I’m thinking I probably use about 4 a week, so about 208 a year. But according to the article linked below:
That’s surely not right. That’s less than half a toilet roll a week. Even a tiny tot would use more than that.
Approximately how many toilet rolls does each poster here use per year?
How on Earth do you use 4 toilet rolls per week?
Bubblecar said:
>The average American uses 23.6 rolls of toilet paper a year — that’s about 7 billion rolls for the country.<
http://grist.org/list/lets-ban-toilet-paper/
That can’t possibly be right. That’s less than half a toilet roll a week. Even a tiny tot would use more than that. I use about ten times that number of toilet rolls a year.
You are obviously a cut above the average.. An old bushie taught me to stir my billy tea with a knobbly stick. When I asked why, he said because they are a bit rough on the bum cheeks.
Witty Rejoinder said:
How on Earth do you use 4 toilet rolls per week?
hankies need to be washed?
How do you use 1/2 a toilet roll a day?
Witty Rejoinder said:
How on Earth do you use 4 toilet rolls per week?
Witty Rejoinder said:
How on Earth do you use 4 toilet rolls per week?
I’ve been known to use them in hundreds of thousands.
to plant seeds of trees in.
I use it for what it’s intended. Half a toilet roll a day seems reasonable for an adult male.
Bubblecar said:
I use it for what it’s intended. Half a toilet roll a day seems reasonable for an adult male.
I find that about 15-20 sheets is the absolute most I might use after each motion.
Bubblecar said:
I use it for what it’s intended. Half a toilet roll a day seems reasonable for an adult male.
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You must be a scruncher.
19 shillings said:
You must be a scruncher.
Who goes to the toilet 10 times a day.
Well come on people, don’t just criticise, state your own usage figures. Let’s make this scientific.
I have no idea what my annual consumption is.
I do remember, however, the Sargeant Major on one of my military cadet camps informing us that the toilet paper consumption was excessive. He decreed 3 sheets per motion. “one up, one down, and one to polish!”
My recollection was that the open doors on the latrines were not conducive to using the toilets in any case.
Bubblecar said:
Well come on people, don’t just criticise, state your own usage figures. Let’s make this scientific.
Well my dad taught me not to be wasteful. At Tobruk and on the Kokoda track, one sheet was the ration.
In Bali, the dog gets to lick it.
>>The average American uses 23.6 rolls of toilet paper a year — that’s about 7 billion rolls for the country
Without consulting my favourite search engine, I imagine that there is a healthy market in novelty toilet papers in the USA.
I still want to know why you consume half a roll a day.
At least we know you don’t suffer from constipation.
I use about 18 – 24 papers per day.
do remember, however, the Sargeant Major on one of my military cadet camps informing us that the toilet paper consumption was excessive. He decreed 3 sheets per motion. “one up, one down, and one to polish!”
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How did that go down with the laundry detail?
A roll a week.
None of this surprises me though. The size of packets of date rolls in the supermarkets has gone from singles wrapped in paper to three or four dozen in a shrinkwrap pack.
19 shillings said:
do remember, however, the Sargeant Major on one of my military cadet camps informing us that the toilet paper consumption was excessive. He decreed 3 sheets per motion. “one up, one down, and one to polish!”—-
How did that go down with the laundry detail?
morrie said:
19 shillings said:do remember, however, the Sargeant Major on one of my military cadet camps informing us that the toilet paper consumption was excessive. He decreed 3 sheets per motion. “one up, one down, and one to polish!”—-
How did that go down with the laundry detail?
Laundry detail? Gee, I can’t recall any laundry getting done. It is a long time ago though. If there was any, I am sure we did it ourselves.
I think the reference was to the Boer war where they had natives to go slap the dunny paper on a rock and have it pressed for re-use.
The market, like economic growth is all inflation, is constantly aimed at new purchases.
A bit like toilet paper rolls used to come individually wrapped as single units.. Nowadays one needs a pick-up truck to buy a weeks supply.. why? Because it is made to give you goldfinger unless you wrap a roll around your hand.
