Daughter just bought a house and we noticed there’s no TP holder in the bathroom, nor is there evidence (screw holes) that one was ever in there. Maybe the previous owner had a stand-alone holder like we do, or maybe she just liked having the roll of tissue sitting on the tank.
What do you have? Wall mounted? Secret compartment? Opened package on the floor? Extra-long shower curtains??
I think this is mundane and pointless enough for a thread.
I store unopened packs in the cupboard under the sink in the bathroom. When I open a pack, they sit on a shelf in the bathroom, and the one that’s in use sits on top of the cistern. We used to have a TP holder on the wall but it broke and I never bothered replacing it as I’d long ago planned to install a complete new bathroom suite. Still haven’t done the bathroom suite thing, and consequently still have done nothing about a TP holder.
Some years back we stayed in a bed and breakfast in their so-called flower garden room. As part of the theme, the roll of TP sat inside a small garden shovel painted blue. While it was cute, I don’t think it’s very convenient to have the active roll on anything other than a horizontal bar.
We redid our bathrooms some years ago and both TP holders are just a right angle bar, with the opening away from the toliet. So there’s no chance the TP comes off the bar while yanking on it. And exchanging the roll is easy. No spring to fight with.
TP is stored in the drawer of the shower bathroom and in the cabinet at the end of the tub in the other bathroom. Each bathroom has (should have) 4-6 rolls.
In addition there’s the main cache which is in the hall closet above the recycling. Hubby just spent the morning cleaning out the shelves so now we’ll have more space for TP. Which wasn’t the main goal, but it’s a side benefit.
One roll on a wall hanger (different types in different bathrooms), spare roll on top of each tank, and backstock in a pantry cupboard.
All the toilet roll holders in my bathrooms are those right-angled bars, but in two of them they were installed on drywall and they won’t stay put. The mount starts loosening up, the bar starts angling towards the floor, and eventually the whole thing falls off the wall. I’ve bought floor stands for those bathrooms because I got tired of repeatedly having the drywall patched and the holder reinstalled, only to repeat the cycle. The floor stands have a basket type thing where 3 extra rolls can be stored.
Mine is just on the counter. I got sick of getting home to find my dogs had TP’d the entire house and eventually stopped keeping the toilet paper on the roll where they could reach it. I haven’t had dogs in my house for several years now, but I’m so used to it at this point I don’t see any reason to go back.
We had a house once that lacked similar TP storage. We got one of these and it worked well:
We keep an extra roll or two under the sink in each bathroom, the motherlode is in the garage.
The master bathroom did not have a toilet paper holder when I moved in, so I bought one that hooked over the tank, and had space for two backup rolls. Unfortunately, the hook portion disintegrated after a few years, so I replaced it with something similar to what Lancia posted.
The “guest” bathroom had a standard holder mounted next to the toilet. I installed wall shelves over the toilet for towels, etc, and the top shelf holds a megapack (8-12 double rolls) of TP. My master supply, which is currently down to five megapacks, is in the guest bedroom closet.
Main supply, hall linen closet right next the the bathroom, one roll on wall mounted (to studs, made damn sure of that during bath remodel/repair for that wall) at Ms Roomies insistance. I always kept it on the sink counter as the wall mounted holder is next to the toilet tank and a somewhat awkward thing to use when on the throne. I don’t ever keep even so much as a spare roll in the bath as it seems I am the only person (for many years now) who knows what restraint is when it comes to shower duration or hot water use. And I guess bathroom fans and their purposes are largely a mystery to a lot of people. Yeah, no paper product storage in that room
And now when the new TP shortage hits, we know exactly where to go pillaging and looting…
We’re like JoeyP, except it was cats rather than dogs. Generally we keep one or two rolls atop the tank, with the opened mega bundle pack on the bottom shelf of the bathroom closet. And, nowaways, the backup backup mega bundles are stacked on top of the dresser in the guest bedroom.
You’ve been using the wrong drywall anchors. I’ll bet you were using the little plastic plugs? You need the toggle type that squeeze the wallboard from behind.
As for my TP, I’ve got wall-mount holders. My mother’s house was built in the era where the holders are recessed into the wall.
Sister in law’s house was silly. They had a fancy floor-standing holder, but there was really no room for it, so you sometimes had to tilt it over a bit to get at the flush handle.
Master bath is a wall mounted holder next to my left elbow. Guest bath is a freestanding holder. Both bathrooms have an extra roll on top of the tank and more under the sink. The Covid stash is on a high shelf in the garage.
The cats have never really shown an interest in TP. But I’m sure that will change now that I’ve mentioned it.
Our two bathrooms share the wall that houses the drain vent to the roof, so it was built with 2X6s. When we remodeled the master bath, we built this:
So, theoretically, we always have a spare at hand. The rest of our TP stash is in the bottom of the linen closet. And the free-standing TP holder fits nicely under the pedestal sink which is next to the commode and this little cabinet. It’s worked well.
Mine is on a holder, but because of the configuration of the bathroom and cabinets, its mounted vertically vs horizontally. I found I actually like it that way as it doesn’t continue to roll off the roll when I tear a piece off. I imagine it would be harder for cats too.
All of our immediate use TP rolls are in wall mounts, horizontally, with the paper coming over the top, as Og intended.
Backup TP lives in little 3 or 4 tier roll around basket units in the vicinity, which also hold other essentials, such as reading materials.
The Main stash resides in nearby cabinets outside the bathrooms.
Wall mounted TP holder next to each toilet. The main bathroom closet has the bulk of the stored TP but I keep 1-4 rolls in a draw next to the one toilet for backup and 1-4 rolls over my toilet for backup. This system has worked great for 19 years.
Not me dude. The people who built the house in the first place and the handyman I had repair it. The builder I’m not surprised by, but the handyman should have known better.
My apartment came with built-in holders next to toilets for the active rolls (we have two bathrooms). I have plastic Itso storage cubes in each bathroom (unfortunately, Target discontinued this very helpful modular storage system a few years ago), which serve to hold backup supplies of TP, since it is impossible to get anything out of the under-sink cabinets, which are next to the toilets, when seated. I’ve accumulated enough backup supply (gradually, didn’t do a “fill the cart” locust thing) that some overflow is sitting next to toilets. Must organize that better.
I have the standard 1-roll, spring-loaded TP holders in both bathrooms. In the larger master bath, I have a 4-roll holder that’s kept in easy reach from the throne, and the reserves reside under the sink. The spare Bathroom also has extra under the sink but it is reachable if otherwise…occupied, so no special holder.
This is so interesting! My bulk tp stash is in a pantry closet Sharing space with cat fud, paper towels and unused Tupperware
Main water closet has Stand alone pedestal holds 1roll, it’s alway on the move.
Second bath A triple play holder Hanging on a cabinet upstairs with the spring held roll on the extreme right elbow area