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Toilet Roll Argument

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Anyone who just walked through Tesco's and saw a couple and a young child arguing in the toliet roll aisle...that was us.

Come on, tell me I'm in the right here - the Luxury stuff works out at 12p per 100 sheets whilst the Tesco's Value "own label" stuff works out at 4p per 100 sheets. Tried to point out the economy and common sense of it but my wife and daughter were having none of it so I've bought some for myself to prove to them that it's not such a hardship

Is there really any justification in paying THREE TIMES MORE for something that...well, we all know what it does...

The luxury stuff doesn't even feel that different! Honestly, are all you women sucked in by slick advertising / brainwashing and a bit of fancy packaging?
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  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    Swap them over and see if they notice.
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  • Frugal_Fox
    Frugal_Fox Posts: 1,002 Forumite
    Okay - fair point.... but are the 'squares' of the roll the same length? Will you need 'more' to do the job?

    Anyway - I buy recycled......
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  • hobo28
    hobo28 Posts: 1,601 Forumite
    LOL.

    The luxury stuff tends to be a bit softer and less likely to rip IMHO

    That said, I'm with you on the fact the value stuff is best value (pardon the pun).

    What we do in this house is use value for the main bathroom the kids use and luxury in our en-suite. Thats cos the kids seem to use half a roll per visit!!!! And before any one says it, they were using half a roll even before we switched to value.
  • Jay-Jay_4
    Jay-Jay_4 Posts: 7,351 Forumite
    Oooh I was a loo roll snob just like your wife :j In fact I have posted on these very boards the reasons that luxury bog roll is better than value bog roll and I believed it too, for years in fact.

    I was buying the double velvet kinds of rolls and was going through 4 in a week, constantly running out, constantly having to nip out and buy more, constantly getting annoyed that my family were using too much and flushing our money down the loo (especially as hubby uses half a roll each morning blowing his nose!)

    On a whim one day I bought Asda Smartprice loo roll and found that the 12 rolls for a quid lasted blummin ages, my botty didn't complain and no one else in the family complained either.

    Since then I buy a pack about every three weeks for £1.14. That's pretty good in my opinion and I won't be going back to luxury loo rolls.

    (The same applies for Bounty kitchen roll and Asda SP kitchen roll... totally converted)

    Yours sincerely,

    JJ
    (ex loo roll snob :D )
    Just run, run and keep on running!

  • justruth
    justruth Posts: 770 Forumite
    I did a test, 1 month I used Tesco's nicer stuff, the next I used tescos value. Although your wife is right that the nicer stuff does last longer, I spent more altogether on the nicer than the Value stuff, as even with running out sooner, the cost of the nicer stuff is that much higher that the Value actually is value.

    Before anybody else points it out, yes, I did have a lot of time on my hands and i was extremely bored to experiment with loo roll. Further details of my spending experiments will be revealed upon request.
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  • meerustar
    meerustar Posts: 8,560 Forumite
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  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
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    I always buy the cheapest economy loo roll I can buy. I think a lot of people who are very economy minded make an exception with loo roll but I cant see why. I really dont notice the difference and would rather have the money.
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  • ben500
    ben500 Posts: 23,192 Forumite
    Tesco value toilet roll isn't fit to wipe your @rse with.:rotfl:
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  • MoJo
    MoJo Posts: 545 Forumite
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    ben500 wrote:
    Tesco value toilet roll isn't fit to wipe your @rse with.:rotfl:

    :rotfl:

    I'm sat here remembering Izal :eek: my gran used to have it - there was a rough side and a shiny side :confused:
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