Because it had to match the bathroom carpet. 😁

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

And remember the air freshener roll holder thingy that dispensed freshener when you took paper off the roll?

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queserakara@reddit

My apartment came with those holders, still using them today.

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The one with the little beads in it? I remember the tv commercial for that, this smarmy actress saying that the holder thingy “delivers an extra burst of freshness… (pause for slight smirk disguised as a smile) *when you need it*.” “You stink-pig” was implicit, I guess.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Yes - do remember those! Of course, the old stand by was a slightly rusty can of gold Lysol or cinnamon spiced Renuitz!

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its_just_ilove_bears@reddit

Rusty can.. so accurate 😂

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IHeartBadCode@reddit

Oh man, my aunt was a fan of the fobidden jello cone. You'd lift the little cup cover to revel the scent or something. IDK how the things worked, but basically they looked like some shit my aunt would bring to Thanksgiving.

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amachan43@reddit

Jello cone is the best description. Even when they shriveled up you’d still try to convince yourself you could smell it and that your grandma was fancy for having had an air freshener.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

I remember them too - it was almost like sweet smelling Sterno!

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pittipat@reddit

Renuitz doozit!

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Duran518@reddit

I do! They smelled so good. Why would they discontinue them? Kids staring to eat the beads, I’m sure.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Do you know why we, as kids, never strapped on dynamite sticks to our roller skates after watching Road Runner cartoons? Because we knew better!!!!! Even at the tender age of 6 I knew it was not wise to launch myself on a wooden board with a giant boulder ( even though I really wanted too )

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Duran518@reddit

I believe cartoons and TV in general taught us basic logic and actual lessons. What the hell happened?? When did it change? I’m glad we were toughened enough to know right from and wrong and still have the capacity to have fun.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Exactly 💯

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Middle-Recording-807@reddit

Absolutely!

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wildfirediva@reddit

I can smell this photo.

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exhausted247365@reddit

Why don’t we bring this back? This is awesome

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Pristine_Serve5979@reddit

We had baby blue toilet, sink, and tub in one bathroom and yellow in the other half-bath

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notmyredditacct@reddit

what exactly does "Stroft" feel like... ?

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its_just_ilove_bears@reddit

Strong enough to clean whatever’s back there.. but soft like a cloud while doing it 🧻

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

And, of course, you had the matching furry toilet seat and water basin covers - and the wicker basket of fancy soaps - wrapped in gold foil with a bow - that was for "guests", but no guests ever used them!!!!

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smittykins66@reddit

If you really wanted to be matchy-matchy, there was also furry covers for the tissue box and bathroom scale.

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its_just_ilove_bears@reddit

I totally forgot about the bathroom scale cover. Ours was dark blue

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

True true! I believe we had those as well! Our house was built in 1970 and was "seventies" as you could get. Every room has wall-to-wall shag carpeting. Every room has a contrasted gaudy wallpaper on it. I mean, walking from room to room was like navigating space! And, of course, our ski chalet theme rec room! Complete with half-timber and shiplap trim, stuccoed walls and a wet bar! God I miss the seventies!

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SEA2COLA@reddit

Don't forget that the dress on the doll that acted as a ['toilet paper cozy'](https://www.etsy.com/market/toilet_paper_cozy_doll?msockid=155e713447516e950a1f627746e86fb1) had to match as well!

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starfish2002b@reddit

I forgot all about these! So weird

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pittipat@reddit

We had a yellow [poodle](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/96334879516452306/) TP cozy.

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Attorneyatlau@reddit

This is the cutest. I remember these used to be sold at hospital fetes (I haven’t used that word in decades) by old ladies. Right next to their homemade cookies and cakes. I always wanted one!

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azchocolatelover@reddit

That was either made by your mom or given to her by grandma.

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What_if_I_fly@reddit

And the ever present swan basket with flower shaped soaps no one used.

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its_just_ilove_bears@reddit

I miss this toilet paper. My aunt had pepto bismol and white colored bathroom with the most beautiful St. Mary’s towels, and washcloths and hand towels. I miss those kinds of bathrooms. Getting out her pink tub with plush carpet was so relaxing.

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Cassiopeia2021@reddit

That was a short phase at our house. My mom has sensitive skin and it gave her a rash.

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Educational-Heron691@reddit

That’s rich people toilet paper!

