How did people used to wipe their rear before toilet paper?

Question

Did they go around stinky alot or what?

Answer 1

What did people use before toilet paper was invented? <<

*Newsprint, paper catalogue pages in early US
*Hayballs, Scraper/gompf stick kept in container by the privy in the Middle Ages
*Discarded sheep's wool in the Viking Age, England
*Frayed end of an old anchor cable was used by sailing crews from Spain and Portugal *Medieval Europe- Straw, hay, grass, gompf stick
*Corn cobs, Sears Roebuck catalog, mussel shell, newspaper, leaves, sand- United States
*Water and your left hand, India
*Pages from a book, British Lords
*Coconut shells in early Hawaii
*Lace was used by French Royalty
*Public Restrooms in Ancient Rome- A sponge soaked in salt water, on the end of a stick
*The Wealthy in Ancient Rome-Wool and Rosewater
*French Royalty-lace, hemp
*Hemp & wool were used by the elite citizens of the world
*Defecating in the river was very common internationally
*Bidet, France
*Snow and Tundra Moss were used by early Eskimos

It is not uncommon to find Indians and Middle Eastern people express their disgust for the use of dry toilet paper as they doubt the effectiveness of just wiping with toilet paper and feel it is impossible to completely clean one's bottom and washing is absolutely necessary.

Answer 2

The same way as people who live nowadays in places where you can't go and buy toilet paper in a store.

For example, on a field trip to Yemen in the early 1960's, I remember our native guards or servants walking off into the desert carrying nothing but a water bottle. Afterwards, they would wash their rear with the water and their left hand. And at a meal, their left hand NEVER NEVER touched the food.

Answer 3

Cloth or leaves I believe.
This world should appreciate the people who invented small things in life like toilet paper more often.

So next time you use the bathroom, thank the man/woman who created toilet paper!

Answer 4

Back in the 1900- 1930's, they used newspaper or after they read the Mongomery Wards Catalog, they put put it in the outhouse. When you needed to wipe, you tore a page out & you used that.

In the eastern & southern US, people used corn cobs
( without the corn on) to wipe their butts. Especially if you lived on a farm, there were always corn cobs around. Imagine THAT on your butt!

Answer 5

Leaves

Answer 6

Yes leaves, also corn cobs(hence the expression...) and of course the Montgomery Ward/Sears Roebuck catalogs(slightly more recently)

Answer 7

The truthful certainty is their hand or spare rags...the two have been cleanable particularly in case you have been next to a river. Leaves or foilage does not precisely be a stable selection because of the fact its neither great or stable adequate.

Answer 8

They used leaves! And they used it on the ground or the outhouse before toilets. We have it good nowadays

Answer 9

Newspaper.

Answer 10

In the middle ages they used to wipe themselves on wall tapestries. And no, I am not joking, that's absolutely true.