The original patent shows us which way toilet paper is meant to hang...

[True Dough]

MY WAY! YEAH!!!

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Obviously the inventor didn't have a cat.

[madaboutharry]

5. Lol!

Thanks for making me laugh.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. That was my exact first thought, too!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Oddly enough, my cats never got in to the toilet paper.

[rurallib]

31. mine is usually too busy on the internet

[madinmaryland]

43. Our cats have no interest but the 🐕 likes to invade

The waste baskets and shred Kleenex tissues. Go figure.

[Doreen]

27. My first exact thought.

I have always gone under since I learned many many years ago that temptation of the feline variety can not go into a restroom with toilet paper over and not energetically unroll it onto the floor. If you do not believe me look up Jackson Galaxy's advise for cats vs toilet paper.

[cemaphonic]

41. Truth

I was an overhanger until cats + toddlers made it intolerable.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Wow! They had common sense in 1891?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Yup. It keeps it away from the wall and makes it easier to access!

[Petrushka]

19. . . . which results in more toilet paper than necessary being used . . .

. . . and, thus, fulfills the manufacturer(s)' dream of more profit.

[Control-Z]

4. Yes. That's right!

If it doesn't make your bathroom look like (or more like) a seedy motel room then it's right.

[First Speaker]

6. There are many causes for disputation in human history...

...Blues and Greens in Constantinople. York and Lancaster. Hatfields and McCoys. Sawx and Yankees. Marvel and DC. Coke and Pepsi. McDonald's and Burger King. Certs is a breath mint/candy mint. But this--the right way to hang the toilet paper--this is the most contentious of all.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Well, maybe tied with the right way to hang paper towels. n/t

[3catwoman3]

7. As long as there is enough there, I...

...don't care which way it's on.

So true about cats - LMAO. One of our 3 specializes in TP shredding.

[populistdriven]

9. Printing, but can someone tell me what's the proper way to hang this notice in the outhouse? nt

[lunasun]

12. A couple of those Melania photos I had not seen before

[populistdriven]

13. lol nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

26. Maybe this would be the right way to do it.

[DownFromTheMountain]

10. The Right way is...

the way anyone besides me replaces the roll. That's final.

[Laffy Kat]

24. While I was still married, I was the only woman with three boys...

And I'm counting my ex as a boy and NOBODY would replace the TP, or PTs, or copier paper but me, although they were always willing to tell me it needed to be done. I am so over it.

[sl8]

11. Not so fast.

Mr. Wheeler had a lot of patents related to toilet paper and this one was far from the first, the first would have been at least 20 years earlier.

Some of the patents show the roll going the other way:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US511983
https://patents.google.com/patent/US422866A

Short piece on this patent argument:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/w-overunder.html

Blurb on Mr. Wheeler & perforated paper:
http://www.albanyinstitute.org/perforated-toilet-paper.html

[Marie Marie]

14. WRONG - Under is correct.

And I am smarter than Trump so I must be right. (And yes, I can hear all your snarky comments.)

[SunSeeker]

16. Of course! The ONLY logical way!!

[quickesst]

17. I don't hang mine.....

It sits in a little wicker basket, and I'll bet a dollar to a donut I can dispense the precise number of sheets I need faster and easier than anyone who hangs it.

[Petrushka]

22. Same here . . . with the exception that there is also a 2nd roll . . .

. . . for those who like it hanging over the top. For them, I always place it hanging under. That way, some day, they might learn to replace it themselves.

[quickesst]

29. I hear you

My master bedroom bath belongs to my wife, so I'm relegated to the guest bathroom. I do however remember to put a roll on the hanger when I know we're having company so they don't think that we're complete barbarians.👹🙋

[Petrushka]

35. LOL --- We have company for the next four days . . .

. . . so, I know what you mean!

[yonder]

25. Me neither, although

my wife will for the sake of "decorum". It's faster and simpler to be left off the hanger.

[quickesst]

30. Kind of makes me wonder.....

..... How many people are out there who hang their toilet paper because "that's the way it's always been done" and have just never discovered the simplicity we experience.

[Totally Tunsie]

20. Thank you!

Hanging this way also makes it easier to stop the rolling progression.

[certainot]

21. that's right. in those days the walls were wooden so there was always the chance of

plinters and spiders if you had to get the paper from against the wall

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. Not really; wallpaper has been around since the 18th century.

And at the time the TP roll was invented, people who could afford indoor plumbing probably didn't have splintery wooden indoor walls. Spiders are a different matter, though.

[Laffy Kat]

23. This information could have saved so many relationships. nt

[LuckyCharms]

28. Toilet paper?

[True Dough]

32. That's right

Not all of us have the luxury of using cannabis leaves.

[LuckyCharms]

34. Huh. I use a hammer.

[True Dough]

37. I suppose that's one way

to deal with those hemorrhoids.

[LuckyCharms]

40. I use a multi-tool for those.

[samnsara]

33. i have free standing holders in my bathrooms..

….the tp can be moved anywhere. if ppl cant change that...then just put the roll on the bathroom counter top and call it good.

[malthaussen]

36. Okay, but what about the toothpaste cap?

On or off?

-- Mal

[True Dough]

38. You use a toothpaste tube to wipe?

Seems odd to me, but I shouldn't be so judgmental.

[miyazaki]

42. I just wish someone could explain the angst in having to replace a new roll.

It's a strange phenomenon. Even though it takes mere seconds to perform, it is the most annoying damn thing in the world.

[True Dough]

44. Gum or dog poop

on the bottom of my shoe surpasses the internal rage of being stuck with changing the T.P., at least for me.

[miyazaki]

45. Word. Somebody should start a poll,

What's more annoying? Changing the toilet paper, taking out the trash, refilling the ice cube trays, or having to replace the batteries in your t.v. remote control?

They all suck.

[47of74]

46. CORRECT

[Yavin4]

47. Kitty weighs in on this topic