Ian Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I reckon at least 75% of kitchen roll/towel "applications" require less than a whole sheet. So ....I cut my rolls in half. I KNOW this is saving me money!BTW Intermarche is currently selling a 12 pack of kitchen rolls for €3.55 (this beats my usual supplier Lidl - who sell a 4 roll pack for €1.59) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Use a cloth and rinse it under the tap. Kitchen rolls have to be one of the cons of recent times. What do you think your granny used?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Why not split 2 ply toilet paper then fold each sheet in two for exactly the same effect [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Why not split two ply toilet paper in half then fold it....then use both sides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyC Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 [quote user="BIG MAC"]Why not split two ply toilet paper in half then fold it....then use both sides? [/quote] I believe the old rule was "one up, one down and a polisher"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyC Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 [quote user="cooperlola"]Use a cloth and rinse it under the tap. Kitchen rolls have to be one of the cons of recent times. What do you think your granny used?[:D][/quote]I'm sure you're right, but with 5 animals and costing less than a euro a week, kitchen paper is one of life's little luxuries I plan to keep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 [quote user="BIG MAC"]Why not split two ply toilet paper in half then fold it....then use both sides?[/quote]We stayed in a hotel in Thailand that did that, they employed someone to re-roll the seperated ply back on to the cardboard tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 If you shop around a few agricultural and autmotive suppliers, you can find very large rolls of kitchenroll equivelant, which work out much better value. It doesnt have pretty flowers printed on it, but its just as effective, and less likely to turn to mush when wet.I paid about 10 euros for a roll, which lasted me an entire season of cleaning the gites and my own house, with plenty left over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyC Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 [quote user="dave21478"]If you shop around a few agricultural and autmotive suppliers, you can find very large rolls of kitchenroll equivelant, which work out much better value. It doesnt have pretty flowers printed on it, but its just as effective, and less likely to turn to mush when wet.I paid about 10 euros for a roll, which lasted me an entire season of cleaning the gites and my own house, with plenty left over. [/quote] I'll have a look as I never buy the stuff with patterns anyway. I imagine that this would come as an enormous roll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 [quote user="KathyC"][quote user="BIG MAC"] Why not split two ply toilet paper in half then fold it....then use both sides? [/quote] I believe the old rule was "one up, one down and a polisher"![/quote] Didn't Chaucer decide a gooses neck was best or maybe it was a swan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Can you still get Izal Medicated I wonder, as I remember it worked by evaporation because it certainly wasn't very absorbent [:$][img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/1727674486_78e0a240ef.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Or, for those really bad days or after a night out at the vegetarian restaurant...........................[img]http://www.trade1st.co.uk/Resources/Images/161303b7-9b45-4052-8858-eea68a8ceb80.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 [quote user="ErnieY"]Can you still get Izal Medicated I wonder, as I remember it worked by evaporation because it certainly wasn't very absorbent [:$][img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/1727674486_78e0a240ef.jpg[/img][/quote]TRUE STORY....I knew a market trader that sold household goods. Plastic wear, washing up liquid, mops and stuff.He was very succesful and started some shops... until the taxman descended and presented him with an enormous estimated bill for under-paying tax.It was a large amount and he was not a happy chappy, he fought hard, they made his life a misery, eventually had to pay the majority of the estimate amount.Time went by and a few years later the tax man phoned him up and invited him into there office for a little chat. He was shaking in his boots as he thought they had it in for him and the nightmare was going to return.With trepidation he kept the meeting. He was very nervous and perturbed when the senior tax officer made some small talk then offered him tea and it came with biscuits. He was begining to sweat.After he had managed to drink the tea and munch on the nice biscuit the senior taxman uhmmed and ahhed and got down to it asking how business was. Not as good as was came the reply. Well perhaps we can help the taxman said.Mr Market Trader was incredulous they wanted to help me..Taxman said ' We thought of you...Do you sell toilet roll? Because we have just changed from Izal Medicated to soft two ply and have 500 cases unused, we thought you might make us an offer for it?'The market trader told him where he could stick his excess stock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Tracing Paper San Izal is about as much use as the starship enterprise...it always leaves a few Klingons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It was always known in he R.A.F. as the 'death of a thousand cuts'! That was if you didn't screw it up very tightly before applying!And!! Every sheet was printed with Government Issue! Not much has changed since the late 60s has it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 It was all our school used, but must have been the 'posh' version as ours had.... "Now wash your hands please" printed on it![:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 [quote user="Jo"]It was all our school used, but must have been the 'posh' version as ours had.... "Now wash your hands please" printed on it![:$][/quote]In my early days we had, "Dixon of Dock Green or Bill and Ben the flowerpot men" as we used pages of "The Radio Times" cut intofour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 http://www.cromwell.co.uk/static/publication/485/pages/1680.pdfI am sure there will be a French supplier.I drive past a big Kimberley Clark place in Rouen and I think they are in that line of business........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Good grief BM! That should keep you going!!!Are you sure that this isn't the comencement of a death by a thousand cuts??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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