A few weeks ago my mum commented that her grandson had told her he didn’t want to use her toilet. When she asked him why, he replied that the dolphins scared him. Mum couldn’t think what he meant until she realised that he was talking about the dolphins on her toilet paper! It got me wondering as to why we scent our paper and go to the bother of printing designs on it. It would seem a rather pointless exercise. For most of us our toilet paper sits under a toilet roll cover so we hardly see the image printed on the paper. The scent isn’t strong enough to make the toilet smell nice and once the toilet paper is used there is no disguising what it has been used for – why on earth is toilet paper scented?????????
There does seem to be some indications too that certain females should stick with plain toilet paper as they get easily irritated by the scented type. Anyway at the end of my musings I realized that there is absolutely no reason why I buy scented, printed paper and I have just automatically done it all my life. So the last few weeks we have changed to plain, unscented, recycled, not re-bleached toilet paper made in NZ. It was also on special this week – 42 cents per roll so we bought up quite a bit. So far there haven’t been any complaints about the change from my rear end J.