Toilet Paper Math?
Have you ever looked at the tp aisle and looked at all the options, but ended up frustrated, just grabbing one and leaving? We’ve all been there. In today post I hopefully will break it down to really see what is up with the weird math tp has.
Picture above from Merideth at Perfection Pending
The brands I will be comparing are Chamin and Angel Soft, budget or store brands Charmin essentials, Great Value, and Dollar Tree.
Each brand has a different size for the “regular roll” size. When you multiply and divide back down to a single roll size each is different. What I like to look at is the sheets per roll no matter if it’s regular, double, mega, super…. whatever the size.
The first brand is Charmin Ultra Soft at my local Walmart the price for this is $12.97
Next is the Charmin Essentials at my local Walmart this is $9.94
Next is Angel Soft my Walmart price is $9.97
Walmart Great Value brand price is $10.72
The last one is Dolar Tree price is $1.00
Dollar Tree tp only comes in a 4 roll pack, but buying 3 will give you 12 rolls for $3.00.
All brands square size is 4 by 4 and is 2 ply.
All brands I compared except dollar tree were 12 rolls equal 48 regular rolls. This is the math that’s hard… Look at the roll sizes!
When I am buying tp, I look for the one that gives me the most sheets per price and we really only go thru about 3 240 sheet rolls a week.
There is no way these are MEGA rolls, some of them are not even a double roll. If you math it out for regular roll based on the package each brand single roll would be very small… except Angel Soft impressively has almost double the sheets of 3 of these tps.
