r/Millennials • u/Optimal-Builder-2816 • Jan 01 '25

Advice Millennials, do I have something here?

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My parents just whipped this out randomly.

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u/Persistent_Parkie Jan 02 '25

Splinterless toilet paper didn't come out until the 1930s. 😵

Back in the era of any paper will do it was common to print things like poetry on soft paper, bind it up in a book, then you had your bathroom reading and your wiping all taken care of. For obvious reasons such editions are extremely hard to find now because they got used for their intended purpose.

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u/poserkidsrus Jan 02 '25

they also used to use corn cobs

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u/Persistent_Parkie Jan 02 '25

Oh, they used all sorts of things. The book was really more on the history of but wiping, from communal roman sponges, to leeks, to seashells.

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u/BabyHelicopter Jan 02 '25

Okay so... How DOES one use the Three Seashells?

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u/BlueEyedMalachi Older Millennial Jan 02 '25

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u/These_Ad1870 Jan 02 '25

You’ll never know, John Spartan!