Remember the Christmas season catalogs?

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1631224]

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

*has flashback to the horrible TP substitutes - especially the little squares of paper dispensed in public washrooms - that were around in the 1970s*

Seriously, who looks at slick or waxed paper and says "yeah, this is the Toilet Paper of Tomorrow!"? Aside from someone who clearly never wiped.

And I think it turned out the coloured/patterned toilet papers were actively toxic or something.

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

My (rather obscure) comment came from the factoid I'd learned that Sears switched to slick paper because so many people where hanging their non-slick catalogs in the outhouse. People would read a page while they did their business, then tear the page for a second use when they were done.

I'm sure that wasn't how Sears wanted people to think of their brand.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Little squares. And, because of course your mother/grandmother/elderly babysitter was scrupulous about hygiene, every square inch of available toilet seat surface had to be covered with little tp squares. Which ALL had to be brushed into the toilet before flushing.

Argh.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I've mostly encountered the little squares in Amtrak trains. When the dispensers haven't run out entirely.

[(Anonymous)]

In the 60s and 70s, we lived 3 or 4 miles from Newton, Chambers & Co, in Chapeltown, South Yorkshire, whose products (according to the Wikipedia page on Chapeltown) included the "famous 'Izal' disinfectant range". To me, they were more famous for their hard toilet paper and I too remember the thoughts of _why?_ every time I confronted it - why would anyone think that non-absorbant paper, which folded into razor sharp creases, was a good idea, and why, parents, have you bought the stuff...

A shiny catalogue page would be soft in comparison.

Dominic