Comment by tolerance
3 days ago
Paper Towel stories:
I’ve started to determine the right package of paper towels to purchase according to the cents per square meter value. You can discern the quality of a deal at the grocery by referring to the ‘cents per X’ market located on price tag next to the marked price.
I’m beginning to turn sour on the ‘2 Jumbo-Mega-Rolls are the equivalent of 8 Super rolls’ scheme that’s en vogue. Are there retractable roll holders to accommodate for all of this?
It doesn’t help that many of these packages are priced and then marked down in ways to entice the buyer toward purchasing them instead of more reasonably priced and proportioned ones.
As mentioned in a sibling comment, weight might need to be accounted for too: thicker paper is more absorbant, but not linearly so.
So really, how absorbant the paper is should be the gold standard, so let's ask manufacturers to put that on the packaging?
With paper towel I have been thinking that the area might not be important, but the number of sheets would be. As long as they do not get too small. And then there is also the quality and if they are half or full. For some uses you just want the full.
It is complicated area. Not to even get to loo roll. Where I noticed that the ecological one I bought feels quality wise inferior to normal one. And this is premium type of stuff. So it sits between the premium and cheap, but more on premium end.
The worst is that the assumption that the greater quantity is cheaper per unit, but for some reason that's not always true so you have to sit there and do the math in order to get the best deal.
Since not all paper is of the same thickness, shouldn't you compare "weight per price"?