I know this has happened to you before too. I had to pee but there was no TP in the bathroom. I have TP in the other bathroom but that would require me to wake the baby! So, I had to use the very last, tiny, scrappy piece of TP! Just enough to do the job, without all the frills!
um, well im a guy so.. BUT when i was in cali last time, i stayed on a hippie ranch w/ a friend of mine in a shack. we had to walk to the outhouse to use the bathroom, like a quarter mile. well,, i had to use the outhouse, and there was a sign that said: PLEASE RECYCLE THE TOILET PAPER IN THIS BUCKET HERE. yes,,,, they were recycling toilet paper. somehow i think that's taking it a lil too far...
My mum never kept enough toilet paper in the bathroom back when I was a teenager so I often ended up flattening the cardboard inner roll thing and using that as a temporary measure before fetching some. Good times.
I will generally use a washcloth if I can't find any, and discard it when done. Recycling that shit doesn't sound right. Maybe for burnin in a pit so it doesn't go in the outhouse. But recycle and re use, I'd move.
I think recycling was actually composting with tp. I have had to use the roll core itself. Not fun times. So while Dixie did write frills, having some to can be thrills, yaano?
Two bathrooms! The decadence! Actually, if I ever own, I'd have a "powder room" for guests, if more than one person lived in the home.