I've often wondered while I was in the super market looking at toilet paper and you see the different sizes and classes of rolls: cheap one ply, regular, double, super size, and the prices go up accordingly. But what I've always wondered about a double roll is am I paying for more sheets, more quality, or what? It just seems to me that if I'm gonna pay twice as much for a double roll why not just buy two single rolls? So by telling just how many sheets you have and numbering the sheets, that's be the best idea I could see put into practice in a long time.

Thunderbox - I like your idea of a countdown to disasster. You'd certainly know when you'd had a million wiper.

I reckon someone could make a fortune if they patented TP that had sheet numbers.

I need a fortune. I'll get right on it.

IF you look closely at some of the packaging that claims you get more sheets per roll...take notice of the dimensions...the WIDTH of the roll is shrinking...you really aren't getting any more paper, you are actually getting less, counting square footage. The old standard was a square sheet, 4.5" x 4.5"...now its 4.5" (or less, lengthwise) x 4" or even 3.75" width. Most folks make the adjustment from square to rectangle pretty smoothly, but I have to confess, I was thrown completely out of whack, thus my propensity for wiping with felines.

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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

This sounds like a good thing. Some consumer information can be misleading here in the USA.
Several years ago I discovered a snack cake in a vending machine where I was working that was astonishingly low in both calories and carbohydrates. I was eating one every until I read the nutritional label a little more closely and discovered the recommended serving size was only half of the cake. Who the fuck buys a small cake and only eats half of it.

Another way some businesses obey the law without really telling you what you want to know is by giving you a comparison price in units that are really inappropriate. For instance I have seen the price of many items displayed in ounces rather than pounds. Fish for instance, 16.4587364 cents per ounce. Who the fuck buys an ounce of fish, I must take a pocket calculator with me when I shop now.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Chief, not to derail, but you might be proud to know that they had Moon Pies in Kotzebue Ak.
I couldn't get a fucking bagel or a piece of pizza, but they had Moon Pies. (And I didn't eat just half)

I'm clearly in the camp of total length on the roll, not the number of sheets. As the Bilgemeister points out, it's just too easy to "short sheet" the roll by changing the dimensions of the sheet. Width of the sheets seems to be a uniform industry standard, as evidenced by the fact that you never see any markings for things like "for 4.0 inch hangars". That really means that, if they want to cut down the size of the sheet, they'll have to go with decreasing the length of the sheet.

Anyway, at least they're not doing the unit pricing on square feet or on pounds. How difficult would it be to know the value of the crapper paper if it were selling for $1.40/lb.?
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My special need's student crapped in your honor roll student's backpack.

How does that whole feline thing work anyway, Bilgeman? Do you wash the cats or do you just go to the local animal shelter and pick up a new batch when the current crop has been sufficiently soiled?
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My special need's student crapped in your honor roll student's backpack.

Swirlies, DP...have to flush anyway, right?
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

If people really want to get serious about saving money then they should add hand held Hand Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all their bathrooms. Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.

There is some difference between single- and double-ply t.p.. With single-ply (Scott's, Marcal), I most often use 4 sheets for the first double pass, 3 for the second, and 3 for the third and last. Very rarely we get double-ply, or I find and use some at a friend's house or a store. For the double-ply I find I can get by with 3 sheets, then 2 and 2. Thus the ratio per b.m. is 10:7 sheets used, which is nowhere near 2:1. The double-ply is more luxuriang, but it also sometimes comes apart or leaves dingleberries that the single-ply does not.

Regarding the actual question raised: For me, unless the price per 100 sheets on the 2-ply is less than 10/7 the comparable price for 1-ply, the 1-ply is the better deal.

My wife says length and quality are both important. But then again, I don't think she's talking about terlet paper. Or me.

I think length is just as important as quality. In my house we go through like 2 rolls a day of the expensive soft stuff. But the super thin million sheets of the cheap stuff that rips your asshole apart on a million wiper seems to last for weeks.
All toilet paper should have to be soft but yet firm enough to protect from rippage, super absorbant, have a million triple ply sheets per roll,be numbered to protect from moments of running out, and still be cheap. It should be a law or some shit.
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Earth, insane asylum for the universe.

While this may be important, I try to poop at work for three reasons.....1) I get paid while I do it 2) I use their TP and 3) I use their water. So, I make money three ways !

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I think i just shit an upside down pine cone.

Indeed this site is hilarious! I couldnt stop from laughing after reading the page about itchy ass.
We Filipinos wash our ass (well, supposedly!) with soap and water after we poo, then wipe it dry with tissue or cloth. I dont know which asses are more itchy, those which are washed or wiped only with tissue? Shall we conduct a survey? (lol!)enjoykamotlubot!