Single Ply Toilet Paper

I understand that single ply toilet paper is more gentle on ancient septic systems, old pipes, and antiquated toilets.

However, single ply toilet paper is just too thin to be useful!

 

The bathroom at Mom's house is stocked with single ply toilet paper.  It is tissue-paper thin, and about as useful as it would be for that purpose (meaning stuffing gift bags)..  Actually I think some tissue paper is thicker than the TP we were forced to use the past week.

 

Think about this:

Sometimes the paper must be strong enough to clean the area for which it was intended. Sometimes that area is messy.   With super-thin TP, multiple reaches for more tp must occur because the thin stuff just doesn't work for the clean up that is needed.

 

Single ply TP is thin.  Very thin.  So thin that fingers can poke through it easily.  Ewww.....



By the time lengths of super-thin TP are pulled from the roll to achieve the thickness needed for the job, more is used than what would have been if the roll had contained double ply toilet tissue.



Now granted, this tissue may break apart more easily as it travels down the tubes through the pipes under the house and out into the septic system, but sometimes the residue adheres to the tissue, creating a clumped together mass which would be just as thick and un-disolvable as other thicknesses.  Understand?

I, for one, was super glad to return to our home bathroom where Northern double ply reigns supreme.  No single ply madness for this house!  We can pull off a reasonable length, use it for its intended purpose, and drop it into the pot to be flushed away into the great septic tank in the pasture west of the house.

 

Oh to be home again and enjoy the bathroom ritual with softness and multiple ply TP!



The question is this, though?  Mom is a packrat, afraid of another depression, or a hoarder, whatever fits.  Bales of toilet paper can be found in the laundry room.  In the garage. In the bathroom.  In the backseat of the car.  What will we do with all of that toilet paper when we clean out the house, whenever that may be?  Who wants one-ply toilet paper?  If each of in the family took enough for a year at our own homes, there would be rolls leftover!  Really!

 
 

One ply toilet paper.  There should be a law against it.  Who's with me?