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Run out of toilet roll what can I use?

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Starbuck8419 · 14/03/2020 16:52

Someone suggested a sock.

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Starbuck8419 · 14/03/2020 17:35

The amount of kids Boris has, a photo might get me pregnant 🤢🤢

These are all sooo good

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Sunshinelollipops1 · 14/03/2020 17:35

My DH grew up in a developing country (very poor, military dictatorship). He is amused by panic buying over loo roll and keeps saying, “people do know they can wash their bum?”

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Mummyoflittledragon · 14/03/2020 17:36

Oh and the official document of Uk Coronavirus plans

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myleg · 14/03/2020 17:36

Lota

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BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser · 14/03/2020 17:37

Arse shower! Grin

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BarbaraofSeville · 14/03/2020 17:37

Ask friends/family/neighbours on social media or in person if someone can let you have some.

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willowpatterns · 14/03/2020 17:39

Dock leaves.

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ThePluckOfTheCoward · 14/03/2020 17:39

My guinea pigs, one in each hand 🙂

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bellinisurge · 14/03/2020 17:40

@Sunshinelollipops1 has it.
Pretty pathetic that we are in thrall to toilet paper.
It's great. I prefer it. I'm a general prepper so I have obviously planned for alternatives.

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doadeer · 14/03/2020 17:40

Just have a clench then a little wiggle. Easy.

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Alfr · 14/03/2020 17:40

Hold the front page - I've found the solution. You even get a selection of prints to choose from...

Run out of toilet roll what can I use?
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doadeer · 14/03/2020 17:40

Er should have stayed... The PP is not for a poo 😅

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doadeer · 14/03/2020 17:41

Stated!!!!!!

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BarbaraofSeville · 14/03/2020 17:41

people do know they can wash their bum

Maybe they don't? It's probably a totally alien concept to many British people with no heritage from other cultures. I admit to being aprehensive about using 'the bum hose' when I went on a diving holiday on a boat in Egypt, but following instruction from a very helpful 'how not to make a fool of yourself on a liveaboard' website, I got the hang of it and saw the benefit.

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RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 14/03/2020 17:41

Newspaper like the old days.

We use to have squares of it in the outside loo.

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PrincessHoneysuckle · 14/03/2020 17:42

The curtains?

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jackdawdawn · 14/03/2020 17:42

Don't use kitchen roll with any kind of regularity. A guy clearing our drain once told me that - it will clog the wastepipe. Maybe better cutting up an old sheet into little pieces, then bagging them up in the rubbish?

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Mischance · 14/03/2020 17:43

Bidet
Tissues
Kitchen towel

My Mum often used to forget to buy toilet paper and we would find old paper dress patterns hanging in the loo - and newspaper!

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HuggedTheRedwoods · 14/03/2020 17:45

Oh and the official document of Uk Coronavirus plans

I dont think the back of the fag packet would last very long.

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DotBall · 14/03/2020 17:49

Hand.
Desperation has driven me to this in work - combo of supplies manager not refilling the bog roll when asked and IBD 😭. Wasn’t too grim and would do again if necessary.

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Theyrecomingtotakemeawayhaha · 14/03/2020 17:49

It's spring, we'll soon be able to use dock leaves.
This is not something that worries me but we're it not on the cornonavirus threads the whole if the MN OCD cleaning brigade would pile on here.

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RantyAnty · 14/03/2020 17:51

would someone kindly explain how to use a bottle of water to wash. People say just pour it but what do you do?
How do you not get it all over the floor or toilet?

Are you standing, or sitting, or leaning forward?

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Jenasaurus · 14/03/2020 17:54

I am guessing its too late to install a bidet, how about a newspaper with Boris face on it

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Jenasaurus · 14/03/2020 17:55

A flannel could work and then wash at high temperature but I dont use flannels I have one of those odd shower scrub things, i do have a collection of odd socks though

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Jenasaurus · 14/03/2020 17:56

Maybe use an upturned shower to get into all the crevices...I dont know I am interested to

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