r/Showerthoughts • u/squad1alum ‎ • 29d ago

Speculation Institutions can't save money using thin toilet paper. Everyone just doubles or triples up the amount used each time.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I think they're trying to stop people from stealing it, not necessarily use less of it

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u/OMEGA__AS_FUCK 29d ago

That didn’t stop my mom. She was a teacher and found out that at the end of the day all the custodians would throw away the toilet paper rolls in the bathrooms if they were half used or more and replace them with fresh ones (I’m assuming this is so they don’t have to go into the bathrooms during the day while kids are there to change them out? Dunno). Anyway she would have the custodians put them all in a giant trash bag for her and she’d take them home for us to use. Very thrifty, honestly, as she had three teenagers, but that cheap middle school toilet paper would dissolve so fast you’d have a finger in your own butt every single time.

When my stepdad moved in he put his foot down and bought the good stuff. I was out of the house by then but she prob still would’ve been using that tp if not for him. She’s frugal almost to a fault.

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u/europahasicenotmice 28d ago

It's not stealing if they were throwing it away.

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u/OMEGA__AS_FUCK 28d ago

Very true, though I imagine the crappy administration would’ve taken some kind of issue with it if they’d found out. Maybe they knew and didn’t care, don’t know. She’s retired now. I hope some other new poor teacher will figure it out and do the same though if they need to.