BACK TO BASICS: Has anyone here gone without TP before....

Yup, sure have and the missing sleeve on the T-shirt I was wearing worked quite nice, buried it along with the dookie. You gotta make do with what you have at the time, whether it's a portion of your clothing, newspaper, magazine (glossy print would be a challenge) leaves, water or even your hand, nothing worse than walking around with a greasy-a** stuck to your undershorts.

 

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I take it some soap is involved inthe middle east "bare handed H2o pooh removal" process somewhere???

-5 degree outhouse with a blast of icewater!!!! That qualifes under homeland securityapproved torture techniques! I think your bung hole would slam shut so fast with such force your ears would ring, you'd sprain your spincter muscle and get a migraine at the same time (ever heard of fatal icecream headache??)


Every body dump at tnandy'shouse!!...


Butt scootin doggy rug might work...(For extra points : use a muslim prayer rug) be sure to orient it toward mecca..
Seriously the cut up cloth diaper is the best idea i've heard so far...

 

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Sound like an 870 going into battery, scare off the ilegals...

 

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OK, time to put some of my survival instructor knowledge to use. This is going to get a little graphic, so if you are squimish, you had better look away
The problem with needing toilet paper come when people decided to start sitting down to take a dump. Previous to that, it was common knowledge that to take a dump and not make a mess of it, you squat. You need to get the bung below the knees. To do this properly, you have to have your feet apart, thus spreading the cheeks. That is why in many third world countries, you still see the slit trench toilets.
When you sit on a commode, your butt cheeks are allowed to remain un-spread, thus squishing the subject at hand and requiring large quantities of paper.
There is a book, and I'm not kidding, called "How to Shit in the Woods" It goes through all the steps necessary to cover this subject. It has a picture of a guy wearing a long shirt, pants around his ankles with a shovel and a roll of toilet paper on it. Well worth the price if you can find it.
Hope that helps some of you!

 

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Hey wildernessgal, I just realized in my last post that I didn't answer your question. Yes, I have gone without toilet paper for the last four months now. It is someones sense of humor to give us paper towel toilet paper that has the consistency of shark skin. It doesn't just take the poo off, it takes the entire first layer of skin as well. Now here comes the rub, so to speak. When we go to the DFAC to eat, we are required to wash our hands for sanitation purposes. Guess what they have right there to dry our hands? Humongous rolls of soft toilet paper!!!!! I'm not kidding, toilet paper to dry your hands with. I keep trying to steal one of those rolls of toilet paper to bring back to my quarters so I can take it with me to wipe with! However, I am afraid of being shot by the Ugandan security guards that guard our DFACs.

 

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John Wayne toilet paper Sniper? "Rough, Tough, and Don't Shit Off Nobody!"

 

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in the cold weather it will save water by just using snow.i've read about using a smooth stick,bark,a rock,grass,leaves,cloth,paper,snow,maybe a piece of flexible rubber,your hand but some one else's would be better
squat low

 

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That'll rid the Klingons around Uranus

 

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Well you could always be like the bear.....

A bear is craping in the woods and a bunny comes along, the bear asks the bunny if it has a problem with crap sticking to its fur. The bunny saysno so the bear grabs the bunny and wipes his butt on it.

 

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Corn shucks work.

 

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As soft items of clothing (t-shirt type material) get holes worn in them, I am cutting them up into rags about 4x4 or 6x6. I'll stop when I get a brown paper grocery bag full.

For poo, use once & wash like cloth diapers. For pee (girls), allow rag to dry between uses, and issue a fresh rag each morning, again washing like cloth diapers. Keeping hair trimmed helps too (for pee).

That said, I do have a 3 month supply of TP stored. I don't plan on storing anymore.

 

100% Splinter free..Another view on modern TP...ouch.

 

i was in mayalasia and they had a little hose like the one in your kitchen sink next to the toilet ... that thing worked well...but u better check the pressure before blasting away ....

i like using rags out of them box of rags thing...cheap and stor easly...

Keep it simply its your ass dont over think it! you will worry yourself to death

 

LMAO!

About cold. We were on a recent "wilderness survival" 3 dayer and the temps hit the upper thirties. TP wasn't allowed. Headlamps weren't allowed. I had a pre-dawn MUST go and stumbled into the darkness. Had to use whatever I could reach. The second the first leave hit my ass I flashbacked to when I was a kid and a great uncle advised using snow. In MN. In winter.

 

at sea the "THUNDER BOX" is an excellent experience ...
Never had the bidet splash up but then again if the water is splashing up on a ship u aint doing much over the side !!!