You store 48 super-size packages of toilet paper, but you've been confined to your home due to [fill-in-the-blank] for a long time and you're down to your last package. What do you do?
Warning: This is not a post to read if you have a queasy stomach or while you're eating!
- You could make your own toilet paper by making your own paper (will post a how-to within a month or so)
- You could use other things like:
-Kitchen towel (ick)
-Old newspaper (crumple to get soft)
-Phone books (ditto)
-Mail-order catalog (ditto)
-Bank notes or other laying-around paper, leaves (ditto) - Other Methods:
-a bidet + towel to dry off
-an upturned shower head + a towel to dry off
-a wet sponge (that's how the Romans did it)
-your hand - which is how people in the third world do it - that's why you see them eating with their opposite hand!
As for water use, a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently. Discuss with your family members what to do should you run out of toilet paper. Start working on an alternate plan now.
2 comments:
:) I've had friends from third world countries who did not use toilet paper. They think we North Americans are incredibly dirty for only wiping ourselves with paper. They keep a small cup beside the toilet and rinse themselves with water, while wiping with their hand. They then dry with a towel. Since their homeland is desert-dry and hot, I think that system must be sustainable even in a drought. (Not that I know much about drought living. Canada has three things in abundance - rocks and trees and water!)
Mr. Doom and I have been talking about going to Family Cloth, which is an option I don't think you mentioned.
We American people tend to forget that toilet paper is a relatively new invention. Wiping with a hand? Ew, gross (is what we all tend to think).
Thank you for your comment. No, I didn't mention family cloth, but that's something for folks to explore!
Have a good new year!
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