to ask if you wrap loo roll round your hand before you wipe? (lighthearted)

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I know the thread title sounds a bit mad but I'm genuinely wondering now! - after something I read on another thread - do most people wrap loo roll round their hand before they wipe??

I don't. I just tear off however much I need, fold it and wipe. It's actually come as news to me that some people wrap it round their hands. Wondering whether I've just uncovered an important social dichotomy along the lines of hanging the loo roll in front/behind here, or whether I've been a social misfit for 52 years and am only just realising this.

(Hey, don't judge, I need some frivolity after the week it's been...)

Forgot to add:
YABU = 'I wrap'
YANBU = 'I fold'

What about ‘ I scrunch’.

For me i fold lol

I have a bidet. Why wipe with a bit of dry paper when a warm wash is available ? Just get one and you'll never have to wipe again ( or run out of loo paper either).

My DH wraps and it drives me mad. Such a waste!!

I individually gift wrap each turd in toilet paper before flushing. I always assumed everyone did.

When I was at university I had a boyfriend who spent a lot of time at our family house. My mum started complaining that she’d noticed an increase in how much loo roll was being used.

One evening, boyfriend went to the loo- I could hear him flush but it sounded funny. After a few mins he bounded out and explained that he’d blocked the loo.

I had to go and explain to my father, and sit with boyfriend while I could hear dad go up and down the stairs with a dynorod in order to unblock the ancient-oak-tree worth of loo roll that had clogged the toilet.

Turns out boyfriend would use a “mitt” to wipe the seat before he sat down, then multiple additional mitts to clean up.

I should’ve known then that the relationship was doomed as I’m a folder.

@TooTrueToBeGood what if you have the shits lol

I individually gift wrap each turd in toilet paper before flushing. I always assumed everyone did.

Hadn't even factored the scrunchers into the equation! Apologies for the omission... and we actually have a bidet which we never use! Perhaps now is a good time to start...

Folder here, but I suspect my eldest is a wrapper as he seems to use a lot of the stuff.

The other contentious thing is do you sit and wipe, or stand and wipe?

I used to have someone stayed who got through so much. They once said there wasn’t enough and was there another one. I was very confused when I went to change it for them to find there was half a role but that wasn’t enough for one toilet session. They used to line the whole toilet, and use over half a role each time. Always resulted in clogging our toilet!

Another scruncher here !

Wrapper here! 😂

Folder here.

How does a bidet work? Doesn't it spray everything about?

Disclaimer, I've never ever ever used one. Do you sit in it/on it?

@wildthingsinthenight How is wrapping more of a waste than any other method? The only way to truly not waste toilet paper is to use one square at a time.

I wrap, then fold.

So I wrap maybe 3 sheets around my hand, remove my hand which leaves a little folded cushion of paper.

Where's the option for scrunchers

So on a serious note, for the folders out there, do you fold, wipe, fold, wipe, fold, wipe so you get multiple wipes out of the same 2 or 3 sheets or do you fold, wipe, discard, fold, wipe, discard?

I can't believe I've followed up "on a serious note" with asking how strangers wipe their arses but these are unusual times.

@TooTrueToBeGood fold wipe discard 🙈

hmmm fold wipe fold wipe discard

What about us wipers?
I have eczema

I wipe with a wipe, then bin it (never flush) then towel dry

(Medicated wipes)
If no wipes, then fold.
Dd is a scruncher

Well my dp
And I are living together for first time in over a decade. We are also self isolating - no symptoms but in new location. We have discussed loo roll a lot. I do use much more.
We have started a ‘competition’ with a loo roll each to see how long it lasts (we are on day 1). I used to be both a scruncher and a wrapper (not at the same time). This competition has turned me into a careful folder.

I fold and wipe as many times possible before discarding.

You waste more when wrapping because you have a whole over-hand layer that isn't used!

I have a bidet. Why wipe with a bit of dry paper when a warm wash is available?

How do you dry off? With a towel? Surely you have to wash towels constantly if you're using them to wipe your bum (yes, technically it's clean but still harbouring bacteria). I used to have a bidet but never used it for its purpose because, even though I agree with you and love the idea, it seemed like such a faff!

I’m a folder. I also have a bidet but I’d never use it without wiping first. Yeurgh.

Scrunch