Why is kitchen roll so bloody expensive?

[Tootsweetrodders]

First world problem obviously..

But why the mother fecking feck is kitchen roll SO expensive?!

Possibly it’s just me and my — Sunday evening, but drunk, doing the shopping on my phone app in front of shit telly - self…

@BarbaraofSeville - washable items rarely all get washed in separate loads though.
For example reusable nappies, we washed Ds nappies obviously, but the butt cloth wipes went in same wash, as did the muslin cloths he had thrown up on or the bibs he dribbled on, or baby poopy clothes. Even if you didn’t use reusable nappies, you would still have baby other things that needed washing. Regardless it went in one wash load.

I wash all our cleaning cloths in same load as towels. It all gets washed at 60 and is fine. If I didn’t wash cleaning cloths, that wash load would still exist for towel wash so it’s not saving anything by not using.

If we're adding one t-shirt a week, and your washing machine holds 20 t shirts, so let's say it's an additional 3 loads of laundry over a year? Let's say 30 loads over ten years. It won't be as much water and paper etc involved in buying paper towels for 10 years considering the fact that the treas must be cut down, the paper transported over the world and to supermarkets etc.

It's the same weirdness about people who seem to think that if you wash your dogs food bowl in the dishwasher, somehow it's going to contaminte the dishwasher and is gross and ewwwwwww

It's like... what makes them think their licked spoons are getting clean enough in a dishwasher to be used again, but that same dishwasher can't clean a bucket that has been in the garden for a day or two.

People are weird.

I don't use kitchen roll. I use washable cloths, most of which are rags. I find that old school polo shirts are excellent, as are fleeces! All get washed when needed, bleached as necessary (occasionally) & chucked when they are done.

For cat sick etc, I scoop up the most solid part 🤢 with a box or tub from the recycling. Then use a couple of squares of loo roll to wipe up the messy bit!

For absorbing oil from cooked food, I either tip it & scoop/pour the oil into a tub or have occasionally been known to place a slice of bread on top. This can then go out for the birds.

For absorbing water from things I let them drip on a rack and/or use a tea towel (non-fluffy) which will get washed.

For napkins, we have cotton ones.

For windows I use newspaper.

It doesn't create much extra washing, just goes in with towels & together, when needed.

For cat sick etc, I scoop up the most solid part 🤢 with a box or tub from the recycling. Then use a couple of squares of loo roll to wipe up the messy bit

Don't rush to mop up cat sick. In my experience, I've found if you give them a few minutes, most of the time they'll eat it again. This discovery was accidental btw, after spotting the cat sick, going to find something to wipe it up with, only to find it gone, or being eaten by the cat who deposited it there.

interesting, thank you

I don’t get why it’s more expensive than loo roll.

Because its triple layered ultra absorbant large sheets

This stuff is cheap and good

So are these and will last far longer than a pack of paper towels.