Toilet roll usage

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you may have read it, but they say 'flushable' on stuff that isn't,(like wipes) because of our slack laws about the claim (I can't remember but it's something like if it breaks down in water - doesn't say how quickly!). It might break down in 100 years, but that doesn't help our sewage system.

pee
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paper (toilet roll only)

if he's old enough I'd be insisting that if it's not clean enough for him he uses a cleaning cloth & spray) if he's not old enough I'd just be telling him no or giving him wipes that go in the bin! (& yes, I have plenty of SEN experience if he has SEN)

@Fidgety31 just read your post about his age &SEN. Sometimes you just choose a different solution & that works for you, so. Not the end of the world.

however, I disagree that you can't change behaviour at 16. With both SEN & OCD you can, if it's important enough to you. I can see why this would come a ling way down the lust though. I wish there was a hug emoji that wasn't so smiley!

Two of us and we use one every other day

But we don't tend to have Asian-style toilets readily available to buy/use in Europe. And if you asked somebody in the UK if they had a jug you could use for going to the toilet, they'd probably fear that you wanted to use the jug instead of the toilet and be horrified!!

He’s 16… autistic with OCD…. And no he won’t wear shorts either - might get contaminated .
He won’t engage with therapy anymore - so we just accept that he uses a lot of toilet role . Can’t change someone at this age unless they want to change unfortunately.

Family of 5, 4 adults, all wfh 3/4 days a week. We go through 2 loo rolls a day.

Use a bum gun or a jug!! Like most of Asia lol

I buy the double rolls so last ages , in fact I save the loo roll inners for my friends nursery school and takes me several months to even fill a small bag . Have 2 loos & they last at least 2 weeks each
My sister uses loads , no idea what she does with it

How, though? Do you make sure that you've got a good seal with your bum and then flush it a couple of times first whilst you're still sitting there?! Or do you do something unseemly with an extra shower pipe extension without a head on it?!

Yes I misread, it wasn’t the op!
I agree not needed at home but if the previous poster’s son won’t sit on the seat without something then there are liners available.
no idea if they are actually flushable but I do recall reading ‘flushable liners’ somewhere!

mind you I may have misread that too 😅

I buy a pack of 12 about every 2 or 3 weeks and there's 5 of us. So that's roughly 1 roll per person per week

Actually, biggest consumer in our family is my son-in-law.

1 DH, 2 teen DS and me, plus occasional guests/2 bathrooms; we use 8-10 good quality rolls per week.

I just stayed with my dad for a week and we both have IBS issues but even so I don't think we used much more than a roll and a half between us. What is everyone doing with the stuff?!

Two females and three males in our house and we use about 2 per week I reckon!

Women and girls need to use a lot more than men and boys. So it depends how the household is made up, as well as many other factors I’m sure.

Just me here, 1 roll every 4 or 5 days I'd say.

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I honestly haven’t got a clue.

1 roll a week for two people? 😲

We buy in bulk from Costco and are a family of 4. I usually need to fish another 12 pack out of the loft every 3 weeks so that equals an average of 1 roll per person per week.
I think it can vary massively depending on the quality, however, both in terms of the thickness of the paper and how tightly it's rolled. We recently stayed with friends who had loosely-wrapped & tissue paper-thin loo roll, and I needed to use much more than at home.

I presume that hardly anybody really needs to use them - apart from if you regularly have to use toilets in truly unsanitary/grotty surroundings - outside cludgie in the corner of an open cow barn or similar.

The vast majority of them are almost certainly used by people with OCD and phobias about germs for their own reassurance... and I suppose they likely work out overall as less wasteful (and less faff) than using a whole toilet roll just to line the seat every time you go.

I doubt that they're genuinely flushable!

and it's not the op whose son is lining the seat anyway. At home you don't need seat liners.

If you use water first then there is no need to use tons of loo roll, it’s obviously much cleaner too. I never understand people that don’t use water first !!! It’s extremely unhygienic

How old is he?

introduce him to a cloth & toilet cleaner if he doesn't think your took ref seat is clean enough for the backs if his legs! Does he sit on grass. Walks etc outside in summer with shorts on?

@Poodlelove Are you U or NU about what? All you've said is that you googled something???

Why? Never have I ever needed to use one of those.