correct and incorrect hangage
I was honoured to be part of an intriguing conversation this afternoon. It concerned the positioning of the toilet roll upon its hanger. A certain gentleman, (ID-W), took great pains to point out that if the roll is hung in the correct orientation, as indicated above, then a whopping 30% of paper can be saved on general wipage.
If we take a mean price of 30p a roll and make the average usage about 3 rolls a week, barring regular diarrhea, then you could be making a saving of about £15 a year just by correct hangage. It's a point worth consideration.
So much so, that I penned a small ditty, to be found on the silly poems blog. It is, of course, dedicated to ID-W. Thank you.
The phrase: "General Wipage" which cracks me up.
Posted by: AndyC | October 13, 2006 at 07:22
Then of course there's the scrunching or folding issue which needs addressing.
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter | October 13, 2006 at 18:36
Brenda doesn't do the triangle thing does she, Tim?
Posted by: Rebecca | October 13, 2006 at 19:59
Folding - for sure.
Posted by: AndyC | October 14, 2006 at 10:39
Not sure what you mean by that Rebecca. Not that I'm soliciting an explanation for it either mind!!
Folding....surely?
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter | October 16, 2006 at 21:17
Tim: triangle thing, think hotels and how they show you they've been in the bathroom. (to clean, that is)
Andy: I agree, folding every time. Scrunching gives so little wipage control.
Posted by: Liz Curtis | October 17, 2006 at 15:47
My son will kill me for this (he's 20 now and therefore will remain anonymous) I can tell when he's been home - and to the bathroom - to this day - he leaves little folded pieces of toilet tissue lined up in preparedness on the side of the loo. How sweet is that? I blame the parent's of course :-) I love you Tris (oops did I say Tris?)
Posted by: Jac | October 18, 2006 at 20:54
A folder there then!
Posted by: Liz Curtis | October 18, 2006 at 22:57
I had the proper hangage discussion with my family a while back, and it turns out that my aunts are so adamant in their belief that toilet paper should always roll over and not under that if you invite them to your house for a dinner party, they will go in your bathroom and switch your toilet paper roll around if it's on the "wrong" way.
Love your poem!
Posted by: Ruby Riley | October 20, 2006 at 02:04
New 'poem' to read.
Posted by: Angela | October 24, 2006 at 23:37