Thread: TP: toward the wall or away from the wall?

Originally Posted by jnich67

TMI?

Not at all! baby wipes are something I have a lot of!

After three marriages (sigh) I can tell you that it's a man/woman thing. Most men like the TP to hang away from the wall for convenience and women like it towards the wall for neatness. The rationale, as I understand it, is that the loose end of the roll is easier to hide and provides an overall better esthetic image, like a House Beautiful magazine photo.

Originally Posted by Still_Ged

ObOnTopic: Over the top. Unless, as many have said, you have a cat. Then you pull some out of the pile on the floor, cursing at the cat and wondering why you keep feeding it and petting it and cleaning out the poobox. I mean, all you ask is that it keep the spider and fly population down so the sweetie doesn't get too weirded out or demand that you evict a giant eight-legged beasty from the shower at TWO IN THE MORNING when your arachnophobic honey gets up to pee. But no, you have a defective cat who blithely skips past the nest of spiders, stopping only to pat a mouse on the head on its way to the catnip toy before shredding the over-the-top toilet paper roll onto the floor. You know, that kid down the block looks like she wants a cat. It's much better than the burlap sack option that your sociopathic brother recommended last week. You briefly wonder how long it would take the partner to notice the cat missing. Microseconds, probably.

Aww... she's purrin'. That's so adorable!

-S.

So true!

Originally Posted by Chimensch

After three marriages (sigh) I can tell you that it's a man/woman thing. Most men like the TP to hang away from the wall for convenience and women like it towards the wall for neatness. The rationale, as I understand it, is that the loose end of the roll is easier to hide and provides an overall better esthetic image, like a House Beautiful magazine photo.

Thank you ! I always wondered why women always seem to put the toilet paper , in the holder backwards .

In the episode of The Simpsons where Homer and Marge have their kids taken away by Child Welfare, one of the citations on their list was that the toilet paper in their bathroom had been hung in the "improper overhand fashion." That's proof enough, right there.

Overhand looks so unkempt. When the paper is "flush" with the wall, it maximizes space, and in addition, the cat won't run on the roll with his front paws like it's a mini treadmill. So many times I've gone in the bathroom to find a pile of TP on the floor.

If you'll stuff a used anti-static cling sheet into the roll (between the tp holder and the cardboard), it will provide just the right amount of friction to allow the roll to turn without continuing to spin when you yank a sheet from the roll.

I think it's genius

Away from the wall dammit, AWAY I tell you!!!
There are many reasons for this. You can see the serrations the seperate the sheets without having a massive tail of tissue trailing to the floor. If you have one of those chrome swivel toilet roll holders, then in positioning the paper twards the wall it becomes more difficult to pull the roll to the desired length without tearing it. Some more reasons I can't think of right now......
Always AWAY from the wall!!!

Can you tell this is one of my pet peaves? (Pedantic or what?)

Connor

Moved this from "General" to "The Conversation" for the more appropriate place for this thread.

Having raised a number of kids, I dont really care which way it goes as long as its there when I need it. Not much worse than looking at an empty cob!

This reminds me of the time when my daughter started going to the toilet. 'Daddy look how much paper it put in the toilet already...'