toilet rolls ? best way of saving

QueenB.

Ok i am still working on this issue, both to save pennies and to help the enviroment.

I buy the recycled rolls, and stock up when on offer.

However my kids seem to not understand that a mile of loo roll is not needed for their visits. Tried the squishing of the roll but doesn't seem to have stopped the disappearing paper situation.

scrimperjan

The toilet paper like tracing paper was Izal Medicated...I remember it well. I just googled it and guess what? You can still get it - though only on a roll now, not as separate sheets in a box.

scrimperjan

And I remember (you've got me going now) the outside 'toilet' at my grandma's smallholding. The toilet paper was old copies of the Farmer's Weekly, torn into quarters, with a hole made in one corner so that it could be threaded onto a piece of string. The toilet itself was just a big bucket under a seat made from a plank of wood with a hole in it. You had to check for bluebottles before you sat down!

black-saturn

scrimperjan wrote:

The toilet paper like tracing paper was Izal Medicated...I remember it well. I just googled it and guess what? You can still get it - though only on a roll now, not as separate sheets in a box.

You can still buy that in Tesco.

chloe99_2

you would think that my sons eats toilet roll as we now go through about 3 rolls a week (2 adults and one 6 yr old) once I found a stash of 9 rolls hidden under his bed. he regularly accidentally drops the whole roll in the toilet so I have to bin it.

anyway - call me mean, but the best solution I have found by far is to take the loo roll off its holder and store it in a childproof cupboard/shelf within adult reach of the toilet. we then leave a strip of 3 sheets on the toilet rol holder all the time (ie replenish when it's used up) for DS to use. if he needs more he has to ask and usually we find that the 3 is enough even though he'd take a good dozen if he got it himself.

It was when we introduced this that he made a stash under his bed, and I also find them stuffed singly into the pipe box and also one behind the ubend (I guess it's his emergency supply!!!! )

black-saturn

3 rolls a week is great. I use about 5 and I'm 1 adult and 2 children.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

the junior school where my kids go.... the school budget is very limited like a lot of schools around the place....and every year..... they go over budget.... so what they have started doing..... the toilet roll is in the secretary's office.... which is opp... the toilets...... so when the kiddies want to go...

they got to go into the secretary's office for some loo roll.......

so chloe99.....idea as well as what they do in the school is a good way to stop the kids...doing an impression of the andrex advert:D

also slightly off topic.. the school also issues one pen on the day they start.....if your pen runs out of ink they will exchange it for a new one...... if you loose it you got to pay 30p for another one.... good idea i think.. makes children look after.... plus saving costs..and being green...

Raffles_3

I have just received the Viking Direct stationery catalogue, and they are selling 36 200 sheet rolls for £8.49. That makes one roll cost 28p allowing for VAT. Or 23p if you are in the situation where you can claim VAT back.

Their website is http://www.vikingwelcome.co.uk

If you order more than £30 worth, they will deliver next day.

calleyw

Raffles wrote:

I have in the past bought kitchen paper and sawed it in half to make toilet paper. Whether this is more economical or not remains to be seen.

Not when you have to call a plumber to come and unblock your drains because you have used kitchen roll.

People seem to think that it ok to stick down the loo rather like monthly items and face wipes. They are not designed to go down the loo it says so on the packet.

If you ever watched the life of grim on the TV. They said that they got called out loads of times because people had run out of loo paper and used kitchen roll instead.

Also if you don't have that good a plumbing even using luxury qulited loo rolls can block up your drains.


Yours


Calley

Sarahsaver

Mum wad a war baby, born 1938. One of her jobs as a child was to thread squares of newspaper on to a string to hang on the back of the privvy door.
There are quite a few free newspapers about these days...;)