I’m the only one here so I have to change it, but I’ll admit I usually leave it sitting on the counter for a few passes until I give in and put it properly on the holder.
My problem is that about 1/3 of the time I end up losing my grip on the spring-loaded roller and it goes flying off somewhere and I have to retrieve it. Under the vanity, in the trash can, behind the toilet. And I didn’t come in the bathroom to have to mess around with that so I’m not even going to bother to try doing it until later. When I’m less in a hurry.
Unless this applies only to your household, it’s veering dangerously close to sexism. The proper way to hang the toilet roll is with the end hanging off the front for easier gripping… unless the household is inhabited by small creatures such as children or cats, who may paw at the paper and unroll it. In that case, it’s okay to hang the roll with the end at the back. (We will not mention those who hang it sideways.)
But if it didn’t exist, you know someone would raise a big stink.
I could buy this if there were any, any difficulty at all, if our TP dispenser had a spring thingy that you have to fiddle with, etc. But no, our dispenser is just a horizontal rod (there is a small lip on the outside end to prevent the roll from being pulled off every time), so all one has to do is slide off the tube and slide on the new one. You don’t even have to “start” the new roll by pulling at the glued end. Just slide off, and slide on.
Really, there is no sane excuse for failing or refusing to do that.
I’m a woman and I change the TP roll (in my own home and in others) and the paper MUST be hanging over the front. The back is just wrong. I fix it in other peoples’ homes, that’s how much it bugs me.
One of my oldest friends is a really lovely girl with a completely crazy mother. One time when she was a teenager she forgot to change the roll and her mother went ballistic. She had to come and stay over at my house for several days. I’m not remotely joking: her mother flipped out at her for not changing the roll so badly she had to stay with me.
She is still a wonderful person, a nurse, with a tidy house that I’m sure always has a roll in place, and her mother is still whackadoodle.
I had always heard that the front/back decision on roll direction was a regional thing. Southerners roll off the front, northerners off the back. US only, have no idea how this applies outside the US.
While we are on the topic, someone needs to come up with a word for all the fine soft lint that accumulates on the roll holder. I’m assuming it’s coming off the TP from excessive speed on the unroll.
You guys who are “fixing” the toilet paper in other people’s houses, that’s not really cool. If I wanted the orientation of my toilet paper to be different, I would have hung it that way. {Mild frowny face}
Can you take the bar off and put it in the under sink cabinet?
And, seriously, what others have been saying about men vs. women, north vs. south with the direction? No. It happens everywhere and with everyone.
As a Northerner woman, I put the roll facing forward. If I encounter it somewhere besides my own home going the other way, I don’t care.
And I still think people who can’t figure out to just change the roll when it’s empty are just dummies who think it’s magic and can’t figure it out. Like the paper fairies come and change it in the middle of the night along with stealing teeth.
My fiance and I have circumvented this argument entirely. He likes Scot-tissue. I like Charmin. He likes his toilet paper on the roll. I like mine on the counter. His paper goes on the roll, and mine chills out on the counter next to it. We’ve had exactly zero arguments over tp since I moved in 11 months ago… working well so far
I’ve never done it. I think it’s just because I’m lazy. These days we have to keep the TP locked in the drawer anyway, otherwise the cats think it’s their own personal confetti machine.
If you don’t put it on the holder you can’t drop the end in the toilet and flush it to see how much of it will roll off and go down the drain. However, if it’s just sitting on top of the old roll you can knock it over and watch it roll all the way across the bathroom, then try to pull it back to you without it all unrolling. So it’s a toss up.
I swear that on the boat I used to work on, everyone except me suffered from this affliction. I used to walk in sometimes and find that not only had the original roll not been replaced yet, but the one sitting on top was almost all gone too! People just WOULD NOT put the roll on the holder attached to the wall, instead they’d just set it on top. I came to the conclusion that many people just do not care where the TP is, and maybe even prefer it to not be spooled on the holder.
It totally shits me when there’s just a cardboard tube left on the roller. I swear the sheer effort involved in just removing the tube and reinstating a new roll of TP is beyond most people…why should I have to walk into my toilet and see a full roll perched atop the cardboard tube?
I’m not exaggerating when I say I find that EXTREMELY fucking rude (and I’ve known people on both sides who do this). Everyone knows that TP direction is THE quintessential issue of absolutely no importance that like, 95% of people still have incredibly, irrationally strong opinions on. Chances are pretty good that the other person feels just as strongly as you do. If you were a friend or relative of mine and you “fixed” my TP, I would be fucking pissed because that’s rude and disrespectful. It’s not your house.
I agree, but what happens when you’re in someone else’s bathroom and the TP runs out and you need to replace the old roll? Are you required to maintain same direction of the previous roll or should you have the ability to select your own since you’re performing this service for the host? Keep in mind that the host may not even have a preference at all and the previous direction could have just been random.
The proper way to hang the toilet roll is with the end hanging off the front for easier gripping… unless the household is inhabited by small creatures such as children or cats, who may paw at the paper and unroll it. In that case, it’s okay to hang the roll with the end at the back. (We will not mention those who hang it sideways.)