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Dreboomboom@reddit

Bathroom carpeting was such a bad idea, like seriously wtf.

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lavenderincense@reddit

I always wanted color toilet paper but Dad would never buy it saying “It all ends up the same color anyway.”

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SpellDog@reddit

Or the color of your toilet. Before remodeling we had a pink bathroom and a green bathroom. Toilet, sink and tile were all matching. What type of heathen would put white toilet paper in there?

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I loved these. We also had the pink cotton balls. I felt like I was cleaning myself with cotton candy 😂

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Substantial-Ad2200@reddit

Or it had to match the pastel toilet, tub, and wall tile.

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ClubExotic@reddit

I hated this toilet paper…gave me UTI’s. My grandma used to get this all the time!

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OtakuTacos@reddit

I wonder if the dye in the paper made your ass that color?

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mistyeyed1@reddit

I don't know. But it gave many women infections from the dyes and fragrances.

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PdxPhoenixActual@reddit

Part of why they just went w white. Sigh.

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cjasonac@reddit

Yup. It’s why we don’t have it any more.

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LucysFiesole@reddit

No, it didn't.

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Vodka_For_Breakfast@reddit

[Renova would like a word](https://www.myrenova.com/en/)

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DisturbingPragmatic@reddit

Wouldn't be surprised if it gave people ass cancer...

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lawstandaloan@reddit

That's what killed Farrah Fawcett so, maybe?

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DietDrPepperAndThou@reddit

More like urinary tract infections and contact dermatitis. Farrah talked about her cancer, that it was caused by sexually transmitted HPV because she wanted to try and remove some stigma around it before she died. Sad and brave.

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OtakuTacos@reddit

Like someone was dating a Smurf or the Jolly Green Giant.

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LucysFiesole@reddit

No, it didn't.

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ethan__l2@reddit

Colored TP always make me think of Charles Bukowski. He must have mentioned it in his writing or something.

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anonmygoodsir@reddit

I miss the colored tissues. We used to make flowers out of them and stick them to the grooms car at weddings.

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Inner-Measurement441@reddit

Yeah … gag me with a spoon

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NeighborhoodMain5837@reddit

My mom bought artwork from Northern featuring kids in the Northern paper style. There was a blond girl (like me), a red haired frecklesd boy like my #1 brother and a black-haired boy like brother #2. Also another girl like my sister and a baby like brother #3.

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Pittypatkittycat@reddit

I was just talking about this the other day!

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snawdy@reddit

Oh yeah. My grandparents had a pink bathroom, and my grandfather hoarded pink toilet paper. I thought it was quite fancy as we only had white tp at home.

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Raymondslucy@reddit

Crazy a lot of us had carpet in the bathroom 🤣 so gross

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Duran518@reddit

I can smell it! Very distinctive flowery but also powdery smell. In my house it was always pink.

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Cdn65@reddit

My auntie had a pink bathroom in the 1970s-1990s. It was all pink. The towels; the ceramic sink, toilet and bathtub; the tiles... and the toilet paper.

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chrash@reddit

Neighbors had all purple. Sink, toilet, tub, walls _and_ the shag carpet.

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someoldshoes@reddit

And carpet, you can't forget that

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FabAmy@reddit

My great grandmother had pink everything in the kitchen and bathroom. She was a cutie. Stove, fridge, sink, toilet, tub, everything. I loved going there.

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Attorneyatlau@reddit

Mom bought a secondhand pink fridge from the classifieds when I was 12. I was so embarrassed bringing friends home because they always commented on us having a pink fridge. 🫣

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FabAmy@reddit

Hahaha!

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fullmetalmonster7@reddit

Oh, I remember this aberration...

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80sfanatic@reddit

I’m so glad they stopped making colored toilet paper. I got an infection from the blue paper in the early 90s! 😣

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LucysFiesole@reddit

They need to bring these back! I'd buy colored toilet paper all the time!

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penguin_stomper@reddit

Find some non-icky dyes and bring this stuff back! Imagine the field day the "Creative" social media people will have with it. The minimalist trend should start swinging back the other way before too long.

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CoyPowers@reddit

My grandma had the blue TP in her bathroom. I remember it well, because it was OFF LIMITS. Nobody used it, not even her. If you went to the bathroom, you used the roll of white TP that she kept on the back of the toilet. The blue tissue on the roller was just for decoration.

