Toilet Paper

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Ok, it just struck me as I was going to the bathroom, having been reading of some of the issues parents are having with their AS kids toilet habits, that it has always been a joke in my family about the amount of toilet paper I use...

I mean, I have always rolled it into these big balls whereas other people seem to fold it into sheet to wipe...

Could this be to do with motor issues...and how do you use your toilet paper??

I had a good laugh when i read this.

I remember having a very long conversation about this with one of my ex work colleagues.

I am a folder(more coverage).

I roll mine into balls as well...and use way too much of it.

You can never use too much.....
If it still brown, stay down.....

balls...more use out of it

HILARIOUS

I use large amount, my mum used to question me as a child what I was doing with it in there so I once offered to use both sides as a joke.

I am very fastidious about the softness of the paper- I would like toilet paper manufactures to have swatch samples like you do for material, it would save me afortune in independant reseach

Last edited by ArcAngel06 on 25 Sep 2007, 6:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I used to do that when I was a kid. Dad kicked my ass enough (for clogging the toilet) that I learned to use as little as possible to accomplish the job.

I can't STAND the feel of toilet paper!! ! I prefer using baby wipes, esp since they are more hygienic and clean this sensitive area much better. However, as an eviromentalist, I feel like a guilty hypocrite. But, I just can't stand toilet paper on so many levels!

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Here in England, back in the 1960's in schools, and in our childrens home, the tiolet paper was made out of some sort of hard grease-proof paper or tracing paper.
It was completely unabsorbant and just sort of spread around anything unmentionable.
It was also very hard with sharp edges.

I remember THAT stuff and boy did it damn well hurt!

With cheaper toilet paper you're going to use more. You use three times as much in public restrooms as it's so thin & rough. I like the Charmin Ultra Soft (blue stripe on the package) its thick & soft so you use less. You get what you pay for. Sheesh, I should get paid for this...

I'm a folder, but I fold it ridiculously thick. This means I get through the stuff at an incredible rate - when my housemates complain that we run out too soon, I've always blamed whichever person isn't present at the time

Used to grab a bunch from the roll & wad it up, like a mitt to protect my hand from coming anywhere near the offending area. Blech !
Remember (at some point in childhood) my mother's mother telling me not to do that (I probably did clog the toilet) & showing me instead the folding method. Took me awhile to adopt this new practice, but have done it that way ever since. Still wigs me out having to use least necessary amount of toilet paper, just 'cause those bodily functions repulse me...
Dunno' about motor issues...
Have special method when in own bathroom, using certain ratio of soft sheets & rough sheets. I buy 2 different brands & styles of t.p.-one cheaper & less soft, one pricier & very soft. Then I use 1-3 soft sheets atop the 4-9 not-so-soft sheets, with softer side facing me, holding rough side in hand. Do all this (which isn't a hassle since I'm used to it) because I can't stand using just one kind of t.p. or the other. Soft costs more money & is so plush/thick it easily clogs my "low-flow" toilet. Rougher t.p. feels too unpleasant, plus it's too thin to do the cleanup job properly. So I get best of both products by combining, best solution for this I've been able to invent.

I was taught to fold too, but I went right back to rolls, because, quite simply, folding took me ages to do and I always managed to end up getting filth on my hand as I was uncoordinated. I am not very accurate on such tasks...have a big ball of the stuff and you can't go wrong...and not blocked a toilet since I was a kid. My brother was always the worst culprit there.

I got back from taking a crap earlier and while I was in the stall someone took the stall next to me. He crapped very loudly for 15 seconds or so like he had diarrhea and then left without wiping at all, he didn't wash his hands either. I found that absolutely disgusting. I'm the kind of person that will wipe 15 times if I have to. And with the toilet paper here I frequently have to. It's almost worth just crapping while I'm in the shower (I wouldn't be the only one there, dorm people are disgusting).

Personally I fold toilet paper.

How in the hell can someone crap and NOT WIPE?!?