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I have hundreds of organic cotton flannel squares that have serged edges. I used them as cloth wipes for the girls along with cloth diapers. I plan to use the wipes as cloth TP once SHTF. I think the cloth diapers would be better served as diapers for grandbabies and some as menstrual pads for the girls.
 
Gee, I don't know a lot about plants, but these look like nice soft leaves that could be used as a substitute for TP.....
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or not!!!! :cry:


 
Dr.Pepper has a mean streak. Don't know nothing about foraging BUTT (pun intended) I do know about that nasty little plant.


TMT it is so bad they een wrote a song about. :eyeballs:. I had it so bad one time the doctor even laughed, he said ' I don't mean to laugh but I've never seen a case so bad". We were clearing it off a fence and I had it wrapped all over me .Thank goodness burning it didn't blind any of uds, they say not to burn it. It can hurt your eyes and lungs.
 
Craigslist. You don't even know what people will give away. It has been a few years now. A company was moving. They had pallets of toilet paper and did not want to move it. I saw their post, got in my car and drove there immediately. They had other things they were giving away, mostly ugly office furniture. Me? I filled my car with their industrial t.p. Yes, it is not Charmin. I have been using it for a few years and still have a bunch of it. I could have emptied my car and gone back for more. I did not, but what an idea.
 
Craigslist. You don't even know what people will give away. It has been a few years now. A company was moving. They had pallets of toilet paper and did not want to move it. I saw their post, got in my car and drove there immediately. They had other things they were giving away, mostly ugly office furniture. Me? I filled my car with their industrial t.p. Yes, it is not Charmin. I have been using it for a few years and still have a bunch of it. I could have emptied my car and gone back for more. I did not, but what an idea.

When we moved K made me promise not to buy anymore TP until we used a decent amount of it we had been buying/storing. We haven't bought TP since 2015 and I think we have enough to finish out 2019 before I have to get more.
 
When we moved K made me promise not to buy anymore TP until we used a decent amount of it we had been buying/storing. We haven't bought TP since 2015 and I think we have enough to finish out 2019 before I have to get more.
I showed the wife a stack of old telephone books that I'd saved for after we ran out of TP. She doesn't complain about my storing it any more.:D
 
I showed the wife a stack of old telephone books that I'd saved for after we ran out of TP. She doesn't complain about my storing it any more.:D

K works construction and does his business on the job site so I don't think that would scare him. I keep the mail circulars made from news print for when the TP runs out. K doesn't know about the cloth wipes I made a few years back. I plan to hoard those for myself!
 
I showed the wife a stack of old telephone books that I'd saved for after we ran out of TP. She doesn't complain about my storing it any more.:D

Car that was a main staple back in the 50s for outhouses. When there is 10 or more kids running in and out of the outhouse toilet paper don't last but crumpled up newspapers and catalogs do. Plus it is entertaining to look thru it passing time. Thats where I found my frist donkey Katy was in a Sears and Roebuck Catalog. Mama ordered 3 donks and we went down to train station and picked them up.
Want a good beating, just let a parent catch you pulling toilet paper and letting it roll.
 
A friend had a cat that loved to unroll the TP. When that was done he'd go over and play with the magic Kleenex, until the magic ran out of that.
Someone told me a story about going to a party at a house. He went to the restroom, but there was no t.p., and he needed it. He started trying to figure out what to do, and before he was done, he had taken a shower. Seemed a little much to me, but I have no idea what he was dealing with. Later, he found out that the box on the wall was a cover for the t.p. so that the cat couldn't unroll it.
 
Someone told me a story about going to a party at a house. He went to the restroom, but there was no t.p., and he needed it. He started trying to figure out what to do, and before he was done, he had taken a shower. Seemed a little much to me, but I have no idea what he was dealing with. Later, he found out that the box on the wall was a cover for the t.p. so that the cat couldn't unroll it.
I never did figure out what the three seashells are for.
 
Someone told me a story about going to a party at a house. He went to the restroom, but there was no t.p., and he needed it. He started trying to figure out what to do, and before he was done, he had taken a shower. Seemed a little much to me, but I have no idea what he was dealing with. Later, he found out that the box on the wall was a cover for the t.p. so that the cat couldn't unroll it.

We don't keep tp on the roller/spindle because of the kids not the cats. The girls will unroll the tp faster than any of the 5 cats- AND WE HAVE A NEW KITTEN!
 
The cat hide would make a good substitute for the TP.
If you think industrial TP is scratchy, try a PO'ed cat.

I know a gal that used to use rabbit hides for her monthly. She grew up at a remote cabin where the only way in was by plane and her father would sometimes not fly in to visit her mother and siblings for months and sometimes over a year. She grew up eating insects and anything else she could catch.
 
A friend had a cat that loved to unroll the TP. When that was done he'd go over and play with the magic Kleenex, until the magic ran out of that.
I learned to put the tp on so it unrolled from "under" instead of "over". That way when the cat played with it she just kept rolling it up instead of un rolling it.
 

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