Since I live in an apartment building, I am unable to receive direct electricity from wind mills or solar panels (I can and do buy some electricity from those sources through my electric company but the percent is quite small). Thus, I instead compensate by doing the three R’s as much as possible.
Toilet paper is probably one of the easiest ways to create waste, especially since we are unable to recycle what we use-there usually aren’t bidets in apartments in the United States. Luckily, there is an option we can take to at least minimize the impact we have. What option you ask? Using toilet paper that has already been recycled, my good sir.
Like many other shoppers, when I first saw recycled toilet paper being sold, I clinched my cheeks and said ‘ouch’. Nonetheless, after a few cloggings of our toilet by our previous wiping pleasure I along with a little persuasion of my girlfriend decided to pick up a bag of Marcel recycled toilet paper on our next shopping trip.
You are probably wondering whether or not my anus bled after its first usage. Well, I am happy to tell you it did not and the toilet paper is actually quite soft. My only complaint about the paper is that it isn’t thick enough.
The toilet paper is almost transparent with the feel of a fabric softener sheet. If you have no clue what that feels like, after doing a load of laundry go to the bathroom and wipe the sheet across your butt. Do you like that? Well, I do. If that makes me weird then so be it. I am a little weird. Hey, I’m a nerd. A nerd who likes the feel of fabric softeners wiped across his ass.
Written: Jul 8, 2009
louie jerome
July 10, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
Recycled toilet paper is an excellent idea. I use it, but I must admit that I have never used fabric softener sheets for the same purpose. Maybe you could be even more green and saved used conditioner sheets for use in the bathroom.LOL
Gary R. Hess
July 11, 2009 @ 2:11 am
Haha! The only downside to that is I don’t do laundry nearly enough to meet my bathroom needs :p
me
July 11, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
The weirdest post ? on sheite paper, well here is one for you to save even more on your recycled paper and an old trick my old pop taught me when he was alive (he lived during the last depression.)
He showed me / taught me (example only) how in those days it was possible to save $ by just using one sheet of toilet paper (and this is a true story)
You first take one sheet of toilet paper and you fold it corner to corner forming a triangle shape (the piece of paper folded in half), you then take the opposite corners and fold it in half again (making a smaller (1/4 fold piece of paper))
now once you have done that the center piece (the top pointy part of the fold) is you tear a very small piece of the tip.
you now unfold the piece of paper and you should have a piece of toilet paper with a small round hole in the center that should be just big enough to place your finger through the hole, and you should also have the small round piece of toilet paper you tore away to create the hole.
Now what my pop told me here is, you put your finger through the hole, then wipe you backside using your finger and the sheet was to protect any mess from getting onto the rest of your hand, and that you only needed to use this one sheet.
He then told me that the little piece of round paper left over was to clean the shit out from under your fingernail when you finished wiping your ass.