Do you know anyone that hides their toilet paper from others?
By cream97
@cream97 (29086)
United States
June 15, 2010 6:33pm CST
When I first stayed with my in-laws, toilet paper was no issue. But after a while, it became one. They both started taking the toilet paper out of the bathroom. And she had the nerve to ask me if we could chip in and buy some toilet paper for their house so that we could all use it. She asked my husband the same thing too. I feel like this, if you have a problem with someone using the toilet paper, why bother to keep putting some in the bathroom? When I asked her about this. She told me, that her daughter bought her own toilet tissue. She feels that we should do the same thing too. Now, they hide their toilet paper in their bedroom closet. I think that this is very mean. You allow others to use the toiletries that are in the bathroom, then you take it away because it was going too quick as far as it was being used. What do they expect? It was, 7 people in the house, so the toilet paper went quicker than anything. When you have someone in your home staying with you, it makes them feel like you don't want them to use anything that is a "need". After all of this, I have now bought my own toilet paper.
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@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
16 Jun 10
OMG, when I read your title I choked on my coffee. That's hysterical.
I have never in my life heard of any people like this. You should write a darn book and make some money, honey. It would be a best seller I'm sure. It actually could be part comedy because I don't think everyone would believe all this, haaha!
Um, did you mark your toilet paper in big letters "Ours?"
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@cream97 (29086)
• United States
16 Jun 10
No, I kept it in my bedroom's closet!! We had a lock and key to our bedroom. One time, my husband gave her a roll of our toilet paper, that we got from the hotel. I did not say anything to her then But, I made sure that I brought this up to her. I told her that the roll that my husband gave to her was ours. I never told her where it came from. I saw the humiliation on her face then! That let her see that we can buy our own toilet paper! We don't need theirs!
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@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
16 Jun 10
You should have put some itching powder all over it.
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@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Jun 10
My inlaws SHOULD have hid the toilet paper when her daughter and loser husband lived in their home with 4 kids for a couple years. They clogged up the toilet so many times because the boys in particular used up sooo much toilet paper - thus jamming up the pipes. They didn't teach the kids how to respect their grandparent's home and they literally thrashed it (the kids' parents help thrash the place too).
Anyhow, not to say that's what you or your family are doing. I'm sure with 7 people in the house, a lot of supplies will run out quickly . . . but for MIL to make you specifically pinch in for toilet paper is kind of silly.
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@cream97 (29086)
• United States
16 Jun 10
Hi, much2say. It is silly, I agree! Why make us pay for something just so that they can use it too. And they still have the audacity to keep their toilet paper still hidden into their bedroom closet? She should have asked me that it would be best for me and my husband to buy our own toilet paper and not just use up theirs anymore. If I buy toilet paper, it won't be for them to use it up! When she told me to chip into buying it, we instead went and bought our own and stored it in our closet just like they have done with theirs. And what makes it so bad, they don't have a door to their bedroom. So, I can easily sneak into their closet and get some sheets off of their toilet paper, without them knowing it. As a matter of fact, I have done so. When they went to church one Sunday, I took a few sheets off of their roll. I know that they did not miss these few small amount of sheets!
@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Jun 10
Too funny! But I'm sure not so funny to deal with. Heck, she might as well tell you to chip in for soap, water, and detergent to wash the towels - sheesh!!! Does she hide the kleenex tissues too? OY!!
Now I am thinking one day THEY are going to need some toilet paper . . . and well, sorry, they're not going to get any because everyone else is going to hide theirs too - ha ha!
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
16 Jun 10
If anyone was staying at my house they would be welcome to whatever I have, now if it was someone that was living with me, I would expect them to pitch in on things we needed around the house, but if they were just visiting I wouldn't expect them to, and I wouldn't go around hiding everything so they couldn't use it. From reading all the discussions you've started on your in-laws, it seems to me they are some peculiar people, I don't quite understand their way of thinking...
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@reene0225 (351)
• United States
16 Jun 10
I have never heard of anyone hiding their toilet paper or making people get their own. That's a little overboard if you ask me. If I had people staying in my house I'd let them use the toilet paper unless they needed a special brand from everyone else. Like my mom and grandma have to use a special kind because they are allergic to some toilet paper. I think making your own daughter by her own toilet paper is ridiculous. I would never make my son buy his own toilet paper. When you have that many people in your house you just have to expect that some items like toilet paper will go a bit faster than normal.
