Toilet paper

Another vote for Who Gives a Crap. Don’t know what Primrose is wittering on about. Standard sized sheets dear - just measured them!

Izal toilet paper- 2 pieces needed, fold together and then rough up before using. Mum taught us!!
Block tooth paste- usually pink or blue? Funny but distinctive taste. If ductwork
Both memories from the late 50’s - one bath a week days! One loo & bathroom between 6 in the family. Grans loo was in a shed in the garden ( newspaper ripped up and threaded on string for toilet paper)
Now we have 3 bathrooms - only 2 of us in the house. How times change

As a child, we had to use newspaper!!

SueDonim I put my (allergen free) bedding on top of the sheets provided - then pack it when I leave. Still, I need to take high dose antihistamines!

LovesBach

How did we ever survive that awful Izal (??) paper? Shiny on one side and therefore utterly useless, and it was the only product available. I don't recall when soft tissue type loo rolls came into being.

I used to dread visits to my Grandmother. There was an outside toilet with no toilet paper, we had to use squares of newspaper hanging up.

I ordered my first box of ‘Who gives a crap’ when lockdown started. I’m quite fussy about toilet paper, I get odd allergies to things. I think WGAC is a silly name, but it looks like a very ethical company, which is important to me.

I always take toilet paper with me when going away simply because it usually runs out when needed. We never buy the thick stuff as our drains are prone to blocking up.

We just use Asda Shades - it’s fine, for us anyway. Dh always buys the massive packs - was v handy during the first lockdown when shelves were often empty - we had a good stock already.

I can still almost smell the horrible old Izal/Bronco hard paper - it went with the freezing cold loos in the days before my folks got central heating.

A sister’s former house had a privy in a shed in the garden with a double wooden loo seat - and there was still a nail with squares of newspaper hanging up! Still there long after there was evidently at least one proper loo indoors - maybe it was kept for the gardener and/or skivvy.

As one who grew up with newspaper for toilet-ing, I now make sure I buy decent loo paper. It's one of my little extravagances.
And I always take one roll on holiday, just in case.

Parsley3

I am just home from a holiday in Turkey missdeke and I very much liked the bidets. I now want one at home.

When I arrived at this house it had a separate bidet - just a modest 2 bed house, but previous owners....

Great inventions, always clean where it matters, and definitely reduces loo roll use - and gentlest of all means on bum. To enter into TMI secret - sorry but need to know....have specific rubber gloves next to bidet.

(Anyone recall the Poirot episode where the Inspector Japp thought it was for head washing?)

(Oh yes, it means I can buy re-cycled loo roll which is admittedly usually on the thin side)

Some Holiday homes in France and Spain I have stayed in only take thin loo paper they specifically say not to use UK toilet paper!
I too would like a bidet , seriously considering getting rid of my unused bath ( except visitors) and putting in a bigger shower and a bidet .

We used Bronco. Horrible stuff. My mother thought that the soft paper wasn't hygienic.

SusieB50

Some Holiday homes in France and Spain I have stayed in only take thin loo paper they specifically say not to use UK toilet paper!
I too would like a bidet , seriously considering getting rid of my unused bath ( except visitors) and putting in a bigger shower and a bidet .

Thats what the previous owners did Susie, take out the bath and have a shower and bidet (not a large bathroom). Gives you a chance for a "Wet room" style walk in shower with no step in.

I love a bidet for washing feet in the summer.

What is a "portable bidet" Bijou?

Just thought I'd post this regarding regular (Japanese style I think) bidet use:

Cleaning the anus after defecation using the bidets contributes to hand hygiene and local comfort, and it may be effective against constipation. However, excessive bidet use potentially causes anal pruritus and anal incontinence

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553346/#:~:text=Cleaning%20the%20anus%20after%20defecation,and%20anal%20incontinence%20(AI).

Moderation in everything...

Wyllow3

NotSpaghetti

I love a bidet for washing feet in the summer.

When I was no more than about 11 we went as a family (all 6 of us) to choose a new bathroom suite. (Separate loo then, this was in the 60s.).

None of us had ever seen a bidet before. The saleswoman explained that it was a ‘bottom washer’, which had all of us 4 kids in hysterics for ages. 😂

If you don't have room for a bidet then one of these is just as good. Don't why they call it a feminine wash don't men have bottoms.

www.amazon.co.uk/DJROLL-Handheld-Attachment-Feminine-Stainless/dp/B0862GKJ5T/?th=1&tag=gransnetforum-21

Remember being in Barcelona about 50yrs ago and public toilets there used to have a elderly lady sitting inside at a small table with a saucer and you had to pay her before you got any toilet paper. For some time after that DH used to ask me if I had my pesetas ready before I used them. Outwith the larger cities the facilities were pretty primitive - always carried my own tissues!

This thread has tickled me 😁. Decent loo roll is important, it’s quite unpleasant being out somewhere and having to use a toilet with substandard loo roll and then having no choice but to wait until you get home to, erm, finish off the job properly.

My parents used San Izal: I was glad to leave home.

In Turkey they have a water jet which directs a stream of water to the affected part for a good clean. In other countries people are not allowed to flush the paper because of the unreliable drains, so we are lucky in this respect. I like the idea of the jet stream of water though! I’m still confused as to why people bought so much during covid though?