How do you hang toilet paper?
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How do you hang toilet paper?
This is a silly one. And I got to thinking about it b/c of the candle question. Then dh and I were making the bed and he put the sheets on upside IMHO.
So I have 2 questions actually:
Does your toilet paper hang over the roll away from the wall or go down next to the wall?
And do you put the flat sheet on with the full colored side down against you in the bed or up with a blanket on top of it?
For me: toliet paper goes away from the wall. I hate searching under the roll for the end.
And the full color side goes down against me unless I'm not putting a blanket on the bed.
The way my sheets are made, the only way to put them on is full color down so that you can fold it down over the blanket and it will look right.
TP goes over the top so I can grab it quickly without scraping my knuckles against the wall. 
I'm afraid I'm completely confused by the sheet question!! Do you not use sheets if you have a blanket?? Do you not ALWAYS have a blanket?? We, um, sleep between the sheets....with the blanket over the top sheet and the comforter over that....are we doing it wrong?
Toilet paper...I PREFER the loose end to go OVER the roll, away from the wall. However, I find that the large rolls won't spin and turn properly because they are too heavy, so you pull on it and get ONE square because it won't roll so the square rips off. For that reason we've started having the loose end hang down against the wall.
Hmmm....Debbie...based on Lisa's response I'm guessing you're asking if you put the 'wrong' side of the sheet on so that it faces the ceiling? And the 'right' side goes facing the bed?
The way I've always been taught, which has nothing to do with blankets (again, do you really have times when you have NO blanket???) is that the 'right' side goes down against the bed so that when you fold it down for bed the pretty stitching on the top gets folded back and shows.
I guess I make the bed wrong. I put the patterned or stitched side up, against the blanket. We don't fold the sheet over the blanket or comforter.
I'd prefer the toilet paper to come over the top but I don't care enough to fix it when someone does it wrong and it's wrong most of the time.
I am with you Cori on both counts.
Toilet paper definitely over the top. I hate it when it's underneath and you can't find the end!
Sheets go right side down, when I'm making the bed, so that the design part can be folded over the blanket.
To me, the toilet roll DEFINITELY has to come up over the top! Someone put it the other way in the ladies room at work the other day, and I HAD to change it. It drives me nuts the other way. LOL!
On the sheets, I always put the "pretty" side down, facing the bottom sheet. We don't use a blanket, but have a big puffy comforter on the bed in the winter, and a light quilt in the summer. When I turn the covers back to get into bed, I like the pretty side of the sheet showing.
My boys refuse to sleep with a top sheet. When they first came to live with us, I bought them each a new bed, and all new bedding. I bought some nice sheet sets that I thought would appeal to boys. They kept taking their top sheet off, and sleeping with just the comforter on them, while lying on their bottom sheet and matching pillow case. I have a close friend who also adopted two boys who had been in the foster care system, and she said her boys do the same thing. She said that that is how they sleep in the group homes. Sad! Sometimes I go in to check on them, and their feet will be sticking out from under the comforter. I would get such cold feet!
I prefer the toilet paper on top, but it makes it too easy for Cameron to unroll it so these days it goes down the wall.
As for the sheets the pattern goes facing down. I have embroidered sheets so you put the pattern side down and then you fold back the top part of the sheet so you can see the pattern. If I have a blanket I fold the pattern sheet over the blanket. I make my beds hotel stlye I guess with hospital corners.
The toilet paper has to go over the top. It drives me crazy any other way! I used to have to fix it, but now my husband is trained properly! LOL!
We don't use a top sheet, so my answer is neither! I freeze with a sheet against me. I don't even like it like that in the summer. In hotels, I have to pull the top sheet all the way to the bottom so it hangs on the floor, and then pull the comforter back on, unless it is a very scratchy comforter, which has not been a problem too often.
I know, strange, but I just can't cuddle up and get warm in a sheet like I can a soft comforter!
My kids are the same way. They refuse to use a top sheet. They say they get too cold.
Do you mean that I am not the only one that is bothered by their kids refusing to use a top sheet, Hol? I thought my kids were crazy and it isn't just kids in foster care. Mine have refused to use a top sheet their entire lives, but I always thought it was because they toss and turn a lot and get tangled up in it.
Adena you make more sense than my kids do, maybe they don't like top sheets for the same reason as you.
I also used to be one of those people that had to change the roll to roll over the top, but I guess in the past few years I am just so appreciative of anyone else putting a new roll on that if it is wrong I just leave it.
As for the top sheet it goes pretty side down (when I make the bed anyway).
My ds doesn't like the top sheet either b/c it never stayed on the bed right anyway.
Okay tp on the top here too.
I make my bed with the pretty side of the sheet down. We sleep between the sheets, but most of the year no blanket.
My children only use a lightweight blanket and no top sheet.
We have been known to do that too. for us it is all about the heat, it is way too hot and too many layers means the ac has to be really low!
Well, I guess I'm the odd one tonight. I have to have the TP going under!!
I don't use top sheets. We all have comforters, and that's all we use. I was taught to make a bed hospital style though, with the pretty side facing down. I just don't like using them.
im just so greatful that someone has replaced the empty roll with a fresh one i quit complainin about which way to put it.
TP over the top. I am apparently the only one qualified to change to tp in our house, so I never have to worry about fixing it.
Sheets, pretty side down.
Marcia and I agree. TP from the back. Sheets pretty side down with a blanket and pretty side up in the summer.
Tp over the top, and sheets with the pretty side ( colored side) toward you. I used to clean houses years ago and that is how we did it at work and I adopted it in my own home!
