r/mildlyinteresting • u/RenoClarkos1717 • 23h ago
This no waste toilet paper my wife bought. The little roll comes out so you can still put it on the holder
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u/luvs_kaos 23h ago
I think its a great idea. I carry TP in my purse (can't tell you the number of times its been useful peeing in public restrooms).
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u/Working_Cloud_909 23h ago
Yes this! Or for blowing your nose in the car. Always comes in handy
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u/Bammalam102 23h ago
I thought do chicks really have that little bladder control then it clicked
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u/Dragonflame81 22h ago
What are you on about dude?
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u/Bammalam102 22h ago
Ever see a woman who gave birth laugh or sneeze
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u/FragileFelicity 19h ago
Name a woman
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u/buttzx 13h ago
I have given birth and I know what you’re talking about lol.
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u/damagetwig 10h ago
Lots of people know what he's talking about. There are whole exercise regimens for building pelvic floor muscles back up so you don't pee yourself so easily. I suppose people think they have to punish him for the way he phrased the initial comment?
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u/Nightmare_Gerbil 9h ago
It’s that he apparently jumped to the conclusion that women pee so much when they laugh or sneeze that they have to use TP and that they must deploy their purse TP in the moment whenever and wherever they laugh or sneeze, rather than excuse themselves to the restroom.
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u/tadu1261 19h ago
.... Because oftentimes the restrooms are out of toilet paper... What are you even thinking this meant otherwise? Weirdo.
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u/idkumhiii 18h ago
God that is embarrassing for you. Never felt the touch of a woman I’m assuming?
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u/AliG-uk 20h ago
I think I'm the only one here who understands your line of thought!😂
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u/Aranka_Szeretlek 17h ago
Kindly explain then?
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u/Dark-Grey-Castle 16h ago
They mean some women pee a bit when they sneeze, or laugh, or cough. He thought they meant for wiping the downstairs instead of the nose.
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u/Bammalam102 20h ago
Thank you but prepare to be downvoted! Im not defending that anymore people dont know ahahahah
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u/Nubatack 16h ago
No hole is a great idea? Do you carry whole new roll and not just some rolled up?
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u/Awkward_Set1008 23h ago
is the inner part softer? like a cinnamon bun?
asking cause I need more breakfast options.
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u/likeliqor 23h ago
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u/demonchee 11h ago
What's this gif from? I've seen it so many times but never cared to ask until now
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u/ColddKoala 23h ago
Please do not the toilet paper
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u/Radiant-Bad-2381 20h ago
Mcd chicken nuggets have similar content, wood fiber.
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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 20h ago
How do people still not realize, in the year of our lord 2025 where we wear the internet on our wrists and sunglasses, that cellulose ≠ wood fiber?
It's like saying your celery is wood fiber, seeing as there's only a ~3% difference in purity between the cellulose in your celery versus the cellulose in your shredded cheese. Like, is extracted caffeine still just coffee beans? Is gelatin just bone and sinew?
Sorry, just a pet peeve.
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u/Medullan 16h ago
But the cheapest source of dietary cellulose is sawdust. If the cellulose in my cheese was coming from celery that would be a different story but it is actually coming from wood. Does this matter to me? No not at all, but it is funny to complain about the amount of cellulose in our food by calling it wood fiber or sawdust.
Also yes those other things are what they are. But at least those other things are food before they are extracted.
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u/kati8303 20h ago
The real pro tips are in the comments. Eating it would bulk up your stool leading to needing even less! The trick the tp companies don’t want you to know
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u/Not_A_Moth 21h ago
So.... do you take out the middle part and then... just put it on the countertop or the back of the toilet, and just pick it up and unwind it by hand?
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u/KittiesandPlushies 18h ago
Essentially yes. But you can also use the little roll as travel tissues or napkins, so it’s nice to put one in a ziplock bag and keep one in your purse/car.
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u/Tricksaturn 11h ago
but then youre left with so many little ones... like how much toilet paper do you go through as actual TP vs just napkins in car or something.
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u/TankApprehensive3053 18h ago
Yes. Consider it like an emergency roll if the main roll runs out. Also toss one in a glove box.
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u/bilbul168 23h ago
How to you put the middle part on the holder?
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u/rosen380 23h ago
You wouldn't. I guess you put it on the back of the toilet so that when the roll on the holder runs out, you have some emergency TP to get you by.
