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Cherrytree59 Sun 16-Aug-15 09:57:10

Does any of my new GN pals have a fairy like mine. She's been with us for over 30yrs. Since my DC were at home. What does she do? She changes the toilet rolls. Takes empty roll off + puts new one on!

Grandma2213 Thu 20-Aug-15 23:31:25

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 wine, brew, cupcake 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 grin!

Bellanonna Thu 20-Aug-15 19:09:42

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 grin

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 20-Aug-15 18:49:28

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

Ana Thu 20-Aug-15 18:19:08

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

Ana Thu 20-Aug-15 18:18:12

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

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 20-Aug-15 17:59:00

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

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 20-Aug-15 17:57:10

Totally confused

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

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

Grandma2213 Thu 20-Aug-15 01:49:39

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

jinglbellsfrocks Tue 18-Aug-15 22:51:04

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

Bellanonna Tue 18-Aug-15 22:40:47

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

Grandma2213 Tue 18-Aug-15 22:27:24

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!

Coolgran65 Tue 18-Aug-15 03:50:08

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 smile

Phoebes Mon 17-Aug-15 22:47:16

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!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 17-Aug-15 22:43:03

Don't! You're better off without. hmm

Elegran Mon 17-Aug-15 22:42:28

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

Bellanonna Mon 17-Aug-15 22:42:03

I'll work on it jbf smile

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 17-Aug-15 22:40:10

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

Ana Mon 17-Aug-15 22:37:40

Eurgh! Never thought of that...grin

Bellanonna Mon 17-Aug-15 22:17:54

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

Bellanonna Mon 17-Aug-15 22:15:16

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

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 17-Aug-15 22:14:48

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

Ana Mon 17-Aug-15 22:07:24

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...

Ana Mon 17-Aug-15 22:03:51

Noooo! We were saying (or at least I was) that it should hang to the front Bellanonna!

Bellanonna Mon 17-Aug-15 22:00:54

My DH would agree with you three. He always hangs it to the front and I always have to change it. Until now I'd just thought it was the male way of hanging it !

Ana Mon 17-Aug-15 21:43:41

Oh yes!