Our dads were right all along.

My mom is known for using a toilet paper roll a day.  She probably wraps a bowling ball sized glump of toilet paper in her hand before each wipe.  I think she has to flush between wipes to make sure all the paper goes down.  Who knows how many sewer systems she's clogged up over the years.

My dad, as the head of the household budget and king of saving money everywhere (euphemistically we call him frugal and detail oriented) saw how this behaviour, left unchecked for a few decades, could bankrupt the house.  So he went to fix the looming problem:  My dad went to the flea market about a year ago and brought home a carload of some Made-in-China toilet paper.  The price was right, a fraction of the price of most contemporary products.  The texture was, well, not so right.  It felt like crushed newspaper.  Maybe that's what it was.    And it wasn't just me who shunned the stuff.  My mom refused to use it and when my dad tried to offload it on my wife, on me, on his friends, noone would accept.  Even my inlaws refused saying that they don't think their toilet system can handle the stuff.  So my dad was the only one in the house who used the stuff.

It's been about a year now since everyone rejected this paper. Suddenly, my dad's hunchbacked friend with the missing teeth accepted whatever rolls my dad still had leftover. Maybe he saw good firewood, or something to use to hold up the cars in his front yard.     Maybe he was re-roofing his house, I have no idea.

Anyways, this is too bad because I now wish we could find something similar.  You see, with an ostomy, a papertowel like, foldable product is a godsend for wiping up.  After all, we don't have soft hineys anymore that need to be pampered.  Anyone know where I can find some really really cheap single ply tissue paper that is one step removed from paper towel?  

It's just one more way I understand how eventually us kids will see how our parents (at least our dads) were right.  It just takes some growing up, I guess.