Packaging overkill for my last shipment - Toilet paper

[Newell Steamer]

And if it wasn't padded to stop from getting thrown around in the box, there would be a thread about how Amazon fucked up and destroyed your precious toilet paper.

 

[Eug]

People no longer have the capacity to live without being incredibly, ridiculously wasteful. We literally don't have paper towels in our house and we haven't for years nor have we missed them. They are completely superfluous if you understand how to use a rag. Rags absorb more, cost WAY less over time, and you don't throw them away more than once every few years. We're on the same set of 20 that we bought before our kids were born.

We get the same bullshit from everyone: what happens if you need to clean up dog piss, puke, or dead <insert something>? Well, genius, we use a fucking rag just like I said five minutes ago. People have been living for many, many tens of thousands of years without paper towels and they got by just fine. I love the commercials that try to get you to wash your dishes with paper towels. Anyone who does that should be KOS for the stupidity of it.

Oh, and about the toilet paper - teach your kids how to wipe their asses without using an entire tree per turd. I know it's possible because I've done it with multiple kids. It takes my family about 6 months to use 20 rolls and no one is ever covered in shit like you probably visualized in your head.

Heh. I was waiting for the self-righteous enviro post. I'm surprised it took this long. And this is coming from a guy who drives a plug-in Prius.

 

[tortillasoup]

You dip your toilet paper in the toilet then wipe? Ew!

naw, I either dip the paper in the tank behind the toilet, use the faucet from the bath tub or wet it from the sink.

 

[Imp]

About using a rag... it'd be like using a sponge. Kitchen sponges, IIRC, are among the most bacteria filled, dirtiest things in a household. They probably get that way from being used over and over again, and being wet a lot. Chemical disinfectants aren't 100%, I think, so even if you used it on the rag, it'd only do so much. You'd probably need an autoclave and that could melt it or set it on fire.

That's not to say paper towel is sterile. Recycled paper products. *Shudders*

 

[ViRGE]

That's not to say paper towel is sterile. Recycled paper products. *Shudders*

They're bleached and cooked as part of the process. They're about as sterile as you're going to find for anything not kept in an individual sterile package.