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loo roll

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incandescentglow · 03/05/2025 00:16

evening wise mumsnetters

ive been thinking tonight about loo roll useage (happy bank holiday i hope yours is as thrilling as mine) and i was wondering how long it takes for one person to use up one toilet roll

i will be the first to admit im heavy handed with a loo roll i do use too much BUT I am currently house/pet sitting for a family friend for two weeks and they have left me three loo rolls... 3 loo rolls for 2 weeks, they have vastly underestimated me haven't they

so say you were living alone, how long would one loo roll last you id like to know how off piste i am

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Maggiethecat · 05/05/2025 06:57

LillyPJ · 05/05/2025 06:53

@Maggiethecat I use a 'comfotable ball' of tissue if I'm in a hotel or public loo. At home, it's two sheets of good quality 3ply folded into three layers.

cross posted with you @LillyPJ so my post about the elderly lady wasn’t a response to yours.
I doubt that this lady has a technique in folding/wiping her 2 squares or she’s getting it very wrong bless her.

Maggiethecat · 05/05/2025 06:54

My sister is looking after an elderly lady whom she was dismayed to learn had filth under her fingernails.
She realised that the lady only uses 2 squares of loo roll after a poo 😳

LillyPJ · 05/05/2025 06:53

@Maggiethecat I use a 'comfotable ball' of tissue if I'm in a hotel or public loo. At home, it's two sheets of good quality 3ply folded into three layers.

IwasDueANameChange · 05/05/2025 06:48

How the fuck are people peeing every 15 mins? Surely that doesn't even count as continent??

Maggiethecat · 05/05/2025 06:45

I’m currently away on my own for 4 nights and have the chance to consider my sole usage. One roll was left in the rented apartment I’m in and I bought a pack of four Andrex rolls of which I have two full rolls left.
therefore, I’ve gone through three rolls in 2 1/2 days, so more than 1 per day!
I’m not ill or going to the loo excessively so I can only presume that this is my normal usage.
i never wipe just once though and I like to have a comfortable ball of tissue when I wipe.

LillyPJ · 05/05/2025 06:30

@Christ0nABike I saw the other thread too. I actually use less loo roll now even though I go more often. One wipe is often enough now but never used to be!

Christ0nABike · 04/05/2025 23:01

incandescentglow · 04/05/2025 22:46

i have done my market research and have concluded that one roll every 2 days is sufficient
some of you will be aghast at that but you worry about your bottoms and ill worry about mine

We use 2-3 rolls per week for a household of 4 people (2 adults, 2 teenagers)

Mind you, I was gobsmacked at the recent poo regularity thread - some people going 3 times a day, others once every 3 weeks. Who knew!

Original poster
incandescentglow · 04/05/2025 22:46

i have done my market research and have concluded that one roll every 2 days is sufficient
some of you will be aghast at that but you worry about your bottoms and ill worry about mine

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The13thFairy · 04/05/2025 12:17

About 2 weeks.

Ginmonkeyagain · 04/05/2025 11:00

HerNextDoorAgain · 03/05/2025 01:56

Meanwhile, in an alternative place: AIBU to be offended that the person I’m house sitting for left me 24 loo rolls for three weeks. Do they think I’m a dirty arsed shitting machine?

Ha ha! Last year four of us (all adults).stayed in an Airbnb in Boston and there was a single half roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. Our host mesaged to check everything was fine and we had found the key safe ok. I replied saying it was all great but could she recommend a nearby grocery shop as we needed to get more loo roll.

We went out exploring and came back later thay day to find pack of twelve loo rolls left outside the door, "very kind" I thought "but a bit over the top, we are only here for three days". The next day, when hunting for the iron, I found a pack of 24 loo rolls in the hall cupboard. Poor woman must have thought we had all been immediately struck down with the terrible shits or something 🫣

intrepidpanda · 04/05/2025 10:51

Chickenwing2 · 04/05/2025 06:46

i think if you use less than 1 every 3/4 days you are not wiping properly. Ew.

If you wipe and the paper is clean and you are dry, why would you need more wiping.

BobbyBiscuits · 04/05/2025 10:38

XenoBitch · 03/05/2025 00:41

My mum has a cleaning company, and during Covid, people were stealing loo roll from offices all the time.

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That makes sense. Less people in the office, nobody has enough bog roll at home...your mum could've made a fortune on the second hand toilet paper market!

Caravaggiouch · 04/05/2025 06:59

We buy the “double roll” length ones, and a pack of 4 of those lasts 2 adults and 1 child 2 weeks on average in our house. But we’re generally all out all day most weekdays.

Myblueclematis · 04/05/2025 06:54

I probably get through at least 2 per week but I have days when I might go three or four times and others when I just go once or not at all.

My friend has IBD and I know she goes through a roll every couple of days as she can sometimes go six or seven times on bad days.

Chickenwing2 · 04/05/2025 06:46

i think if you use less than 1 every 3/4 days you are not wiping properly. Ew.

Iamacatslave · 03/05/2025 21:57

tight-arse’s!

HÆLTHEPAIN · 03/05/2025 21:57

susiedaisy1912 · 03/05/2025 09:39

Pee and poop obviously but then I blow
nose, clean and dry my ears after a shower, dry my glasses after washing them, wrap up my used panty liner to put in the bin. It’s very versatile is bog roll 😁

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I’m another one who goes through loads. I have an overactive bladder and IBS and we use roughly one of the double length Sainsbury’s ones a day, with me using the majority. I also use it for wrapping a liner and a quick wipe round of the loo, as well as the glasses cleaning and nose blowing! I used to buy branded stuff but it cost a fortune!!!

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 03/05/2025 21:50

I can easily get through a roll every 2 days. I have IBS though.

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incandescentglow · 03/05/2025 21:50

Mossstitch · 03/05/2025 16:23

I can answer this definitively being equally sad on a bank holiday weekend as I read it recently on a bamboo toilet roll packet😂..........the average person in the uk gets through 127 rolls a year🚽🧻

LOL
see that makes me feel better cause i’d say that’s probably around about my usage?? i think
i simply don’t understand how people can use one a month surely they can’t be drinking enough

also think it’s a lot to do with how social you are, if you’re out the house a lot and using other people’s loos then it makes sense to barely use any at home, i’m a homebody so i tend to stay at home a lot hence use my own loo a lot more

less of the loo roll shaming people please it’s a very subjective topic, let people wipe as they please

OP posts:
Mum2jenny · 03/05/2025 21:44

1 roll for 2 adults per week, only one wfh.

professionalnomad · 03/05/2025 21:40

Wash yourself and then dry with a bit of loo roll. See your usage reduce dramatically and also improve your hygeine

FLOWER19833 · 03/05/2025 21:00

susiedaisy1912 · 03/05/2025 05:49

I use one loo roll every 24 hours on my own.

Me too, i pee like every 15 min

Princesssuperstar · 03/05/2025 19:58

But surely you'll get them some basics for coming home? Loo roll, milk, bread etc
I've always done that so they don't have to shop after a long journey

Ragamuffin8 · 03/05/2025 18:09

I live alone. 1 roll a week when I was in the office in the week, 2 rolls now I’m working from home.

DJSteves · 03/05/2025 17:38

Anyone using a roll a day needs a bum gun