steal cheap TP) than one of expense.
In my own home though, it’s the good stuff unless there’s a damn good reason we need to go cheap. (As in, we’re on our last two dollars, it’s a week before payday, and we’re completely out of the good stuff, and there are no broad leaves handy. Fortunately that hasn’t happened in a long time – but it has happened.)
It’s not so much that I treat my ass like a luxury hotel, but single-ply stuff is completely useless, since you use more than twice as much of it, it feels like crap (uh… perhaps that’s not the best word to use here), and it tears which leaves one open to the possibility of inadvertently having your hand do the job the TP wasn’t up to.
Cheap toilet paper is ghastly. My husband insists his mom had only the cheap Scott TP when he was growing up and she liked it fine, but I say it was because she was a widow trying to raise six kids on very little money so she bought what was cheap! Anyway, I insist on good TP, although these days we use the flushable grownup version of baby wipes as well, which get you much cleaner than TP in any case.
Um, single? None? No visitors so far.(Except the docs finger)
I was going to use Rockefeller but I didn’t know how to spell it.
Let’s just say I don’t enjoy using the John Wayne style of butt wipe.
TMI----- I once put on a company survey where it asked “What could we do do improve your work environment?” Don’t use cheapest toilet paper you can find.
I use Scott - I prefer it actually. The Charmin pills too much. I feel like I have to pick lint off my butt after I use it, which is not my favorite personal hygiene task. Also, I never worry about my toilet clogging, and it’s better for septic systems.
It’s the only thing I use, I find it has just the right amount of roughness to smoothness ratio. One swipe, and I’m ready to go.
My Mom uses the same, I find it equivalent to wiping my ass with a cotton ball. Sure it feels nice and soft, but I just know I’m leaving toilet paper boogers around my asshole.
I wish I could find a good brand and stick with it, but for some reason toilet paper brands just don’t stay in my head. Every time I go to the store for TP I have to wander up and down the TP aisle picking and choosing. It’s a well, crap shoot. Why can’t I just remember the last brand I liked?
Last month, I had a crazy moment and splurged on Charmin paper for the first time. Mistake. I shall never comfortably go back to Scotts or whatever’s on the Dollar Store shelves. I know now to never fly first class just out of curiosity.
Sorry to hear about the 48 rolls of it. I’d look into starting up a massive paper mache project with it or say you spied a dead mouse amongst the rolls.
Even though I am having financial problems right now the one thing I won’t skimp on is toilet paper. It is Charmin double ply at the minimum, if I’m feeling loaded with cash it is Charmin triple ply with Aloe added as a bonus. My ass deserves the best.
I agree that toilet paper is nothing to scrimp on. That’s why I absolutely refuse to buy that multi-ply garbage. Yeah, it’s so comfortable, but it’s too soft: You can’t get enough friction off of it to actually clean anything. Plus, half the time when you try, the plies come apart. Or sometimes the plies come apart on the roll, and the layers get mismatched, so the perforations don’t line up.
Fortunately, every store brand I’ve seen has a single-ply version available, and I’ve yet to encounter one with any resemblance to sandpaper. So far as I can tell, that stuff is reserved for interstate rest stop bathrooms. Maybe truckers have developed calloused posteriors to deal with it.
Word. I use the fold-over technique to keep the shit of my hand. Even the cheapest paper isn’t the pit-stop stuff. A good regimine of fiber helps keep the process simple too.