Ok, this may sound kinda weird but, what do you do to save on toilet paper? What is the best buy on it and how do you avoid overusing it? TIA
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I take the price of a bag of TP and divide it by the number of squares total in the package. (12 rolls at 200 sheets/squares per roll is 2400 sheets.) Forget the square footage - people pull off a certain number of squares out of habit.
I found that even at full price, the generic 1000 sheet rolls in a 12 roll pack are the least expensive. It sells regularly for about $9. At Safeway, until Christmas, they have a sale on another brand for $6 a pack.
Just take a calculator and divide it up and you'll see what is the least expensive that week. Another option if you have very young children is to take a roll and divide it into 4-5 square pieces and encourage them to use only one piece per bathroom visit. You can also flatten each roll a bit between your hands so when pulled, the roll doesn't just keep running until it's all on the floor!
This is simple--no math involved. Buy Scott Toilet Tissue. Our household lends itself to many spuratic sleepovers--we have a recording studio in our home. So, I know how fast the potty paper goes. If you watch your grocery- drugstore weekly sales flyers, you will find Scott on sale for $5.99 at least once every 6 weeks for a 12-pack .
I find that if I flatten the roll of toilet paper so the tube is bent a bit and doesn't roll so easily my family goes through a LOT less toilet paper! Same thing works for paper towels!
By washburn6394
I was once told that putting the roll on backwards helps the problem of extra usage. I've tried it,and it does help.It's just one of those things in life (like buying feminine pads) that us frugal women hate but MUST do, and learn to live with.
One of my friends successfully used this method to save on toilet paper in their home.
They put a piece of paper with the number "4" on it where it was easily visible to the person sitting on the toilet stool.
All of the members of the family knew that it was there as a reminder to economize.
Guests didn't know what it meant, unless they happened to ask, which is what I did.
By John
Okay, so what does "4" mean? It couldn't possibly be that you really want them to use only 4 squares??? That just wouldn't work!
If you mount your toilet paper dispenser so that it is approximately four sheets of paper above the floor, some members of your family, without realizing it, will limit their paper use to that many sheets at a time.
By John
Teach your kids exactly how much toilet paper they need to use. Most of the time, kids use way too much. Go to www.charmin.com and order the free "Potty Training Kit". It comes with a toilet paper measuring thing that you hang on the roll with your toilet paper so kids can see just how much they should use.
About Scott's.....The extra soft really is SOFT! I loved cottonelle (cursed with hemmroids after my second blessing) but tried it at my mom's and was impressed!
Use double coupons. Also, there is a good quality, good value brand called BASIC. I believe it's made by the same company that makes Bounty paper towels.
Don't forget to teach them to wash their hands very well after using the toilet. New mothers and others, after you change your babies, please wash your hands each and every time.
Absolutely right but you should also teach them to wash their hands BEFORE using the toilet in a plublic place or at home. In a house the place with more germs and bacteria is not the bathroom it is the kitchen.
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