For your math convenience:
Print this handy, dandy toilet paper conversion table and take it with you shopping next time. You might also want to take your calculator. You might also want to take a baseball bat to hit your head repeatedly. Or you could just use your shoe.
Can I just say…..WHY CHARMIN? Why is it necessary to produce 8 products that are actually just one product in variable sizes? It is like they invented their own world over there at The Charmin and things just got out of control. First they invented the “regular roll”. I may have not done proper research for this ground breaking piece of
So, they just named it. Then they thought…gee, I think it would be great to have something a twice the size, and then two and a half times the size and then FOUR TIMES THE SIZE. Stop the madness Charmin. Next thing we know we will be carting home big wheels of toilet paper the size of truck tires that are 64 times the size of the fictional regular roll.
Then they went on to price each roll differently. Then they went on to package each roll differently. Then they market their product to mommies that are suffering from sleep deprivation and can’t do advanced math in their heads standing in the paper product aisle at Target supervising three children who are independently making their own selections of plates, plastic spoons and cartoon character decorated paper towels while screaming loudly and calling for a game of hide and go seek. OH! And once you do choose your mega package (not to be confused with the mega roll which is 4 times the size of a regular roll)…it WILL NOT FIT IN THE CART. Just carry it under your arm while wrangling the three kids and pushing the cart (do I need to draw a picture?).
Conspiracy?
Let me just add this little tid-bit before you decide…Has anyone ever checked out Charmin’s math? Now, I don’t want the legal team of Charmin descending on the Nirvana, but I am just sayin’…
All that price-per-sheet math is exhausting. And impossible.
You should send this to the head of product development at Charmin. Seriously, you might get some free, ambiguous-quantity toilet paper out of it.
I’m a Quilted Northern gal myself. I never did appreciate that drug store clerk telling me I couldn’t squeeze the Charmin. Who does he think he is?
well i just compare the ‘cost per use’ or cost per unit on the walmart shelves to decide. if its something i’ll use all up, like tp, then its worth it to buy 12 rolls for 2 cents cheaper per roll than 4 rolls. i have 2 bathrooms. i’ve compared and of 2 sizes i would normally buy, they are within a penny of each other for the ‘same amount’ (in our area)..
I never new about any of those rolls.I only thought TP came in one size. Boy life with out a Target sure is dull.
I just go to Costco and buy the Kirkland brand. No math involved; that’s the way I like it.
Well, given that I’ve discovered we are down to just ONE roll to be divided between THREE bathrooms, more than ONCE (i.e. torn-off strips of t.p. are slung over the empty holder in 2 of 3 locations) until I can drag myself to the store to pick up more (usually being the expensive grocery store around the corner since it’s a semi-emergency), I think I could learn a thing or two from your post. I think I need the mega-roll package of four. No, wait, maybe I need the double roll package of 12. OK, better send me the chart. Or, better yet, can I borrow some T.P.?
Heee…I think Kleenex does the same thing with my favorite brand “Cottonell” Mega, super, double, extra ribbed….
This is too funny. How can you turn something like toilet paper into something hilarious? I’ll say it one last time, I want to live in your head for one day!
All I know is that there are exactly three things we can never ever run out of around here. They are wipes, diapers, and toilet paper. I make trips to Costco JUST for those items sometimes…
As for that “Charmin math”… is that just another way college didn’t prepare me for life 😛
Have you been following me around the grocery store? I think it takes me longer to decide which package is the better deal than it does to do the rest of my shopping.