Toilet paper

[Molalla1]

During the depression my Dad used to burn the used cobs in the wood stove when the pile got to big..

Didn't toss them in the privy after Ernie? . . . boy they were poor . . .

 

[Alan W.]

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I guess thats too much for personal use.
Or he could play the medicinal use card.

 

[YanmarFever]

Nope didn't toss them, they lived in Minnesota out in the woods, they only went into town 2x a year.
They bought thread, salt, molasses, nails, kerosene and 22 bullets. He said they never went hungry, but there was a lot of work to do on the farm
This was when he was younger, but he worked hard all his life and he died pretty wealthy by today's standards.

 

[PILOON]

My wife came home with this.
It's all there was.
It appears to be about 36 grit.
I kinda like it.
But it would be nice to finish with a finer grit.

LOL, 200 followed by 100?
Like in woodwork finishing?

 

[ultrarunner]

Glad to hear it. Wifey went to wal-mart supermarket today and got about everything she wanted. Of course not TP, but she did come home with 1 box of Kleenex tissues. Limit 1 box per person. Guess if we run out of TB we could use that. . But we have enough TP to last for a while so not worried. Surely the hoarders will get tired of hoarding pretty soon.

Facial Tissue can be problematic in sewers because it is slower breaking down

 

[k0ua]

Facial Tissue can be problematic in sewers because it is slower breaking down

Yeah, I thought of that...We are in no danger of running out of the real thing.

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah, I thought of that...We are in no danger of running out of the real thing.

I've used a lagoon for 42 years.

I have no use for cheap TP. It will float in the lagoon for days before it decomposes. Dang sure don't want to see Kleenex and paper towels floating around.

Imagine an urban sewer system and the numbers involved.....

 

[goeduck]

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Is downstairs just the bathroom or do we not believe in doors?

 

[aczlan]

Is downstairs just the bathroom or do we not believe in doors?

Looks almost like a pocket door in the end of the wall next to the sink to me.

Aaron Z

 

[Jstpssng]

The only thing that I don't keep stocked ahead on is bread... I do miss having a decent slice of toast in the morning. I've been in the grocery store a couple of times in the last week, early in the morning; what got me both times was the old retired people trying to find what they needed. Call me a sentimental old but if I was a hoarder, seeing them would be enough to make me repent and start giving out toilet paper at the supermarket entrance.

 

[MossRoad]

Is downstairs just the bathroom or do we not believe in doors?

Looks like the door opens to the viewer's left. There's a strike plate on the right side of the door frame.

 

[MossRoad]

The only thing that I don't keep stocked ahead on is bread... I do miss having a decent slice of toast in the morning. I've been in the grocery store a couple of times in the last week, early in the morning; what got me both times was the old retired people trying to find what they needed. Call me a sentimental old but if I was a hoarder, seeing them would be enough to make me repent and start giving out toilet paper at the supermarket entrance.

Or wait in the parking lot to mug them.

 

[goeduck]

Looks like the door opens to the viewer's left. There's a strike plate on the right side of the door frame.

By George, I think you are right. I now see it, a landing at the bottom of the stairs and a door opening into the bathroom straight ahead, hingeing on the left of the picture. :thumbsup:

 

[5030]

To those of you using TP to wipe your butt and nothing else.
Quit.
Your aversion to not touching yourself "down there" is a big problem.
The dry TP will eventually rub the rectal skin raw and open it up to infection and possibly even cancer. Want to wear a bag for the rest of your life at some point?
There's water in the toilet basin. Raise the seat, sit on the commode, flush the crap out to get fresh water there. Use your hand to splash water onto your rectum. Then use the hand to really wash that rectum. When finished, just use a washable hand towel to dry off. No TP needed.
Been doing this for years (using TP to dry, not the wash cloth). Have not had a rectal bleeding problem since. Bleeding was caused by dry wiping until really really clean. Cannot stand the pain or itching of not being clean. Water will do it better.

Ralph

You are strange. Get a Bidet with warm water. Feels much better...

 

[drssg]

I've used a lagoon for 42 years.

I have no use for cheap TP. It will float in the lagoon for days before it decomposes. Dang sure don't want to see Kleenex and paper towels floating around.

Imagine an urban sewer system and the numbers involved.....

I decided to look up "lagoon" to see if I was misunderstanding you. Sure enough, there was a definition I had never heard before.

"a shallow artificial pool or pond (as for the processing of sewage or storage of a liquid)"

So I'm guessing you have normal toilets, and you don't walk outside to take a crap in the lagoon every day. Is that a common septic design in your area?

 

[DKCDKC]

Grew up in a century-old house where they installed running water in about 1910. Ran the sewer line out of the house and almost 1,000 feet down the hill in the forest and just ended it in a kinda natural cavity. The sewerage was sometimes fragrant but always stayed in a 30 diameter swampy area. The area was ringed by the richest looking blackberry bushes I've ever seen - with the biggest berries imaginable. But we were afraid to eat them. It's still there, still used by that house... Until someone tells the Health Department I guess. It's a half mile or more from the nearest neighbor house, so nobody really knows.

 

[Molalla1]

Nope didn't toss them, they lived in Minnesota out in the woods, they only went into town 2x a year.
They bought thread, salt, molasses, nails, kerosene and 22 bullets. He said they never went hungry, but there was a lot of work to do on the farm
This was when he was younger, but he worked hard all his life and he died pretty wealthy by today's standards.

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[dragoneggs]

You are strange. Get a Bidet with warm water. Feels much better...

I think I need to turn down the pressure on my poor man's bidet. Honey!!!! Please step further back next time... apparently pressure washers will give you more than you bargained for if you aren't careful.

 

[ovrszd]

I decided to look up "lagoon" to see if I was misunderstanding you. Sure enough, there was a definition I had never heard before.

"a shallow artificial pool or pond (as for the processing of sewage or storage of a liquid)"

So I'm guessing you have normal toilets, and you don't walk outside to take a crap in the lagoon every day. Is that a common septic design in your area?

It's not in the majority. But it's very common on country properties. Ours never smells. I dipped it out once with a backhoe a few years ago. Wasn't giving us any problems. Just thought I should do something since it hadn't required any maintenance in 35 years.

The one I built last year is a bit deeper with the pipe 2ft above the bottom and 1.5ft below the water surface. I don't expect to do anything to it in my lifetime.

Small towns almost always use lagoons here. Our County Seat town of 3,500 with a major Interstate hiway running thru the middle of it uses a lagoon.

 

[MossRoad]

There's a small town NW of here that uses a lagoon. A craft distiller opened in town and got a permit to tie into the town's sewage system. Overloaded the lagoon quickly. Town blames distiller. Distiller blames town as they issued the permit. Legal battle ensued. Distiller had to truck waste out of town until it was settled. Can't remember how it ended. I think everyone involved was drunk.