So who has the hairiest shirt? Can you beat my MIL?

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So we organised a couple of M and S food boxes for the in laws and MIL rang us to thank us for it.

Having recited off to us the items included , she mentioned toilet roll. A real luxury , as apparently , she has been using newspaper for the last fortnight!

They are taking all sorts of precautions and not going out at all ( not in shielding group but vulnerable) but she is prepared to risk needing to call out a plumber to fix any issue in their or other houses.

And yes before anyone asks they have plenty of neighbours getting them stuff.

So a somewhat light hearted thread: anyone else got any martyrdom examples they can relay , so as to reduce my blood pressure a little about my MILs craziness?

She'll need a plumber if she's been wiping with newspaper! Not to mention a shitload of Canesten and Anusol 😬😬😬😬😬

Why not use water and your hand? Jeez newspaper

Lemon they don't have a sink in their toilet - yes something I have always found weird , they have to go into the bathroom which has no toilet!
Disclaimer I avoid staying there.

They may have been putting the newspaper into bin bags rather than into the toilet?

But has the newspaper been quarantined for 72 hours+ ?

Everyone used to use newspaper! People used to tear it into strips and hand or thread it on a line.

Her arse won’t fall off.

That's incredible! OP find out whether they're flushing it or not?! Recipe for disaster. Are they also foraging for nettles and dandelions instead of eating properly though?

I assume she's putting it in binbags. It likely wouldn't flush anyway.

I don't think it's that martyred, but then my mother is an Olympic contender. She is rationing her daily cups of tea because...

Drum roll...

Lots of people are doing gardening for the first time and if there is a drought and these people are selfishly watering their plants regardless, there is going to be a terrible water shortage.

Or something.

I would be lying if I said I hung on every demented word.

Anyone wonder if it was The Daily Mail??

DisgraceToTheYChromosome

What do you think people used in the 60s and 70s

We had an outside toilet and the local paper used to get slung in there to rip your own bit off as and when.

And the newspaper went down the toilet with no issue

Toilets used to use a lot more water back then. Some toilets were soil based too so paper wasn’t a problem.

Gosh Oliversmumsarmy, you had it tough. 60s child here, we always had toilet roll, even in my Granny’s outside loo.
There was a lot of hard toilet roll around in public toilets etc, but never newspaper.

Everyone I knew used newspaper.

You were posh if your parents used crimping scissors to cut the paper into squares then thread string through the paper so you could hang it on a nail in the outside lav

I don’t think I saw toilet paper in a shop till the 70s.

Saw a film a few years ago with Steve Coogan in about the Manchester club scene in the 70s
Not Manchester but it did resemble the streets that we lived in.
There were 10 of us (8 adults and 2 children) living in 2beds and a box room house with no bathroom.

My gran was suspicious of having a place to shit near to the bedrooms and had to be convinced it was the way to go.

Who remembers Izal Medicated at school? It was printed with "now wash your hands please", it was ahead of its time.
I remember using ripped up sheets of The Green 'Un in Sheffield in the 70s

She's not being a martyr she's probably super super anxious of the virus. No need to let your blood pressure get high over her anxiety or is this just an excuse to bash your MIL

I remember the stiff paper in boxes, that would have been late 80's early 80's. Didn't use roll until we moved house in 83!

Desidiva so other people's used newspaper is better than new clean loo roll? Sorry but of a drip feed there but this thread is supposed to be lighthearted?

You do realise this thread has now turned into the three Yorkshiremen sketch with 'Oh I never used proper toilet roll until 1987, up until then it was the Racing Post'.

Surely your as would be covered in ink, and your hands. 👐

Surely your as would be covered in ink, and your hands

Not just your hands😃