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

[Weartherose]

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?

😂

Joking apart but a combination of a great age and a bad back has had me thinking that the Romans knew a thing or two!

I have a good supply of pine cones. I'm not sure my botty or the sewerage system would thank me though!

And the parasites?

I never pooed in school so I would’ve been fine 😝
I didn’t poo outside the house or in a hotel on holiday until I was 20 and went travelling!!!

I just get the strip of loo roll and start at one end and wipe and fold it in itself as I work through the strip…I’ve been doing it that way for years and I’m now approaching 30. Am I doing it wrong?

I grew up in a poor 1950s house where we used newspaper. The Liverpool Echo to be precise. When it got damp the print came off on your ass ..... When I began full time work I bought my own toilet roll and kept it in my bag otherwise my sister pinched it.

Well thank you for that detailed explanation!

I'm a boring fibre obsessed health nut so the first wipe comes away clean 95% of the time. Kind of sad I'll never need to try a pom pom.

They can use the same!

Oh god yes, that crunchy stuff like greaseproof my granny used to have. Not in the slightest bit absorbent, I hated going to the loo there !

Never heard of it and not doing it

😂😂😂

I’ve never heard of this double folding malarkey, I can’t imagine going in for another go with slightly used paper ?
We did have a house with a bidet once and I actually thought it was great! Especially for us 4 menstruating ladies !

Maybe so, but the wipe is better, I don't care that a bit of extra bog roll goes down the pan!

I’m a corn cob girl