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Middle-Recording-807@reddit

Totally remember! My Mother had pink for the guest restroom, blue for hers. The pink had pink curtains framing the bathrub/ shower. The blue went with her " seascape" theme in her Master restroom.

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One-Armed-Krycek@reddit

And the doilies.

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Bobodahobo010101@reddit

It goes with the seashell soap you weren't allowed to use.

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DollarStoreDuchess@reddit

And “the good towels”

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CandaceSentMe@reddit

Why don’t we see that anymore?

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Jealous-Network1899@reddit

My grandparents had a pink bathroom and a light blue bathroom and the TP had to match. Mischievous little bastard that I was always switched them during family parties.

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BlackLakeBlueFish@reddit

My Mamaw had a lavender and black tiled bathroom. I got to pick the TP color when I shopped with her. I loved the green with the black. Her favorite was pink, but she always let me get the green. I still love lavender and green together.

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DietDrPepperAndThou@reddit

Lavender and black sounds like a striking, pretty combo.

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BlackLakeBlueFish@reddit

It was lovely.

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VividFiddlesticks@reddit

I wish I had photos of my grandma's bathroom. All blue. Blue fuzzy toilet seat cover, blue padded toilet seat, fuzzy blue toilet tank cover that matched the fuzzy blue rugs. Blue fluted plastic accessory set that all matched - soap pump, trash can, and even a big plastic cannister to hide grandma's giant can of Aqua-net. And the blue TP, always blue TP!

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Hopeful_Citron_2626@reddit

These are great! What a memory lane trip.

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anythingaustin@reddit

Bonus points if the spare roll was located under a bisected Barbie doll with a crocheted skirt.

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DeadpoolIsMyPatronus@reddit

Your Barbie's legs didn't just go down in the hole of the TP roll?

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RaspberryMobile2554@reddit

We had a blue bathroom and the TP to match! I wish this was still a thing really.

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izolablue@reddit

Omg! Had forgotten this - add some extra chemicals, yikes! 🤣

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DisturbingPragmatic@reddit

My bathrooms grown up had actual carpet in them. What a great idea, 1970s!

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LemonPuckerFace@reddit

When I was a kid I thought carpet in the bathroom was so fancy and that only rich people had it. I hoped that one day I'd be rich enough to have it in my house. I'm so glad I outgrew that thinking. That shit is gross.

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TheHobbyWaitress@reddit

And my 6yo self wanted a Pacer. 🤣

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bella0520@reddit

I remember my mom and her friends making flowers out of these for a shower. I'm not sure if it was a baby or bridal shower. I thought they looked so pretty at the time.

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BlackLakeBlueFish@reddit

I remember learning to make those flowers!

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JuanaBlanca@reddit

We had 2 bathrooms, one yellow and one blue. I know those faces well 😄

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OnionTruck@reddit

The house my parent bought in 1982 not only had blue tiles and walls, but had a blue phone next to the toilet. We were blown away at the coolness of a bathroom phone.

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jlds7@reddit

I'd buy it today in a heartbeat.

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MacGibber@reddit

No purple?

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rwphx2016@reddit

We didn't have carpet, but we did have colored toilet paper. Green if we wanted to match the bathroom fixtures and yellow if we wanted to match the flecks of gold in the tile.

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

I wish this was still in stores. I'd love it for my MCM bathrooms.

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Calm_Wolf6578@reddit

I think these got taken off the market because of the chemicals in it.

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CarlatheDestructor@reddit

I forgot all about these until I saw this pic. Wow

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hatetochoose@reddit

Oh the UTI’s these caused.

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Vast-Government-8994@reddit

House i bought in 2011 had not been updated since 1960 when it was built. Pink tub, pink & black tile, double pink sinks, silver wallpaper with huge pink flowers, fuzzy wallpaper, gold carpets thru out...it was horrid!

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kittysmom@reddit

Colored toilet paper gave me so many skin issues!

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ConsequenceNational4@reddit

Omg...i remember those lol 😆

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Vlophoto@reddit

Sells well on eBay

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Papfan1@reddit

The pink was a nice touch for Mischief Night. :)

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Shen1076@reddit

What about the cushioned vinyl toilet seat?

