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What is your loo roll of choice? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lavatory paper, toilet tissue, bog roll, bumwad, arse wipe, shit tickets; we all need it but I can't find a good one for a reasonable price.

Obviously I don't want the tracing paper you get in a public toilet, but it seems a waste to pay for the quadruple-velvet perfume-soaked premium nonsense. Supermarket own brand is soft enough but tends to fall apart. Who Gives A Crap is environmentally friendly but their basic stuff disintegrates immediately and their premium stuff is even more expensive than the fancy Andrex.

And no, there's no room for a bidet.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Costco toilet rolls are the superior product, my friends. Trouble is you get something like 48 rolls in a wholesale packet - so you need somewhere to stash them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Wish there was a Costco near me :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just buy a garden shed and fill it with bog roll. The next time there's a pandemic, sell it to Australians as individual rolls for 10x market value. Like a sort of strategic reserve.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Somewhere dry, in a sturdy container to protect it against pests.

Which Costco also sells. Those 40+ quart translucent containers hold most of the 38 rolls you get from them.

(I'll admit to a little sarcasm - it's funny Costco sells these giant packs of bog roll, and also sells you the box to store it in. Irony, right?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for being thick. Where's the irony there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they didn't sell you the giant package, you wouldn't need to also buy a storage container.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't believe that's irony. That's just "good business".

Irony would be selling you something to reduce the amount of storage space required (e.g. those vacuum bags) but they're sold, in bulk, in massive containers taking up the room they were supposed to create for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quart? I'm not storing a bushel of grain to be inspected by the lord of the manor!

Seriously though I do love efficient storage containers and would happily fill the house with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, if you have a lord of the manor, quart comes from your measurement system!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We've managed to cut the crazy units down to a handful just for special occasions