You may have trouble catching them next time, though. And even 6 week old cats have claws.
And what do you do when the kittens get past the six-week stage? Do you have an endless supply of six-week old kittens? I suppose it would work if you bred Persian kittens as a hobby.
People say that cloning has endemic ethical problems, but it’s hard to see how that would apply in this case.
Hey Elon… This sounds like a great idea for a bidet.
“The so-called Auto wiper V4 update brings surround video that takes into account more camera inputs from more angles to introduce higher precision.”
“Your Shit is Our Bread and Butter.” (Borrowed from a plumber friend.)
We had a subscription to Charmin, from Amazon, to be delivered every 2 months. We had a new case of it when things started to shut down, and I nervously bumped the order up to every month.
This… was overkill. At one point we had FIVE CASES. We gave it away to visitors. The oversupply got worse when we bought bidet seats because of all the COVID-inspired buzz about how wonderful they were, as our usage plummeted.
My in-laws were getting desperate for TP; their grocery delivery service could not find any, any time they tried to order it. MIL actually ordered a case of it from a shoddy China-based web page (to my surprise, it did actually eventually show up). But in the meantime, I actually ordered 2 large packages to be sent to them from WalMart. They arrived the same day MIL put their last roll of paper on the holder. MIL said “This is the BEST MOTHER’S DAY PRESENT EVER!”.
Scented??? EWWWWW. I’ve run into scented facial tissue a time or two, and gag! Scented garbage bags are a treat also. I have not seen colored TP in decades, but my mother used to buy it for the house.
Scallopped edges? Meh.
I am quite certain that the mega-roll has less TP in it, one way or another, than when it first came out. And for those of you who bemoan your holder’s ability to handle larger rolls, I think Charmin will actually send you a roll extender (they were included in the package for the first year or so the product was sold).
As someone else said, try the room-temp model. For one thing, they are considerably cheaper (30-60 bucks) than the electric ones (250+), so it’s an inexpensive way to give it a try without investing a lot.
For another: all the water feeding it has been inside your house’s walls for a while before it meets up with its doom. So it’s not gonna be all THAT cold. It can be unexpected, but you get used to it. Also, with ours, the cheaper one gives a stronger spray than the one from the shmancy one in the master bathroom, presumably due to native water pressure in the pipes, versus whatever the electric one pumps.
Oh hell, we OWN one of these. Gifted to us years ago from our house cleaner. The top is sort of a Barbie-doll. My daughter swiped it and put it on her bookshelf in what is now my home office. I just looked, and it is still there.
Probably the worst TP I ever used was at grade school, where it was almost the texture of waxed paper, if not quite that impermeable. IIRC it was dispensed in little squares. The TP in the buildings at college wasn’t much better. It at least was in rolls - but all the buildings had “Sav-Haf” holders.
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The metal bar that holds the roll is deliberately too wide to fit through the center of the roll - which means you have to squash the roll to force it on, which means it will not roll, which means it requires major effort to get ENOUGH.
It may well have reduced usage, but every time I used one of those bathrooms I went out of my way to pull of far more than I needed.
The ones my grandmother made had the doll part crocheted as well, so no plastic doll. Made them more easily washable, too.
I have never understood the desire for “soft” toilet paper. I want something that stays together, leaves no lint, and is absorbent enough to do the job. Scott tissue is fine with me.
When the covid shortage hit, I moved to the commercial supply lines and got a case of 9" rolls. Honestly, I don’t think I’ll ever go back. I only have to change the roll once every four-five weeks. It’s great. And I’m never “stuck” because it’s obvious for about a week when the end is coming.
I recall the obsession with colored and scented TP in the 70’s and 80’s. There was only one brand that made purple to match our downstairs powder room, so my mother tended to stock up on that one. The scents caused difficulties for some women’s sensitive parts, so that trend didn’t last long.
There was a birthday party scavenger hunt where the one item nobody found was “green toilet paper.” Imagine knocking on every door in the neighborhood asking for that? Imagine opening the door to multiple groups of kids begging for it? Imagine sending kids all over the neighborhood begging for a long list of unusual items? Simpler times.
I have a manual bidet. It’s a little painful, but it gets the job done.
Width? Diameter?
I always wondered whatever happened to the Ty-D-Bol man after they stopped running those commercials
He got flushed?
His career was already in the toilet.
I usually don’t like lavender either. But the wife bought some lavender disinfectant spray that is not too bad. But I have been seeing a new drink around here: Lavender and Vanilla soda. I’m not trying it.
Those who don’t understand wanting soft toilet paper - have you never had hemorrhoids? Because that’ll make you want soft TP.
@TruCelt , how do you dispense toilet paper from the giant industrial roll? Did you buy a commercial holder?
I was looking at getting an outlet by the toilet for a heated bidet seat, but it would have been really difficult and expensive to run the wiring. I see that many of you don’t think you need heated water, but either my water is way colder than yours or you’re made of hardier stuff than I am. The cold water coming out of my faucets, especially on winter mornings, is uncomfortable to wash hands in, much less to spray on a much more sensitive area.
I meant to. But in the crisis I just put the roll into a nylon tote bag. It’s slippery enough that the roll pulls just fine. So I hung it from the old dispenser and haven’t had a reason to make a change.
I should probably clarify that this is only in use in my personal bathroom. The rest of the house uses hoity toity toilet paper in conjunction with bidets. I have a sprayer, because the in-toilet bidets just look unsanitary to me. Plus the sprayer is useful for cleaning the actual toilet.
This. As I’ve gotten older, and dealt increasingly with a fussy gut (and a sore backside from time to time), I’ve switched our household from Scott to Charmin Ultra Soft (yes, the one with the blue bears).
When I started working at my new job a few months ago, and the TP in the office men’s room was bad enough that it clearly exacerbated the hemorrhoid situation, I started bringing my own TP to work. I’ve come to appreciate soft, high-quality paper, and my backside can tell the difference.
One time I decided to buy TP with a Christmas pattern. Except it was a package of 24, so the two of us we were still using it well into February.
Last year they offered a snowflake pattern.
The standard lineup for Hakle in Switzerland:
- 3 layers with a 3D wave structure
- 3 layer with a 3D wave structure with blue waves
- 100% recycled paper, without Chlorine, which is also 3 layers with an quilted puppy pattern
- 4 layers with chamomile scent and flower print
- 4 layers with extra quilting
- 4 layers with Shea Butter
- 3 layers with an quilted puppy pattern which is only sold at the discount store
TP which leaves lint is extremely annoying. Even though the paper at work is not from Hakle and is only 2 layers with a floral quilted pattern, and not very soft, it’s not the worse part. The evil part is the dispenser. There are 4 normal rolls mounted inside a dispenser, that’s supposed to give the user the next roll after the first one is done. It doesn’t work that way, so you have to struggle to get the paper.
Here’s a picture. Follow the link to get the interior view: