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I’ve always been an over-the-top person because, well, you can see where to grab the paper to get the job started … It’s never been an issue in our house, though I do find it annoying in other places having to play spin-the-roll to find the end piece.
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See, for me, this happens more frequently with the over-the-top pig-molesting option. The end of the roll lays flat on the top, and the only way I can find it is to sit there and spin the damn thing. More often than not, I spin it harder than I meant to, and toilet paper winds up avalanching down onto the floor. With the behind-the-roll-as-God-intended option, the last piece is always dangling a little lower than the roll, so I can see it hanging there invitingly … a mute sentinel yearning to help me clean.
Baker, you are a kind and wise person. I would have your babies were I plumbed differently.
And I don’t know which of you over-the-top heathens snuck into my office last night and put a cricket in here, but your sad attempt to distract me with the constant chirping isn’t going to succeed.
[QUOTE=Sauron]
Oh, right. Next you’ll tell me that you two don’t argue about where the forks, spoons and knives go in the silverware drawer.
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OMG. My girlfriend refuses to segregate teaspoons from tablespoons or salad forks from dinner forks.
I’ve never said anything, I just suffer in silence.
[QUOTE=harmless]
… and I’ve also done hotel housekeeping (except then you’re required to fold that end piece into a nice neat little point).
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Why do they do that? Are they expecting us to insert it somewhere?
[QUOTE=swampbear]
… Never, never, EVER run out of toilet paper! It’s just inexcusable.
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Unless you have a cat, then you can use it as backup.
[QUOTE=WhyNot] decides to throw some kerosene on the fire
So…you’re saying one shouldn’t wear shoes in the house? Or should, so they aren’t laying around? I’m confused. Discuss.
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Shoes on. Shoes off your choice. But if you take them off, don’t leave them in the middle of a high traffic area where I will trip over them. Put 'em by the door, in a closet, under a chair - anywhere that is at least kinda outa the way.
My toilet paper sits on the tub next to the toilet. The only time it even gets to see the peg is when I know I’m having company. When I do hang it, I couldn’t care less whether it’s coming out from the top or the bottom.
My shoes go where I take them off.
I squeeze the toothpaste from whichever part of the tube is my hand at the time.
My silverware is in a big pile in a drawer with the knives mostly on the far left side of the pile, and the spoons and forks mostly on the right side.
Bwahahahaha!!! I care nothing for your OCD neat freak habits. Fear me.
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See, for me, this happens more frequently with the over-the-top pig-molesting option. The end of the roll lays flat on the top, and the only way I can find it is to sit there and spin the damn thing. More often than not, I spin it harder than I meant to, and toilet paper winds up avalanching down onto the floor. With the behind-the-roll-as-God-intended option, the last piece is always dangling a little lower than the roll, so I can see it hanging there invitingly … a mute sentinel yearning to help me clean.
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You’re crazy. If you have a TP spindle that’s hinged against the wall, such as mine, the act of tearing off a portion of TP often has the side effect of leaving the end of the roll invisible and wedged between the wall and the roll…when you foolishly hang your tp towards the wall.
As a bonus, the added friction between wall and roll makes finding the end by spinning (without going over) a snap when you hang over-the-top like anyone with a knowledge of physics.
Also, toilet seat and lid are both down. Cat presence in the household demands it–our younger cat is sufficiently stupid he’s fallen in the toilet while trying to drink.
And I squeeze my toothpaste however I feel like it, because I have a little plastic doohickey that clips on the tube – squeeze from middle, brush, slide doohickey to compress remaining toothpaste at the top of the tube.
[QUOTE=Zeriel]
And I squeeze my toothpaste however I feel like it, because I have a little plastic doohickey that clips on the tube – squeeze from middle, brush, slide doohickey to compress remaining toothpaste at the top of the tube.
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That sounds like the most amazing doohickey in the history of doohickeys!
