How many meters of toilet paper do you consume?

This can sound like a curious question, but the quantity of toilet paper we use can be a "thermometer" of the level of hygiene in our societies.

Personally I consume kilometers of toilet papers for year.

Have you ever measured the meters of toilet paper you consume?

 

No clue. But likely less than most people, as I find that water does a better job than tissue paper, so thats what I use when possible.

 

I use cactus needles and poison ivy.

 

Also, while we're on the subject (sorta), those 'biodegradeable wipe towels' or w/e they are that more and more people (older people, Im told) use instead of toilet paper, are destroying sewer infrastructure. I assume they must be biodegradeable in some environment, but they sure as hell aint biodegradeable in the sewer. Every screen, diversion, pump, float sensor, support bracing and anything else thats not a perfectly smooth and flat surface is clogged up with layers of those damn things. Toilet paper, by comparison, doesnt last but a few minutes down there til it churns into a fine mist of fibers. But those things people are using now might as well be made of kevlar. Whoever designed them to be flushed clearly didn't do any real world testing or consult with anyone first. Cities spend ungodly amounts of money unclogging lines and replacing lift pumps purely because of those wipes.

Just a little rant/PSA. Sorry.

 

It probably says more about their diets.

 

I don't consume any. It is too hard to swallow and it makes me thirsty and it doesn't clean anything on the way out.

It's just a bad idea.

However to experiment I unrolled a toll of toilet paper and numbered each sheet... But my wife caught me. She thinks I might start counting. I denied it. She didn't buy it. But yes, I have the reputation of squeezing a quarter until the Eagle bleeps.

 

I use as much as it takes.

 

I have considered this, but am reluctant to be the first to say how many.

 

They are a blight. Even the biodegradable ones, as you say, are as tough as Kevlar.

 

However to experiment I unrolled a toll of toilet paper and numbered each sheet... But my wife caught me. She thinks I might start counting. Yes. I have that reputation...

I have a saying to my family... "Vee Don't Vaste"... Drives the fam crazy.

 

When I was in Nepal I discovered they don't use toilet paper at all. They use water and the left hand.
In fact, it's not kind to handle something with the left hand in Nepal ...

 

I don't know. Ask Mr Owl......

 

Then they should wipe with the other hand.

 

I don't consume any of it, but I use a roll or so a week.

 

With or without a bidet?

 

Yeah it is a bit chewy isn’t it?

 

Is it?

 

I'm Italian ... I've got a bidet in my bathroom ...
Anyway I consume a lot of toilet paper. Probably it's a habit.
I remember when I was in Nepal [where you cannot find toilet paper once you live Kathmandu].
They wash their bum using water and the left hand [this is why in Nepal they consider absurd and offensive to handle objects using the left hand].

 

They are not the only culture that does that - poor left handlers! .
A friend was telling me that she worked in a Middle East country where they did not use toilet paper but clean rags. Apparently you used them and dropped them in a bin to be disposed out in the desert in a giant midden

But you can actually buy “washable” toilet paper

 

I use Spanish moss when in the woods and nothing else is available. There are much prefer Scott tissue or even a napkin

 

Lols!

 

I was taught a trick but not sure if it works. I was told that in a pinch, so to speak, you can use a dollar.




I tried once but it didn't work so well, probably because I only had seventy-five cents.