Are westerners being robbed of TP when we get the hollow rolls? Is communism the right path after all?
That’s called coreless TP and you can get it in the US too, mostly from institutional suppliers. You can also try Asian markets like Ranch 99 if you are near one.
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Is this different from the one that’s also coreless but designed to fit on the spike style roller dispenser?
They have the same thing in China, it’s very confusing.
In China it comes stacked in bags and you pull it out sheet by sheet like paper hand towels or a box of tissues. You can hang the bag up.
Fascinating
But what about all the kids crafts and hamster tubes?
I used to buy rolls where the center of the tube came as a little personal roll you could put in your purse. I can’t remember which brand anymore.
H.E.B. store brand toilet paper is like that. Haven’t seen any other companies do it.
I see your Vietnam toilet paper and raise it with with my paradoxical environmental savings whatever this is (lights were on when this picture taken):
This is common in US motels and some hotels. It’s supposed to say that one should put their towel on the floor, rather than the rack, to have it replaced.
Here in Vietnam we use the whole toilet paper! That’s 65% more toilet paper per toilet paper!
Solid TP rolls are quite common in Asia. Not sure if this is still true, but a lot of public toilets don’t provide toilet paper for fear of people stealing them. You have to bring your own TP, at which point including the cardboard insert takes up too much space to carry around.
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they have tp holders for those tubeless rolls. It’s hung on the wall like a box with a slit at the bottom to pull the tp through.
Tbf I can’t remember the last time I used a toilet paper holder.
TBF I can’t remember the last time I used toilet paper.
Bidet shower master race.
you use it to place the roll standing on top
What’s my wife doing on Lemmy wrf
I get my servants to hold one for me while I need it
I mean, it’s own toilet roll, Micheal. What could it cost, 10 dollars?
thats so cool
Do they not have holders specifically designed for it? Could just have two rollers that support it from the bottom.
We used to have one at home. It’s like a clam shell – the roll sits in the bottom half, the hinged top half closes on top, and the paper is threaded through a wide gap.
It was popular in former Soviet territories. My guess is that many households only had poorly-built outhouses and no reliable supply of toilet paper, and this design protected the roll from water damage.
Did you model that whole thing just to show us what you meant?
Yep.
That’s awesome dude, nice work! I wish I were this good in blender. I have to use CAD to make my models and then export them to the scene in blender. It’s an annoying workflow but I’m just not good at “traditional” modeling in blender
Well look at the genius who figured out the sea shells!
There are plastic containers similar to box tissue but are round with a hole in the middle of the lid. Then you pull the toilet paper from the center of the roll.
My rolls already do this, guess I should try these
There are some commercial rolls I’ve seen in the US that seem to be a happy medium…the holder itself in the stall has a thin plastic rod for the TP to go on, and the rolls have a very small opening in the center (and no cardboard) to go on that rod.
Just yesterday I was reminiscing with my wife about how TP rolls used to have no tube when we were children and how hard it was to find the center to put them on the holder.
If I may ask, what country and how long ago was this? I have never really seen this before
This exists now in the US at Target. I liked them, actually.
As a household that doesn’t use a toilet paper roller, this would be amazing. I hate throwing away all those empty rolls
Just rip the tube up and use it like a really tick toilet paper
Like a paint scraper
Thanks, I hate it.
I try to find uses for ours where we can. I have a BBQ with a dead sparker so I usually use a half-tube which I light on fire and drop by the burner before turning on the gas
Take dryer lint and stuff it in half a toilet paper roll, then dip it in some melted wax. Makes a great fire starter and you can use stuff you’re gonna throw away anyway.
half-tube
Short cylinder or long half cylinder?
Where do you think all the centers of our TP go?
They sell them as donut holes near the airport
That’s an option here in Japan, though most don’t use it. I’m pretty sure some people sell that style in the US as well. I use one that has a hole but no cardboard insert.
I got a box of these from Amazon in 2020. (In USA)
Are you still using them?
They were kinda handy to have around tbh. Like, tissue in my backpack during allergy season, or in my car. I think we used them as tp on a camping trip.
At home, we only used them until the usual tp rolls came back into supply.
They came in a pretty big package so we had them around for a couple years, but I think they’re all gone now… So, yeah we used them, maybe not as intended and maybe not favorably, but they saved my ass in 2020, literally!