Another memorable toilet paper experience was the toilets an Bombay airport, where 3 or 4 sheets of toilet paper set me back 2 pounds, from the man who had the concession. No doors, leaking pedestals, pay by the sheet toilet paper. Lovely.
morrie said:
Another memorable toilet paper experience was the toilets an Bombay airport, where 3 or 4 sheets of toilet paper set me back 2 pounds, from the man who had the concession. No doors, leaking pedestals, pay by the sheet toilet paper. Lovely.
That’s a different slant on spending a penny.
roughbarked said:
morrie said:
Another memorable toilet paper experience was the toilets an Bombay airport, where 3 or 4 sheets of toilet paper set me back 2 pounds, from the man who had the concession. No doors, leaking pedestals, pay by the sheet toilet paper. Lovely.
That’s a different slant on spending a penny.
>Another memorable toilet paper experience was the toilets an Bombay airport, where 3 or 4 sheets of toilet paper set me back 2 pounds, from the man who had the concession. No doors, leaking pedestals, pay by the sheet toilet paper. Lovely.
A memorable experience at Hanoi airport. Squat toilets, me suffering a severe case of “asian belly”, and the bloke running the stall wanting to fucking haggle…in vietnamese. I threw shitsloads (sic) of money at him, grabbed a handful and ran…really fast :)
On a commune ip Tuntable Creek I was informed upon me producing a roll of toilet paper, that in many cultures it was considered unclean to wipe the date with paper. I asked well what isn’t considered unclean? “washing with water” was the answer.
I’m still scratching my head about that.. considering that the Tank Stream was contaminated beyond any use fit for drinking within a very short time after the first fleet landed.
ip = up
i don’t like being made to pay for toilets
in france i discovered that some cheeky bastard was charging people to use the public lavatory so i pissed on the corner leg of the eiffel tower. in this situation where there are many tourists you need a reliable spotter – just as was nearly finished my spotter told me that someone was 10 seconds away – then about a fraction of a secoind later some french family passed me.
wookiemeister said:
i don’t like being made to pay for toiletsin france i discovered that some cheeky bastard was charging people to use the public lavatory so i pissed on the corner leg of the eiffel tower. in this situation where there are many tourists you need a reliable spotter – just as was nearly finished my spotter told me that someone was 10 seconds away – then about a fraction of a secoind later some french family passed me.
Their motion was in passing?
in another situation i laid a beauty in public near bondi beach
one of the problems with weetbix is that that no human sphincter can restrain it
lucky no one was coming along in the wide alleyway between houses
i went and got my work collegue to point out this disgrace that i had found
By chance, flicking the remote I passed through a Hamish and Andy skit down a hole at Opalton.. Think it was Andy who picked up a plastic bag and was waxing poetic when his guide said, “probably a turd in a bag”
Well, think about it. It’s a forty foot ladder you have to climb.
roughbarked said:
By chance, flicking the remote I passed through a Hamish and Andy skit down a hole at Opalton.. Think it was Andy who picked up a plastic bag and was waxing poetic when his guide said, “probably a turd in a bag”Well, think about it. It’s a forty foot ladder you have to climb.
wookiemeister said:
i don’t like being made to pay for toiletsin france i discovered that some cheeky bastard was charging people to use the public lavatory so i pissed on the corner leg of the eiffel tower. in this situation where there are many tourists you need a reliable spotter – just as was nearly finished my spotter told me that someone was 10 seconds away – then about a fraction of a secoind later some french family passed me.
>The French piss anywhere and everywhere
An insidious influence of Le Tour :)
morrie said:
The French piss anywhere and everywhere. I noticed this during my recent visit.
That accounts for the vino and café but how to they delete the croissants?
About one roll per week for me – 3 rolls every 4 days for the whole family.
sibeen said:
>The French piss anywhere and everywhereAn insidious influence of Le Tour :)
A roll lasts me ages. The missus seems to use one per sitting(exageration).
An old bloke told me that maintenance on the septic tanks at a bush speedway track, where you’d connsider mainly male usage, the female septic tanks had to be pumped out four times to the mens.. He said it was all the paper.
consider.. four times to the mens one.