TP - OVER
Sheets - colored side up
Toilet paper, I really don't care one way or the other. Which is strange because so many "little" things can drive me nuts, but this isn't one of them.
Sheets, I only buy plain sheets, no patterns, so this isn't an issue for me. I don't fold the sheets down, so if I did have a pattern, I would make it so the pattern faced the ceiling.
Luvn29, your husband actually puts new toilet paper on the roll? LOL! My DH is the one who uses the basement bathroom most frequently. If the toilet paper runs out, he just sets the new roll on the sink. I don't know why we bothered to put a toilet paper gizmo, in the bathroom, since he is too lazy to use it! The toilet paper only gets on the holder, if I do it! LOL!
Kate--I don't know if you are doing it wrong or not, but if you are, the sheet police might be checking in with you.
But once in a blue moon, in the summer, dh gets a wild hair and doesn't want the quilt/blanket/comforter on the bed for a couple of days. I oblige. But the rest of the time we have something on the bed. I like the snuggleness of having stuff on top. And in sheet advertisements, the pretty side is always up but, of course, there's no blanket b/c they are advertising the sheet. But dh turned the pretty side of the sheet up to hide against the blanket. I told him he was doing it wrong and he looked at me like I was nuts. He said he didn't know there was a wrong way and besides, look at the catalog.
I was just thinking about the candle thing and "how you are supposed to do it." It's just funny to me how people are about certain little things. LOL
Oh, and dh doesn't usually put tp on the roll. Usually he will get a new roll, but it will sit for days on top of the tp hanger until I actually put it on. I don't let that get to me though. At least he puts the seat down for me.
I hope the sheet police KNOCK before entering....
I could care LESS which way the TP roll is facing. Makes no difference to me whatsoever, although it does bug DH which I've never understood.
Sheets - Don't have patterns. They are white flannel, year 'round. DH can't stand sleeping between the sheets unless they're flannel (or so soft that they're way out of my price range!). I personally don't care for pattern on sheets. I like a very-patterned quilt or comforter on top, with lots of pillows, but plain color underneath.
I'm getting the pulling the sheet down thing?? I don't fold my bed down during the day. It's always completely up with the shams and decorative pillows on the top.
My best friend turns the bed down and decorates the bed EVERY morning with a fancy breakfast tray, vase of flowers, that type of thing. Never have gotten that! Nat, my dogs, and DH & I are on the bed throughout the day, sitting, watching a movie, playing, or just wrestling. To each his own!
Deanna, I can NOT sleep on flannel sheets. I have to have that crisp, cotton texture to my sheets or I can't settle in for the night. I do prefer plain white or white on white patterned (stripes or checks) sheets with a patterned comforter, not patterned or colored sheets. Is your best friend Martha Stewart by any chance???
I can't sleep on flannel sheets either. I get too hot and sweaty in the night. I like cool, crisp sheets, too.
We sleep on flannel year round. I love the snuggliness of them. Pretty side down against me, of course. LOL
I'm with you Marcia!! Toilet paper down against the wall, I can't stand it going over the top and yes I change it if the kids put it the wrong way.
Sheets pretty side down (mine are white) but have a nice satiny strip that runs across, that way when I fold it over the blanket it looks nice
LOL at all the different reasons for TP over or under! I guess *some* of us have our quirks! When my boss puts a new roll in the downstairs restroom at the office he puts in under. *I* have to have it over, so I change it to over. Apparently others like it under, because on more than one occasion, we have changed it back and forth for days. ROFL
Yes, TP, over the top, so it faces you. Sheets, pretty side down, so when it folds over the blanket you see the pattern and also the nice side touches your body.
LOL Karen that's tooo funny!
Usually I like the TP going over the top. But i don't care enough to change it if someone does it *wrong*.
I WOULD NOT be able to sleep with out a top sheet and a blanket. Even in the summertime when it's so hot in the bedroom, i've got to have the blanket covering at least my legs...i feel naked otherwise.
WIth the sheet, i put the pretty side down so i can fold it over when i make the bed.
Tink - Yes, I'm a pretty good friend of Martha's. I tend to like plain and clean things, no frills.
I always like frills at someone else's house...like oh that looks nice but it's just not me!
LOL, Deanna. I meant your best friend with the bed made up with a tray and flowers.
Like you, I prefer clean lines and minimal frills.
I'm another one for over the top with the toilet paper.
As for the sheets....we don't use top sheets at our house. When we first moved in togeather it drove me crazy that dh kicked the sheet to the bottom of the bed and my feet would get tangled in it. So I just quit putting in on out bed and when we had the kids I just never bothered with it. Instead I use them to make a valence or for scrap material.
A little funny....one day while changing the sheets my dd asks how come we don't have two sheets? Before I could say anything ds chimed in "they only do that in the movies and on tv." Dd then argued with him that "they do it in the hotel too!" My poor kids are going to need therapy when they are older.
I always use 2 sheets! I can't imagine not having a sheet on top of my blanket, up against my face, when I'm sleeping. My daughter Emily, though, never had much use for the top sheet and I don't think she even bothers, or if she does, she just sleeps on top of it! LOL! I just wonder what she is going to do, when she gets married someday and her hubby expects a top sheet!
My best in-real-life friend, doesn't use a top sheet, either. She likes her blanket right against her body and her DH must like it that way, too.
We always use two sheets (top and bottom). We put the "pretty side" down, facing our bodies. Growing up, I could never remember which side went up or down, and my mom told me that we want the pretty side against our pretty skin. That's how I would remember. And, that's what I tell my kids too. Though they usually end up with their sheets in a tangled mess at the foot of the bed, lol.
One of my favorite smells is fresh sheets on the bed.
And, toilet paper over the top too.
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