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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

That’s ridiculous. As long as they were using marine toilet paper, had been properly servicing their holding tank, and you didn’t go crazy with the TP, there’s no reason for that rule. We have a boat and we just try to be sensible about this kind of thing. We do encourage guests to use the marina bathroom before boarding, and we have a personal “no #2 on the boat” rule for my DH and me simply because we don’t want to be carrying it around until we pump out, but I’d never tell my guests to limit TP to 5 squares.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sad that there are 10 pages of this thread and maybe 5 responses to the question. The shoe people should have done a S/O.

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

Anonymous wrote:Car food is a natural laxative

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

You can? Do you poop dry rabbit pellets?

once you clench hard enough you don't poop at all, you see

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You do realize that you’d be staying on a boat, right? Do you really expect the plumbing to be identical to that of a house? I suppose it doesn’t matter; with your gaucheness, it’s unlikely you’d be invited to stay by anyone possessing a boat.

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

You can? Do you poop dry rabbit pellets?

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

You can’t clean yourself with just a square or two? What kind of excrement do you have?

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

Omg if I was restricted to 5 pieces of toilet paper I would have turned around and left immediately. No way that would fly in my world!

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Anonymous wrote:I once stayed at a friend's house on an island in Maine where there was no electricity other than a generator. They had indoor plumbing and an outhouse, but you were expected to use the outhouse during daylight hours. With the inside toilet, you flushed only for #2. Showers were limited and if you took one, you had to turn the water on only while getting wet or rinsing off. It was different...but made me realize how wasteful our creature comforts can be sometimes.

This reminds me of staying with friends of my parents who had a boat - like a 40ft thing with a couple of cabins. They had a rule that you could only use 5 pieces of toilet paper at a time. It was fine... and I understand that the plumbing on ships is different.. but I did worry about what would happen if I really needed more!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not particularly weird, but I’m not a fan of situations where the host asks you to remove shoes and there’s no advance warning that it’s a shoe-free house and no provision of slippers. From cold feet, to holey socks, to athlete’s foot, there are a lot of reasons why some of us are more comfortable with shoes on and need some sort of heads-up if we must remove them.

That’s a reflection more on you than on them. Don’t wear socks with holes, and clean/treat your damn feet! It shouldn’t be a matter of concern to take your shoes off!

Well obv a lot of people don't feel that way so - if you do spring it on guests they're taking off their shoes, expect some folks to be disgruntled.