Anyone remember the art of T-P-ing? Man when I was in high-school it was war. Something my mom dropped me off to do.

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yellowforks334@reddit

We got pretty intense about this junior and senior year to the point we employed a stealth delay tactic of planting winter grass seed in patches shaped like penises in peoples yards and it would be like a month later before they realized.

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OptimalSpring6822@reddit (OP)

Lol. We were intense too. I remember my senior year where my buddy (junior) didn't get it. He was laid back in my car. Then we dropped him off at his house after football practice and ripped off his underwear on his front lawn in front of his mom. She was piiiised. Lol. We wore those underwear straps on our belt like kill tags. It got so crazy I skipped 5th period bc I was surrounded by seniors in a locked parking lot. My small town was a war during homecoming.

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bratikzs@reddit

TP-ing is not great on the cleanup side, especially if it gets wet. Needless to say, it’s not cheap (as cheap) as it used to be either.

Same goes for eggs. Also, cleanup is a nightmare! Don’t reminisce about this, it was never cool or good or wise.

Ok, go on now. Downvote. We need at least one adult here. (Not it)

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Wild_Bag465@reddit

Eggs are like $3.50 a dozen. You need a good 2 dozen eggs for a proper egging.

Do the math

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bratikzs@reddit

It’s 6.50 a dozen at Safeway. And the prices have been fluctuating, same with supply.

Link

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Wild_Bag465@reddit

Go to Aldi

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joshhupp@reddit

COVID must have killed TP'ing

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Funwithfun14@reddit

Affordable Wi-Fi cameras were the beginning of the end.

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RockItGuyDC@reddit

Clean-up sucking was kind of the point

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Because_I_Cannot@reddit

Found the guy who got TP'd but never got invited to go do it. Sorry bud. I do agree with you, clean up sucks, especially in more humid parts of the country. But it is fun!

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three-sense@reddit

I agree eggs is bullshit (happened to my car) but TP is just healthy neighborhood hijinks (don't do it every week).

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GutsAndBlackStufff@reddit

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Wild_Bag465@reddit

I love you

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Unable_Apartment_613@reddit

Toilet paper is thinner it would be so much harder to do now.

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Whitworth@reddit

We used to hide in the corn fields and throw wet toilet paper rolls at the cars driving by. Stupid yes. But exhilarating when they stopped and got out screaming running into the field to try to find you.

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OptimalSpring6822@reddit (OP)

😅🤣😂

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ScoobyDarn@reddit

Early 80s, we did it all the time.

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scottyv99@reddit

My jr and sr year a group of TEACHERS teepeed and Saran wrapped my car. Rather, attempted senior year bc we caught them in the act and chased THEM! All in good fun and was hilarious.

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DateCard@reddit

TP is too expensive to waste now.

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Unfair_Turnip00@reddit

I work Maintenance for a school district. This years homecoming was the best TPing since pre Covid. It's alive and well here in my Mid West state.

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OptimalSpring6822@reddit (OP)

Ha! That's so great to hear!!

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Informal-Guitar54@reddit

I haven’t seen a properly tp’d house in years

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ShakeSignal@reddit

Ring doorbells and their like killed it

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Adgvyb3456@reddit

I see it occasionally before Halloween

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theshub@reddit

Me and my hooligan buddies egged this guys house one time, and two days later he died in a car crash. His parents cleaned it up after he was dead. That ended that type of stuff for all of us.

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ommnian@reddit

There's a town that's tpd every year for Halloween. This year was a bit lacking...

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Interesting-Fly879@reddit

When I was in high school, the week of the football game with our rival school, the tp-ing was intense to the point that local stores would not sell toilet paper to anyone under 18. And that was the most mild thing that happened. Lots of egging houses & some people even messed with the football fields even digging a bunch of holes in ours one year. Doorbell cameras have pretty much put an end to this stuff I’m guessing!

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SilverIsFreedom@reddit

Just talking with my daughter about it. I got TP’d almost every fall in high school. Also did lots of it too, so it comes with the territory. Always a good time.

