Are They Shortchanging Our Toilet Papers?

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 28, 2008 at 3:36 am


Eighty-one-year-old retiree Leo Hill got a nagging feeling that every roll of TP he’s used since mid-2006 didn’t last as long as they used to.

So, having a lot of time on his hand, he decided to investigate: by counting every sheet of toilet paper in a roll!

Hill figured he had the time, since there wasn’t much else to do but read or stare at the shower curtain. So he counted every sheet of toilet paper as he used it.

It wasn’t for any other reason, he said, than to know if the number of sheets noted on the package matched what was on the roll.

totals on a flattened inner tube from an expended roll, Hill said he kept meticulous track. Each day he’d count the number of sheets he needed — he limited the experiment to his Lakewood home’s basement bathroom because his wife won’t go there — then added it to his previous day’s tally.

By his count, the first roll was short by 15 sheets.

"You couldn’t prove anything from one roll," Hill admits, "so I counted them all."

At the end of the month, Hill said his nine-roll average was 156.75 sheets for the rolls of Angel Soft that promised 198 on the package.

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6 comments to "Are They Shortchanging Our Toilet Papers?"

  1. Knitterman
    January 28th, 2008 at 6:04 am

    Pretty much a no-brainer. A 4-pack of Charmin lasts me just over a week, maybe two. A 4-pack of Scott Tissue lasts me well over a month and a half. I don’t know (or care) if the Scott product actually has 1000 little squares per roll; I’m more concerned that there’s enough on the roll to be there when I need it.

  2. MoonCake
    January 28th, 2008 at 6:12 am

    for those of us who are not retired and have better things to do, this story is great proof of why you shouldn’t buy expensive toilet paper. not only that, but expensive toilet paper isn’t septic safe. then you can end up like the other old guy mentioned a while ago who spent his christmas sticking out of his own septic tank.

  3. unohav_1
    January 28th, 2008 at 7:38 am

    I may not know about the length of the rolls, but Charmin definitely is making theirs NARROWER. I noticed the change last summer while at the store, where they had old and new stock together. The rolls are nearly a full centimeter narrower than before. Tons of companies have pulled the same stunt for years. Ever notice canned goods being fractions or whole ounces less than they used to be? Edy’s ice cream (Dreyer’s in Texas) isn’t even a gallon anymore.

  4. Sid Morrison
    January 28th, 2008 at 8:01 am

    It’s those darned kids and their dog, I tells ya!

  5. Christophe
    January 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    They proposed a refund. He needs to give the paper sheets back ;)

  6. Kraka
    January 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    That’s some funny SH_T.


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