Best deal on blue (paperish) shop towel rolls?

[Lenny5160]

Costco has a 10-pack for $19.99

Not sure if it is the absolute cheapest, but this is my route as well.

I agree about getting the most out of them. I seem to always have a "lightly used" one on the workbench, ready for an oily task.

 

[D60]

Not sure if it is the absolute cheapest, but this is my route as well.

I agree about getting the most out of them. I seem to always have a "lightly used" one on the workbench, ready for an oily task.

Absolutely. Much like my laundry, there are various stages of "dirty"

It annoys me when helpers or guests just grab a new towel every. single. time. But just another example of people not respecting what they didn't directly pay for.

In school they started restricting the students to a Pig a day because kids in vo-tech tend to be extra dumb and inconsiderate (sorry, not sorry -- and I was in vo-tech, too....but a bit more aware as I was in my 30's)

 

[John105]

I find those blue towels (Scott I believe) to be super handy for everything from the griddle to house tasks to wrenching and all in between.

Of course they are not cheap and I don't waste them, get the most out of each.

I don't remember where I got the last six pack roll. HD? Lowe's??? Other??

Who has the best dealio?

Beat this? https://www.amazon.com/Towels-Original-75147-Sheets-Standard/dp/B0035BTQ06

I picked them up at costco. The reason is I wanted to use them when I pull my wife’s intake cuz blue looks professional over the brawny or bounty

 

[D60]

It doesn't help OP now but last October WM was selling the 6-packs for $7.50. I ordered all I could for delivery and store pick-up. At $1.25/roll I knew that price wouldn't be seen again, well, maybe ever.

I think I got around 11 packs. Still have 8 on the mezzanine

 

[Lenny5160]

It annoys me when helpers or guests just grab a new towel every. single. time. But just another example of people not respecting what they didn't directly pay for.

I feel like you are talking about my kids! I do appreciate that they spend some time in the garage doing dirty things, but it always angers me to look in my trash can afterward.

 

[John105]

I feel like you are talking about my kids! I do appreciate that they spend some time in the garage doing dirty things, but it always angers me to look in my trash can afterward.

Who are helpers?

That sounds like the upper class that my wife hails from.

No lie, when her niece and nephew visited, the niece took two bites of a supermarket rib eye, and threw it in the trash. A huge argument ensued with me and my wife.

I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT IN MY LIFE.

I totally get that choice don’t cut the mustard, but it was like $12 for that steak.

 

[dbias]

My post above got me curious again about Pig. Whatever we used in school was truly amazing because it looked like a paper towel but held up more like absorbent cloth.

We either used the PR20's or PR40's.

Pig has a a "send me a sample" button so I registered an account (easy) and requested a sample of each. I encourage every gearhead (and machinist) to do the same. You might be surprised

Here's a link to the 20's. You can search their site for PR40 and also request a sample of those

https://www.newpig.com/pig-pr20-value-wipers/p/WIP100

We used PIG products exclusively at the Fire Department. Very good products especially considering at the Fire Department we often dealt with pretty big spills and other issues like lubing Ariel Ladders, daily checks of engine oil, transmission fluid etc.

 

[Soft Cars]

I use a lot of rubbing alcohol around the house as a general purpose cleaner. I have a kitchen table with a white laminate top. It became quite evident one day as I was spraying the table down with rubbing alcohol and wiping the table off with Scott's blue paper towels. As the towels got wet with alcohol, they were smearing blue alcohol all over the table. So til this day, I only use those paper towels to wipe up motor oil or some other liquid that's not going to cause the blue coloring to bleed out. You guys that work in a body shop and use the blue paper towels as paint surface prep might want to switch to a white paper towel.

 

[Vern_in_IL]

Mice love to chew on these blue towels to make nest. I don´t use them.

 

[paulo57509]

Absolutely. Much like my laundry, there are various stages of "dirty"

It annoys me when helpers or guests just grab a new towel every. single. time. But just another example of people not respecting what they didn't directly pay for.

In school they started restricting the students to a Pig a day because kids in vo-tech tend to be extra dumb and inconsiderate (sorry, not sorry -- and I was in vo-tech, too....but a bit more aware as I was in my 30's)

I was at a Carl's Jr. for lunch one day. An elderly Asian couple sat in the booth across from me. Everytime the gentleman would take a bite, he'd pull a new napkin out of the dispenser, wipe is face and hands, and toss the use one aside. I watched this happen over and over. after emptying the dispenser, his wife got up and grabbed a dispenser from another table.

When I was finished with my meal, I looked over. His napkin pile looked like Giza pyramid.

I wasn't annoyed, rather flabbergasted. I get it, that napkins made of recycled paper suck, but Judas Priest.....

 

[JHZR2]

I prefer to get them in the bigger fat roll of a few hundred. Comes in a box or as a shrink wrapped giant roll to go into a plastic container.

 

[NYEngineer]

I was at a Carl's Jr. for lunch one day. An elderly Asian couple sat in the booth across from me. Everytime the gentleman would take a bite, he'd pull a new napkin out of the dispenser, wipe is face and hands, and toss the use one aside. I watched this happen over and over. after emptying the dispenser, his wife got up and grabbed a dispenser from another table.

