Bathroom reading: Why buy cheap toilet paper?
Posted
Dec 04 2007, 08:46 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Leave it to Dong at AskDong to break down future lifetime savings from switching to the cheapest toilet paper. In a hilarious post that errs a bit on the side of too much information, Dong does the math -- "20 sheets X 5 visits X 60 years X 52.15 weeks = 312,900 sheets of toilet paper for the rest of my life" -- and concludes he'd save only $1,000 over 60 years if he always bought generic one-ply instead of Charmin Ultra. You'll be happy to know he gives the figures for Scott one-ply, if that's your favorite brand. Dong concludes, "I certainly rather make my sacrifices elsewhere in life."
Dong isn't the only blogger to ponder TP frugality. SavingDiva, after reflecting on an article at MSN Money about the price of toilet paper, estimates that 75% of the trash in her bathroom garbage can is toilet paper. So when she's correcting a "makeup issue," she's going to make an effort to use only one square. BillyOceansEleven over at Close Encounters of the Cheap Kind prefers a compromise between "comfort and cost." Billy writes, "We used Angel Soft for over a year after hitting a big grand-opening sale with coupons at CVS a couple of years back." Lazy Man and Money, who picked Dong's post as an editor's choice in the recent Festival of Frugality, says, "It’s good to have confirmation ... that I was doing the right thing all along."