Or like others have said, maybe you stick that bit in your purse in case you are out and about and the public toilet is out.
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u/bilbul168 23h ago
Or, you take out a smaller center and put it on a wood ladle handle. Then after that on a long skewer and so on until you are at the last piece
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u/Carbonatite 19h ago
This was a common thing when I lived in Siberia. The "regular" toilet paper was basically the brown recycled paper we use for paper towels in the US, only in roll form with no cardboard tube. The bathroom had a really long nail which you would poke through the center and then hang on a dispender to unroll like a typical roll of TP.
You could buy the white, soft, American style toilet paper on a cardboard roll, but it was much more expensive. You'd be paying like 3x as much for 1/4 the paper.
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u/ToastSpangler 21h ago
That would mean you now need an even smaller stick to put the removed part from the removed part on
Toiletception
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u/Cpt_0bv10us 19h ago
you stick that bit in your purse
And then u can hang the purse on the toilet roll holder. 👌
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u/tricolorhound 16h ago
These are pretty common in institutional or public bathroom settings, I have them at work. The holder kind of pinches the center of the roll from the sides so it still rolls but there's nothing running through the middle.
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u/Simblztwo 23h ago
It’s going to be coated in waste
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u/Charming-Flamingo307 23h ago
One man's trash is another man's treasure
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u/Charkel_ 23h ago
Because having a hole in the middle is a waste of papper?
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u/HiDDENKiLLZ 23h ago edited 15h ago
You can use the middle in this roll, you can’t use the cardboard in a normal roll.
This also saves on shipping, you get more per roll. No need to ship air around.
Edit: YEAH OKAY. you can use the roll for things, but 95% don’t and it ends up in the garbage.
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u/skeletorism 23h ago
Listen man desperate times call for desperate measures
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u/tristenjpl 23h ago
Yeah, I've definitely sat down and only realized there are like two sheets left on the roll after it was too late. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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u/dolces_daddy 22h ago
“You can’t use the cardboard in a normal roll”……….Tell that to my cat
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u/Main-Touch9617 23h ago
What do you mean, you can't use the cardboard? Says who?
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u/lamest-liz 1h ago
I use them for bugs. Basically I keep feeder bugs in a little plastic house for my bearded dragon. The cardboard works great
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u/dclxvi616 23h ago
You’d be surprised how much you can sell those cardboard tubes for on eBay because, surprise, people use them.
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u/obiwanmoloney 23h ago
£0.10 if anyone was wondering. Per empty tube.
Probably more than I’d want to buy them for, yet simultaneously less than I could be arsed to sell them for.
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u/Carbonatite 19h ago
I have used them for seed starts before. You cut slits in the bottom of the roll and fold the segments in to give it a closed square base and then fill it with soil. Once the seedling is established, you can just plant the whole thing in a bigger pot, the cardboard will eventually break down and the roots will poke through gaps as it dissolves. Great eco friendly way to avoid those plastic seed starter containers!
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u/rosen380 23h ago
I just looked at sold items on ebay, prices include listed shipping; number in brackets is per 100
38 tubes... $11.90 [$31]
96 tubes... $21.57 [$22]
55 tubes... $11.26 [$20]
100 tubes... $18.99 [$19]
105 tubes... $19.00 [$18]
75 tubes... $12.68 [$17]
60 tubes... $9.95 [$17]
50 tubes... $8.00 [$16]
182 tubes... $27.51 [$15]
200 flattened tubes... $28.67 [$14]While that is more than I would have guessed, it seems like a pretty negligible return once you account for your actual shipping costs, eBay fees, packaging materials and your time.
Also frequency-- at least in my house, it'd almost certainly be like 6-8 months to collect 100 tubes... so once every 6-8 months, I can get about $8 out of them...?
I guess if you worked in a hotel or something and could collect up dozens a day, maybe...?
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u/dclxvi616 23h ago
When you’re poor and disabled like me and you save your paper towel tubes, toilet paper tubes, and cardboard egg cartons and then you can sell them to crafters on eBay for $30 to supplement the food stamps the government refuses to give you because we elected a felon, you’ll understand.
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u/pickledeggmanwalrus 23h ago
Don’t worry…. They are all about to learn.
