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corolly2


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If you have one of those swinging type toilet roll holders in your RV toilet, chances are, after a drive along a not so smooth road, you find the paper conveniently unrolled and positioned for use on the floor. It doesn't take much to keep it rolling once there is enough hanging down to provide the necessary downward weight. Answer to stopping this is SIMPLE. Before putting the roll on the holder, squash the roll to make the cardboard centre oval and wella !!! The roll swings happily back and forth and the paper stays where it is supposed to be !!!!  Try it. It's been working like a charm in our RV for 5 years and 95,000 km.



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Well ?? We have to be double jointed to use ours . Our role sits on vanity . I guess when Mr Winebago designed it he sat face to wall ?? Right about ovaling centre ..

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It only took about 2 rolls for me to look for an answer as rerolling toilet paper is not my idea of " living the dream"



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Off subject . My kids give me heaps about the things we did with no or little budget . I used to bring the long commercial rolls home and wind them on the old empty rolls . Lol I worked out a way using roller paint applicator and electric drill . Times were tuff !! Lol

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Things we do eh.   I used to sell stuff to dairy farmers back in the late 1960's and with 5 kids in the family at that time (we had 6 eventually), the cost of providing milk was a little exie. I used to buy a gallon of milk for 80 cents off the farmer and decant it into the glass milk bottles, put alfoil tops on them (which I told the kids  was a new style of top they were using) because I knew they would never drink the milk if they thought it had come from a cow on a farm.  I would leave the bottles on the front steps as though they had been delivered by the milkman and got away with it for a while. Ah well, it saved a few dollars for a few weeks



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I have a swivel cassette toilet, and have room to jam a toilet roll between the seat and the wall, they have never unrolled yet

If/when the boss wants me to put a toilet roll holder in there, I was thinking of a few different sizes of elastic bands, to stop the roll unrolling, as we drive along



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overorunder.png   However, as travellers, it is best to use the "under" method -

nine times out of ten, you roll will not unroll while travelling!!!



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I use a rubber band.  Put it on the holder first, up where it meets the wall, then the roll. Then I twist the band and put it over the open end of the holder. 

Works well for me. smile



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I've used matches to clean my fingers . Never thought of using s rubber band ? Aha when paper runs out .. Lol

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Hey kiwi using a paint roller with an electric drill must have been painful you would have needed to be very careful you didn't get anything caught in it. Personally I think I would have persisted with using a toilet roll even if it did unravel.......probably a lot safer biggrin



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Rubber band keeps both my toilet roll and paper towels in the kitchen in place.....

However, here is a great opener for a happy hour:
Ask each guest as they arrive "Are you a scruncher or a folder" and wait for the hilarious replies - or blank stares. 



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I put a clothes peg on the holder against the roll - never un-rolls

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Dunmowin wrote:

Rubber band keeps both my toilet roll and paper towels in the kitchen in place.....

However, here is a great opener for a happy hour:
Ask each guest as they arrive "Are you a scruncher or a folder" and wait for the hilarious replies - or blank stares. 

Obviously with "all" the replies I had to this comment, I am greeted by blank stares! 



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Okay - Dunmowin - are you a "scruncher or older" ?

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I am a folder from way back, and not ashamed to admit it. What about you Jules?



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Definitely a folder - ok anyone else going to own up - scruncher or folder?

What about you - BB or AK?

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Definitely a folder  biggrin

Aussie Paul. smile



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Always fold - ensuring the heavy newspaper printing on inside - otherwise transferred ink on the dot.


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Try folding or scrunching with grass or leaveswinkwinkwink



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We have a swinging holder with a curved stainless steel plate that lays on the roll. Stops the paper from unrolling and also assists the user to tear the paper at the perforations providing they hold the plate down.

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