Thursday, June 09, 2011

It has come to this:

Yes, a post about my toilet paper dispenser.







Remember when $30 was what you'd pay for a whole set of bathroom accessories, including towel bar, handtowel holder and toilet paper dispenser?


Well, I chose the lot based on finally the only toilet paper holder that has ever made sense to me.


Picture yourself, half-dead with a feverish flu. You go potty, and the TP gods chuckle as your sick ass fumbles to change the roll on the dispenser. You're not miserable enough, when the springloaded bar goes flying through your fingers and skitters off across to the far reaches of the bathroom. Yes, the TP gods are laughing at you. You're sick. You don't feel like bending over because then your sinuses will flood another part and you'll be even less able to breathe, and who wants that? You peel what you need off the roll, plop said roll on the back of the toilet and shuffle back to bed.


A month or two later, you'll find the springload bar and put it back together and try to remember when it was you didn't replace it like normal.


Anyway, no more of that for me. Yes, I spent $30 on just the TP roll holder and I'm glad I did. This design by Kohler* ushers in a vibrant, sensible age for toilet paper accessories, something that has been begging to be invented since someone first squoze the Charmin. The left side of the holder is a lever, the right side being stationary and just the two pieces, nothing to fumble or drop. It's oh-so-very civilized.

This is not what I would have envisioned for the bathroom. It's better.


*label-whore moment!

8 comments:

Ladybug Crossing said...

OMG! This is simply AWESOME!!!! I am going to go buy one for each bathroom and I might even give them as Christmas gifts!
Thanks so much for sharing... honest.
LBC

Keads said...

That is indeed the bomb! Getting ready to paint my bathrooms so that is a good excuse to upgrade!

Vinogirl said...

Skitters - great choice of word for a post about toilet paper :)

Auntie J said...

That's worth the price! My kids could even manage that!

Peter said...

Clearly, when it comes to interior decoration . . .

(You'll hate me, but someone has to say it) . . .

You're on a roll!

:-)

Old NFO said...

Now THAT I can agree with!!! :-)

Quizikle said...

Over the top or off the bottom?
Q

NotClauswitz said...

*Sniff* You weren't really trying to impress us were you? Hansgrohe makes a $106.40 paper-holder and Windisch makes a $203 holder... ;-)