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To ask ... how much bog roll do you get through (ish) in a week? Ps please quantify how many in family home for perspective

78 replies

AllRightNowInFactItsAGas · 17/10/2017 20:23

Please can you tell me how much toilet paper it is normal to expect humans to use in a week.

Please can you also tell me how many people are living there so I can see how we compare?

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Justgivemesomepeace · 17/10/2017 21:19

I buy a pack of 4 and it lasts the week. 4 of us but dp works away mon-fri. When he's home I buy a 9 pack. I have absolutely no idea what he does in there. He does start new rolls before the old ones ended just to annoy me a bit more .

OhSoggyBiscuit · 17/10/2017 21:19

1 roll a day sometimes in his household, we buy the big packs every few weeks!!

Raver84 · 17/10/2017 21:25

Here we use 9 roll of aldi. We cannot use the thick variety like andrex as everytime we do it blocks the toilet in out new house. So the rolls are thin and there six of us. 3 at home all day.

Ilovechocolate111 · 17/10/2017 21:26

2 rolls a day without a doubt as I seem to be the only one in this family of 5 to put the empty roll on the bin Grin

Katedotness1963 · 17/10/2017 21:27

Four of us in the house, we go through a pack of nine extra long rolls in a fortnight. Or is it a 12 packet?

Flarrot · 17/10/2017 21:28

One roll. Just me here and DD in nappies.

macnab · 17/10/2017 21:29

Family of 4 here, both of us work full time and kids are at school all day (but come home after school and are minded here)

I buy one 4-pack of toilet rolls per week

We definitely used to get through a lot more when I had periods, but have been on mini pill for a few years now and haven't had a period. I only made that connection recently!

ivykaty44 · 17/10/2017 21:31

It’s three girls here and atm one roll per bloody day.
It’s ridiculous and it’s my student lodger. Every year I have one in the autumn from the same country and they eat the loo rolls

When it’s just me and dd we get through three a week

Oh only stays some of the time and I make him 💩 in the outside loo

DrFoxtrot · 17/10/2017 21:32

Allright how many did you go through a week before he came to live with you?

I could go through a roll a day by myself Blush

KrytensNanobots · 17/10/2017 21:36

Bloody loads. It's about 4 or 5 rolls a week at the moment. (There's four of us.)
I don't know where it all goes. I think we have an invisible Andrex Puppy that runs off with it or something. Confused

BubblesBubblesBubbles · 17/10/2017 21:40

I buy a big 24 Asda pack (only stuff which doesn't block our loo Hmm)

Most months we have some left over some months we don't. 2 adults and 2 children dc2 has just potty trained tho so I suspect that at least one roll a week gets wasted!!

When dh is home for a week I always end up buying extra....

Frege · 17/10/2017 21:47

We hired portaloos when we got married and the portaloo man told me that some people do what he called "loo lining"- either lining the loo with paper before they go or filling the whole loo with scrumpled paper- in order to reduce noise (this is a big problem in the portaloo world, apparently). How much paper must such people get through? Bonkers.

mummyofmoomoos · 17/10/2017 21:50

Family of 5, two adults, one teenage dd, ds (5) and ds (4)- we somehow manage to get through 12-16 toilet rolls a week. I dont actually know how- suspect we have 12 lodgers i have never met with the loo roll usage, amount of washing and abnormally quckly emptied fridge Hmm

BriechonCheese · 17/10/2017 21:52

1 per person, per week is about what we seem to go through. I squish the toilet roll so it doesn't spin round on the spindle as fast.

I do remember my mother raising merry hell about the loo rolls disappearing around the time my brothers reached...erm...puberty.

Babyroobs · 17/10/2017 21:52

We are a family of 6 ( 2 adults 4 teenagers, 4 males 2 females). We get through at least one roll a day sometimes more it's ridiculous. I swear the teenagers use half a roll per dump.

QuackQuackDuck · 17/10/2017 21:54

1 roll lasts half a week here, but only me and DH use the toilet because DD (2) is still in nappies

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 17/10/2017 21:56

Family of 5, three under ten.

About a roll a day. I poo a lot but I work full time Grin

cazisalittlenuts · 17/10/2017 22:05

The 2 of us in my house can get through roughly 18 loo rolls a month. Just realised that sounds excessive but in our case, its because we seem to be prone to picking up every stomach bug possible, and an inordinate amount of stress induced bowel malfunctions.

MyWhatICallNameChange · 17/10/2017 22:07

6 of us, me and 4 teens and 10 yo. We go through 6 a week usually.

bridgetreilly · 17/10/2017 22:11

As a general rule, I'd say one per person per week, unless you're at home all the time (i.e. not at work/school etc.) in which case it'll be a bit more than that.

onlyonaTuesday · 17/10/2017 22:18

24 s month.
3 adults and a cat

bbpp · 17/10/2017 22:22

6 of us - probably one a day

AllRightNowInFactItsAGas · 17/10/2017 22:28

Thanking you all! This information is vital for our investigations Grin

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melj1213 · 17/10/2017 22:33

1-2 a week depending on if DD is with me or her dad

AllRightNowInFactItsAGas · 17/10/2017 22:35

me how much extra if she is with you?

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