Weird. My dad once told us of a relative of his (aunt?) who only allowed people to use one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.

Sounds like a recipe for misadventure to me....

We use towels, rags and cloth napkins but sometimes, I just want a paper towel.

My dad once told us of a relative of his (aunt?) who only allowed people to use one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.

I'm thinking that would be hard to enforce, unless she was the one handing out the supply.

One of my current babysitters only uses paper towels to dry his hands. We have a hand towel in the bathroom and like 3 towels hanging in the kitchen, but he only uses papertowels. I assume it is some germ thing and don't say anything, but I rarely use them, really only for cat things, we have a bunch of rags for cleaning.

I'm thinking that would be hard to enforce, unless she was the one handing out the supply.

Yeah. Perhaps she numbered the squares? Or maybe she just relied on a Christian's innate inability to lie.

My dad once told us of a relative of his (aunt?) who only allowed people to use one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.

That's gross, and extra gross for a woman to suggest.

My family in Jamaica is kinda Nazi-ish about these things, and my mother re-uses ziploc bags and aluminium foil, but that's as much because they're expensive and hard to get as anything else.

I just hate when people use my paper towels as napkins. I have separate napkins. It's a thing.

Padalecki is cute, but he doesn't...affect my nervous system, or anything.

He doesn't usually, but when looking for Ackles bicep porn I stumbled across a site I'm not going to from work--something like squarehippies.com that had some stunning screencaps of Supernatural scenes and it reminded me that he's a piece of alright. Just not Ackles or crazy mad cute like Collins.

I assume it is some germ thing and don't say anything

I could see that.

My children have squandered my supply of wrapping tape. I can't find a single roll or piece of clear tape (besides heavy packing tape) to wrap gifts. I used to have at least three rolls around here.

This means going out again. I don't want to go out again.

Last night I had to make a Walgreens stop on the way home. They very smartly had bows and scotch tape right next to the register at the front door, and the wrapping paper was only 15 steps away from that at the front of the card aisle.

This sounds like a job for your husband.

My kids are driving me nuts, and we haven't even set off on our 10-hour drive yet. Heaven help me.

At some point in my youth, I was semi-traumatized by being unable to figure out which cloth I could dry my hands on, so went to paper towels. My grandmother has strict separation between hand towel and dish towel, and for whatever reason, I couldn't remember which was which.