When You Don’t Have Toilet Paper: Lessons from a TP-Free Household

Reader Contribution by Aur Beck and Advanced Energy Solutions Group
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As regular readers of this series know, most my life I’ve lived off the grid in some form or another. This lifestyle has taught me lots of quirky survival techniques and energy-saving skills.

For example, this morning I realize I never make a cup of tea. Rather, I always make a thermos of tea, and then I don’t have to waste the heat or waste the teabag — you get three cups out of one teabag over the course of the day this way. My dad used to do that or he’d make a pot of coffee, put it in a thermos, and never have to worry about heating it up.

A Toilet Paper-Free Childhood

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