To wonder how on earth our 2 guests use over a loo roll a day?

[Sunnysummer]

We have two very lovely, very welcome and seemingly normal family members staying with for a couple of weeks. Neither one appears to have a stomach upset, or visit the loo more often or for longer than average... yet they get through 3 loo rolls every 2 days! We have restocked and are now set for the remainder of their stay, but in the meantime have become mystified, intrigued and now a little concerned for our ancient plumbing.

Are you a heavy paper-user? Can you help explain what is happening here? Or do we not want to know the horrible truth?

Wind it round their hand? Wtaf? Why would you wind it round your hand? Does one wipe and then rotate?

They are shagging a lot and using it to clean up.

Mumnset - obsessed with shit, parking and class. Not necessarily in that order.

I'd be intrigued to know the answer as well.

One of my friends came to stay one add used an entire roll to herself in one day.

I get through about one a week, but it's just me and DS.

I didn't want to ask....!

Much as I love the idea of them using it to clean up after a passionate embrace, may I bring the tone down slightly?

I've noticed older people tend to grow more hair around the certain part of their anatomy involved. Therefore they need to wipe more before they are clean.

The answer could be to provide wet loo roll if your sewers can cope. Sadly one of my older relatives gets through large amounts of loo roll and refuses wet wipes even if having D & V and gets very sore.

To the MNer who posted earlier about not wanting to return to family who won't give her enough loo roll, can I suggest you just take your own?

I have IBS and have no problem with people needing tissue. However, my DH and his family use way too much toilet roll. I once spent £££ getting the drain unblocked after his family visit. To put it bluntly, they don't use it for wiping. ONE WHOLE toilet roll per poo is use to line the inside of the bowl. It is to avoid noise and splashing. A very odd, wasteful and disgustling habit imho.

People wind it round their hands? WHY?

I am AGOG at all of this. People line the bowl? People wind it round their hands? What? Why?

'akiss so precise!
Do you ever stray from that do you think?'

I sometimes treat myself to one of those moist sheets. It's a rare treat though, not for mere every day poos.

Visit from PILs and SIL set a record for use of toilet paper of 5 rolls in one day (12 hours). Used to line the toilet bowl and flushed straight down the overworked drain. I will never agree to them all staying over because my poor drain won't take it. Knobs.

This is a real eye opener. Who on earth lines a bowl? Unless you have an inspection shelf loo, and even then you only need two or three sheets max to send it cleanly on its merry way.

Dreaming - I hoard pockets of tissues and loo roll too. And in my sleeves. I have to be really on the ball checking pockets when I'm doing the laundry. It's pretty embarrassing but my mum and Gran did it too so I think that's how it started :)

I take the moist tissue out of the bathroom because it won't flush in the quantities they use. Seriously; toilet roll should come with instructions. Dollops.

My housemate who bowl-lined had a fear of splashback. He had worked the whole thing up into a ritual and literally could not poo if he had not bowl-lined and seat-wrapped.

I am 46 and I have never, ever been aware that people line bowls before reading this thread.

The things you learn .

I have family members who use loads of the stuff.
my mother agues that she needs to use a lot as it is thinner to what she uses at home ( cardboard 4ply vs charmin). and also she puts a layer on any loo seat that she didn't clean herself.
it's mindboggling, we usually use about 5 rolls per week (the 4 of us) bu

Isn't the rule one up, one down and a polisher?

Check their bags on the way out? They may be treating you like the hotel we used to own: a place to get free loo roll for their own loo.

Pmsl at origami frogs

Cheap loo roll doesn't last very long if one isn't used to it.

They taunt me with empty cardboard tubes on the cistern. As they know we have drain problems it is especially annoying.

I am certain they use it to line the bowl. I am not certain as to why this is necessary or comforting.

"Cheap loo roll doesn't last very long if one isn't used to it"

oh, the pathos of this sentence! Fallen on hard times, have you, hopefloats?!

Op - are you my dad by any chance?

I saw the extra loo paper int he car when we arrived

People have some very odd toilet habits, that's for sure - perching, wrapping loo roll round your hands, lining the bowl..why?

hope to be blunt, your wipe your backside on it. How posh does it need to be?

It's not that cheap! And would definitely block our loos if so much was put down in one go. A family of 4 here with 3 who are loo users (one baby) and 1 who uses faaar too much per poo as he's a little boy & still working out he doesn't need an arm's length per wipe, but we still wouldn't go through a whole roll in one day?!?

at inspection shelf.