Toilet roll standoff 😭help

[TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince]

I live with 3 adults and a 14 year old.

Whenever l go to the toilet there is NEVER a toilet roll. NEVER! Plenty of tubes but never a roll.

I am the only person who ever appears to get a replacement one. Therefore l have to ask, what the rest of my family are wiping their backsides on.

There’s never even a half finished one. Just an empty one. Every . Time.

I am the oracle of the toilet roll in my house.

I’ve taken to moving the tubes to the top of the stairs incase some other fucker (Dh, 18 year old Ds and 6 year old Dd - I will let off the 10 week old), cares to move them.

I’ve counted 8. 8 tubes. Just left there.

I fear we will drown in them before any other fucker moves one.

@EdnaSilem

I remember Izal toilet 'paper' - it made excellent tracing paper if you needed some for geography homework Didn't know you could still buy it! Or maybe I'm thinking of Bronco?

Ha ha I remember those , they were like shiny greaseproof paper

www.amazon.co.uk/IZAL-MEDICATED-STRONG-TOILET-TISSUE/product-reviews/B00FRK2RCC?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Do people really not know what their da,ily is doing with loo roll when they get through a lot ?

I keep a spare one on the windowsill in our loo. When the one on the holder runs out there is always one there ready and whoever used the last piece of the old one is supposed to replace the spare. Doesn't always happen, but sometimes the teens do remember, we adults usually do. It reduces the likelihood of there being none there at all.

Oh and I buy double rolls. They seem expensive, but they are double the sheets and there is less changing needed.

@lillylemons

during the first lockdown, I got annoyed with there being no loo roll in the bathroom so I give everyone their own loo roll within a day dd 13 needed a new one no idea what she does with it but she uses 1 a day now that's driving me nuts. How can anyone use 1 roll a day?

During the first lockdown there was no fucking loo roll anywhere except in pepper's cupboards!

@lillylemons

My brother and I used to get a right royal telling off for using loads of toilet roll when we were kids. Turns out we both have a digestive disorder, so things were more... er, messy, than normal. We'd never known any different, and our parents never got us checked out, so we were both in our 40s before we realised it wasn't normal (although there had been some realisations about a lot of toilet roll being used over the years, we always both just said 'Yeah, well I need to use that much')

I'd say to anyone who seems to have to use loads, to tinker with their diet. My brother and I have both had to largely cut out carbs and fibre. We use a lot less bog roll now!

Why do you only have one roll. I have stand thingies which hold 4 rolls and one on the built in holder. We have 4 bogs so that's 20 at the start of each month and 20 in the cupboard .

We are getting through much less now the DC are back at uni. We get through about 2 rolls each when we are wfh.

You can borrow my DS. He's 5 and I found him replacing the loo roll last week.

I'm afraid I accosted him with why he was raiding the loo roll to be honest. (had visions of finding his Dsis wrapped up as a mummy...) I was most contrite when he told me that he was just replacing it as he had used the last.

No idea where he gets it from (certainly not his dad!)

I haven't tried this myself yet... but if you were to use the tube as a 'guide' you may find you don't need toilet paper at all. 🤞
N. B. don't try to use the tube twice - I don't think I need to explain why... 😲

@mumwon

leave a plastic jug beside the loo & no toilet paper except Izal - I can remember school use to have that - one of my friends use to carry tissue paper in her pocket for use!

In Germany, in the 80s, we always carried a small pack of tissues because you had to buy toilet paper from a machine!

We just keep our toilet rolls in the packaging by the toilet - then nobody needs to worry about running out.

@Bargebill19

Issue everyone with their own individual toilet roll. No more toilet roll will be issued until they return their empty roll to you, in person. Make sure you have marked each inner tube with a different coloured felt tip pen on the inside of the cardboard tube. So you know who tube is who’s - but don’t tell them. Place all remaining toilet rolls under lock and key. Hang key around your neck. What to see who cracks first and asks for more toilet paper.

This is mad, please don't follow this advice OP.

I had a lodger who managed to get a new roll when required but would then proceed to perch it on top of the holder, never actually removing the old tube and replace with the new roll

never could work that one out

Ha that’s funny as I am sick to death of the empty cardboard roll thrown on the floor, why the hell they can’t put it in the bin is beyond me 😂

Me and dd do this and it annoys dh.
Last night I went to the loo and he'd made a face with several empty tubes, under the lid that was the mouth.

I don't know what happens, use the last and forget the new, I guess.

This is mad, please don't follow this advice OP.

I think they were joking.

I installed a shelf and just put a stash of toilet rolls on the shelf. Weirdly, one of my daughters seems to like restocking the shelf and changing the toilet roll. She's been doing this since she was three, so I never have to do it.

You could start saving up the tubes and do something with them, like fill up the snack drawer with them, or the teabag pot. Until you're not the only one sick of them being in the wrong place.

@Nikori

Meh. It is going to be a long lockdown for some🤣
At least you got the joke!

Oh & people say living alone in lockdown must be horrible..... errr...no Always loo roll at least!! 🤣

@dadshere

Empty toilet roll tubes are made of a special material that makes them completely invisible to all but those blessed with 'ninja' vision. In my house I am the only one with this special gift.

I just quoted this to dh. I dont think he took any notice!!

They are in a drawer less than 2 ft away......

I’m going to have my own roll. The normal one gets nicked all the time. For nose blowing, painting, make up removal etc. But never gets replaced.

After years of constant rage that I was the only one to ever change the loo roll, started a subscription to Who gives a crap? at the start of the year. Haven't had to restock or change a loo roll since. Witchcraft I tell you!! I have no idea why it's now so appealing for everyone else?!

I have a spare roll under a loose floorboard in the bathroom. That way I always know that there will be some for me.

However whilst deep cleaning the bathroom through boredom during 'Lockdown 1' I discovered a roll, in a plastic bag, hidden in the cistern - DP's I suspect. Then another inside a doll type thing in the airing cupboard (DD' s) and then blow me down if there wasn't another behind the bath panel (can only be DS's).
So all in all the whole family have organised their own supply and there is just an empty cardboard roll permanently on the holder, which one guest unravelled and used in an emergency. So now I have to keep a supply of empty cardboard tubes which, of course, no one else bloody replaces.