Stocking up on toilet paper during shopping festivals, how much is the rent worth of the floor space?

Toilet paper, tissue paper, facial tissue...are you ready to stock up on paper this Double 12?

As the saying goes, if you visit the House of Tissues once a year, you can use them for many years. Tissue paper, toilet paper, handkerchiefs... buying enough daily necessities at once on Double 12 seems to have become everyone's "big trick to save money."

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But wait! How long can you last if you stock up on so much paper? Do you really need so much? How much space will it take up if you buy so much paper towels at once? If you take into account the house price and rent required for the space... will it still be cost-effective?

Let’s do the math!

How much paper do you need in a year?

We put three commonly used paper towels in our daily lives into the calculation: toilet paper rolls, tissue paper on the dining table, and packaged handkerchiefs we carry in our bags when we go out.

As the most commonly used paper towel in our lives, toilet paper is used almost every day in the bathroom. However, due to differences in physiological structure, the amount of toilet paper required by different genders is not consistent, and everyone's habits are also different. In order to simplify the calculation, the opinions of colleagues in the department were sought, and the average was calculated on a daily basis, with 6 boxes for defecation and 2 boxes for urination. Calculated as 1 defecation and 8 urination per day. In this way, a total of 22 boxes of toilet paper are needed per day, and 22 x 365 = 8030 boxes of toilet paper are needed per year.

Editor Li Xiaokui volunteered to open a new box of toilet paper and counted the number of grids of the toilet paper one by one manually: 167 grids per roll. This means that 8030/167 = 48.08 rolls are needed in a year.

Using a similar method to calculate, if the average person uses 10 sheets of tissue paper per day, 10 x 365 = 3650 sheets per year. If a pack contains 120 sheets, a total of 3650/120 = 30.42 packs of tissue paper are needed per year. If you are a rhinitis patient, the amount of tissue paper you use is estimated to be doubled.

Handkerchiefs are used less frequently, with an average of 3 sheets per day, which means a total of 365 sheets are needed per year. If there are 7 sheets in a pack, a total of 156.42 packs are needed.

Using the above usage method, which is already quite wasteful, the annual consumption of tissues is not particularly high. Using the common promotional packaging, it is about 2 boxes of toilet paper, 1 and a half boxes of tissue paper, and less than 3 boxes of handkerchiefs.

If you really want to stock up so much at once, how much space will it take up?

How much space does it occupy?

In order to give you a more intuitive view, we simulated a house with an area of ​​12 square meters and a floor height of 2.7 meters.

We browsed Taobao and calculated that if we were attracted by the merchants' promotional activities such as "75% off for three items" and "enough for the whole family", the paper we bought would pile up like this in your home...

If you calculate based on the situation that you work hard at work every day and only use toilet paper when you get home, you will still have this much paper left at home after half a year.

Forget it, let’s just calculate it based on one person’s portion.

Based on the common packaging methods of different paper towels, you need to buy 2 boxes (27 rolls) of toilet paper, 2 boxes (24 packs) of tissue paper and 3 boxes (60 packs) of handkerchiefs a year.

This is how it feels when you take those boxes of express mail home and put them on the ground.

A few stacks of paper towels on the ground take up about 0.56 square meters. What does that mean? If someone comes to visit your home and there are not enough stools, a box of paper towels can be used as a temporary stool.

But when you open the little red book, the Internet celebrity organizer will say no to your messy placement. Guokr has also helped you think of a good way to make full use of your space in one step: just use the entire floor height, simple and crude, just push each bag to the ceiling.

By placing them this way, the area occupied by the paper towels is reduced to 0.058 square meters. You can pile them against the wall, how great it is!

How much does it cost to store?

If you place the paper on the ground after purchase, and calculate the area by square meter, if you live in Beijing or Shanghai, then the rent for a 12-square-meter house is estimated to be 3,000 yuan, and the rent for the paper space is (0.56/12)*3,000=140 yuan per month. If the house you buy is calculated at 50,000 yuan per square meter, then it will cost 28,000 yuan.

According to the above "extreme land-saving method", if you pile them all up vertically, the monthly rent would be (0.058/12)*3000=14.5 yuan... But who would arrange it like this?

Of course, if you have a spare storage room, then there is no need to worry, even if the whole house is filled with papers.

We placed 5,832 rolls of toilet paper, 4,752 packs of tissue paper, and 1,080 packs of handkerchiefs in the room... Some of them can be used for more than 200 years and can be said to be heirlooms.

You can stock up on daily necessities if you want, but if they really take up space, you don’t have to rush to buy them during the Double 12 shopping festival. After all, there are still the spring sales, 618, online supermarket shopping streets... In short, don’t let shopping itself become a burden!

However, if you like to be alone at home, you can turn the paper you have stored into Legos in your free time and enjoy the wonders of the pyramids without leaving your home.

Author: Owl

Edit: Window knocking rain

Thanks to editor Li Xiaokui for his contribution to calculating the number of paper rolls

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