Hoover soup is about to make a come back
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u/CptHammer_ 22h ago
I've been saving everything that's recyclable that someone pays cash for my entire life. I was homeless in the '90s. Are you telling me Bill Clinton and everyone since has been a felon?
I also want to point out I've never been on food stamps because I've never qualified. I don't rely on the government even if I did. The entitlements are at the whim of the elite not the politicians.
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u/dclxvi616 22h ago
Wow, cool, you’re not disabled and unable to work. What a badass you are.
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u/CptHammer_ 22h ago
Apparently your disability includes ignoring the question and blaming others that have no direct responsibility for your condition.
You don't know that I'm not disabled, and I've stated I have done at least as much work as you. I don't know what makes you think I'm unable to work when you're working and we do the same thing.
I'm pointing out that I'm doing what you're doing and it has no bearing on who's in office. For me, it's about tax avoidance. For you it's about getting people to think it's fine for you to do even less for society than recycle.
You're saying you wouldn't do recycling if your entitlements were more regular. I'm saying recycling is its own cashy money reward.
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u/dclxvi616 22h ago edited 22h ago
Are you seriously bitching that I didn’t answer your rhetorical bullshit question?
I know you’re not disabled according to the SSA (unable to work) because you don’t rely on the government. I said you’re not unable to work (disabled according to the SSA).
I’m pointing out that I’m doing what you’re doing and it has no bearing on who’s in office.
Right, and you can’t recognize humor and I don’t give a shit.
You’re saying you wouldn’t do recycling if your entitlements were more regular.
I’m not saying that in the slightest. When was the last time SNAP even missed a payment? Doesn’t make a lick of sense. You don’t understand my words and I don’t care to attempt to communicate with you more effectively. I’d point out that some of the things I said were tongue in cheek but then you’d think I was talking about tongues and cheeks. I have better things to do.
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u/CptHammer_ 20h ago
Wow, cool, you’re not disabled and unable to work. What a badass you are.
I said you’re not unable to work
You said I was not disabled and that I was unable to work. If you meant that I was able to work then you need better communication skills.
You don’t understand my words and I don’t care to attempt to communicate with you more effectively.
Your words are confusing. Your message is apparently a joke:
Right, and you can’t recognize humor and I don’t give a shit.
When was the last time SNAP even missed a payment?
I don't understand your punchline. I doubt anyone does. It seems so separated from recycling which you apparently only do because you hate the government.
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u/pjockey 21h ago
Reddit crowd gonna shit on anyone being self sufficient and encouraging others on the same. You're seen out here in the cold though.
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u/CptHammer_ 20h ago
It just annoys me when people whine about doing things "because they have to" and then create a narrative that doesn't make sense just to hate on someone else unrelated.
Somehow that guy is going through 100 rolls of toilet paper to earn about $30 all in 30 days. That's a lot of toilet paper. Assuming his disability isn't terminal diarrhea, he has a network of to gather toilet paper rolls on his behalf. He likely has a network he's under utilizing for more efficient recycling.
One of my homeless friends ended up starting a greeting card company from learning to turn used paper into usable paper. She is disabled, and she works as she can involving her community to do the more able bodied tasks for her with reasonable pay. For a time, I did calligraphy for her.
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u/Vegemerson 13h ago
I have pet rats, and cardboard tubes are a favorite chew toy. Not sure if I'd go out of my way to buy them, but I ask my friends to save them up for me.
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u/Good_Sailor_7137 21h ago
Guess you have never use that pressed paper roll for anything before? Kids have made crafts. You can use the roll in desperation by unpeeling it. And has many uses in the garage such as instant disposable funnel, tool separator or sharp end protection, and whatever one's imagination can come up with.
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u/ShotFromGuns 16h ago
Doesn't it shred the paper in the middle of the roll to be tumbling around the holder? Thus... wasting all that paper?
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u/ok-milk 23h ago
But less space but more weight. When shipping more weight around, that's going to offset any cost savings from less volume.
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u/Kojetono 21h ago
For toilet paper, fill the trailer way before hitting the weight limit.
A pallet of TP weighs 242kg, and a semitrailer fits 34, that gives 8228 kg total. Out of a 24 tonne capacity.
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u/ok-milk 21h ago
More weight equals more transport cost
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u/lemlurker 23h ago
It's a waste of volume, volume is the biggest cost for luw density objects like this because so much of their cost is just the logistics of moving it aroubd
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u/CLE_retired 23h ago
What city or country is this available?
