To be surprised my Dsis doesn't know about the wipe fold wipe method?

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My DParents were frugal; War babies both, they always lived to save resources and money.

They taught me the wipe fold over and then wipe again method to save (granted a small amount) of loo roll.

Last week we were reminiscing about their asceticism and I mentioned this and how I still adhered to this (even more so in the heady days of Covid).

She denied all knowledge of the system!

How coukd this be?

Is this the Poo Troll?

It was because OP wrote about her sister denying all knowledge about how OP wipes her poo off her arse, and wondering how this could be.
Seems like something that she'd need to ask her sister. It put me off my dinner.

Oh good. Can we discuss the use of flannels too?

Is she older or younger? And how many years are between you?

Now I am interested 😂. I completely agree as a folder with how does scrumpling even work?

Ps this is the exact kind of conversation I would have with my sister!!

I origami exact replicas of famous landmarks anything else just seems so low effort.

The Statue of Liberty must be a bit uncomfortable?

Good grief. Maybe I'm decadent but I'd rather go bankrupt than limit myself to two squares of toilet paper for a poo.

Life's too short to be this tight.

I can’t believe it either OP. The method of wiping one’s arse constitutes at least 87% of small talk at any social gathering I’ve been to so it’s mad that she doesn’t know or she’s just lying.

Course it bloody is.

I could never lift one single handed & ud be worried they'd take chunks out of my bum!

🤣🤣🤣

One does if one doesn't wish to turn the bathroom into a swimming pool

Are you using the neck to sort of slide up and down your bum crack or a wing to lightly brush it away? Perhaps there’s a need for the beak after a complex evacuation?

I have never thought about this! I guess I'm a folder. I'm naturally frugal.

I work with little kids and we have tissues available at all times. Kids take a tissue, barely wipe a little snot and it goes in the bin..then they take another. My eastern European colleague said to me one day that in her childhood children were told to open a tissue, wipe/blow and fold then use again. Unless there is a huge amount that soaks through. I agreed we did the same. In fact I often have a half dried out folded tissue in my pocket to reuse because I have some sinus issues. We genuinely had a conversation about this, are kids taught to be wasteful now or are we somewhat unhygienic or stingy..

Yes!! In all my years here finally a question I can answer! I have never, ever, EVER folded loo roll, always a Pom Pom or scrunch.

Basically, you pull a few sheets off with abundance, scrunch them up and wipe and drop the scrunch in the toilet.

Then you repeat a couple of times (Not too tight a scrunch mind, a loose one).

On about the third or fourth scrunch and wipe you discretely have a little check to see if it’s coming away clean. If it is, you progress to a moist toilet tissue for a final little freshen up.

And - FLUSH, praying the mound of poo and toilet paper safely makes it way down.

And THIS, folks, is the way to do it!! Highly efficient.

Same here

The Romans also used pine cones!

I can imagine this in the days of hard Bronco and whatever the other was, but not now. And to put it delicately, how much loo roll you need is largely jgoing to depend on how much residue you have to deal with.

Ouch!

Sounds wasteful to me. You use much less paper with the fold method.

Not for wiping bums!

You know the Romans were riddled with parasites? Where archaeologists have been able to study Roman shit at close quarters, like Vindolanda and Housesteads in Hadrian's Wall territory where there were communal latrines with the sponge-on-a-stick system, the human waste contained tapeworms, roundworms, whipworms and the organisms that lead to giardiasis.

And it kept going round and round in a cycle.