The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014)

Re:The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) by pnutjam on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:00PM (#22675691)

Wish I'd taken a picture, but I saw multiple people standing in ridiculous lines to buy 2+ huge packs (lasts my family of 8 a month) of toilet paper, 2+ packs of paper towels (lasts my family of 8 at least 2 months) and 4+ cases of water (we go through about 1 a week).

These people must not be regulars because they weren't using the scan and go app and were waiting in the huge lines for at least 30-40 minutes minimum. Many of them had nothing else in the carts.

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Re:The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) by souprock on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:00PM (#22680881)

I suspect I go through about 4 rolls of paper towels per day with a family of 14. Clearly you have a low per-person rate of usage.

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Re:The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) by pnutjam on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:58AM (#22683736)

Are you talking about normal paper towel rolls that are about an inch and a half from core to edge, or "super" rolls that are closer to double that size (and feel much denser). These are about the size of the bounty double rolls. I could go through several of the smaller cheaper rolls also.

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Re:The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) by souprock on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:03PM (#22689678)

It's a really rough estimate, but I mean something like the largest bounty rolls with normal density.

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Re:The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) by pnutjam on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:33AM (#22693392)

yes, we're frugal with paper towels.

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