I'm sure there are people out there living single in mansions, people who's guest bedroom, office, and living room are not the same room, but most singletons can get by pretty comfortably on a few hundred square feet and I'm one of them. That being said, storage space is at a premium in my 3 room apartment. I have no pantry to stock. Buying in bulk is out of the question. There are lots of reasons this frustrates me, but most things can be purchased in something approaching a single serving, if at a cost.
Except toilet paper. Sure, you can buy one roll of toilet paper, but it's the same awful stuff they put in public restrooms. If you want a reliable, name brand bath tissue, you usually have to commit to block of triple rolls the size of an ottoman. That's great if you want something squeezably soft to rest your feet on, but whatever happened to the 4 pack of toilet paper? Why has it been shoved off the shelves of major retailers to make way for paper products that require an SUV to transport? And why is there an occasional four pack of single rolls wedged between 'valu' packs of 36 triple rolls? Is there nothing in between?
Okay, there is. Like an explorer of old I have found a few bastions of the four pack in pharmacies and neighborhood stores. There are a handful of stores I frequent entirely because I once found a pack of good TP there that I could fit under my bathroom sink. This weekend I stumbled upon gold at the local Ben Franklin - a 4 pack of regular Cottonelle Double Rolls (My bottom cleaning dream!). I don't know whether to tell every apartment-dweller I know, in the hopes of demand driving supply, or keeping it a secret in the hopes that I can slowly work my way through their entire shipment.
