How to Change The Toilet Paper Roll

Anything that requires picking up of poop or cleaning areas that get nasty dirty is understandable, often invoking tears from She Who Must Not Be Named. Learning avoidance techniques is part of childhood. But I'm bound and determined to contribute to Independent Living Skills. So we're going to start with something easy, relatively clean, of benefit to all and one which will be a useful life long skill.

Trust me when I say a house of estrogen in various phases of evolution can burn through toilet paper like 6 packs of 3:2 beer in a frat house. Many's the time I'll be rubbing my eyes of sleep dust as I enter either bathroom to see that the toilet paper roll is out. Again. Maybe there's a new roll but it's just sitting there next to the toilet waiting to magically leap onto the dispenser. While this is far better than the alternative of NO TOILET PAPER ANYWHERE, I decided this would be a good place to start with a How To Tutorial.

HOW TO CHANGE THE TOILET PAPER ROLL

This first picture shows the frequent scene greeting me in my downstairs bathroom. Roll empty, new one just sitting on top of the too small and way too inefficient radiator. This is a picture I wish to eliminate.

Step 1. Take off old roll by depressing bar until it pops out because it's on a SPRING. Take off old roll.






Put new roll on. You can enter into debate about whether the paper should come from over or under (it was apparently a big debate when addressed by Ann Landers many years ago and continues to this day) but that's on you.


Insert new roll onto bar, reinsert into holder by depressing inside spring action and popping it back on.



Now we have a new roll. In this example, toilet paper is coming from underneath. I like to shake it up to allow for greatest flexibility and only getting into that rant rave mode when it matters.


You would THINK this would go without saying, but apparently the finale is THROW THE OLD ROLL AWAY OR BETTER YET, RECYCLE.

And there you have it. No tears, blood, sweat or stomping.