Toilet Paper trick

Well, I am going to have to try this idea. How many times I have chased after a roll leaving streamers all over the bathroom.
 
Bruceter said:
Hope that this is not to OT. For regular car camping, do the same to a roll of paper towels. Open just one end of the wrapper and pull the core out,keeps the towels from unrolling and keeps them clean.

I do like the Nalgene idea for the TP!

Bruceter
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Nah, it's not OT. I've used paper towels for the same general, uh, business, so it's all good.
 
I do that to paper towels for KITCHEN use. I try never to run out of TP!

Bruceter
 
Evolute said:
Rather than make toilet paper feed like baby wipes, I carry baby wipes. If you haven't tried baby wipes, you should.
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:thumbup:

I keep a couple pocket-packs of kleenex in my pack but I use unscented wet-wipes most often. I can see the stripped ideas working well for paper towels when car camping, though. Doh! I see that was already mentioned, maybe I should read the whole thread before shooting my mouth off :D
 
That is a cool trick. Thanks for sharing.

As for the baby wipes, I like huggies myself. The costco brand, kirkland signature also makes very good baby wipes.
 
I read one article on "how to take a sh** in the woods" and the author mentioned using SNOW. He forms it into a small pointed snowball. I'm sure you would hear screams from me that would advance the Sasquatch legend-- or start an avalanche. WHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
 
DaleW said:
I read one article on "how to take a sh** in the woods" and the author mentioned using SNOW. He forms it into a small pointed snowball. I'm sure you would hear screams from me that would advance the Sasquatch legend-- or start an avalanche. WHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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I dont recomend that snow ball technique to anyone :mad: . Sometime ago maybe 25 years ago I had to take a dump really badly while out on the crosscountry ski trail. To my dismay I didn't have any paper with me, and not a birch tree in sight. I had to go like really now, no holding on.

Anyways I reached for the ball of snow, wiped my butt and it even felt good at first. But....... Yikes:eek: water, crappy water nice & brown all over my hands and clothing as that sucker of a snowball went into crappy meltdown mode. I reached for more snow, and it made things go from bad to worse. Crap everywhere, I learned a lesson the hard way. So I pass this advice on to you. Dont' use snow.

This poblem came up again being challenged by a lack of TP and being up to my waist in snow. This works well. Take a healthy branch from a spruce tree, and use that to wipe your butt. CAUTION! Only wipe in the direction away from the needles, as it will clean your butt without jabbing your private area with sharp pointy needles. This is a last resort method but it works. Be careful:D
 
When available, wooly mullein is by far the best of wild foraged toilet paper I've found. Corn lily is decent, too.
 
I don't know. I can remember when I headed out early in the morning before sunrise on several elk and deer hunts and found a a nice spot to sit and wait. After a few minutes, cold outside, the fresh air, absolutely quiet with no noise whatsover and then....the urge to purge. Problem? Yes, I forgot to bring some TP. Well, needless to say I have sacrificed several good pairs of shorts for a good cause. Hey, make do with what you have.;)
 
Evolute said:
When available, wooly mullein is by far the best of wild foraged toilet paper I've found. Corn lily is decent, too.
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Hey Evolute,

I don't know which Mullein you're referring to, but I'm guessing Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus). Some call it 'Nature's toilet paper'. Just an additional consideration, V. thapsus is also called 'Quaker's rouge' and it's called this because Quakers are forbidden to use cosmetics, so some young Quaker girls have been known to rub the leaves on their cheeks to redden them like rouge would. The reason it reddens them is because it's a rubefacient, and that means it's irritating their cheeks. I'll leave it up to you to do the substitutions. :D

Doc
 
Thanks, Doc.

It hasn't irritated my bum, yet. Folks don't call it "Nature's toilet paper" by accident.
 
Charmin offers a mini roll with no tube. Works great, but I still carry hand-wipes as well. In fact, the whole thing would fit inside a TP roll. (210 Inches, 55 single ply sheets)

-- FLIX

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