A whole roll per day!

A funny story about bums....
A few years ago I use to put wet wipes next to the loo. Well one night they must have got mixed up with the toilet wipes. It kept the family going for ages joking about my mishap.

I was very lucky at that time, as I had an itinerant job and bought up whatever was on offer in the various supermarkets I came across.
Prior to the shortages, toilet paper and sugar were favourites to be on offer.

There was a lentil shortage around then too, causing much consternation among Scottish housewives.

Yes, I remember that shortage Jalima about 1972 wasn’t it?
There was a sugar shortage round about then as well.

An American lady in the next cubicle to me in a public loo had complete hysterics about the Izal - "You wipe yourself with THIS!? I must take some home to show my friends."

Does anyone else remember the toilet roll shortages?

Not a single roll to be found on the shelves anywhere and when they came back into the shops, the price had gone up by quite a lot (double? at least)
My sister worked at a distribution company and apparently there were stores of toilet rolls in the warehouse, being held back - presumably until people were desperate and happy to pay a much higher price.

The first time DD2 wiped her own bottom by herself she was gone a long time. When I went to investigate she was sitting on the loo with a cloud of pink toilet paper around her - like a flower fairy sitting on a pink rose! She thought you had to use the whole roll!!!

Seems a bit like cutting off my nose to spite my face ladyjane, I don’t want to use Izal! Unless you’re suggesting I have my own private stash of the soft stuff? I doubt whether I could sneak around with that it my jeans pocket!

When my lot were using 2 rolls a day I turned to good old IZAL It works 100% End of problem.

Why didn't Izal cause blockages ; this is one of lifes unsolved mysteries for me....

I live alone, but with help from visiting DC and DGC I get through 8-10 rolls weekly.
DD is afflicted with OCD, and uses it to clean the toilet as well as herself, DGD sits on the loo happily singing and making paper roses to decorate the bathroom, and DSiL has allergies, so is often in there snuffling and blowing his way through a roll.
It’s never really bothered me, but now I come to think of it, we must be a rather eccentric lot, as well as wasteful!

I remember Izal - we had it at home when I was a child. I didn't realise you could still buy it. Maybe some prefer it as it is medicated. My preference is for cushelle but I try to stock up when it is on offer. Never heard of Nicky but maybe I'll give it a try if I see it anywhere. As for Andrex, whatever the ads say it is not strong enough - too thin unless you use lots of sheets!

I do agree all paper products are thinner now. I have very sensitive skin & find Andrex doesn't cause me any problems although I have noticed I'm using a bit more but as there's only me it doesn't make much difference.

DH when he was doing deliveries around London if he had to stop & use the loo he had to cover the seat with toilet paper before he could sit down. This habit continued at home at times

Your right, of course it isn’t a big deal, until I go to the cupboard and find that the last roll has gone and i have to travel 4 miles to the nearest small shop to get replacements.

Don't worry about it, in the scheme of things its not a big deal (unless you are really really cash strapped)
Ugh, that Izal stuff was horrible, thank goodness for Andrex etc.

We tend to use a lot of toilet paper when the gc come to stay but I now buy it in bulk from groupons, the latest order being for 90 rolls,

The only time I used a whole toilet roll in one day was when I found my 7 year old grandson had wrapped up his 2 year old sister in practically the whole roll while she was cavorting all over the house like the Andrex puppy!!! I never let them watch the adverts now!!!

We also sometimes use Nicky or sometimes Saxon which we buy from Aldi. The sheets are thicker.

Kim19, I noted that in Yogagran's photo the rolls were hung in what I consider to be the wrong way. It seems unhygienic to be scrabbling against the wall for the free end.

I was taught the how the roll was dispensed affected consumption. Feed out over - less consumption than pulling from under (or behind). Try it. Won't do any harm.

Don’t get me started on how much bread we get through ! That’s a whole new subject....

Oh gillybob?

I am one of those who uses loo roll like it was going out of fashion .....anything and everything ! when I first moved in with my second husband he enquired as to whether I was eating it .........cheek !! I now use Lidl pink and white one ..its great ! others are too thin ...even that one the puppies like ....mind you, the cat has no preference and if him indoors doesn't close the toilet door (thinking of getting a self closing thing for it !) they will play havoc with the roll..........

I remember wrapping Izal around a comb and making an instrument. It tickled your lips

Oh I thought this thread was about the bread shortages ?

When my sons lived at home I cant begin to tell you how much toilet roll we went through....and I never did find out(apart from the obvious) why so much!