When I was finished with my meal, I looked over. His napkin pile looked like Giza pyramid.

I wasn't annoyed, rather flabbergasted. I get it, that napkins made of recycled paper suck, but Judas Priest.....

My stepson used to do this. Must have learned it at his father's house. Drove me nuts. Now he's married and has a home of his own and I do all of the dopey things he used to do in my house at his house.

Also, about the blue towels... I love them, been using them for years. Does anyone else notice that they're no good for cleaning glass? They leave streaks bad. I have to keep regular paper towels in the garage for glass.

 

[c502cid]

Now this was prevcovid, but WM used to bundle 2 rolls of scotts towels with a 5 qt jug of synthetic oil for a couple of bucks more. I don't know if they still have those deals, but that would be good.

I'm down to my last 4-5 rolls from that deal. It was a great price for oil too.

 

[Kira]

It annoys me when helpers or guests just grab a new towel every. single. time.

Sis was a chemist. Auntie is a nurse.
They slap the roll and make it spin off a dozen towels before wiping up a drop of water.....drives me bat guano.

when her niece and nephew visited, the niece took two bites of a supermarket rib eye, and threw it in the trash.

My wife's hands are malformed (bone problems). This is a real handicap she deals with. Holding utensils is awkward at best.
She took the first steak I cooked for 'us', cut a bite or two from the center and left the rest.
Ever since, I cook whatever meat and slice off portions "Japanese style". She's happy, I'm happy. It works.
She's as thrifty and thoughtful as any person you've ever met...but carving meat simply needed to be worked around.

 

[John105]

I was at a Carl's Jr. for lunch one day. An elderly Asian couple sat in the booth across from me. Everytime the gentleman would take a bite, he'd pull a new napkin out of the dispenser, wipe is face and hands, and toss the use one aside. I watched this happen over and over. after emptying the dispenser, his wife got up and grabbed a dispenser from another table.

When I was finished with my meal, I looked over. His napkin pile looked like Giza pyramid.

I wasn't annoyed, rather flabbergasted. I get it, that napkins made of recycled paper suck, but Judas Priest.....

imho it has to do with the fact that he's not paying for the napkins, I think. I'm only guessing. It's highly doubtful that he would do that at home.

I remember being in college, and it must have been a different time. But a local guy was finally caught. He would go to various supermarkets and simply squeeze loaves of bread, making them unfit for sale. In 2023, we ain't got time for dat!

 

[John105]

Sis was a chemist. Auntie is a nurse.
They slap the roll and make it spin off a dozen towels before wiping up a drop of water.....drives me bat guano.

My wife's hands are malformed (bone problems). This is a real handicap she deals with. Holding utensils is awkward at best.
She took the first steak I cooked for 'us', cut a bite or two from the center and left the rest.
Ever since, I cook whatever meat and slice off portions "Japanese style". She's happy, I'm happy. It works.
She's as thrifty and thoughtful as any person you've ever met...but carving meat simply needed to be worked around.

Good point. After this incident, I told my buddy especially since the argument with my wife was so bad (she told me who cares about the steak that's my niece my house is hers and she can do whatever the **** she wants while she's visiting).

My buddy said you don't have teenage girls so you couldn't have known. What you could have done was to cut her a very small portion, and if she wanted more, she you could cut more. But his point was that with having teenage girls, they aren't going to eat much, if anything at all. My comment about the steak being choice was simply my embellishment of the story. But it was like $12 and I've never thrown anything away like that...

 

[Kira]

Kaydry Towels (Kimberly Clark) were the A#1 best. They came in a long box, not a roll.

 

[repairman54]

Kimberly Clark Wipe Alls are the best. Make the Scott towels look like tissue paper. You can spray brake cleaner on them and it doesn't blow right through like the Scott. Used them and got them for years on my old job.

 

[Kira]

Seriously, the johnny-come-after companies made their wipes blue as a direct copy.
I recall the KC wipes as never linting.

LSS (Long Story Short): I was on a crew which tended lots of wee cabinets containing electronics in a high dust environment.
Every morning I'd heavily soak my eyeglasses with Windex and dry them with a Kaydry....then keep the dampened Kaydry on me.
Before opening any cabinet, I'd tear off a piece and wipe the dirt off so huge puffies of dust wouldn't fall into the electronics.

 

[Pablo]

Kaydry Towels (Kimberly Clark) were the A#1 best. They came in a long box, not a roll.

Kimberly Clark Wipe Alls are the best. Make the Scott towels look like tissue paper. You can spray brake cleaner on them and it doesn't blow right through like the Scott. Used them and got them for years on my old job.

Seriously, the johnny-come-after companies made their wipes blue as a direct copy.
I recall the KC wipes as never linting.

LSS (Long Story Short): I was on a crew which tended lots of wee cabinets containing electronics in a high dust environment.
Every morning I'd heavily soak my eyeglasses with Windex and dry them with a Kaydry....then keep the dampened Kaydry on me.
Before opening any cabinet, I'd tear off a piece and wipe the dirt off so huge puffies of dust wouldn't fall into the electronics.

OK they are better.

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