How do you get your children to use less loo paper?

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After yet another blocked toilet, and seeing one or two of my children use ridiculous amounts of loo paper and telling them off for it, I have realised I need to come up with a proactive strategy to get them to use less!

So how do you do it? Do you ration it? Do they have to come to you when they need the loo and ask you for it? I'm no way organised enough for that, but what do I do?

Have boxes of tissues rather than loo paper?

Thinking the constant pulling out of tissues a little less attractive than just letting the roll fall freestyle and mummyfying ones hand

noooo....tissues would be worse! I'd ration it TBH, or put it up high so they have to come and ask you to get it down (that's what I do)

Buy thinner paper it won't clog the loo.
My parents still complain when I come to visit that I use too much paper! I am 43 . I don't think there is a way.
My excuse is my parents loo is terrible (splash back which I hate) then their diet (TMI) makes sticky poos.
Change toilet or/and diet and see if it helps....

No clue! Someone here has gone through a whole roll in a day!

buy a plunger

deduct the cost from their pocket money

teach them how to use the plunger

i have actually done this.

It is thin loo paper already.

Mayor - the blockage is way too far down the pipe for a plunger to work...trust me, I've tried about a zillion times! And they dont' get pocket money.

They use loads for wees! Well, the one who I suspect is the culprit does anyway.

How do you ration it, SLD?

oh deffo ration it then

keep it with you and hand it out as required

App if you flatten the roll before putting it on the holder it stops people using so much, it doesn't roll off so easily. Assuming you use a loo roll holder.

(Hope that makes sense).

I ask them to make full use of the school's facilities

I couldn't be giving it out every time my 3 needed a crap

I'd be like a bloody bus conductor

They don't go to school, Shatner!

Catford - that would be a good idea, except that our roll holder is broken

Ok, I think I'm going to store it high up and they'll have to ask me for it, until they've got out of this crappy ('scuse the pun) habit of wasting it!

Cyb - I agree - I'm not in the slightest happy with this idea - I don't think I've got the patience for it either! I've got four!

But what!? Electrify every fifth sheet so they can only take four at a time?

Joh Travolta only lets his kids use one sheet

HTH

But how!? How does he achieve that!????

If they are toddlers they wil need to be shown how much they should use

Is it possible to buy one of those dispensers that they have in some public loos. You know, the type that releases half a sheet at a time, then you can't get any more unless you put your whole hand up into the dispenser and scrabble about on the roll with your fingernails. If you are very lucky indeed it is then possible to rip off a few extra shreds of paper. Oh and the dispenser must be a short distance from the loo so you can't reach it properly as well for maximum efficiency.

The toddlers are not the problem! It's the flipping 7yo who is the issue, and it's when she does a wee that it's ridiculous amounts, believe it or not .

Good idea Onepiece - I wonder where you get them from without having to buy a joblot of 100 or so

Dd managed was being quite full on yesterday so when she went to the toilet, I thought brilliant a couple of minutes peace.

20 minutes later she came out and said the toilet roll had all gone. She'd ripped the best part of a toilet roll and shoved it into any available hole in the bathroom. The plugs, up the taps and the remainder down the toilet.

The toilet has not been the same since, it is now out of her reach. I've left 2 pieces of toilet paper for the children. They can shout when it runs out.

Its only in reach of adults.

teach them the army way

get single sheet

fold into 4

tear section out of the middle

stick finger through hole

wipe arse

clean finger with sheet

clean fingernail with bit you tore out

very u-bend friendly

Hahahahaha, Mayor. That's minging! I am not teaching them that!

Maybe I need a sponge on a stick a la the Romans

I found moist toilet wipes far more effective and satysfying than paper, only two-three are needed.
Or you can go the traditional route and provide a bucket of water instead of paper.

Haw haw - enjoying this thread.

How about getting them to do a "Second World War Home Front" project and get then to tear up squares of newspaper and then thread them on a piece of string?

Oh that is a fantastic idea, gramercy! Might at least get them out of the habit of using so much - and it is habit, for definite.

We stick it high up now too and I leave a couple of sheets on the top of the toilet for wee's but mine are still little and shout when gone for a poo. Maybe tell dd all the money that's being wasted on her excessive wipes could be put towards a trip out/small toy or whatever if she remembers not to waste... Maybe?

Don't use tissues - they aren't designed to disintegrate in the way toilet paper does.

You may find that vigorous use of the toilet brush will dislodge the blockage further down. It's worked for me! If not then constantly topping up the toilet with a bucket of water to increase the pressure of water pressing on the blockage may do the trick.

As to reducing the amount used - you could try bribery in the form of "if this roll lasts until Saturday you can have x" - but just be careful as you could end up with disgusting underwear to wash if they try to be too economical! I'd prefer they used the roll!