[QUOTE=Zeriel]
If you have a TP spindle that’s hinged against the wall, such as mine,
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Maybe this is part of the problem. All the toilet paper doohickeys I’ve ever seen are stiff arms that jut out from the wall, with a little plastic rod that inserts between them. The TP roll rests on this rod, and can be easily spun because of that. If you have a doohickey that lets the toilet paper rest against the wall, I can see where it would be difficult to have the behind-the-roll configuration.
You still should do it, though, so you can be on the Side of Right and Justice. It’s just harder for you, that’s all. It means your reward will be that much greater when you get to Toilet Paper Heaven.
I am of the behind school myself–the only righteous way to live.
The over the top method has always resulted in my acquiring only one square of TP when I attempt to obtain some. And even that amount is torn. No, it’s behind and underneath, not over and around. I’m sure it has the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval–how could it not?
Shoes on or off-no matter, but they should either be up in your room, or in a shoe collection type place–not scattered willy-nilly as if Hansel has been through the house.
Toothpaste I’m indifferent to–life is too short.
Lid up, seat down–of course, but if a compromise is to be made, I say lid down.
Silverware: of course you separate them! If you don’t, they mate and suddenly there are too many salad forks and teaspoons running around. I also separate my steak knives–no Kitchen Drawer equivalent to West Side Story in my house!
Glad we’ve cleared all that up.
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Actually, our toilet paper isn’t even hung, because if we hang it on the roller, one of the cats plays unroll-and-claw with it. It sits on the radiator facing the toilet.
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I’m an over-the-top-er, and my husband doesn’t care, but we got a new cat who’s a TP lover, and we had to switch to under so she can’t reach it to pull it out of the bathroom and down the stairs. I HATE it like that. I seems to be working for the cat, but it’s harder for me to reach the damned stuff too. And I don’t have claws to make it easier either.
[QUOTE=Missy2U]
Oh my god. I can’t imagine living like this.
Larry, please let me extend my deepest and most heartfelt condolences, hugs, best wishes, etc. {{{{Larry Mudd}}}}
Not segregating silverware? SHUDDER…
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This was exactly my reaction, right down to the SHUDDER. This is so, so wrong.
so far we’ve had 4 posts of people who leave the TP on the sink, and 4 who leave it on the side of the tub. Words fail me…This is not only apostasty, barbaric, and unfair to the cats----it’s just plain stupid!.
'Cause, you see, the sink and the tub are ,well,…wet. And toilet paper, like gunpowder, works best if you keep it dry.
So , whether over or under, I will not decree.
But on the wall, verily, it must be!
Now I don’t care about my silverware, always squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom, and I don’t care which way the toilet paper hangs, just so it’s hanging somewhere. But there’s a much more important piece of toilet paper preference here, one that is rarely discussed- when utilizing that toilet paper for its intended purpose, do you fold it nicely or simply wad it? I’m a wadder- who’s got the time to organize the toilet paper between tearing it and using it?
Silverware: of course you separate them! If you don’t, they mate and suddenly there are too many salad forks and teaspoons running around.
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What is this “too many salad forks” of which you speak? The words, they make no sense. Wait a minute…maybe it’s because I segregate my silverware that I can never find a salad fork when I need one. That’s it! I need to begin a silverware breeding program, STAT!
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But there’s a much more important piece of toilet paper preference here, one that is rarely discussed- when utilizing that toilet paper for its intended purpose, do you fold it nicely or simply wad it? I’m a wadder- who’s got the time to organize the toilet paper between tearing it and using it?
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Folding toilet paper before wiping has got to be THE most OCD thing I’ve ever heard in my life. The only time I fold toilet paper is if I’m out of feminine products and improvising in the mall bathroom.
[QUOTE=Sauron]
There are two kinds of people in the world, and ONLY two kinds – those who like the paper to hang over the top of the toilet paper roll, and those who like the paper to hang behind the toilet paper roll. Everyone has a very strong opinion on this topic. There are no fence-sitters, like you often see with non-important issues such as international politics. And if an over-the-top person and a behind-the-roll person marry each other, it can only end in tears.
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I am intentionally on the fence. I refuse to take a position on such a trivial issue. So when I load up the roll, I close my eyes, and let the end fall where it may …
