is it best to scrunch the newspaper or just to wipe straight after tearing?
2006-12-13 14:07:45 · 25 answers · asked by amber79 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
scrunch the paper a few times to make it softer on the botty but bear in mind that if the ink comes off on your hands its gonna do the same on your botty and then make a nice mess of your pure white skid-free(?) y fronts
2006-12-21 01:01:06 · answer #1 · answered by Velvet Kitten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amber, how funny, being of the "older" generation, we had an outhouse when I was a child, the best "toilet paper" was, sears catalogs(ink does not come off),newspaper was okay. The key to the TP alternative is to scrunch it very good several times, makes it soft as a baby behind!
2006-12-14 00:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Joyce D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've used the cardboard roll in the middle before when I've noticed all too late that the loo paper had ran out.... LOL, those were the days.
The trick was to peel the card into thinner layers...
:op
As for newspaper, I've never tried, I think scrunching might be a good idea. Wouldn't want the smooth paper slippin up your back now.... sorry, cant.... stop... typing.....
...must... fight... it... gnhhgh...
2006-12-13 14:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by Tsh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when i was a lad many years ago there were no toilet rolls until Izal brought them about but they were glossy and they slipped over your anus but it was our job to cut the newspaper up in about 6" squares and pierce a hole in the corner through 50 odd sheets and thread string through to hang on the nail in the bog which was a long bench with a hole in it on which you sat!! but some houses in the town 5or 6 families would use the same toilet so you queued we have come a long way and yet there is someone out there still talking about wiping your a s s with newsprint
2006-12-18 03:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You think newspaper is bad....being an ex lumberjack for 17 years, I've forgotten my sh*t tickets a time or two and had to use pine needles WOW!! try that oh yea and also the top of socks, shirt tails ans cut off sleeves. you could always tell when someone forgot those tickets!! happy holidays :)
2006-12-13 14:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by dhwilson58 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I can recall, but my memory seriously sucks! I would say without scrunching it up...the scrunch would cause more chafing! Chafed willies and wilmas are definitely not a good thing!
2006-12-13 14:20:53 · answer #6 · answered by Schnibbs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's better just to use your hand and then wipe your hand on the wallpaper or curtains or whatever happens to be hanging in the toilet you are using at the time.
2006-12-20 03:56:09 · answer #7 · answered by emaxtde 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet is going to be to wipe with your hand and then use the newspaper to clean your hand. It's gross either way.
2006-12-13 14:37:58 · answer #8 · answered by Pat W 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
YES.. and the Sear Roebuck catalog as well. I grew up with very frugal parents and we used these rather than buy toilet paper.
SCRUNCH works best in MY opinion.
I will have you know NOW I buy toilet paper and will not be going back to the old way any time soon !!!
2006-12-13 14:14:54 · answer #9 · answered by Kitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always! But what do you do when there is no newspaper? The tube from the toilet paper? If there is one lying about. Or old envelopes?
2006-12-13 14:10:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