Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 05, 2018

Does this kid (and the cartoonist for that matter) not understand that paper products are nonperishable? If you have the option and you’re not moving any time soon or something like that, it’s obviously better to save money by buying in bulk.

It’s the modern day version of 8-packs of hot dogs vs. 12 packs of buns.

Bigger and bigger merchandise with smaller apartments and closets.

Somehow we go through a whole roll of t.p. every day. There are two of us, I’m only using a couple feet a day, if that, she isn’t living in the bath room… where is it going?

It is called optimism, I believe I will live long enough to use it all.

If we’re still striving for a ‘paperless world,’ then . . . UH OH!!

If it’s just before Halloween, and the purchaser looks under twenty, there is no reason to wonder….

Maybe somebody should write a … paper about it.

If everyone in the world had to live with a septic tank, we’d all learn to use much less tp.

They have room and they know they’ll always need it. What’s the issue?

It’s called saving money and avoiding frequent trips to the store by buying in bulk. It’s really that simple, Frazzlet.

We live in the city and don’t have a car. Once a year I buy the 24-pack and carry it home on the bus.

Some people need more TP than others. I’ll let you figure out why.

Investing in an electric bidet saves a lot of TP.

Yup, why buy something weekly that you can buy quarterly?

Movie idea: “Mad Max” but about toilet paper instead of gasoline.

(deep portentous voice): “In a world without hygiene . . .”

Could it possibly be that some people have more than 1.8 children?

The COSTCO crowd…

I buy as much as I can store! That way, I don’t run out, and I don’t have to keep buying it. ( And, BTW, I only have two cats.)

There’s always this solution (stolen from a currently running TV ad for insurance) — “I just meditate and it goes away…”

With a wife and twin daughters, a 24 roll of Costco’s best lasts longer now that the girls are away at university.

My only haiku:

How to hang TP:

Loose end over front of roll

Unless you have cats.

Definitely a prepper. And most people think it is only about food and water…

Frazz’ tp has an expiration date.

Square or round bale? square is easier to stack in the pole barn.

You’ll find out just how loose the plastic around the paper towels and/or TP is if the room you store it in gets flooded. You’d be amazed how much rolls of ANYthing swell up. BTDT.

Some other guesses to throw in there: Paper towel people may have kids. TP people may have large families. Both may just like buying in bulk so they don’t have to shop for those things every single week. I used to buy TP in bulk when I was a BJ and Costco member. It saved a lot of unnecessary trips to the store. The TP would last us a couple of months or so, IIRC.

Not cats. How many young children?

Didn’t Mallet do a comic at one point joking about how there’s not really any other /option/ on how to buy tp? Seems like a step backwards.

So now I’m thinking back to the olden days of yesteryear when the stuff was called “bathroom tissue” in TV ads. I remember (as a lad of but five summers) being confused by that term.

They’re probably just going to Puerto Rico to hand them out and tell people to “have fun”.

Some of them, I’m afraid, are shopping for relatives who are 100 years old and still insist on living at home.

Some of those paper towel ‘bales’ should come with wheels and a little handle to pull with. If they added a small motor, then you could ride them around the store.

Frazz20 hrs ·

There’s a Costco not far from my house that I hear is pretty nice. By which I mean I hear that all Costcos are nice, and I believe it. And I’ve read that they actually conduct business relatively responsibly and ethically (“relatively” being an important word when talking about business ethics, alas). But I’ve never gone there because I live in a two-person household and I get the impression stuff is sold in quantities more suited to the quartermaster for an aircraft carrier. And it’s not so much that I think I’d go there and only be able to buy stuff in huge quantities. It’s that I’m pretty sure I WOULD, that I’d get in the store and it would make perfect sense to me to do so until I got out to the car and couldn’t fit my 15-year supply of dryer sheets into the hatchback. Why do I suspect this? Here, let me find a note pad and write it down. I don’t need to find a desk. I’ll just use the bale of paper towels I bought last time I went to a store that was bigger than Trader Joe’s but wasn’t even anywhere close to a Costco.

What about having cats makes someone buy a huge package of paper towels?

Something else we tend to do with bulk items is split them with other family members—they take half and we take half. Saves money. I have a family of 4; 6 when my mum and her boyfriend stay with us. That’s a lot of people in one house. I also have 2 cats and a dog—not sure what I would be using paper towel or tp for, in regards to them…