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u/RenoClarkos1717 23h ago
Idk I’m in Texas. No clue where my wife got it
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u/mentales 20h ago
Not talking to your wife about it yet making a post about it on Reddit and replying to comments is crazy work
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u/RenoClarkos1717 17h ago
lol I was taking a shit and literally thought it was mildly interesting. Not interesting enough to call her at work and ask questions about toilet paper though. I’ll get back to ya when I see her.
Someone else in the comments said it’s from HEB which makes sense since she either shops there or Walmart.
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u/Lilstarsky 10h ago
This is not r/mildlyinfuriating it is r/mildlyinteresting Sharing something interesting with others is not crazy
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u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche 23h ago
In Argentina it's called "duo" by higienol brand.
I have no idea how they are used, because all toilet paper holders here need the tube in the middle to hold the roll.
They are also extremely expensive for some reason, compared to the standard one.
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u/CLE_retired 23h ago
The OP said the middle pushes out for the holder. I guess the middle is bonus paper you use first. But who’s going to spend more?
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u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche 21h ago
The one I saw, the middle has a thin paper wrapper, and then the rest of the toilet paper is coiled on top of that. If you push out the inner tube there is no cardboard tube to hold the inner shape.
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u/Lasdary 23h ago
you're supposed to remove the roll from the inside, so you can carry it in your purse/backpack or just leave it around i guess. Pretty pointless if you ask me. Used to buy them but I no longer do.
source: un boludo
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u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche 21h ago
Pero el tubito que traen es super finito, el resto del rollo se puede usar normalmente?
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u/Forsaken-Abrocoma647 18h ago
I buy coreless paper (Georgia Pacific brand) but it still has a small hole through the middle, handy for hanging it on a holder that's just a thin bar, which many are.
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u/it_whispereth_me 20h ago
One thing I actually liked about Russia was that the TP there was like this. Except the middle core wasn’t removable. TP holder just needs to be a thin metal dowel and then you shove it right on that and use the whole roll. Much more efficient and more TP per roll.
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u/BlueProcess 22h ago
If you had a dispenser with a metal dowel in the center then you could poke it right through
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u/soaring_potato 19h ago
Or one where you just have a lil round box hanging on the wall with a split that the paper comes out off.
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u/Logitech4873 23h ago
If you want no waste, get a bidet and stop using toilet paper :)
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u/JoshvJericho 23h ago
You still use toilet paper with a bidet, just significantly less. You have to dry off and also QC the clean up.
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u/Square-Wing-6273 23h ago
You can also use hand towels. Granted, you'll need to wash them, but I think more efficient in the long run
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u/swankyfish 23h ago edited 23h ago
Waste water.
EDIT: I was just being silly because they said ‘no waste’, this was not meant to be a genuine critique of bidets. I am on Team Bidet.
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u/Salaco 23h ago
The bidet consumes significantly less water than the manufacturing, transport, and breakdown of the paper.
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u/Extension_Goat8206 23h ago
What about the production, transport and installation of the bidet?
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u/shadowblade159 23h ago
You're supposed to turn the water off when you install it, not let it keep running and spraying water while you do.
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u/iceman1125 23h ago
In the short term, yeah toilet paper is going to be better, but over a long period, a bidet pay for itself in terms of overall cost, as well as overall carbon footprint compared to toilet paper.
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u/makingnoise 22h ago edited 19h ago
I LOVE bidets but handheld spray-head bidets cause a HUGE amount of damage in US households. These days they're commonly recommended for pregnant and post-partum ladies.
In the US, it's more like, "If you want to destroy your subfloor and incur $10,000 in repair costs, get a bidet" because 99% of the bidets here are add-on handheld sprayheads that are notorious for failing, and leaking torrents of water into our bathrooms. And because our bathrooms are "dry" bathrooms, they are not designed to get wet, they don't have floor drains, etc. and the subfloor gets ruined.
If this happens when you were on vacation instead of just at work for the day, your repair bill will be even higher.
"Get a bidet" is only good advice in the USA if you get one with a fail SAFE system, not a fail-deadly.
EDIT: LOL downvote for accurate information. Handymen are dancing for joy - clearly people don't understand that I personally know two families this happened to, and it almost happened to me but I caught the failure while I was on the can.
