NT which way does you toilet and paper towels roll

[bstaxes]

Family disagreement. Should the paper towel or toilet paper unroll from the front or the back. I think it is a gender thing, the guys say one way and the the girls the other way. Which way do you unroll your paper?

Thanks for your opinion.

[JohnH]

I didn't have an opinion on this subject until I enlisted In the US Air Force back when I was younger. I learned this very important fact in basic training - when the toilet paper roll is hanging horizontally, it clearly MUST dispense over the top. Otherwise, it would not be possible to fold the next sheet diagonally bottom-left to top-right when you finish, thus forming a smart salute (just in case the next person to use the facilities outranks you).

[OldJack]

I agree with JohnH. Damn John, you were in the military too many years!

[mcb39]

Agree with John and Jack........from the front, I was never in the military, but my husband was.

[Lion EA]

Roll over the top to pull from the front. Don't want to have to reach against the wall to find the end.:huh:

[rfassett]

Took me 36 years but I finally convinced my wife when I told her that when it is hanging against the wall, you scrape your knuckles on the wall. Over the top for me and mine.

[MAMalody]

Roll towards the back. Have yet to scrap my knuckles.

[Catherine]

Over the top.

And, when one uses paper with designs (do they even make those anymore?) it's the only way the design shows.

UNLESS you have cats. In which case sometimes the only safe location for the paper is inside the cabinet!

[JohnH]

Looks like we're all engaged in off-season weekend nonsense. Apparently nobody has an opinion about the paper towels. I certainly don't because the Air Force didn't train me in that matter.

Incidentally, I know the "saluting" toilet paper sounds like something from " No Time for Sergeants" with Andy Griffith, but I swear it's true. It was one of the first things they told us in basic training 35 years ago. I still remember the drill instructor making the point, since basic training is all about paying extreme attention to detail even in simple matters. Does anyone else who served in the military remember anything like this, or was it just my drill sergeant? (whose name I still remember to this day)

[TAXBILLY]

From the top for both.

taxbilly

[Lion EA]

yep, paper towels too, from the top.

[bstaxes]

Thanks. It's from the top. I really enjoyed the military salute. Thanks for being silly with me.

[MargaretMort]

My husband was in the AF for 29 yrs but he wanted the toilet paper from the back. I had never heard the "salute" thing. Will have to ask my son-in-law if it was still true when he went through basic training. I, too, prefer the toilet paper from the back but paper towels from the front. MM

[TAXBILLY]

http://www.cottonellerollpoll.com/#/home

taxbilly

[Edward]

Maybe it depends on whether you are "right or left" handed!!! maybe!!

[JohnH]

Thanks Taxbilly.

I wondered what Donald Rumsfeld was doing these days.

As for folding the toilet paper, I'm just glad my drill sergeant didn't know about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRHU_r9LFK4

[mcb39]

Maybe it depends on whether you are "right or left" handed!!! maybe!!

Not! I am left handed and it is from the front for both at our house.

[Kea]

Great TP Origami video.

I grew up preferring "under" now I no longer care. But it was always "under" when we had cats. I guess that they preferred "over" like most people!

[OldJack]

lmao.... that is a great video John!!

[JohnH]

Jack: Now that they've seen the video, I want to see how many people will admit to having tried it. (I did)

[OldJack]

Wow! This is the best tip I have gotten on this forum! I plan to try it in the guest bath and powder room this Christmas get together. :)

[Gail in Virginia]

Jack: Now that they've seen the video, I want to see how many people will admit to having tried it. (I did)

I haven't yet, but I will! :wacko:

[Catherine]

Sometimes the direction also depends on logistics -- there was one apartment I lived in years ago where the only way it worked was to roll under. There was some sort of "roof" over where the paper lived that prevented one from getting at it unless it was under.

And in this house, one of our paper towel dispensers downstairs rolls under because it's a snap-in, and if the towels roll over the top, then the whole roll gets knocked out when one piece is torn off.

[JohnH]

---> Wow! This is the best tip I have gotten on this forum! I plan to try it in the guest bath and powder room this Christmas get together. <---

But Jack, isn't it going to get tedious trying to keep an eye on the bathrooms and running back in there to fix the roll every time somebody finishes?

[OldJack]

---> Wow! This is the best tip I have gotten on this forum! I plan to try it in the guest bath and powder room this Christmas get together. <---

But Jack, isn't it going to get tedious trying to keep an eye on the bathrooms and running back in there to fix the roll every time somebody finishes?

Nothing else to do at this time of the year! Its not like anyone needs me for anything. :)