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Buy wholesale/by the case

Submitted by Hilary on February 29, 2008 - 12:33.

I buy my toilet paper, paper towels and tissues by the case. These are things that you know eventually over time you're going to use and the price is better than even the lowest low I've seen in the store.

Granted I started doing this because my parent's business sells these for businesses but they sell to the general public as well. Some of it may be brands that you see in stores like Brawny or Kleenex but sometimes the better deal will be on a brand you've never seen in your local grocery.

Another hint on the toilet paper and paper towels ... a lot of times you're comparing apples to oranges if you are just calculating your savings based on number of rolls instead of the per sheet price. I would also never recommend 1 ply toilet paper - that's the stuff you find in fast food bathrooms that you have to pull off yards and yards of before you get enough to really use. I seriously think that though the cost per sheet price is lower, I think people end up using so much more that in the end it costs more (same sort of thing goes for cheap paper towels that don't absorb well.)

Just my 2 cents on this. :)

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