Do We Have Enough?
A Shelter-in-Place Toilet Paper Estimator Worksheet
On March 16th when the shelter-in-place order was given for California, the big news was that no one could get toilet paper. Everywhere was sold out and people were beginning to hoard.
I’ll admit to being a little concerned. We don’t keep a lot of supplies at home because we live in a fairly small place with limited storage, and we shop for groceries once a week.
So to ease my anxiety and help us meter our usage, I made a thing.
Print the PDF at 100% with no borders.
Turns out, making this tongue-in-cheek visual was hard. Because ALGEBRA.
Doing the math
Yes, I did the actual math. And research. And used Excel. You’re welcome.
Proof:
(heh heh…see what I just did there?)
This is how to calculate the amount of paper on the roll, based on % used.
This is how to calculate the amount of paper on the roll, based on % used.
And here’s the Excel file with calculations. Yikes!
None of this would have been possible without the folks at sciencing.com and the emergency algebra site.
