In this day of Toilet paper as soft as the nearest puppy,?!


Question: who invariably throws it out of the car window, can anyone tell me what was used in the very early days, eg 1600, 1700 etc. without any gross detail. Thank you.


Answers: who invariably throws it out of the car window, can anyone tell me what was used in the very early days, eg 1600, 1700 etc. without any gross detail. Thank you.

i watched a little history snippet on the History Channel.
Toilet paper in its present convenient roll form is comparatively new, and invented in the late 19th century. It costed a relatively expensive 65 cents a roll, which amounts to approximately ten dollars in today's money for just one roll. Obviously a luxury at the time.
To answer your question, people used corn cobs, leaves, their hand, whatever mother nature could provide.
Corn cobs was the most common. I am not joking. :/

the nearest puppy

rags or nothing! eeewwww!

They more than likely just used grasss or leaves, to be honest mate.

People have always used what was easily available to them - cloths or towels for the rich, rags or leaves for the poor. Elizabeth I wouldn't have gone out to the garden for a handful of dock leaves every morning, but poor farmers had more green stuff around than spare bits of cloth. I wonder how they managed in winter, though?

If you REALLY want to KNOW, and (check it out) --- FINGERS.... and then, whatever was handy, to wipe the fingers on!!! Do you really think they used pages out of the sears catalog, in place of 'charmin' ? More likely, they used the 'catalog' pages, the way 'we' use 'Bounty'... or whatever they had handy!!! Corn cobs, leaves, etc., whatever was handy!!!


Why do you think they said that 'cleanliness' was so important???

'Cause your 'butt' wasn't really CLEAN if all you had was a handfull of leaves to wipe with!!! Or a sears catalog to wipe-off you finger(s)!!! (Hope they tore-out the pages as they went along...)!!! EWE....imagine someone who forgot to 'flush', by NOT throwing that 'page' into the hole!

Does this give you a NEW perspective on the word / phrase "honey-dipper"??





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