# How should TP be hung?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 28, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752 "2010-01-28T12:46:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/1 "2010-01-28T12:46:59Z")
> [@So I completely fail at dating.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-completely-fail-at-dating/526056/87):
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> My husband and I differ on how to hang toilet paper - therefore, we have worked out a system whereby the one changing the roll gets to choose. I don’t get to change the roll all that much. 🙂
I once worked (briefly) for a man who claimed that the final fight leading to his divorce was on this very subject. I’ve also personally witnessed two different couples argue (one rather vehemently) about this. I happen to have an opinion about how TP should be hung, but not strong enough to pick a fight over. In my experience the men all prefer the TP the same way as each other, so I’m curious if there’s a real trend here.
My “prediction”:
Men: TP should come off the top of the roll.
Women: TP should come off the bottom of the roll.
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/2 "2010-01-28T12:49:03Z")
Prediction disproven in one… Guy here, I like the TP going up and behind the roll.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/3 "2010-01-28T12:52:08Z")
I’m a top and my partner’s a bottom.😉
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### Author:  [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/4 "2010-01-28T13:32:14Z")
I think it should come from the bottom. My husband doesn’t think about it when he puts on a new roll - I’m sure he has no preference. It doesn’t bother me enough to change it when it’s on the other way, though.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/5 "2010-01-28T13:35:17Z")
You forgot the option of
**I have a cat. The TP must come off the bottom of the roll or the cat will bat at it and unroll it all.**
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/6 "2010-01-28T13:37:13Z")
By the neck until it’s dead, dead, dead.
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### Author:  [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/7 "2010-01-28T13:41:56Z")
I’m a woman and said the bottom because I used to care. I don’t care much anymore. I live alone and don’t put it on that roller thing because the towel rack is right above it and damp towels hanging on top of toilet paper = fail.
I’m not sure I could live with someone who thought this was important.
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### Author:  [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/8 "2010-01-28T13:48:41Z")
I’m a woman, and _obviously_, it should come over the top. That way, you can always see the end of the paper. Depending on how it tears and how much the paper clings to itself, it will usually be somewhere on the front of the roll, or hanging down.
If you load the roll the other way, you have to scrabble around between the roll and the wall feeling for the end, or spin the roll until you find it. It’s like installing your refrigerator facing the wall, with \*just \*enough room to squeeze in and open it. The thing you want to access should face out.
Fortunately, my husband agrees with me on this.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/9 "2010-01-28T14:03:34Z")
I’m a man, and I don’t care. Why should it ever matter?
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/10 "2010-01-28T14:27:18Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> If you load the roll the other way, you have to scrabble around between the roll and the wall feeling for the end, or spin the roll until you find it. It’s like installing your refrigerator facing the wall, with \*just \*enough room to squeeze in and open it. The thing you want to access should face out.
Not only that, but if you take hot showers, tp loaded to unroll under the bottom will stick to the wall when it’s humid, and be clammy and wet. Tp over the top rolls free and dry.
IMHO people who prefer it under the bottom simply haven’t closely observed the consequences.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/11 "2010-01-28T14:28:26Z")
I’m a woman and it just doesn’t make a difference to me.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/12 "2010-01-28T14:34:48Z")
Your nomenclature is scwewy. “off the top/off the bottom?” Toilet paper always departs from the _side_ of the roll; the question is whether the toilet paper should hang down on the side of the roll near the wall, or the side far from the wall.
And I won’t go so far as to declare a universal “should,” but IMHO it’s slightly easier to find the free end if it’s hanging in plain view instead of out of sight behind the roll.
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### Author:  [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/13 "2010-01-28T14:37:54Z")
Male here. And it just looks better when hung off the bottom. But this is about number 1 billion on the list of things I care about. The idea of fighting, let alone divorcing over this seems ludicrous.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/14 "2010-01-28T14:40:19Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> **I have a cat. The TP must come off the bottom of the roll or the cat will bat at it and unroll it all.**
Another vote for this one.
I prefer it to come off the top of the roll, because it’s easier to grab the free end and yank. Unfortunately, my cats agree.
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### Author:  [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/15 "2010-01-28T15:07:48Z")
If my bathroom is anything to go by, it should be plonked on top of the radiator that’s next to the bog.
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### Author:  [@nudgenudge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nudgenudge)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/16 "2010-01-28T15:14:22Z")
Printed toilet paper appears to be designed to fall on the side away from the wall (off the top, in the OP’s terminology), so presumably that’s what the manufacturers intend. Since they’re the experts in this important matter, I’ll go with them.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/17 "2010-01-28T15:15:32Z")
I’m a woman, and I just want it to be there.
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/18 "2010-01-28T15:20:16Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I’m a woman, and _obviously_, it should come over the top. That way, you can always see the end of the paper. Depending on how it tears and how much the paper clings to itself, it will usually be somewhere on the front of the roll, or hanging down.
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> If you load the roll the other way, you have to scrabble around between the roll and the wall feeling for the end, or spin the roll until you find it. It’s like installing your refrigerator facing the wall, with \*just \*enough room to squeeze in and open it. The thing you want to access should face out.
QFT!
-Woman, very opinionated about toilet rolls
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/19 "2010-01-28T15:22:47Z")
Vertical holder. Makes sure that everyone is equally unhappy.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-tp-be-hung/526752/20 "2010-01-28T15:28:52Z")
Typically, we have an empty tube on the roller, and a full or partial roll sitting on end on top of the empty roller.
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