Toilet Paper, the uses of

Toilet paper can be a girl’s best friend. I have found that there a lot of products sold in stores that can be satisfactorily substituted with toilet paper. There are the obvious ones, like tissues for blowing your nose in, though of course you should keep a box of lotioned Kleenex around for colds, when your nose gets tender with all that blowing. You can also dust with them pretty well. My mother always used a wad of toilet paper to wipe out the grease from the bottom of our pans, since we had a septic tank and pouring that down the drain would have been a bad idea. The great thing about using toilet paper for all this is that you can throw it away when you’re done, leaving nothing to sit, damp, in the laundry basket growing mold.

Since toilet paper obviously can’t stand up very well to any serious scrubbing, you will inevitably need rags. Old socks work just as well as any thing you can buy in the store, and if the heel is worn out the rough spot there can make for the perfect texture for cleaning. If they have holes it makes it that much easier to tear them open so they lay flat, but it’s a cinch to just cut them with fabric scissors. I prefer men’s socks since they tend to be rougher than women’s, but any sock will do, really. If you feel like it, you can choose which texture of sock works best for whatever task you’re doing. I would imagine baby socks would work quite well for certain delicate tasks, but I’ve never gone that far.