Don't– or Do?– Try This at Home

This video’s a little older yet I’ll bet modern t.p. manufacturing methods are remarkably similar. If nothing else, it’s strangely relaxing to watch. My grandma, who grew up in the Midwest during the Depression, said that the Sears Roebuck catalog was something you ordered from, read voraciously, and wiped with. Yep, it hung on a […]

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The Truth About Wipes

On September 9th, Dr. Oz featured the truth about “flushable” wipes on his program. Dr. Oz – Wipes Part 1 Dr. Oz – Wipes Part 2 Some of you will recall my post on this topic from last year, Those Wascally Wipes, in which I discussed how most wipes don’t break apart like toilet paper does. […]

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Happy World Toilet Day!

Thank you to intrepid WordPress blogger T.V. Raj for reminding me that November 19th is World Toilet Day. This is not a joke nor is it meant to be crude. Sanitation is a monumental issue for billions of people. See CNN’s piece on World Toilet Day and World Toilet Day.org for more information.

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World Toilet Day

November 19th is World Toilet Day. For real. When someone forwarded an email to me about this, I thought it was a joke. I thought the link they gave me would go straight to The Onion or another goofy site. But this is serious business for some charities involved in bringing clean water and sanitation […]

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