Plants You Can Use As Toilet Paper (test them on your wrist first -beware of allergies)

[diva77]

(WARNING: DO NOT FLUSH LEAVES DOWN TOILET & BEWARE OF POISONOUS PLANTS)

Toilet Paper Substitutes: Plants You Can Use As Toilet Paper
Gardening Tips & Information
By: Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

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What Plants Can You Use as Toilet Paper?

Following in our ancestor’s footsteps, plant leaves are useful, easy to grow, readily available, and practically free. Plant leaves with a fuzzy texture are particularly delightful. The towering mullein plant (Verbascum thapsis) is a biennial that produces popcorn-like yellow flowers in its second year, but has furry leaves in spring through fall. Similarly, lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina) has large leaves soft as a rabbit (or lamb’s ear), and the plant comes back every year. Thimbleberry isn’t quite as fuzzy, but the overall texture is soft and the leaves are as large as an adult’s hand, so you only need one or two to get the job done. Some other options for toilet paper from the garden are: Common Mallow, Indian Coleus, Pink Wild Pear (tropical hydrangea), Large Leaf Aster Blue Spur Flower

Tips on Using Plants as Toilet Paper

While the listed plants are generally non-toxic, some people may be sensitive. Before you try the leaves on your bottom, swipe the leaf across your hand or wrist and wait 24 hours. If no reaction occurs, the leaf will be safe to use on more sensitive areas. Because many of these plants lose their leaves in winter, you will have to harvest and stockpile for the cold season. The leaves can be dried flat and stored for future use.
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[magicarpet]

2. Smirk/Giggle

......Plant leaves with a fuzzy texture are particularly delightful.....

[Judi Lynn]

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[diva77]

7. Thank you for posting this!

[progree]

4. Great way to have sewer clogs -- I hope that plumbers are available given that the demand for them

is soaring.

Our townhouse association has a number of times in the past 2-3 years had to pay big bucks to have sewer lines unclogged because of people flushing e.g. so-called "flushable wipes" down the toilet. They keep emphasizing, as does the city of Golden Valley, MN, that the only things that should be flushed down the toilet is toilet paper and human excreta. "flushable wipes", kleenex, etc. etc. do not dissolve fast enough to keep from creating clogs.

Some units have sewage coming up through their basement drains. Ewwwwwwwwww.

I don't care what people use to wipe themselves. Just don't flush it down the toilet unless it is toilet paper. Or the product of your digestive system.

[diva77]

6. excellent point! I added a warning to OP.

altho. I doubt many will resort to using leaves

[progree]

14. Thanks! n/t

[TexasProgresive]

5. When I think of wiping with leaves I always remember this from Stephen King's

On Writing Stephen was out in the woods with elder brother Dave.

"Dave, " I said. "Take me home! I have to push!" (This was the word we were given for this particular function.)

David didn't want to hear it. "Go do it in the woods," he said. It would take at least half an hour to walk me home, and he had no intention of giving up such a shining stretch of time just because his little brother had to take a dump.

"I can't!" I said, shocked by the idea. "I won't be able to wipe!"

"Sure you will, Dave said. "Wipe yourself with some leaves. That's how the cowboys and the Indians did it."

By then it was probably too late to get home, anyway; I have an idea I was out of options. Besides, I was enchanted by the idea of shitting like a cowboy. I pretended I was Hopalong Cassidy, squatting in the underbrush with my gun drawn, not to be caught unawares even at such a personal moment. I did my busines, and took care of the cleanup as my oldest brother had suggested, carefully wiping my ass with big handfuls of shiny green leavesd. These turned out to be poison ivy.

Two days later I was bright red from the backs of my knees to my shoulderblades. My penis was spared, but my testicles turned into stoplights. My ass itched all the way up to my ribcage, it seemed. Yet worst of all was the hand I had wiped with; it swelled to the size of Mickey Mouse's after Donald Duck has bopped it with a hammer, and gigantic blisters formed at the places where the fingers rubbed together. When they burst they left deep divots of raw pink flesh. For six weeks I sat in lukewarm starch baths, feeling miserable and humiliated and stupid, listening through the open door as my mother and brother laughed and listened to Peter Tripp's countdown on the radio and played Crazy Eights.

[diva77]

12. oh gawd! maybe I should remove the OP!!!!

[TexasProgresive]

15. Between this incident and a doctor puncturing his eardrum while saying it won' hurt

are the seeds of Stephen's imagination of horror and terror.

[zackymilly]

8. My dog taught me how to scoot around on the carpet years ago. n/t

[diva77]

9. TMI!!!! LOL!

[PufPuf23]

10. Someone has invented a use for kale.

I actually have hold over kale from last year in my garden (that I could be working on today).

I like spinach and swiss chard for food far better than kale but kale looks to be more TP material, maybe even re-usable?

[WestLosAngelesGal]

11. This gives me the shivers

As someone who had to pick fruit as a kid and was leaf-cut (like paper cuts but sharper), and also had grass cuts, I hope people are cautious (hesitant) about using leaves for toilet paper.

[JCMach1]

13. Get an extra long shower head and wash your butt

Wash! Like the rest of the world


Or worst case jump in the shower and wash...

[zackymilly]

16. Test it on my wrist? But I rarely get poo there! n/t

[Niagara]

17. Awhile ago

I purchased some items for my young adult son and left a note with the items.


In the note I told him not to panic if the toilet paper wasn't restocked on the store shelves right away. I told him that as long as he has running water, he could get into the shower to clean up. I also told him that in the pioneer days, sometimes they would use a cloth to clean up with, they would wash it and let it dry to reuse for later.


I'm not sure if I would ever use leaves myself, I would be the one who would accidentally use the poison ivy or poison oak.