Well, good for you! Since you’re not squeamish, I hereby invite you to take a barefoot walk in raw sewage, with nowhere to wash your feet afterward. A good portion of the world does that, too.
There’s only three of us in my family, and I think it would take 3-4 shopping carts to carry a year’s worth of TP. Seen anyone carrying that much?
We’re talking about the people hoarding TP. (The lone exception being my aversion to shitting in the shower.) Feel free to propose this to them.
I feel like the thing to do would be to keep a bucket with a lid filled with a strong bleach solution near the toilet, use rags, and dump them in the bleach bucket. Then once a day pour the whole mess in the washer, set it to hot, throw in more bleach if you want and some detergent, and wash them on hot. Exactly as gross as cloth diapers. It wouldn’t be ideal, but it wouldn’t be disgusting.
A redneck bidet! Now that’s the can-do spirit!
Oh, people have described it on these boards.
I think I see the disconnect. No one’s talking about shitting in the shower, right? They mean to jump in after you’ve used the toilet, to give yourself a rinse.
One teeny weeny benefit of this shortage: we no longer have the Princess and the Pea type souls informing us of how their ass is so special and delicate that only the rippled/puffed/embossed 2/3/6-ply Supremo-Mega-Ultra version of one particular brand is possibly worth buying.
Nope. New rule: if it’s available, buy it and be grateful! 
Since my house is 2-3 meters under sea level (NAP) I seriously doubt that gravity is all it takes.
Who needs TP? We have snow! Think of us as bears shitting in the woods and thinking of the Pope.
I’m convinced some people are buying up all the TP they can find so they resell it later at a huge profit. I saw a 12-pack of double rolls on eBay for about $25, plus $15 for shipping. And remember those are only “double” rolls which are really like single rolls these days. Yay, free enterprise.
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Just wait until people start flushing TP substitutes en masse. I don’t think those drains will be working so well then.
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Now that every household in the developed world has a multi-year supply of toilet paper in stock, we’ll have to wait a long time to see that happen.
Our stays in Mexico and Central America quickly schooled us on toilet etiquette.
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[li] Drop trou; sit. [/li][li] Grunt; void; drain. [/li][li] Wipe adequately. [/li][li] Place soiled paper, corn husk, straw, whatever wiper you used, directly in the small refuse can placed beside the toilet.[/li][li] Flush. Once is enough.[/li][li] Wash hands properly.[/li][li] Stand; get decent.[/li][/ul]
Only liquids and feces go down Latino drains - nothing else. We didn’t see bidets. :eek:
This is an eye-opener here. In this part of Asia, TP is used to dry yourself after a good sloshing with water (#1) or a careful washing with soap (#2). My Filipina wife is only just learning how white people do it, with a little scrap of dry paper that just spreads it around (Ew, amid shrieks of laughter). Filipina girls are walking around most of the day with wet panties, most don’t bother to dry after a good splashing. We haven’t bought a roll of TP in our three years together.
At Burning Man there are a couple thousand portable toilets in the city and the mantra is If it didn’t come out of your body, don’t put it in the potty. The sole exception is single-ply toilet paper. Anything else, emphasizing flushable baby wipes, jams up the hose when the porto is serviced making the poor guy pluck it out by hand.
No they don’t.
A lot of people can’t get it in the normal manner* because a few others are hogging it.
*Normal manner=going to the store whenever, and knowing for sure you’ll be able to buy TP.
**Not normal, but for the time being still doable=(a) buying online at a ruinous markup, or (b) getting down to the store when they open at 6am. Except it wouldn’t be 6am, you’d have to get there early to get in line. And you’ll be standing in line outside in the cold, rather than sitting fairly comfortably in your car.
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This. The thing I’ve seen when I travel. My concern is do I bag the waste & put it in the regular trash?
And why the fuck is the store completely out of cat litter??
Not every household has a multi year supply though.
I haven’t bough toilet paper since before this virus really exploded. I’ve calculated I have about a months supply left.
Hopefully it is restocked by then. If not I guess I will move over to kleenex and wet wipes which I will dispose of in the trash.