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nPostednon August 26, 2015
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nAccordingnto Quilted Northern Toilet Paper, August 26, 1871, was the first timenthat toilet paper was ever sold on a roll.
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nThatnexplains why today is National Toilet Paper Day, but how do peoplencelebrate National Toilet Paper Day?
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nWell,nthe best way is to really sit around and consider how much lessncomfortable life would be if there were no such thing as toiletnpaper. Obviously, a lot of people lived a lot of days before thisndate in 1871 – what did they use or do? Is toilet paper in otherncountries as soft as Charmin or Quilted Northern? n
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nSo,nenjoy your plentiful, soft toilet paper – don’t take it forngranted! n
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nHerenare some other ways to celebrate the day:
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nOfn course, sometimes toilet paper companies celebrate their special dayn in a special way. For example, in 2011 Charmin set a new world’sn record for World’s Largest Toilet Roll. The record-setting roll wasn 8 feet high and 9 feet wide. It contained over one MILLION squaren feet of paper! A manager at the P&G Paper Products Company saidn that it would take about 95 thousand rolls of toilet paper to equaln that amount of paper!
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nSomen crafty people like to create things out of toilet paper. Forn example, here is a toilet paper wedding dress crafted by Judithn Henry.
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nTPn something!
(Note: Toilet papering houses, cars, and so on cann be against the law. Make sure you have permission of the owner ofn said house or car. Also, be sure to clean up the TP yourself; don’tn contribute to a blown litter problem.
For ideas of beautifuln TPing, check out
this earlier post.n )n
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- I guess that some hosts make their toilet paper pretty before guests come. (I guess that some hosts have too much time on their hands.)
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- Use some of those cardboard rolls that toilet paper comes on in some crafty or artistic way.
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nDidnyou know…?
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nThen hottest controversy in toilet paper is whether to hang rolls withn sheets going over or under the roll. I’m firmly in the “over”n camp – and according to ABC News,n 72 percent of Americans agree.
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nAccordingn to The Toilet Paper Encyclopedia,n more than half of men surveyed either folded or stacked toilet papern before use, and more than half of women surveyed grabbed and waddedn TP before use. It basically evens out, with almost half of usn folding and half of us wadding. The remaining 20% are a mystery –n most of them claim to do both, depending!
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| I read in one source that there was a rumor that German people generally fold TP, while American generally crumple it. (Of course, crumpling and wadding are the same thing, when it comes to toilet paper.) But there didn’t seem to be any evidence to back the claim! |
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- Somen other ways to use toilet paper is to wipe noses and eyeglasses (butn not with the same squares, please!), to cover toilet seats, ton remove makeup, and to keep fragile items safe when storing orn shipping. And of course to TP houses and cars and brides!
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nAlsonon this date:
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nNationalnDog Day
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nHeroes’nDay in Namibia
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nWomen’snEquality Day here…
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n…and here
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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nAugustn holidays
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nHistoricaln anniversaries in August
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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nSeptembern holidays
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nSeptembern birthdays
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- Historicaln anniversaries in September
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