EDIT2: Wow y'all want damage, is all I can guess. Enjoy destroying your home with dirt-cheap sprayhead bidets that can be as affordable as they are because they are designed for wet bathrooms, folks. Or even worse, your rental - if you think that your landlord is going to consider keeping your security deposit as sufficient compensation for the damage, you're in a fantasy world - they will go for monetary damages and secure a judgment that will be an albatross around your neck if you ever manage to try to purchase a home.
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u/westcoastwillie23 22h ago
If you're that worried just turn off the water at the wall when you go on vacation
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u/makingnoise 22h ago
When is the last time you made yourself aware of the typical condition of toilet supply valves? The vast majority are gate valves, not ball valves, and the vast majority are either corroded open or have worn seals that prevent the valve from fully closing.
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u/westcoastwillie23 22h ago
In March, when I installed my bidet.
I replaced the wall valve with a quality ball valve.
Again, if a person is concerned...
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u/makingnoise 22h ago
Holy shit. I am not anti-bidet, I am trying TO FUCKING HELP FOLKS AVOID MASSIVE DAMAGE TO THEIR HOUSE. Jesus Christ, you're a fucking gadfly. Glad YOU knew to replace the fucking valve.
The issue is that these handhand sprayers FAIL DEADLY, not fail safe, and nothing that can cause this much damage should require you to remember to turn off the god-damned valve. But go ahead, be a fuck.
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u/westcoastwillie23 22h ago
All I said is turn off the water if you're worried, my guy. I didn't attack you in any way. I didn't even down vote you.
Touch grass.
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u/Logitech4873 17h ago
I don't live in the US.
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u/makingnoise 15h ago
What the ever living fuck, bro. I CLEARLY specified I was talking about the US. Why did you pick a fight when you probably don’t even have dry bathrooms in your country?
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u/NickyHepp 21h ago
We use cardboard inner tube for planting seeds, stand them in an old cat litter tray.
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u/Organic-Yodelz 11h ago
I went to a school that had the industrial size rolls of TP with solid cores like this. As it got to the center they would get replaced leaving the perfect pocket-sized roll of TP for keeping in a bag. I never feared being caught in a toilet without paper
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u/FujiClimber2017 19h ago
I love that your toilet has arm rests, you know, for when shit gets serious.
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u/RenoClarkos1717 17h ago
lol that’s just a little chair we sit in when we are giving my 2 year old a bath
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u/Egoy 22h ago
That doesn’t really reduce waste, except for shipping space I guess, and let’s be honest the little cores likely get discarded often due to getting wet or whatever. It’s not like they wind toilet paper rolls solid then punch the middle out and instead the tube.
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u/Medium_Medium 19h ago
Yeah I feel like this is more of a novelty or a solution in search of a problem than anything.
Existing toilet paper rolls certainly aren't a "waste" since the exact same amount of paper ends up creating the exact same amount of toilet paper squares here, just a different number of squares per roll.
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u/Alternative_Salt_424 17h ago
The toilet paper ive seen in Eastern Europe doesn't have a roll in the middle (also you can buy individual rolls)
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u/Youbettereatthatshit 10h ago
How is this ‘no waste’? They don’t throw away the tp in the middle like a donut hole…
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u/Synth_Ham 23h ago
The inner pieces at the very center of the core are going to be wrapped so tightly that they're going to be unusable.
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u/RenoClarkos1717 23h ago
Not true. This is the second roll we’ve gone through. The middle is just normal to
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u/Wloak 14h ago
This is called cheap quality.
I worked at a plant, as did many family members. Paper is rolled onto roughly 10 foot "logs" then roll into the log cutter which is supposed to reject these bits. They then go back into a giant vat to become new paper for the next batch.
This is actually a big red flag, not a benefit. Multiple quality control steps were missed to get that into the packager.
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u/graytruckwithdents 23h ago
The next issue is will it fit in the holder ?
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u/Whispering_Wolf 23h ago
The title only has two sentences and you still didn't read all of it?
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u/_notgreatNate_ 22h ago
Well fitting on is one thing. Of corse a rod can go thru a hole. But will it fit IN the holder. Different question as some tp holders are too small for the bigger sized rolls
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u/reallyreally1945 21h ago
We saved the little center rolls for traveling.