<p>Now, what I really wanna know…is which way they HANG the toilet paper…and who puts the seat up or down. :p</p>
<p>We clean our suite bathroom and supply toilet paper, soap, and cleaning supplies. This year two of the girls I’m living with (one was my choice, two girls in the other room were assigned) are very messy, but we’re trying to get them to take better care of the shared property. Toilet paper for guys isn’t a big deal, but our suite of four girls goes through a roll about every day and a half. It gets expensive, especially if you add in the costs of cleaning supplies. It beats having some random man entering your private suite with a master key at a random time during the day, though.</p>
<p>Corranged,
May I suggest Charmin mega roills? They are 4x the size of a regular roll, and you can get a special tube so they’ll hang properly. (Some times one comes shrink-wrapped on the package.) It’s all I buy any more, as My Three Sons (DS1, DS2 and DH) are constitutionally incapable of replacing TP without a direct order from me (usually made from the loo upon discovering the lack of same).</p>
<p>However, DS1 made a list of things to do today (AT LAST!!!) because he has so many time-specific tasks to complete this week, which gives me hope for the future. Every once in a while I see actual glimpses of my genetic material in my kids. It is balm to my soul.</p>
<p>We just buy large packs of the cheapest stuff we can find, and it works out pretty well. I don’t think we’re at the Charmin level yet–more like Walgreens Brand.</p>
<p>Does someone have a Cosco card? We’ve found that if you buy it in bulk you can buy “the good stuff” for the same price as the Walgreens brand. </p>
<p>My D was complaining recently about how aweful the school supplied paper is. I think she’d gladly supply the paper if she didn’t have to share with the whole floor!</p>
<p>amazing we are whining about toliet paper when so many don’t have clean wster</p>
<p>get over it all ready, be a man and clean your bathroom and use paper that isn’t made from new trees</p>
<p>how much forest is cut down so we can wipe our behinds with fluffy softness</p>
<p>I’m as cheap as they come. I don’t buy anything without a coupon and on sale. But I have to have the good toilet paper. That cheap stuff is like using newspaper. Anybody who has travelled in Europe will greatly appreciate Charmin.</p>
<p>At NYU, where everyone has private bathrooms, toilet paper is supplied as are trash bags. You just go to the front desk. Generally though, they won’t give you more than one at a time, but atleast it’s free (about the only thing at NYU though ;)).</p>
<p>Most of the world doesn’t use toilet paper - it is considered unsanitary.</p>
<p>At the state U’s in Florida, my D reports that suite bathroms are often a toilet and shower room between two dorm rooms, each with its own sink. Each dorm room sleeps 2 or 3. and the bathroom upkeep is up to the students. The BR’s are clean at the start of the school year, and she believes sometimes there is a clearning between semesters. But the BR supplies and the task of clearning is up to the suitemates. And that is how they promote the “community” dorms to the freshman. They stress that the rooms open up to common halls, with community bathrooms where" you’ll meet far more people than just your suitemates, and you won’t have to do any of the clearning…</p>
<p>“Most of the world doesn’t use toilet paper - it is considered unsanitary.”</p>
<p>You’re kidding, right?..what do they use, their hands?</p>
<p>All you fluffy soft TP users must not have the high efficiency flush toilets. If you did, you’d find out very quickly that all that moisture-laden, oil-infused paper turns to brick in your pipes. My folks moved into a brand new house with these state-of-the-art thrones about 10 years ago, and it wasn’t long after that they were calling the plumbers on a regular basis. Finally, someone told them to get the cheap “green” tissue. It disintegrates in the water and doesn’t plug up your toilet.</p>
<p>poetsheart,
Many countries use bidets, but somehow I can’t see dorms installing them…</p>
<p>Is’nt this wants called “the comforts” of home? One more thing to be thankful for when you come home for Christmas break and if it is REALLY bothering him, you could put some Charmin Ultra in his stocking!</p>
<p>Not related to dorm cleaning and restocking but funny - when I went to DS’s apartment to help haul furniture home after graduation, I used his (private to him) bathroom. It wasn’t exactly “Mom” clean, but not disgusting. But when I closed the door, there was a huge, elaborate tower of empty TP rolls there. Well over a hundred. I didn’t ask. Maybe he should have been an architeture major.</p>
<p>D is in a 4-person suite with 2 bedrooms, a living room and a bathroom. They are responsible for cleaning themselves, but the school does supply the TP. She is coming home this weekend and says she can’t wait to use Charmin again! Also wants to bring back a big supply on Sunday. The thing that I couldn’t get over on move-in day was the lack of any towel racks/bars or shelves in the BR. They were told that if they put up towel bars, they have to take them down and fill in the holes or they will be charged for damages. Doesn’t make sense to me not to provide at least a few towel bars.</p>
<p>get some standup ones</p>
<p>IMO cleaning the bathroom and supplying the TP is a small price to pay for the privacy and convenience of having a bathroom within your own room AND only having to share with one or two others. No running down the hall in the middle of the night. No back and forth with bathroom supplies, wet hair and a bathrobe in front of others guests.</p>
<p>“Most of the world doesn’t use toilet paper - it is considered unsanitary.”</p>
<p>One more good reason why foreign opinion doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>that is so insightful and worldly!!!</p>