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Title: empty toilet paper rolls for sale...
Post by: paints on October 29, 2015, 12:26:05 am
on e-bay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=empty+toilet+paper+rolls&_sacat=&_ex_kw=&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_sop=12&_fpos=&_fspt=1&_sadis=&LH_CAds=&rmvSB=true

Is that weird or what?? Smh...  :o
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Post by: southernhorizons on October 29, 2015, 08:28:58 am
Wow, people will buy anything! I can't believe they actually get buyers for something that everyone has in their home for free.
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Post by: nannycoe1 on October 29, 2015, 08:39:44 am
I am going to start selling mine and the paper towel rolls too. WOW!
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Post by: missplaymate618 on October 29, 2015, 08:42:34 am
lol, I need to start selling mine then why not!
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Post by: lhz123 on October 29, 2015, 08:59:56 am
I will start collecting it and sell eventually.
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Post by: paints on October 29, 2015, 09:06:56 am
Wow, people will buy anything! I can't believe they actually get buyers for something that everyone has in their home for free.

I couldn't believe anyone would think of selling them. Oh, when I think of all the money I've tossed in the compost pile! :D
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Post by: lvstephanie on October 29, 2015, 09:10:29 am
Holy cow! When I saw the link, I was thinking that it was just one person doing this sale... But close to 200 auctions for them?! I may have to try that as well!
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Post by: southernhorizons on October 29, 2015, 09:22:23 am
Holy cow! When I saw the link, I was thinking that it was just one person doing this sale... But close to 200 auctions for them?! I may have to try that as well!
I wonder if they really do sell? I can't believe there would be that many people who would buy something like that.
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Post by: countrygirl12 on October 29, 2015, 09:29:13 am
Wow, people will buy anything! I can't believe they actually get buyers for something that everyone has in their home for free.

Where do you get FREE toilet paper?  I am interested...
Title: Re: empty toilet paper rolls for sale...
Post by: paints on October 29, 2015, 09:36:30 am
Holy cow! When I saw the link, I was thinking that it was just one person doing this sale... But close to 200 auctions for them?! I may have to try that as well!

That's why I saved the search.  I'm gonna watch this and see what happens...

I'm still bumfuzzled lol
Title: Re: empty toilet paper rolls for sale...
Post by: lvstephanie on October 29, 2015, 09:39:26 am
I believe that southernhorizons meant that the used rolls were free (after using up all of the TP on the roll). The auctions are for the cardboard inserts after all, not for an actual toilet paper roll with usable TP on it.
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Post by: kingozzy on October 29, 2015, 09:52:27 am
All I have to say is...why?  lol
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Post by: bowrunner on October 29, 2015, 10:40:23 am
That's amazing.  It absolutely never occurred to me that I could sell my empty toilet paper rolls.  I go thru quite a few paper towel rolls so I guess I'll try to sell them but I wonder how a person packs them to ship.  I guess in a box that they will fit in.
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Post by: Bigpar31 on October 29, 2015, 11:06:49 am
It's ads like thoughs that people don't read before buying things.
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Post by: patti4me on October 29, 2015, 12:08:01 pm
That is just too crazy!!
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Post by: debidoo on October 29, 2015, 12:21:06 pm
My son says people sell them for hobbies and crafts - who knew?  At the rate I use toilet paper I would have been rich by now lol.
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Post by: Laurieandjohn on October 29, 2015, 12:22:15 pm
what ever it is I want in on it I even throw in the paper towel rolls  some times my TP has no roll in the middle depending on which brand I buy
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Post by: timvolley on October 29, 2015, 03:21:15 pm
im am not surprised people sell just about anything on ebay
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Post by: heypeg on October 29, 2015, 05:09:39 pm
Why would you sell this? so weird.
Title: Re: empty toilet paper rolls for sale...
Post by: paints on October 29, 2015, 05:39:47 pm
My son says people sell them for hobbies and crafts - who knew?  At the rate I use toilet paper I would have been rich by now lol.

I have a friend who uses them for crafts, and I have used them to start seeds, but I have never heard of anyone having to buy them. Usually, we just save our own and put the word out to the neighbors, and have all we need.
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Post by: fjaz1 on October 29, 2015, 08:30:47 pm
Who cares, I put them in recycling.  The price of aluminum has gone down so do you really think you would get more for used, dirty, unhygienic, toilet paper rolls? Wake up. 8)
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Post by: champak97 on October 29, 2015, 08:35:45 pm
That is weird, never knew you could sell toilet paper rolls online ???
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Post by: moon29 on October 30, 2015, 06:07:03 am
a lot of people use them for arts and crafts so really i dont see it as weird i mean come on someone actually bought a grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly had the face of Jesus on it.
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Post by: oldbuddy on October 30, 2015, 07:15:04 am
I remember reading about I guy in the Northeast when they had a severe winter setting up a website to sell SNOW and made a small fortune.
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Post by: UGetPaid on October 30, 2015, 07:19:11 am
For quite a while our house hold was saving tp and pt rolls for a local animal shelter called "Back to the Wild".  They help to nurse sick and injured wild animals back to health for re-release back into their wild habitat.  Some of the animals used this thinner type of cardboard to shred up for bedding.


I don't think they are collecting these any longer -- not sure if they got too many, or if they were getting other cardboard items that they couldn't use, or what.  But I think it was for a good cause.


In past years, we've had to send in empty rolls with our daughter to school for use in art projects.  Now they just go back into our recycle bins.
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Post by: dbsaus1 on October 30, 2015, 07:28:02 am
I think people use them for crafting. I quess if there is a market.
There is plenty of good and decent stuff on ebay but there is also some disgusting stuff.
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Post by: rghvac69 on October 30, 2015, 07:41:39 am
I wouldn't buy somebody else's empty toilet paper rolls. No way.
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Post by: hawkeye3210 on October 30, 2015, 01:20:36 pm
I had never thought of it, but I don't find it weird at all. They are advertised as being for school craft projects. I could see where some might find it easier just to buy them and save the time of collecting them.
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Post by: ancmetro on October 30, 2015, 02:21:50 pm

   I believe it! They can be used in arts and crafts. Any other uses?
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Post by: minioncookies on October 30, 2015, 04:09:45 pm
There not really free unless you make it that way because you do put out money to buy them. But some people will buy toilet paper rolls to make a lot of things. The possiblys are endless
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Post by: sdenimandlace1 on October 30, 2015, 06:43:37 pm
YOu can make small photo albums out of them.  I need to watch this and see were its goes.
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Post by: paints on October 30, 2015, 08:07:59 pm

   I believe it! They can be used in arts and crafts. Any other uses?

I've used them (my own! :D ) to start seeds in.
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Post by: cwillard1 on October 30, 2015, 10:21:31 pm
LOL  this made my night.  WOW
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Post by: mjdoug03 on October 31, 2015, 09:32:48 am
That makes me laugh so hard. Thank you for the laugh.
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Post by: myfreebees316 on October 31, 2015, 12:05:52 pm
There loads of things you can do with these. I like to use some as lil planters to star off a plant so i can keep it away from the others just enough where i can transplant them later without the roots tangling up with each other