>consider.. four times to the mens one.
I have one wife and two daughters. Does not surprise me at all.
sibeen said:
>consider.. four times to the mens one.I have one wife and two daughters. Does not surprise me at all.
:)
I guess it depends on the number and size of meals you have a day.
Mr mutant and I go through about a roll a week. This is not including loo paper used at work or for blowing noses when I can’t find the tissues.
Well I don’t know, you people must employ a very different technique to mine, much more economical with the paper.
Even on days where lunch didn’t agree with me, I’m not using tons of paper.
I use a wire brush and Dettol.
How many sheets per roll do you buy? We’re currently using 180 sheets per roll.
I usually buy the Sorbent 270 sheets “Long” rolls.
wire brush, dettol & metho soaked rag
Hard for me estimate my usage. Probably use a bit less than one roll a week at home. But I’m at work during the day, and probably use their facilities more often than home, during the working week.
1 roll every 2 days when I’m working and probably 1 roll per day if on holiday and CS is home as well.
On the Kokoda I managed 1 roll exactly for the 8 days plus 1 wet wipe per day. I thought I did extremely well that trip :)
Spider Lily said:
1 roll every 2 days when I’m working and probably 1 roll per day if on holiday and CS is home as well.On the Kokoda I managed 1 roll exactly for the 8 days plus 1 wet wipe per day. I thought I did extremely well that trip :)
There you are then, I’m not freakish after all :)
Bubblecar said:
There you are then, I’m not freakish after all :)
women tend to use more dunny paper than men… so you’re still freakish.
Don’t get confused with the number of sheets per roll, as against the number shits per roll!
Back in the days of the Vietnam war, a mate was going to make his fortune selling dunny paper printed with the stars and stripes.
8 sheets is a lot for one wipe.
so 16 sheets is a lot per poo is plenty.
so if two poos aday = 32 sheets
260 per roll
1 roll = 7 to 10 days
>>when his guide said, “probably a turd in a bag”
Reminds me of the time I went to the Royal Easter Show…
Bloke in side-show alley was spruiking thusly… “Get your bag of facts… Bag of facts only $2”.
I was intrigued, and thinking that $2 was probably a fair price to pay, I joined the queue and bought a bag.
As I wandered off, I peered into the brown paper bag and was shocked to see that the only thing in the bag was very large steaming turd.
Well, I strode straight back to the the spruiker to complain and said, “You sold me this bag of facts and when I opened it all it contained was this great big steaming turd!”
He looked at me and said, “That’s a fact.”
Ian said:
>>when his guide said, “probably a turd in a bag”Reminds me of the time I went to the Royal Easter Show…
Bloke in side-show alley was spruiking thusly… “Get your bag of facts… Bag of facts only $2”.
I was intrigued, and thinking that $2 was probably a fair price to pay, I joined the queue and bought a bag.
As I wandered off, I peered into the brown paper bag and was shocked to see that the only thing in the bag was very large steaming turd.
Well, I strode straight back to the the spruiker to complain and said, “You sold me this bag of facts and when I opened it all it contained was this great big steaming turd!”
He looked at me and said, “That’s a fact.”
Similarly, My neighbour sells name plates guaranteed to be any one you pick out of the lucky dip will have your name on it.. if it does, you pay $2 , if it doesn’t I’ll pay you $2..
all of the name tags in the bucket are engraved “your name”roughbarked said:
Similarly, My neighbour sells name plates guaranteed to be any one you pick out of the lucky dip will have your name on it.. if it does, you pay $2 , if it doesn’t I’ll pay you $2..
all of the name tags in the bucket are engraved “your name”
I don’t see the similarity.
Ian said:
roughbarked said:Similarly, My neighbour sells name plates guaranteed to be any one you pick out of the lucky dip will have your name on it.. if it does, you pay $2 , if it doesn’t I’ll pay you $2..
all of the name tags in the bucket are engraved “your name”I don’t see the similarity.
It is obviously a problem at your end and that’s a fact.
> It is obviously a problem at your end
…as my proctologist is wont to say.
His ad goes, “When your end zone is in the red zone……”