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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPerhaps we should start listing viable alternatives to toilet paper. Allow me to start with......
NoMoreRepugs
(9,461 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Why? I really don't want to know.
lastlib
(23,287 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Siwsan
(26,291 posts)Of course, that's another alternative to TP, albeit with a little less power in that wash.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)zanana1
(6,129 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)5X
(3,972 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)then my husband said when he was a student in England in the '60's they always used newspapers.
After reading them they would tear them up into little strips. Everybody did it then.
Hmmm....doesn't sound too sanitary and would block toilets I suspect.
Siwsan
(26,291 posts)It was almost like a thin, brown wrapping paper! At one public building, I saw some that actually had 'Now please throw away' printed on it!!
Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)or mismatched socks.
MLAA
(17,329 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)This is a serious thread. Im serious.
MLAA
(17,329 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)...used strips of old toweling, I am told, each family member hung theirs on a towel rack and they were laundered every several days. We thought it creepy when we heard about it.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)That nasty non-profit biodegradable stuff belongs in the trash, not toilet.
Oh and I was taught in Girl Scouts (and DH in Boy Scouts) that certain types of leaves can be used instead of TP. Just make very sure you follow the "leaves of 3, leave them be" rule. That's the last place you want poison ivy, etc touching.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)we have found the occasional 4 leaved ones.
Clever lil buggers.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)with very unlucky results.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Smart lil bugger.
I got attacked just once, lightly, and found putting Vicks Vapo rub, the mentholated stuff, on it stops all pain/ itch, and dries it out, fast healing. Of course a bandage or wrap over the vicks....
Which is a handy discovery because we have fire ants. It works great on those bites, keeps the blister from forming.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I caught Fifths (similar to chicken pox if you're unfamiliar) from my darling grands and discovered that the only thing that soothed that horrid itching were products with a good bit of menthol in them like Mentholatum and Vicks. I went through jars of the stuff but thank goodness it worked and far better than any other anti-itch stuff.
I've always had Mentholatum around since it helps relieve some of my allergy symptoms and chapped lips but hadn't thought to use it on itchy spots until than. Now we use it on itchy bites and burning stings (incl stinging nettle), etc too.
We don't have fire ants this far north (yet) but I've filed it away now for use on those buggers if we get bit visiting friends or family down south. I'd heard those things are demon spawn if you have a run in with them so nice to know something helps, thanks!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You have to apply it several times a day if you can't bandage the area. Bandages are changed, with more ointment, am and pm.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I was a nurse before I became to disabled eons ago and still normally tend to err on the side of caution.
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)The answer was:
Two words:
Lawn-sprinkler bidet.
Personally, I'd recommend oscillating.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)We get them shipped in from Iowa every month.........
Much cheaper than newspaper.
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Simply sit on the side of the tub and hang your backside over the tub. Take the shower head down from the bracket, adjust flow/temperature, and have at it. Helps to have a towel handy.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)to put copies of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to their highest and best use.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)NNadir
(33,552 posts)...I really don't want it contaminated.
It's actually quite a critical organ, which has prevented me, from some extent, from being full of shit.
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bluestarone
(17,043 posts)Mail to the tRUMP family!!