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?

I don't worry about bears biting my bum, its more likely mosquitoes!
I feel I have been a bit culturally deprived...

When I was little I had a friend who had to use that horrible Izal toilet paper. In fact their whole family did, apart from her dad who was the only one allowed to use the soft stuff. I didn't understand it then and don't now!

shitshelftoilet : the water just flushes over the shelf and down the bowl taking everything with it.
imagine my poor cousin attempting to take a piss standing up. he had to shower afterwards and clean the whole bathroom, the backsplash was that bad.

I was terrified of those toilets when I was little

I still am.

Sold we call it a plateau toilet. Your business lands on to the plateau (which has a shallow layer of water on it) then when you flush it flushes off and then down.

Some people find it quite satisfying to see the result of their hard work

But some of them are automatic and react to the pressure of....er... Stuff falling on them. Those were the ones I was terrified of. Falling into a huge hole of shite. I know I was too big to fall down, but at 7 they scared me shitless

Never seen those...just as well.

american toilets terrify me. esp when you live in a house with dodgy plumbing and the bowl fills up and up and up and only when you think it will go over the rim all is sucked out (or not)

I think they have brought a secret guinea pig with them.and are shredding it for pet bedding.

I remember in the olden days, when I was very young, Out toilet paper was newspaper cut into squares on a piece of string which hung on a hook on the door inside. It was the post 2nd world war years, though.

Well I didn't expect to learn so much clicking on this thread.

I'm a 3 sheeter but DH is a wrapper - we don't talk about it.

I scrunch it up into a soft little puff

Sometimes I spend ages arranging it to look pretty too!

Still don't like the term 'bog roll' and I am def not the Duchess of Kent. Tbh - I don't even understand it. I assume it's because bogs are brown and muddy and dirty like poo....? Gross.

What's wrong with calling it loo roll?

I now use nothing other than 'quilted' - double sheeted as soft and tough.
My SIL has a Bidet - I would love one!

DXB
In Germany we too had those ledge loos. But from 40 years-old, when I moved there, I had yearly bowel cancer tests and made it much easier than doing it here.< tmi to explain but yuck doing it here>

This has been so educational! Shelf toilets and origami frogs and bowl-lining!

To reassure some understandably concerned posters (1) we do give our guests nice paper and (2) we really don't count rolls (horrifying thought!), but noticed when we'd gone through the dozen spares in under a week and had to rush back to the shops.

Given all the bowl-lining stories, I (not very successfully) casually mentioned to my aunt how we are saving up to redo the bathroom and the plumbing in particular, as it is so old and has backed up and left us in the lurch before... Now we will just live in hope, and maybe plan for a shelf toilet/bidet when we renovate

Some anus 's are built a certain way and require a lot of wiping to prevent skids
Sad but true :(

My ex didnt flush at night, he seriously used about a meter of (good quality) toilet roll for just a wee, for anything else he used so much. If it didnt flush first time he would build a barricade between it and the next person, seriously impressive how much he used, I was always scared it was going to clog the toilet or worse still the water wouldn't be able to get through so many layers of the stuff and it would over flow!

DH says I am a high user waster of toilet roll. Golden rules:

Always thoroughly wipe seat before beginning. Even at home.
Scrunch, never fold, even for a number one.
If there is anything even remotely yuck to be dealt with, create a "shield" for your hand, and never wipe more than once before discarding and making new shield.
All of the above to be done using length of tissue from a very generous "spin" of the roll.

HTH

Oops, forgot that a number two requires thorough pre-lining of the bowl. And a mid poo courtesy flush necessitates re-lining

This is beginning to make feel quite Gillian McKeith. Is it the nature of people's diet that makes them reckon all these elaborate rituals are necessary? What goes in is pretty horrible, so what comes out is just as bad?

Or do a substantial number of believe that a) their own body functions and those of others are unspeakably vile and b) that many terrible diseases can be caught off loo seats but c) that paper when applied in vast quantities has magical disinfectant disease-killing properties???

Bizarrely fascinating.

FIL uses absurd amounts of toilet roll. We're always shocked when he comes to visit. Last time he was staying at ours on his own (he was dong work on our house), MIL remarked that she was amazed at how long a roll of toilet roll lasted without him at home.