House fairy - trivia

Oops, sorry, I got that wrong - but why do you want it hanging to the back, Bellanonna?

I think I have it in my head that the paper will get damp from the wall (as in the olden days), but also it just doesn't look right...

No, it's not that. You use the hand you have just wiped with to pluck the next piece of toilet paper. If the paper hangs to the back you might touch the wall with a germy hand.

#spadeaspade

No Ana, it doesn't look right hanging at the front ! No logical explanation, just call it a quirk. Maybe my mother did it that way? I just don't remember, but just have to reverse it when the OH does it. Weird, I know

jbf yes, that's a point. Maybe I should wash my tiles more often ?

Eurgh! Never thought of that...

Yes. Well. You need a certain degree of OCD perhaps.

I'll work on it jbf

It also pulls off the roll better when it hangs to the front.

Don't! You're better off without.

My DH is fantastic. He does everything around the house if I let

him and he does it as well, if not better than me, except for loading the dishwasher and hanging out the washing. Oh, and he's a Swiss-trained chef as well! and he's gorgeous and very sexy! I'm a lucky girl! By the way, when our daughter was still living at home, I once left her nicely ironed clean washing on her bed with a note saying " With love from the laundry fairy." I thought it might shame her into doing her own ironing, but she didn't even comment!

I once wrote a funny poem on the merits of hanging up clothes in wardrobe and stuck it on the front of ds wardrobe. Didn't make a whit of difference.
Now he is a research scientist and his wife is a lecturer of music in uni. They don't own an iron. They also don't appear to have a resident house fairy...... though a lady who 'does' arrives once a fortnight to do a blitz on kitchen, bathrooms and all floors. DH and I visited last year for 3 weeks. It's amazing how it is possible to manage without an iron, DH was not convinced. But mouth zipped

Coolgran Go for it! I have not ironed since I had a replacement hip 8 years ago and could not manage it after the op (except for a couple of times when urgently needed clothes were found screwed up at the bottom of the wardrobe). I have discovered that the human body is a natural iron!

By the way the long discussion on toilet rolls deeply worries me and I'm not even a psychologist!

grandma2213 does that mean you missed the 15 or so pages outlining grans' preferences for hovering or sitting (loo wise)? More worrying, surely ..?

It was a short discussion! (toilet roll hangings) 14 posts.

Bella Thankfully, yes I missed it! jbf It was long enough (toilet roll)!

Totally

But I'm glad your toilet roll was long enough.

Have you got a hang-up - about how to hang a toilet roll?

It's ok if you have. Nothing to be ashamed of. ((hug))

And it may well be that some GN members find your non-ironing habit deeply worrying, Grandma2213!

(not me, I hasten to add...can't remember when I last did any)

Well, I am just sitting down in front of an ironing board. [halo]

You might be sitting in front of it jbf but are you ironing? You might be having your evening meal on it for all we know

Sorry to confuse you jbf. I meant the length of the discussion, not the toilet roll!

After using newspaper and then moving up in the world to tracing paper Izal, today's rolls are luxury whether front or back hanging therefore no hang up problems for me!

Hope you are enjoying , , or whatever takes your fancy off your ironing board. Don't waste it on ironing.

I don't even know where my ironing board is !