Have an opinion on toilet paper? I'm sure you do because we ALL do. Now you have your chance to make your voice heard. We all know there's only one right answer to the age old question ...
I know which way is right. Do you?
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Nicole
UNDER!!! Yes, that's right, I beg to differ from everybody else. I'm such a rebel. I find that when it's under, it gives you a better grip to rip it out. Plus you can hide the end in the back if it got messed up when you ripped it. I know, that's pretty anal, no pun intended. Or was it...
Judith
Over of course and I think on that, at least, my husband and I are in agreement.
What would be more interesting, and you are too young for this discussion, Karen, are the points that my 25-year old son and I disagree on.
For example, cloth napkins: I use napkin rings so we know whose is whose, he thinks that's nonsense. "Who cares?" he says, as he crumples his up and then complains about my cough....
He also doesn't believe in washing his sheets. But, since he is living with us (temporarily, give the guy some credit, he's going into the Peace Corps in a few months) I told him that since they were MY sheets, I'd want to use them again for someone else, so please wash them every couple of weeks, at least.
Men!
Karen
Judith - I'm confused. How do napkin rings let you know whose napkin is whose? Do you mean the rings are marked so you can I.D. them? ~ k!
Laura O
Re: the napkin ring thing--We did this in my family growing up. The napkin rings were all slightly different. The fancy ones were handed-down silver, engraved with an ancestor's initials, no two exactly alike. Everyone used their favorite napkin ring and the cloth napkins were used for several days before being washed. Probably a habit left over from when laundry was more of a pain-in-the-butt to do than it is now.
Karen
Laura - I think that's a great idea! We use cloth napkins all the time and I can't bring myself to use them twice. But if I knew I was wiping my face with *my* dirty napkin it would be nearly as bad to leave them a few days. Good thinkin'. ~ karen
Judith
The napkin rings are all different in my house as Laura suggests. A friend of my has a house by the ocean and she uses shells that are missing some of their outer part so that you can put them around a napkin and each one has a guest's initial on it.
Oh, and you will see by my comment below that the 25-year old's issue with napkin rings seems to be the least of my problems this weekend.
Tricia Rose
This is how my husband uses a ring marked 'Nancy' - it was his mother's. I am a neat wiper and he is a messy one, so I would go to all lengths to avoid using his napkin. Napkin rings are the answer.
p.s. you can polish them with wood ash, works a treat
Janet
Never mind the over or under, what about the price??
and the size of the rolls, and if you buy the cheap stuff, sandpaper butt..............sigh
Bev
Over, I will correct your loo roll if I ever use your loo and its doe 'wrong' I can't help myself, it just NEEDS to be righted. Over. The End.
Amy
OVER!!! But as the only female in this house, I will settle for having some within arm's reach....
Jamieson
Obviously the professionals do it OVER, as evidenced by the little triangle fold in every hotel bathroom. You can't do that fancy presentation if the roll is mounted UNDER. Therefore unless you are intent upon retaining amateur status for the Asslympics or similar you must agree that it is OVER.
My husband and I are unfortunately mismatched on this, so my concession is: whoever replaces the roll gets their way. He is often too lazy to switch it, so ours is usually the correct way: OVER.
Maggie
OVER!!! I know I'm an annoying freak, but sometimes I even change it other people's houses because it annoys me so much!
Yasmin
We've had the debate. Over. The end.
Amy Schmucker
I don't care One I ota. But my husband being military has to have it over. Sometimes I don't notice that I have done it "wrong" until its done, and I don't bother to change it, neither does he. For that matter, he has only changed the empty one for a new one a few times in 8 years of marriage.
Belinda Philp
Eeekkk...at the risk of being the lone voice to call out "under"...I say under all the way, baby! Way easier to unroll. Full stop.
Suzan
Over! My mother always has the paper under and it drives me crazy. As soon as my sons get to her house, they flip the toilet paper just to drive their grandmother crazy! (I love those boys!)
Claire
Definitely over. There is no other option, actually.
Beth
LOL. OVER of course!
katy
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:) had to do it... it's a big problem for me... i change the roll at OTHER people's houses :)
Robyn
Over!
Orissa
Ok, so - I'm one of the few of you that don't really have a preferred 'orientation'. But I am wondering how you would feel when you go to one of those public toilets with the big giganto roll - Thats .... Under .... and ... locked up - so no 'over' can be achieved??? Do you walk out and go to the next cubicle? walk out in disgust? or learn to manage your expectations??
SK Farm Girl
Take a pill and call my therapist to book an appointment - the earliest appointment I can get. Or walk into his office all shaking, crying, and clearly disturbed looking; that usually works! Really - some of us are that passionate about "over"!
Arlene
I remember this many years ago with Dear Abby! I'm an over person myself. :)
Brenda K-C
Oh... let me Cheryl Crow you for one moment, and add that 4 sheets is enough for #1, and 6 for #2. Just saying...
Sam
I'm a guy, and so can't speak for #1 paper requirements, but 6 sheets sounds like a lot. Does no one else fold?!
Angela
Over at home, under in public restrooms. I do NOT want to dig around inside a TP dispenser searching for the end of the paper that somehow got torn off way up inside the damn dispenser while trying to keep my kid from sitting on the floor/touching anything in the stall.
Brenda K-C
I am so in the minority here because, to me UNDER is the correct way.