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@clouds0327 (1389)
• Philippines
16 Jun 10
Well, it's really hard living in the same roof with your in laws.. Especially when they are not so nice at all. Nice thing I found your post.. I had that same experience with my in laws. Especially with my sister in law.. Uuggghhh! She is the most meanest person (if there is a word like that) LOL I've ever known. She is like her mother when I was just staying with them before. But I still stay in their property but away from my mother in law. I am staying with their house on a different location and that's where my sister in law is staying. She is single and doesnt have any children yet.. Well anyway, the reason why I have this grudge over her is because of the numerous things she did. She was making stories that I am a dirty person.. She also said that we are not taking care of our daughter and she is so neglected and all that.. This is the part that I hate so much..I love my daughter a lot.. and it would any mother if someone says that I am not taking care of my daughter. My mother in law added that thats not how she raised her children so what does she mean by that. She is so self righteous as if I dont know that she only had her children in other people's care before.. They have nannies and some of them were raised by their aunties...The adopted child which is so annoying and they love so much.. I saw that child poo in the comfort room and clean herself up at the age of 3, she takes a bath on her own because her mother wasnt always there and her adopted daughter takes a bath without shampooing her hair. And that's what she calls a good upbringing..? She always yell at my husband telling him how much we are not looking after our daughter because she is thin.. and she said my daughter is always smelly and all that.. She rarely visits us here how would she know that my daughter is like that always of course thats a kid there are going to be times that she will look dirty or filthy but that doesnt mean I wont take care of her or clean her up... She is my only daughter and to say we neglect her is impossible. They are so great in looking for our errors. She never looked at her self in the mirror, as if she so perfect!!! If she was ever a good mother then how come her daughter and adopted child exceptionally rude.? Her daughter always keeps everything away from us.. especially food.. Their mother always sends raw meat for them every time she goes home here...And its for everyone I mean except me, because I always make sure I have my own food because i know what type of people they are from the time I started living with them in one roof. There was this instance when I never ate the whole day until my husband came home from work before, (I was pregnant that time) because I hear her always making bad comments pretending I was not there but it is intentionally for me about food, expenses and other stuff. I have to wait until my husband back from work before I can really eat. Thats the time I found out what type of person this person is...When I eat meat its like a big deal for her, you can really feel that she is not feeling good about it and always making sounds with forks and spoon and make you feel like you want to finish eating already because of the awkwardness. And same goes with my sis in law the thing is I already have my own job and can buy our own food, but there are times that my husband knowing that the meat is for everyone and would cook and then when my sister in law found out.. she kept everything in a tupperware and told the "helper" to tell us it's not to be cooked.. Never thought there are people like this in this world. This post is soooo incomplete I can justify why Im saying they are what they are and Im not just making this up to get back on them.. Its true these people exists and it usually happen when we live in other people's property this is reality.. I have reacted before and fought against them before.. But thought that the only thing that will resolve it is to have my own place... and instead of making myself stressed because of it.. I just motivate myself to hope and work more to somehow, someday get a house of our own..
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@moondancer (7431)
• United States
16 Jun 10
My daughter let an older couple and their son move into her home. They moved her from another state and she was trying to help them. The son was not suppose to come with them, but he came later to visit and just stayed.
Well these people just took over her house. They started telling her what she could and could not have in the house. What "she" needed to get and not get for it.
They never helped her with not even 1 bill and they never bought food either.
They would take things they wanted from the kitchen or anywhere including the bathroom and hide it in "their" bedroom.
They even went so far as to take away some of her furniture and almost all of the children's toys and things.
She finally told them they had to move and that they had a month to find a place. They went back to the state they came from because nothing was free for them up here any more.
The problem is their son did not go too.
She told me she needed me to come over. I did and she was telling him that he was told to leave when his parents did and he did not, but that he had to leave now and that he should have left with them.
I told him to leave that my daughter did not want him there.
He said if she wanted him gone she had to go pack his things.
I told him like h*ll that he would get in there and pack his sh*t and that he had 15 minutes to do it in and that I was taking him where ever he wanted to go.