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

If we didn’t get rolled it meant we weren’t cool.

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OptimalSpring6822@reddit (OP)

Totally! I remember that. Hahaha

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the_well_read_neck_@reddit

My parents house for TP'd this past year and they just laughed at how bad it was done. Kids couldn't even get one roll over a tree.

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OptimalSpring6822@reddit (OP)

LOL

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joshhupp@reddit

Had a pretty epic war going my Sr year. While we were planning who to hit first, the group of girls we were targeting TP'd my house while we were inside. They hit me with TP and political signs. We struck back with TP, whip cream, and tortillas. Tortillas you say? An acquaintance came up with the brilliant ideas because you could throw them like frisbees on a lawn.

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Elevenyearstoomany@reddit

My parents house got Fruit Looped when she was in HS. They dumped boxes of it all over my parents lawn. Then it got wet from dew and was impossible to clean up.

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jjmawaken@reddit

That sounds pretty gross, did it all just wash away at some point?

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nvmls@reddit

I'm sure some animal probably ate most of it.

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OohBeesIhateEm@reddit

I would be so pissed, especially if that happened in warmer months. Yellowjackets would be everywhere

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nvmls@reddit

I love that your mom was like your commander general lol

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

Saw one in my town this year. When I was in high school rolling houses was serious business. We escalated to dragging trash cans from pickup trucks and letting them go to collide with another can at 50 mph.

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remoteworker9@reddit

It wasn’t a thing in my area at all.

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PissedPieGuy@reddit

My neighbor got hit hard a couple months ago. I was actually impressed by how good a job it was. It is a dying art for sure.

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psyclopsus@reddit

My manager at my high school job let me buy a case of TP from the restaurant at cost so we could TP a house. It was like 128 rolls or some obscene number

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I_mean_whatever_dude@reddit

I feel like they would try to get you on a felony for that shit now

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ActiveImportance4196@reddit

These kids are too soft to TP now days, they'd probably just apologize right after.

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Because_I_Cannot@reddit

Not gonna lie, I was still seeing houses TP'D fairly regularly (I'm in Long Beach, CA) up until 2020, when the great toilet paper scare happened. Remember when some famous person caught shit online for toilet papering someone's else house?

I think it's incumbent on us to bring it back and teach our kids the right way to prank someone

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xtopherpaul@reddit

My buddies and I decided to shrink wrap and TP this girl’s house. The neighbors called the cops but we knew them and they knew us. We ended up getting a pic with the detective in front of our masterpiece

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DrMcJedi@reddit

We used to go almost every weekend, and then it evolved into dropping off couches and appliances that traveled from one house to the next… Never underestimate the power of band kids with vans…

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Emergency-Ad-3350@reddit

Did anyone else go “soaping”?

You took bar soap and usually used it on car windows

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actualelainebenes@reddit

Oh yes. Homecoming was actually cancelled at my school one year because it got so out of control

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me-1985@reddit

Junior senior prank week in high school were some of my proudest tping moments. A friend of mine, who we were almost a 100 rolls into his yard, came and tried to chase us off with a machete then helped us finish lol

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Into-the-stream@reddit

\for me, this was something people only did in movies. I think I saw an egg once (and by that I mean a single egg thrown against a garage door.).

canadian (though canada is pretty big so I cant speak for everyone.)

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GramercyPlace@reddit

The Dean for my middle school lived in my neighborhood so I have some serious field experience under my belt.

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LougieHowser@reddit

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CemeteryWind213@reddit

We TP'd our HS every fall as a homecoming ritual. We would also leave several cartons of TP outside the nunnery as a bribe/penance (Catholic HS).

I caught some kids trying to TP my trees a couple years ago. Snuck out the backdoor, stayed in the shadows, and basically walked up to them and told them to leave. They were spooked. One kid ran off, and I told the remaining kids he/she will need a tetanus shot if they ran into one of hidden barbed wire fences in that area. Stared them down as they got in the car and left.

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