Blogger Chris Glass details his simple,
inexpensive method for catching a mouse at lifehacker .
"My suspicions were confirmed. I found further confirmation in the new Consumer Reports magazine that arrived Monday. Inside its back cover it has “goofs, glitches and gotchas.” Among them was a picture of the toilet paper we buy, Quilted Northern. The headline read, "Short sheeted". For the rest of this story see article by Phil Dirkx for The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, CA
Leave a Toilet Paper Trail
My first suggestion (from days of old) would be to always carry a wad of toilet paper with you when you hunt. Aside from its obvious use, a “toilet paper trail” is a great visual aid when tracking a deer when blood spots are scarce. What I did, and sometimes still do, was to mark each spot of blood with a sheet or two of toilet paper. I’d sometimes put the paper on the ground where the blood was, and always on a limb above that spot so I could look back (usually after dark with a flashlight) and determine the approximate direction the deer was heading. From HattiesburgAmerica.com
According to Lori Brown the idea of using virgin wood for throwaway paper products seems silly, but it happens nearly 99 percent of the time. Toilet paper made of 100 percent recycled paper fiber makes up less than 2 percent of the market in the U.S. For more details visit Earth911.com
Hands off our toilet paper.
Christian Bourge, senior editorial writer at The Washington Times, in a recent column writes he fears the environmentalists are too focused on American's posteriors. For four years the greenies were ruthless in their attacks on Kimberly-Clark Corp. until the firm agreed to make their product more environmentally responsible. For the rest of this battle see
The Washington Times; 22 Oct 2009; Opinion Pg. A25
Cash-strapped Cuba says
toilet paper running short
By the end of the year Cuba should receive an important importation of toilet paper according to an official with state conglomerate Cimex.
A serious shortage of raw materials, the economic crisis, 50 years of the economic blockade and recent destructive hurricanes are being blamed for a serious shortage of toilet paper in Cuba. It might be the end of the year before the island is flush with supplies. For the rest of this story see
USA Today .
Crafts for Kids with Toilet Paper Rolls
Amazing what you can do with empty toilet paper rolls. DLTK's Crafts for Kids has dozens of projects from butterflies to Woodpeckers. These are fun cut and paste paper crafts using toilet paper rolls, printer, scissors, glue and paper.
Australia Battles Asia
over Toilet Paper
The price of imported toilet paper from Asia is almost 40 per cent below "normal"costs and hurting local manufacturers in Australia, according to the Canberra Times. In an ongoing battle between Australia and Asia,
a year-long Australian Customs Service investigation found that imported toilet papers are unfairly damaging their local businesses because the prices at which they are being sold are below the costs of production - that is, dumping. Click here to flush out the rest of the story.
Did you know
All tissue is not created equal?
According to Greenpeace, Americans could save more than 400,000 trees if each family bought a roll of recycled toilet paper—just once. Greenpeace has published a "Recycled Tissue and toilet paper Guide" that ranks toilet tissues as: recommended, can do better, and are to be avoided. The Tissue Guide evaluates toilet tissue, paper towels, paper napkins, and facial tissues.
In a humorous opinion article at the Hotel Online website, Larry Mundy wrote in his "Room With a View" column, perhaps partly with seriousness: "In my experience, there are two basic types of hotels: those that have the housekeeper fold a cute little triangle into the unused end of the toilet paper, and those that don’t. Call it silly, call it pointless, I call it a sure indicator of the service levels I can anticipate at the property." Mundy continued: "That tiny detail of carefully triangulated tissue tells me
that someone cared, that another member of my own species was here, in this very room, within the past few hours and spared no effort to make the end of the roll both presentable and easier to grip in my time of need. I don’t need to engage in frustrating roll-rotation exercises just to find the loose end. I don’t need to contemplate the jagged tear-line from the last user’s haste — in fact, it doesn’t occur to me there was a 'last user' at all, because the roll looks neat and new."
Learn to make the Triangle Fold, the Diamond Fold (video), the Pleated Fold, the Pleated Tuck (video), and the Flourish at the Origami Resource Center.
Delight your guests with fancy folds & simple embellishments.
The Toilet Paper Origami Book
will give you further help in bringing style and flare to your toilet tissue. Some designs are elegant in their simplicity and they can be accomplished in minutes. Although, others are of more complex designs and can take 10 to 15 minutes to complete. The Toilet Paper Origami Book includes over 300 photographs.
