Toilet Paper

[dave1949]

So you're saying I'd take a liken to lichen?

I dunno about the moss, Moss. I think it is full of little mites and spiders. Probably tiny worms in there too.

 

[dave1949]

I am currently working in Venezuela. Supply of the TP (and many other things) is spoty at best. One girl from the office was robbed during trafic jam. The robber asked for money but when he saw 24 pack of TP on the back seat he said screw the money give me the TP.

Yikes! Hugo C. sure messed that place up.

 

[/pine]

When I started to school, the school had indoor plumbing and "running water" but we didn't have either of those luxuries at home. I guess I was 12 when Dad bought a place with a good well and windmill, and I helped him put a tank up on a stand head high on a grown man to provide enough water pressure, then he hung a curtain to separate a section of a bedroom and put in a bathroom and even a water heater.

We take so much for granted these days...And it was only harder on the generations before...and people think they're tough today...!...(no cell service= panic)

 

[turnkey4099]

I like to keep about 6 months worth of toilet paper stashed away.
My wife thinks I'm crazy; but I love to smirk at her whenever she runs out and asks me to bring her a new roll.
"See hun? I told you it was smart to keep a good stock of this stuff just in case."

My cleaning lady laughs at my stock but I explain the theory of "dollar cost averaging". Every time I go to Costco I bring back a couple bales last trip a bale was costing almost twice as much as when I first became a customer there. I'm using some now that I bought a couple years ago. My stock of paper ware and cleaning goods would pretty well stock a mom-n-pop store.

Harry K

 

[Scott85]

Living in the Middle East one thing you do for sure is use the bathroom before you leave the house, ain't much fun to go in nothing but a hole in the ground or with place that have a regular toilet and the sprayer next to it coming in and the whole place is covered in water from the pervious user. Living in WV I knew people that only had a water pump in the kitchen and no other running water, and this wasn't in coal country either.

 

[PILOON]

Sure is a crappy discussion.

 

[Ken]

It's possible to use a pitcher of water and the left hand, as is done in the Middle East. That takes a little getting used to, but actually fairly sanitary.

Dave They use water also?
ken

 

[dave1949]

Dave They use water also?
ken

Yep, they do.

The little place we lived in had a small courtyard maybe 15'x20' with a 10' high wall on the dirt alley entrance side. Very private space. Off the courtyard was a door to the privy, a stairway to the roof, a door to the shower room, a door to a 4'x8' "kitchen", and a door that led to our two living/sleeping area rooms. Those were each about the size of small to medium bedroom.

The houses all had adjoining walls on three sides, so that was the extent of the house. No back door or yard. There was the solid sheet steel door to the alley, and one barred window on the alley wall of the "living room."

The privy floor space was about like a single-hole outhouse. The squat toilet had those raised foot pads. The waste went straight down a deep hole pretty much like an outhouse, not a water based plumbing system. There was a water spigot in the privy and a plastic jug sort of like you would use to water plants. The floors were all done in terrazzo-type pavers. You could wash everything down with a hose.

Any water used to wash clothes, shower water, or kitchen water ran to a drain pipe under the courtyard, and from there outside to a small open ditch. The water came from the local river and might have been minimally treated, but sometimes very muddy water came out of the faucet if something was disturbing the river or a supply pipe broke.

That was a typical house in the poor part of the town of Dezful, Iran in the 1970's. The upscale neighborhoods were much the same except everything was bigger, with more rooms. The courtyards would have a few small trees, flowers, usually some kind of small water pool with a simple fountain in it.

 

[JamesHW]

Riding the train somewhere around NYC as a kid I remember going to the bathroom in the old coach and was surprised to see the rail bed flash by under the train through the toilet. I guess that was the way it was. After that I always kept an eye out where I stepped when walking on any railroad tracks.

 

[PMA]

My wife bought toilet paper the other day and I swear you have to pull three yards off to wipe. Told her to never buy that kind again.

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