He packed his things, call the airlines and bought a ticket.
Then had the nerve to tell my daughter that she owed him for the ticket. ...What!...
I went off on him right then and there.
I told him that he and his parents moved in on my daughter and just took over her home. They never paid one cent on a bill or bought any food while they were there for the 6 or 8 months they were there.
That she did not owe him one thing. For him to shut his mouth and get his things into my truck right now.
I took him into town to a motel that was right near restaurants and major stores. I picked him up the next morning and took him to the airport.
That was the end of him and his parents! Thank goodness!
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
18 Jul 10
not recently.i've known people with roommates that did tho.
however,they graciously (sarcasm intended) broke it out when a woman came over..
that's going too far.if you're that cheap or mean,don't have people over.
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
18 Jun 10
Hello cream. I don't know one such person as to hide their toilet paper from others. It is not considered to be nice and kind to people if one does so. I am sorry that you are having such an unpleasant experience.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
16 Jun 10
I could see maybe when you do your shopping you buy a pack or two tward the household when needed but I don't understand why there's a need to hide it?!?! I'm surprised they haven't tossed a brick in the water tank or do the policy of "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down" to save on water while they are at it.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
16 Jun 10
Hello cream,
I couldn't imagine how costly toilet paper in your place, that cause your in-laws to hide it.
I couldn't just imagine this thing,someone hiding toiletries .
Thanks,this never happens to me during the time that we stayed at my in-laws house.
Well,better buy your own and never mind your in-laws
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
16 Jun 10
I used to hide the toilet paper. Now you have to understand why. When my son was younger, he used to like throwing things in the toilet. it was a game to him. This included any toilet paper in the bathroom. If I wated to have any usable toilet paper, i had to have a hiding place from him for it.
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@sid556 (30959)
• United States
16 Jun 10
Cream,
Really? They hide the toilet paper? I never heard of such a thing. Were you just visiting them or do you live with them? I mean if you live with them then it is not unreasonable for them to expect you to pick up some toilet paper and other supplies to help out. I know it sounds silly but I've had people living with me before and I know how things disappear fast and it can get really costly if one person is supplying all the toilet paper, soap, shampoo, milk, bread etc for the entire bunch. I can't imagine that I'd hide the toilet paper from anyone but I would ask those living with me to pick some up now and again to help out.
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@blackflorinel (475)
• Romania
16 Jun 10
i never incountred a man or a women ho hides ther toilet paper frome others its quite sick what t f is ther toilet paper made out of 24 K gold or silver , hmmm i never done such a thing , maybe cafe's and restorante's should hide the toilet paper frome ther clients :D :))
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@rameshchow (4426)
• India
16 Jun 10
I hope Seperate family is the better way.
It will give to more freedom in your life.
You can do whatever you want. Nobody distrubs you and your activities.
And it is the best way to avoiding such problems....
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@barneyjjones (63)
• Philippines
16 Jun 10
I heard people do some things like that but not with a toilet paper. I mean, come on, toilet paper? I totally agree with you about your point on bothering to put it in the toilet and not expecting people to use it. I knew someone who was like that, it was actually my aunt, we stayed with her for a couple of weeks during one summer vacation and everything was OK during the start, we are free to eat what we want, use what we like and do stuff. However, one day she asked me if I had been using too much shampoo because its already gone and she just bought it the other day.I said no because I'm a man and I had almost no hair at that time. I just let it pass and pretend she didn't ask me that. The next day, she said something about the fridge going empty and that we don't have discipline that we eat whatever is in their without even asking, I was thinking , "WHAT? are you kidding", you were the one who invited us and said that we can eat whatever is in there, and my point is, we only eat when she offers us something. She probably didn't realize that the groceries she bought which is supposed to last for 2 weeks was only budgeted to herself, she knew that we were coming and there's 5 of us, so she should have expected that. In the first place, she should not have invited us there if she's just gonna complain about it.
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@kodukodu84 (1569)
• Malaysia
16 Jun 10
I'm always happy to share my toilet roll with other family member in the house, and when i can't afford it, i'm not shy to ask them to get some for everybody. but there was really one time that i didn't want to share my toilet roll to other people when i went for 6 days trekking in the jungle hehe :-) so lucky my toilet roll did last for 6 days..
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