One-Ply Toilet Paper
Something often thought about in RV’s but not often talked about is that, if you want to avoid an RV toilet clog, you have to use one-ply toilet paper.
Before we started RVing, I hadn’t seen one-ply toilet paper since my last visit to a gas station bathroom. My first memory of one-ply toilet paper was on my first day of Kindergarten. I then had almost daily contact with it, Monday through Friday, September through May, until I graduated from highschool.
After you use one-ply, day in and day out in your RV, you really don’t notice it anymore, until you potty at a nice restaurant, or stop at a friend’s or relative’s house. Then you excitedly recognize the thick, white, cushy toilet paper… You touch it with your fingers, savoring it’s strength and softness, and you imagine yourself sitting on a real toilet at home, luxuriating in expensive tissue that doesn’t tear when you try to pull it off the roll, and that doesn’t disintegrate when a toddler accidentally backs into the hanging roll in his wet bathing suit.
Max did just that today. I had recently replaced the roll and just a moment of contact with a wet bathing suit quickly ruined an entire 1000-sheet roll of one-ply toilet paper. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize it was wet until I sat down in the tiny RV bathroom. I reached over and pulled on the roll, but only half a sheet came off. I tried to pull more, but was only able to pull off tiny shreds of soaking wet, one-ply tissue. I looked around and realized I was stuck. There was nobody else in the RV and I’d either have to waddle to the exterior closet for more toilet paper, or I’d have to try to rip pieces off the one dry side of the entire roll. I opted for the ripping.
I was looking forward to visiting relatives tomorrow just because we’ve missed them so much. Now I’m looking forward to visiting their bathroom… I’m also going to ask if we can use their full-size (free) washing machine, and I might even ask to borrow their full-size shower that likely gives more than 2 minutes of warm water. I’ll actually have time to shave my legs!
Despite the small number of personal and often humerous drawbacks of living on wheels for an extended period of time, we wouldn’t trade these days of learning, new experiences and family time for anything in the world.
I’m not sure how, but I’ve managed to pick up a bug somewhere and I have a 101 temperature tonight. I’m going to go to bed early, but will write more tomorrow.
Hugs,
Angela