So I want to know...is it written somewhere that women are the only people qualified to change the toilet paper roll when it's empty? I'm asking because for some reason, no one in this house ever changes it but me. I've tolerated it for 15 years from Carl and I'm sick of it! So I am in search of a solution. The picture to the right depicts my idea. You see, you have to do these things to Carl or he'll never get it. A few years ago, we had this terrible problem with him intentionally mistaking my jewelry box for a clothes rack. My large jewelry box on legs (not sure the technical name for it) was maybe 6" from the closet door...just 6 more inches to the actual hangers, but for some reason, he piled his clothes on my jewelry box. For me to actually open my jewelry box, i had to either throw his clothes in the floor or hang them up. Now being as compulsive as I am, do you think I could just throw them in the floor? Noooooooooo. I hung them up. He was winning this battle, if only in a subconscious way. So, to solve the issue, I took a rather large flower arrangement off our bathroom counter (some of you have heard this story before) and I closed the toilet lid and put the flower arrangement on the closed lid. Now when he had to use the John, he had to move the flower arrangement and put it back on the counter. The first couple of times he moved it without asking any questions; probably wondering if I'd really gone off the deep end for sure this time, by about the 3rd or 4th time he asked me about it, at which point I explained that him having to move the flower arrangement was the equivalent to me having to dig for my jewelry box under his clothes. He got it, and I haven't had an issue since. Now, hopefully he'll be observant enough to notice that there is an empty toilet paper roll on the faucet, at which point he can either remove it and put it in the trash or just put it on the counter. I'm hoping it makes it to the trash. I'll let you know. Any suggestions? I warned you that this blog would be peppered with complaints.
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I can't to hear how this works out. I don't know that I'm clever enough to come up with something like that. Keep us updated!
this is really funny to read. I can't agree with you more, I am the onlyone in this house who change the toilet paper. I was laughing and Steve ask why so I let him read your post and he was spechless hope this work for me inthe future ja,ja,ja,...
brilliant!~i love it!!!
I wish i was there to see what he does the first time with the roll!!! The flower story I think of often, way to funny to ever forget. Two brothers so a like yet very different. I need help with my computer try and answere the phone tomorrow..... PLEASE!!! Ha Ha. Love YA S
No advice...I honestly can't complain since Nathan's better about this than I am! Guess I'm pretty lucky. :)
I do agree this is pretty clever!
Ok, so Carl threw the roll away, this time anyway. We'll see...however, like father, like daughter. I sat down on Hannah's toilet yesterday, only to look over and see the exact same empty roll. Oh brother.
Give me an "E" for effort.
I'm there with Jen, but this happens to only be about the toilet paper roll, other things, not so much. Not only does Ken change the thing but if I happen to change it and the paper is coming out in the wrong direction, the man changes it the right way. When I catch him doing this OCD type of act I switch it back just to tick him off and get a good laugh when I hear, "Shell, seriously!" from the pot :)
why dont you shock him and unroll an entire roll of toilet paper and just cram it all in a decorative basket beside the throne. go ahead and toss the roll in the trash when he asks what happend tell him you had to throw away the roll while you had time:)
Deb, cleverness runs in our family! I LOVE THAT!
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