So glad someone has noticed they are THINNING these - for some time I've noticed tissues tear when you sneeze into them and you need several sheets every time you wipe your backside. And the really annoying attachment of caps to bottle tops (I first noticed this ages ago in Europe) which cut your nose off when drinking or affect the stream when you pour them so the contents go all over the place - not in the glass.

Yes toilet tissues tear in use more frequently than previously, leading to the need for extra vigilant hand-washing, and the avoidance, I would strongly recommend, of shaking hands as a form of greeting or contractual sealment...

Wyot wrote:
Yes toilet tissues tear in use more frequently than previously, leading to the need for extra vigilant hand-washing, and the avoidance, I would strongly recommend, of shaking hands as a form of greeting or contractual sealment...

We use to buy the jumbo packs from Waitrose; now each roll is half the size from a few months ago.

Yet, the prices go up. Penquin bars are are getting smaller.

Green Man wrote, "We use to buy the jumbo packs from Waitrose; now each roll is half the size from a few months ago. Yet, the prices go up. Penquin bars are are getting smaller."

Misquote U.$. Rep Pre$ RayGun, "The (fraud) market is the problem, not the solution."

the new scam is making the product smaller in the slightly smaller packaging (cereal is one) for the same price.

Best place to buy toilet rolls is in bulk at Costco. I need to, I'm a 5 times a day person. God knows how or why but it seems that's at the upper end of within normal range from anything down to a couple of times a week.

Shrinkflation is a modern dishonest menace from manufacturers. They really do think people are stupid and don't notice. I always check weights and sizing on packets like a hawk. They trick you with packets looking the same size with less content. Some people just go with the visual. One modern trick with sweets is these "pouches" they sell them in nowadays where you can't see the content. These pouches are half filled with air that gives the illusion of more.

Going back to toilet rolls though, and there is an ever bigger mystery about them.......

Why can't you buy toilet rolls in pink, peach, blue, or green anymore? I think you could even get purple once. But no more. Only white anywhere and everywhere, yet I remember my mum picking coloured rolls to match the bathroom decor and the downstairs toilet, in pinks and blues at least until the 1990's.

We've never had more consumer choice but not when it comes to our backsides, unless you want it quilted!

Amazing how many have read and contributed to this thread.

Rich wrote:
Best place to buy toilet rolls is in bulk at Costco. I need to, I'm a 5 times a day person. God knows how or why but it seems that's at the upper end of within normal range from anything down to a couple of times a week.

Shrinkflation is a modern dishonest menace from manufacturers. They really do think people are stupid and don't notice. I always check weights and sizing on packets like a hawk. They trick you with packets looking the same size with less content. Some people just go with the visual. One modern trick with sweets is these "pouches" they sell them in nowadays where you can't see the content. These pouches are half filled with air that gives the illusion of more.

Going back to toilet rolls though, and there is an ever bigger mystery about them.......

Why can't you buy toilet rolls in pink, peach, blue, or green anymore? I think you could even get purple once. But no more. Only white anywhere and everywhere, yet I remember my mum picking coloured rolls to match the bathroom decor and the downstairs toilet, in pinks and blues at least until the 1990's.

We've never had more consumer choice but not when it comes to our backsides, unless you want it quilted!

The dyes they use for coloured bum paper was both bad for the waterways and carcinogenic.

I remember my mother buying pink for my sisters and blue for me.

I never get why there is scented paper like coconut.

In some house holds there is more females and than males, like me when I was growing. One roll wouldn't last the day.

I do remember medicated bum paper in hospitals.

Rich wrote:

Why can't you buy toilet rolls in pink, peach, blue, or green anymore? I think you could even get purple once. But no more. Only white anywhere and everywhere, yet I remember my mum picking coloured rolls to match the bathroom decor and the downstairs toilet, in pinks and blues at least until the 1990's.


You can buy them with someone's face on them..Trump's for instance but there may be also Biden toilet paper and soon possibly Kamala paper soon.

## I've notice MAGA fans holding up signs saying : "Cum Allah"

Sounds like you have IBD not IBS, Rich.

I don't buy crisps, I can't stand them but my partner always moan that there is more air than crisps in the packet.

However my Penquin bars have shrunk along with Wagon Wheels.

Rich wrote:
Best place to buy toilet rolls is in bulk at Costco. I need to, I'm a 5 times a day person. God knows how or why but it seems that's at the upper end of within normal range from anything down to a couple of times a week.

Shrinkflation is a modern dishonest menace from manufacturers. They really do think people are stupid and don't notice. I always check weights and sizing on packets like a hawk. They trick you with packets looking the same size with less content. Some people just go with the visual. One modern trick with sweets is these "pouches" they sell them in nowadays where you can't see the content. These pouches are half filled with air that gives the illusion of more.

Going back to toilet rolls though, and there is an ever bigger mystery about them.......

Why can't you buy toilet rolls in pink, peach, blue, or green anymore? I think you could even get purple once. But no more. Only white anywhere and everywhere, yet I remember my mum picking coloured rolls to match the bathroom decor and the downstairs toilet, in pinks and blues at least until the 1990's.

We've never had more consumer choice but not when it comes to our backsides, unless you want it quilted!

They stopped selling the coloured ones because the dyes had become irritating to women.
Now they torment us with perfume and lotion instead.

Why not kill two birds with one stone and wipe your bum on a penguin wrapper

I think I read about the bottle tops a few months ago.

Seems the plastic bottles without tops float on the sea while if the top is on they sink.

They don't seem to advertise toilet rolls on TV anymore do they. Come to think of it, why did it ever need advertising, we all needed it. I can't even recall when I last saw the Andrex puppy for instance.

Toilet roll is not alone. So many of the household basics that always got heavily advertised on TV a few years ago do not seem to be anymore, such as soap and toothpaste. Headache pills used to get lots of advertising on TV as well. Teabags is another. Even various brands of petrol, such as Esso or Shell. I'm sure others here can add a few more items. I wonder why this has happened.

Rich wrote:
They don't seem to advertise toilet rolls on TV anymore do they. Come to think of it, why did it ever need advertising, we all needed it. I can't even recall when I last saw the Andrex puppy for instance.

Toilet roll is not alone. So many of the household basics that always got heavily advertised on TV a few years ago do not seem to be anymore, such as soap and toothpaste. Headache pills used to get lots of advertising on TV as well. Teabags is another. Even various brands of petrol, such as Esso or Shell. I'm sure others here can add a few more items. I wonder why this has happened.

Tampon/Tampax ads are cringe, I am women know what to do and most had a chat when they kids with their peers.

I hate that ads now either use old songs with new lyrics for the product, not forgetting how loud they are compared to programme you are watching.

Added diversity in ads are getting way out of hand.