heehee I miss them ol' Sears Roebuck catalogues.
The TP basket is within reach, you just have to lean forward a little. Small bathroom.
Some folks have those "TP trees"... a stand on the floor kind of like a tall candlestick holder. You just stick the roll vertically on that and you can either pick up the roll and take your TP, or leave it on the stick and unravel some. But then you have to decide whether it should unravel clockwise or counterclockwise.
If the mounting of the roll on the holder is an issue worthy of discussion, consider this.
The old way here, and it still is in poorer homes, doesn't involve using paper paper. The wc is a French style floor level affair with no incoming water supply. At the side of the wc is a larger vat of water. You use your left hand for cleaning and then flush the wc with water scooped in a plastic bowl from the vat. Left hand for the loo and right hand for eating was the rule, for those who remembered. That's one reason why a decline kind offers of meals as I pass certain local homes. Better homes, hotels, malls and the like have flush toilets. You may or may not get paper.
The modern norm here is the butt blaster and a raised Western style wc. A butt blaster is a jet with a trigger on the end of a water pipe. Any toilet over which I have influence has a butt blaster, paper and flush. In the car is a roll of paper in case I'm taken short away from home and can't find my preferred comforts.
The butt blaster may be new to you and you may frown at the thought of it. Thai people who use them think that the Western preference for paper is both amusing and unhygienic.
Toilet paper is readily available here and Thais use a lot. For what, you may ask? Here's a clue. One British supermarket chain sells the stuff as ' multi-purpose tissue'. Eat at any village home and there will be a roll or two on the table for use as a cheap alternative to napkins.
Here's one. Think of it as a hand held bidet and consider the freshening up opportunities:
When my children were little I put the roll on with the paper coming off the back near the wall. My reasoning was that they used less because the paper tore easier against the roll itself. After they all left we put it on coming off the top. I read somewhere that this was the "proper TP installation" the whole purpose was to prevent germs from touching the wall.
heehee I miss them ol' Sears Roebuck catalogues.
The TP basket is within reach, you just have to lean forward a little. Small bathroom.
Some folks have those "TP trees"... a stand on the floor kind of like a tall candlestick holder. You just stick the roll vertically on that and you can either pick up the roll and take your TP, or leave it on the stick and unravel some. But then you have to decide whether it should unravel clockwise or counterclockwise.
Mamaroo is right about the cat. The choice is unrolled on the floor or shredded but useable. That is why we keep the roll on the back of the toilet. Much easier for the cat to simply bump the whole thing directly into the toilet from there. Add a young Labrador to the picture and you can imagine how the mess goes from there....
If the mounting of the roll on the holder is an issue worthy of discussion, consider this.
The old way here, and it still is in poorer homes, doesn't involve using paper paper. The wc is a French style floor level affair with no incoming water supply. At the side of the wc is a larger vat of water. You use your left hand for cleaning and then flush the wc with water scooped in a plastic bowl from the vat. Left hand for the loo and right hand for eating was the rule, for those who remembered. That's one reason why a decline kind offers of meals as I pass certain local homes. Better homes, hotels, malls and the like have flush toilets. You may or may not get paper.
The modern norm here is the butt blaster and a raised Western style wc. A butt blaster is a jet with a trigger on the end of a water pipe. Any toilet over which I have influence has a butt blaster, paper and flush. In the car is a roll of paper in case I'm taken short away from home and can't find my preferred comforts.
The butt blaster may be new to you and you may frown at the thought of it. Thai people who use them think that the Western preference for paper is both amusing and unhygienic.
Toilet paper is readily available here and Thais use a lot. For what, you may ask? Here's a clue. One British supermarket chain sells the stuff as ' multi-purpose tissue'. Eat at any village home and there will be a roll or two on the table for use as a cheap alternative to napkins.
Here's one. Think of it as a hand held bidet and consider the freshening up opportunities:
