WHITE CLOUD OR CHARMIN??

I thought I'd try something different for this blog. I figured I'd go for 'whimsical'.  

 I started using White Cloud toilet paper back when it was sold in a "two roll pack"--when we first got married. Over the years, it morphed into a 'four pack'.  At that time, I was getting 'pink' since our bathroom was 'sort of' pink. (I can't actually remember that first rental home, but at least I think it was 'sort of pink'.)

Later, when we bought our single wide mobile home, we had two bathrooms; so I got pink White Cloud for one bathroom and blue for the other. The same thing worked for this home: pink for one bathroom and blue for the other.   It's possible that over the years in the single wide home that I might have gotten other colors: I can't remember for sure!  

Eventually, "White Cloud" became "Charmin". I think that was due to a merger.  Anyway, I continued buying the two colors--until suddenly the only thing you could get was White.  I wasn't happy about that; however, I read somewhere that 'no color' was good for the sewer systems.  So I thought, "That's okay."

Well, in recent years, Charmin started 'separating' things: you could get Ultra Strong, or you could get Ultra Soft. I tried both and decided that Soft was what I preferred--mainly because I have sinus problems and quite often, I'll use toilet paper for my nose.  

And of course, they had to make things "interesting": soon you had the choice of different 'sizes' of rolls.  I ended up getting Mega Soft, which was a large number of 'huge' rolls! At that point, we had our adult son living with us--and his children part time as well. One Mega roll lasted one week in each bathroom. So that seemed to work well.  The package also seemed to last until our next payday, which was an added benefit.  

Now, we come to 'today'. The last  time I went shopping, I suddenly realized something had changed. The name is back to White Cloud suddenly!  And...it's now "soft and strong".  Hmmm...okay, we'll try this out & see what it's like.  So today I took a piece of the 'old' and a piece of the 'new' to compare them.   I like both; however, the 'old' (just Soft) is definitely softer.

So...the next time I go to the grocery, I'll take a look around and see if they have 'both' or only one.  I had gotten this 'new' White Cloud at WalMart; and I didn't pay attention to the rest of their selections.  When I get to the actual 'grocery', I'll look around.

I'm curious to see what they have--and if you can now choose from the two of them.    I suppose I could Google it to see if the company has 'changed'.  But my instinct says probably not; it's probably just some kind of marketing tactic. What do you think??  

PS--I did Google it: apparently White Cloud is 'exclusive' to WalMart. So that answers one question.