Actually I always had plenty but my sister in law ordered a case from Amazon. Then I read a lady in Arizona mailed a few rolls to her son in St. Paul who could not find any.
I’m not a prepper but I do like to have spare parts, supplies and other items on hand as a part of being self reliant. I would hate to list all the spares I have like an extra tank for the grill.
Definitely don’t want the low volume flush toilet under those circumstances!
We went through all the shortages around here. I drove 180 miles round trip for a 16 pack of TP. Didn’t think of the shop rag option 
Bet you were the family hero. Like bringing home a bag full of fish. I have four bathrooms and always keep three rolls in each one and restock. Now I also carry a partial roll in my suitcase for whenever we stay at someone’s house. Been several times when I needed to access my emergency supply. Not a spec of paper to be found and this was before the great virus,
I am glad I did not start this Tangent off the subject of Car Rentals, but it seems so apropos, because it all seems to belong in the crapper…
I blame it all on our need, our want for a “superhero” and I offer you… “Toilet Paper Man…”
As a variation of the old saying goes, “One he has them by the “bowels,” their hearts and minds will follow…”
Oh this thread started going sideways about 5 post in… At that point, just give up and talk about butterfly’s or whatever… lol
Toilet Paper Man is my Hero…
After I bought a bidet attachment (only $30) I rarely need toilet paper. It gets me cleaner too.
$30 for a garden hose? Must have been that no kink variety. 
TMI!!!10 character minimum
What do you do, just stand up and drip dry??
I would ask how you really know you are cleaner, but please don’t answer, TMI… 
When I was in Japan for several months I got an introduction to bidet toilets. They are terrific. I like them so much I bought one. It has warm water to clean and heated air to dry my private parts. I do not need TP. If you haven’t tried one you don’t know what you’re missing.
When I was stationed in Italy in the late '70s we had a large, beautiful villa. It had three bathrooms and each and a bidet installed adjacent to the toilet. The toilets were the new, old style, with the water tank mounted high on the wall and you flushed by pulling on a chained handle and the gravity provided the “power flush.”
The Italian bidet does not have a spritzer, but two facets to provide the correct temperature and the bidets had built in stoppers as a sink would. There were also a soap holder and a towel rack installed behind each bidet.
So, you can imagine how they cleaned up after nature’s call. We kept two bathrooms, American style, no soap in the holder and magazines in the bidet. Our two cats loved sleeping in the bidets.
We did keep one bathroom, setup Italian style, with a clean towel and a fresh bar of soap for our Italian friends.
Oh heck,you guys brought it up. We were on a cruise from turkey to Greece on the Mediterranean. I don’t know if this is standard practice or not, but the tp could not be put in the toilet. It had to go in a plastic bag that was then set outside the door for the crew to pick up. Totally disgusting. I guess they incinerated it at night. Don’t know if they had a holding tank for the rest or not but said they were trying to not contaminate the sea.
Yes, that seems to be SOP in much of the Mediterranean area, and–yes–I also find this practice to be disgusting.
That is pretty much standard practice way out in the country when using septic tanks, due to the cost of, well, having them cleaned out, plus it cuts down on blockages…
I plan on always having sewer lines… lol
But I have had to do the other also…
Never did that when on septic in Anchorage. Anyone else do that?
Maybe it’s more here and KY areas… It is all rock here so the septic tanks are not deep nor all that big… I have no idea about the rest of the world… But I can still take you to houses without running water…
And when you are on a very tight budget, doing everything you can to safe money comes down to even burning the used TP vs paying to have your septic suck out can mean the difference in what food you eat… These are normally not well off money wise places…
Lived with septic tanks in 3 states; WI, MA & NH.
TP gets flushed.
It doesn’t cause any issues if the tank is properly baffled as long as you’re not prolific user or buying that 10 ply shop towel stuff
We’re on a 10+ year schedule for pumping. But only human waste, TP and grey water going in…
Normally around here, where there is a lot of ledge or poor drainage, they build mound style systems. Same size and capacity, just built above the level they can dig to. Then you likely have an effluent pump with multiple tanks versus just gravity based to the leach field. Next up on Septic Talk…D box balancing and how often to do it 
Yes. As a kid, I spent my summers on my aunt and uncle’s farm in Eastern MT. Uncle’s family homesteaded there in the early 1900s. The septic system dated from the 1920’s, and when uncle built a new house in the 60’s didn’t upgrade the system. So by the early 80’s the system would be overwhelmed by 10 people. 10 people sharing a house with only 1 shower also made for an interesting bathing schedule.
We also didn’t have garbage service. So the used toilet paper would go in the burn barrel every morning. As a 9 year old that was one of my chores. I was very happy when I got old enough to fuel and oil the trucks and tractors in the morning instead.
I have some humorous stories about this topic, which I shall spare you. I will add that however that I didn’t use my prior septic system any differently than I use my current regular sewer system.
