Men know how to put the tp on the dispenser? One of y'all teach my husband please. Pretty please!!!!!
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Men know how to put the tp on the dispenser? One of y'all teach my husband please. Pretty please!!!!!
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Yes, and then there is that, as well!
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Our cats are smarter, they can unroll it no matter which way you load it.
Every time a flannelette sheet wears out we chop them into squares and keep them so if the toilet paper ever ran out there is always that option and we also stock heaps of packets of facial tissues too.
A friend of mine had me in stitches when she told me that they didn't stock toilet paper and got flooded in and things got mightily serious for her once the facial tissues ran out too. She told me that leaves were not a good alternative. Although I think banana leaves chopped into appropriate sizes would be a possibility.
A friend of mine had me in stitches when she told me that they didn't stock toilet paper and got flooded in and things got mightily serious for her once the facial tissues ran out too. She told me that leaves were not a good alternative. Although I think banana leaves chopped into appropriate sizes would be a possibility.
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whats a tp dispenser? ours goes on a toilet roll holder.
post SHTF it wont matter what is goes on.
The tp dispenser is just the "fancy" way to say it. Until the SHTF the tp doesn't go on the back of the toilet!!
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When I first bought my home, I put some extra rolls there. With all the children that would hang out at my house, I lost too many rolls falling into the toilet. Since then, I now have a special holder in each bathroom for the extra rolls, while the current use roll is on a dispenser, installed on the wall beside the toilet.
I got a TP holder that mounts vertically. Easy to reload and my wife still leaves the new roll on the counter. I am convinced it's deliberate just to irritate my OCD.
She also never closes cabinet drawers or doors for the same reason I am convinced.
She also never closes cabinet drawers or doors for the same reason I am convinced.
There's a plant that grows on our place. It has big soft leaves that an Apache woman told me she uses when she runs out of tp. I can't think of the name right now but when I looked it up it was mentioned that it could be used as tp.
Its common mullein. Took me a minute..
Its common mullein. Took me a minute..
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I've had that grow at my place. Last year I had a few growing. I haven't seen any this year.
If you read back to the beginning of this thread, flannel pieces prepared for this purpose.
I recently read that people used to use flannel for bathing wash cloths. I wonder if they also used flannel for towels, before terry cloth became the go to fabric? I also wonder if this is what people used before t.p. became the way to go?
Flannel is a good thing to have on hand for many purposes. I always look in the remnant bins at Joann fabrics. Fabric in that bin is half price of what it was on the bolt. Like the reduced bins at the grocery store, I usually go through the remnant bins at Joann's.
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Well, I probably had at least a year's worth until I went to pick up that free industrial t.p. a few years ago. I haven't even used half of it yet. The rolls are big and solid. A roll lasts me at least a month. With the Charmin, I would use a roll a week.
I know people who will not use industrial toilet paper, because Charmin is so much better. I think like many things, it is a matter of what you get used to. Maybe the first couple days or weeks it will be different. I don't even think about it. I knew a family where the father was laid off, unemployed. I offered to give them some of my t.p. "No thank you." I wasn't offering them sandpaper or cactus, but it had to be Charmin for them.
Anyone else know that t.p. will be a problem for many people? Some will never be able to wash cloths nor use them after they have been washed and ready for the second + use?
I know some people that don't keep much in the house and at least once have run out of TP(how do you run out of TP?) and had to borrow some from a neighbour.
wife said to the neighbour:" I hope you told them you don't want it back when they've used it!" took a minute for the penny to drop!!
wife said to the neighbour:" I hope you told them you don't want it back when they've used it!" took a minute for the penny to drop!!
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Like a woman on the other side of the fence at the dog park in a different area, who didn't bring water for her dog. She asked if she could borrow some of mine and would pay me back. Some of the things people say without thinking about it. I handed her my gallon jug, but I did want to tell her all about what she said. I didn't say it, but "You may have some, you don't have to pay me back."
my mom was in the hospital for 3 months before she passed away in 2017.i bought a 24 count package each month she was in the hospital.when i already had 1 package already oen and in use.i still have most of it.
I bought a bidet. It's mounted to the toilet and connected to the water supply line. It works amazingly well. Our TP use has dropped dramatically. Cost about $30.
The company even sent me a free spare, without me asking, because I gave them a good review. If you don't have running water it won't be much use but for now it saves TP.
I thought cold water would be a problem but it really isn't and once you get used to using it you really miss not having it when you are away.
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The company even sent me a free spare, without me asking, because I gave them a good review. If you don't have running water it won't be much use but for now it saves TP.
I thought cold water would be a problem but it really isn't and once you get used to using it you really miss not having it when you are away.
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Enough for at least a year. Its been almost that long since I've bought any and we are down to 2 bins. I'll be re stocking after we get moved.
Probably more than I've got food stashed. There will be no then, not for me. There is always the Kleenex, paper towels, paper napkins, and old phone books.
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Most people do not take water for their dogs to the dog park. After I had taken 14 gallons in one week to one park, I realized I was teaching people it was okay if they didn't bring water, because I did. Then I stopped going to that park. For my grand dog, her medications keep her at the water bowl.
"WE" run out all the time. Two and a 1/2 bathrooms. Stock is in the master bath under "my" sink and in a fancy box in the 1/2 bath. When I see tissue paper on the master toilet lid I know we are completely out. Once on a second day of an outage I stopped at Walmart during my lunch hour. Pickup two of the biggest packages of TP I could fine at a reasonable price. On the way to the checkout I saw the wife pushing a cart. She saw what I was carrying and chastised me for getting the wrong brand!
Not unusual to go into the office restroom and find the urinal isn't flushed. I asked one of the office ladies, "How do you flush a urinal?" She turned pink (wrong question to ask a member of the opposite sex?) and she answer, "I guess there is a lever to pull?" She had never used one (assumption on my part) and I work with grown men that don't know how!
Probably have about 2 years worth of TP. The brand here isn't important as long as it isn't like sandpaper and is absorbent.
I have an acquaintance who's husband lost his job yet they were not willing to compromise on all the expensive branded products and would only shop at one known to me to be expensive store. She asked me how do I create food storage with no money. My reply was when you see something on half price special that you use buy 2 and you are creating food storage by spending no money (or no extra money). The look on her face was priceless followed by oh yeah that would work.
I have an acquaintance who's husband lost his job yet they were not willing to compromise on all the expensive branded products and would only shop at one known to me to be expensive store. She asked me how do I create food storage with no money. My reply was when you see something on half price special that you use buy 2 and you are creating food storage by spending no money (or no extra money). The look on her face was priceless followed by oh yeah that would work.
the prices here are so low, or at least I think they are low, that filling a larder isn't a problem.
of course most people spend their money on mobile phones and other techie stuff or foreign travel, not food or toilet paper.
of course most people spend their money on mobile phones and other techie stuff or foreign travel, not food or toilet paper.
people have all the mobile phones, even sometimes the 3 year old has its own phone, but as soon as they are made unemployed they are straight down the food bank because they have no food in the house.
I wish people would get their priorities right.
I wish people would get their priorities right.
