I think it is a toss-up. I’ve been trying to decide - If I were to go on a ride (or need my emergency supplies or even food storage) I would take…. (have you ever played that game? I can’t decide if I would want water or toilet paper first. I suppose it would depend on how much water I had been drinking before the need for toilet paper arises?
I decided to write about both this week. Most other food storage reference tables do not provide ANY information about how much toilet paper you should keep on hand and keep in stock. (Is it that you don’t realize it until you are out? Maybe that is why I am concerned about it right now - we are almost out. How do you like that confession?)
Anyway, I am going to venture an educated guess - please FEEL FREE TO HELP EDIT AND COMMENT on this educated guess of how much toilet paper (tp) one should keep on hand for our “emergency” supply. If you are male, you would need less tp than if female. So, I am going to venture that each male per household should have at least 24 rolls. Each female should have 52 rolls of their favorite tp to last a year. I am guessing 1 roll for every 2 weeks per male and 1 roll a week per female.
What do you think?
(Well talk more about water tomorrow.)
May 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
i just found your blog — very interesting — i wish i had a good budget for it since we are starting from scratch. i also wish i had a boche(sp) so my bread would mix in 5 min and not have to kill my wrists kneading for 20 min. only to get loaves that are two and a half inches tall and heavy as a rock. i used to make good bread — i don’t know what happened since BG. Humidity? Hormones? Oven issues? Who knows.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I would like to know this also. I recently bought coupons on eBay for tp and combined them with a sale from Albertsons… I got it all for about $0.06 a package. Hopefully this will last me a year… but my kids are small and wasteful, so maybe it won’t.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
You can make bread that is lighter and nicer and only knead it for 5 minutes - even by hand - if you use spelt!
I think I will focus here soon on how to do food storage on $5.00/week.