Many cultures around the world do not wipe at all. Middle easterners use the finger on the left hand. That is why, when they eat from a common bowl, only the right hand goes in. Use the left hand and you will cause a riot. TP is a modern invention I really appreciate.

I was jist wond'rin how long it'd be 'fore sumone got ta that'n!

I can only imagine the pics that would accompany a magazine article the proper use of the wiping stick!!!

Gents, this has been an interesting discussion on a stinky subject. After doing a informal tests of the various methods mentioned, with the exception o the finger thing( I got more respect for my hands than that). I must confess after such an exausting undertakeing, that I find myself ALL WIPED OUT . yours arkansaw

Okay, well, gents,
Down her in ole Mex we can't put the paper in the comode. We can use paper but have to roll it up, put a little more around it and put it into the can with the plastic bag in it that sets by the comode. Then I give it a shot of glade. Works here.
Sorry, couldn't help myself, I had to tell someone. At least I waited until the discussion had prety well run its course. Snicker.
ole volie

Okay, a question: Do you think any of the methods described here would work so I don't have to use paper? It's my job to empty the trash.

Geez, Looeeze, Volie. I coulda gone all day withuout THAT picture in my head. Thanks.

Hurtin' ol'

Three Hawks

Im lucky here in southern Indiana we have great big fluffy leaves.Bass trees have leaves as big as a paper towel.Never use dry leaves always use fresh or wet leaves.

Welcome aboard, Mike!
Head out into the tall tales section (where we do a lot of our palaverin') and start a new discussion to introduce yourself, if you care to. That would let us know more about you. Helps us all get acquainted, if you will.

Sparks

DONT WONT NO LEAVES.....but after 20 years my shirt tail is
getting a little ragged.............

i allus heard thet them whitetail hunters back east cut th' shirttails off'n a greenhorn first time he filled 'is tag--now i know what they done with 'em!
mind yer topknot! windy

Windy down here in arkyland we do it different. Down here if you shoot and miss the old mossyhorns you get your shirttail shortened considerable. Years ago when I was a young un I missed and got my shirttail cut off. When me a pa got home and mom found out about the shirttail cuttin, she threw a fit about my new huntin shirt gettin ruined. When she got thru chewing on dad and me, dad said well son I guess thats the end of this shirttail thing, I aint eveer seen her so riled dad said. Yep I have missed since, but it dont happen often. Nowdays we just keep quite about it saves a lot of shirts and we dont get chewed out either. yours arkansaw

Nothin' is better than squirrel tails, with a kinda shoe shinnin' motion.

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down here in arkyland we do it different. Down here if you shoot and miss the old mossyhorns you get your shirttail shortened considerable.

I wonder if this is somehow related to the military slang term "shave-tailed lieutenant", which derived from the practice in the army of cropping the tails of newly broken pack mules to distingush them from seasoned ones?

I wonder if mule tail hair would make a good TP substitute? Hee-Haw!

Years ago my dad taught me to save two red corn cobs to every white cob.I asked why? He then explaned that it was simple math. Frist you used a red cob followed by a white cob which determined if if another red cob was needed!

Cornwell on his books on the medieval period has 'em using moss..of course, his characters are vikings, so maybe it was just their custom.
I have an 1873 magazine that has a tp advert. Offers medicated sheets in a nickel-plated container for 100 sheets for a nickel...a local college professor who used to shoot with us claimed to have made a study, and said tp was invented in Italy in the 1830's...
me, when trapped in the woods without tp, I lean to my kerchief...if any of you see a nice red kerchief near a big rock..leave it be..Hank

My late fatherinlaw always carried a roll of tp. He,my brotherinlaw and I were up to pyramid lake near Reno. Mother nature called and of he went to the rocks. Just about that time brotherinlaw and I almost stepped on one of the biggest diamondbacks I ever had seen. Asked old Earl if he looked before he squatted just incase he had a brother around. Moral of this story is don't care what you use just look before you squat.

Your post reminded me of the rules of being a cowboy where one rule was don't squat with your spurs on!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by hawkmandan:
My late fatherinlaw always carried a roll of tp. He,my brotherinlaw and I were up to pyramid lake near Reno. Mother nature called and of he went to the rocks. Just about that time brotherinlaw and I almost stepped on one of the biggest diamondbacks I ever had seen. Asked old Earl if he looked before he squatted just incase he had a brother around. Moral of this story is don't care what you use just look before you squat.

The Japanese were using little squares of rice paper for sanitary purposes before the time of Christ.

In my dotage, I've begun carrying a roll of Cottonelle T-P in my plunder box along with a roll of the highest quality paper towels I can lay my boogerhooks on. What with arthritis making me less flexible and old age giving me the joy of hemmorhoids, those are two articles I've learned not to scrimp on. Another must have is a bottle of waterless hand sanitizer. I'm not in the market for a case of diarrhea.

Three Hawks

Moral to the story,"Besure to take a very good friend you can keep a secret,Cause if you get bit someone will have to get the poison out.

Hands full of snow are quite bracing and invigorating in the winter, but in my book, the thing that makes waste management easiest is wearin' a breach clout rather than breaches. There is nothin' more aggrivatin' than havin' to get all undressed in foul weather when nature howls. But, with a breach clout, anything you use is easier to use 'cause you 'aint hog tied by your breaches.

My first choice is smooth oblong river rocks. I'll pick 'em up while I'm hikin' and drop 'em in my shootin' pouch. They just have to be big enough to get a good grip on the non-business end of the rock.

Will