Spill the beans... on how to minimise loo paper use

jmarko

My butler wipes mine. Anything over two sheets comes out of his wages.

bettybarr

Use one square, make a hole in the centre, but keep this small piece of paper. Use your finger through the hole. Wipe your finger with the square of paper. Then clean your nail with the small piece you tore off

BigBadMerlin

Try Freedom from Groupon, from only 24p if you bulk buy 135 rolls at a time and that's delivered to your door which saves lugging it home! It's good quality 3ply and quilted and I find I use less if it's quilted than none quilted.
Yes I know 135 rolls is a lot, but with 6 of us in the house, we use a lot!

snapey

Most paper is much weaker in one direction, just place sheets at right angles to each other. Works perfectly!

VfM4meplse

This thread has set my mind boggling...surely it belongs on the OS board?

purpleweasel

coolcait wrote: »

Does the 'ouch-that's-not-comfortable-at-all' tracing paper style toilet paper actually still exist?

if it doesn't, how are you meant to play the comb?

Jagraf

Vladimir1720 wrote: »

Thanks! You managed to decide that I was both a miser as well as filthy... I'll rise above your infantile BS, however.

The practice of washing yourself after defecating has got nothing to do with being cheap and everything to do with being clean.

What's actually disgusting is the fact that you don't wash yourself after defecating and walk around with a small amount of faeces around your anus until your next shower. Do you really think that you get it all when you just wipe with paper? Come on, most adults have hair down there, some is left behind! I bet your underwear stinks.

My towels don't stink. What a stupid thing to say! I WASH myself with water and soap, the towel is just for drying. I have a towel which I use only for "round the waist". It is probably perfectly clean anyway, but FY-Fing-I, I wash my "waist" towel every 3-4 uses.

I don't shower after every poo, but I really get your point. I hate the thought of not being completely clean, and would use a bidet every time if we had one. The smell of any faeces makes me gag.

purpleweasel

Vladimir1720 wrote: »

THIS!

Not to mention that once you have thoroughly coated your hands in bacteria and possibly particles of poop, you go to turn on your tap and wash your hands. How well the average hands are washed is questionable. But that aside, once you've washed your hands, you go to turn off the same tap that you turned on. Congrats, your newly washed hands are contaminated again.

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Use the other hand to turn the tap on/off. Problem solved!

Boogiecat

3 sheets is adequate. And baby wipes to clean - do NOT flush them down the loo, put in the bin. If you go to many Eastern European countries you can't flush paper down the loo either, their plumbing is too narrow 8-O

j.e.j.

Ha ha the loo roll thread keeps making a come-back :rotfl:

Vladimir1720 wrote: »

THIS!

It's worth remembering that the bacteria in faeces will easily travel through 7 layers of your standard paper and end up on your hands, seeing as most of us use less than 7 layers. If you're wiping, then folding, then wiping again it's most likely smeared all over your cheeks, too. Unhygienic? Yes, I think so.

Not to mention that once you have thoroughly coated your hands in bacteria and possibly particles of poop, you go to turn on your tap and wash your hands. How well the average hands are washed is questionable. But that aside, once you've washed your hands, you go to turn off the same tap that you turned on. Congrats, your newly washed hands are contaminated again.

And to think that someone further up the thread was trying to make ME out to be filthy...

Gordon Bennett mate, I take it you've never changed a nappy..

It's a wonder we're not all dead, really with all this bacteria on our hands, isn't it