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

My Cousin ate toilet paper when She was pregnant. Gladly she knew to stay away from colored tissue because of the dyes

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fleshybagofstardust@reddit

We should start rolling toilet paper shortages on a bimonthly basis. Just go out and buy extra TP for no reason. Run the shelves mysteriously empty. Bring everything to a halt with no identifiable reason. We could really fuck with the MAGAmind. If it's gonna suck, it should be entertaining.

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Parking_Locksmith489@reddit

Two of the colors caused ass cancer

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jesslynneyea@reddit

My grandmom had a pink & black bathroom with pink shag. And pink TP, of course.

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throw123454321purple@reddit

Rugs in the bathroom were a risky thing.

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southernrail@reddit

I still think these are cute. I don't care if they turn my butt blue or give me hives, I'd suck it up because they are still so cute. 💯😭

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Vodka_For_Breakfast@reddit

[Here you go](https://www.myrenova.com/en/)

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B_Williams_4010@reddit

We had low rural water pressure sometimes and this stuff would NOT flush when that was happening.

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LeoMarius@reddit

I don't understand why people don't want dyes in their toilet paper as if they don't realize how much bleach is used to create white toilet paper.

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ceopadilla@reddit

Haha - I had totally forgotten about this. I thought the pink TP was super fancy as a kid

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Nook1980@reddit

This needs to come back..

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bannana@reddit

so many UTIs in this pic

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contrarian1970@reddit

I might have been in one or two bathrooms with this. I don't think it lasted more than one year.

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ProgressPractical848@reddit

While working at Safeway in the 90’s, people would often return the colored toilet paper due to them being squished during the bagging process and would roll uneven when installed in the holder. Oh have times changed. If you tried that today there would be a Reddit thread about how crazy you are.

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Life_Ad_1522@reddit

The bathroom carpet was tan, but the toilet, tub, and sinks were pink, so we had the pink one

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TheOriginalGiGi1@reddit

Wait huh? I’m in the wrong Gen lol

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OS2REXX@reddit

I dated someone (seriously) that coordinated paper towels and toilet paper. She'd send me across the store to grab paper products and when I got back, she'd sigh deeply and head over herself (to be fair, I'm colorblind so maybe I did create a horrible clash, but I cant imagine it).

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Superb_Ant_3741@reddit

I remember these. Just now realizing how creepy they were (what was up with little prepubescent girls on butt tissue?) At least the marketing was inclusive

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Watched_a_Moonbeam@reddit

Anyone remember the rug in a bag that you could cut to fit the whole bathroom floor? It came in all the colors and was just a big square of bathroom rug? You got down and cut that thing to cover the whole floor. I haven't seen one of those in decades.

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Flat-Statement4250@reddit

Pastel trees on Halloween night. 🎵memories...

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invisiblebyday@reddit

Perfume scented toilet paper. Still haunted by that flowery stench.

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BrianOfAllThings@reddit

I remember my friend using our landline to call and check on his gf to see if she needed anything before he headed home, and she requested toilet paper. And he said, ‘Which color would you like? I need to know what looks better as a background with shit on it.’

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forluvoflemons@reddit

UTI inducing toilet paper. 🧻

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RidiculousDear@reddit

So much fun TP-ing a house with colorful TP.

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Lost-Zookeepergame61@reddit

Awesome for the urinary tract too lololol

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Standard_Gur30@reddit

Those were also the only toilet and sink colors you could buy for a while.

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rraattbbooyy@reddit

Ours was a Charmin household. Ride or die with Mr. Whipple.

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Horror_Purple1867@reddit

Mr. Whipple was always funny.

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Tim-no@reddit

They’re the same colours as mini marshmallows!

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Velvet_Samurai@reddit

Aunt Sue is that you?

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Tippity2@reddit

Am I the only one wondering why someone took a photo of the TP? (And paid to have it developed?)

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analogpursuits@reddit

It also had to match the tank top cover, the toilet lid cover, the U-shaped rug around the toilet base, the shower curtain, soap dispenser, and toothbrush holder.

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gatorgopher@reddit

Holy crap!! I forgot about this!!

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Coconut-bird@reddit

And I remember the UTI that came with it.

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FlamingJuneinPonce@reddit

My parents bathroom was yellow, the hallway kids bathroom was blue. So absolutely these. I still wonder if the blue dye is why I got endometrial cancer decades later....

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Successful-Ruin2997@reddit

My sister got the peach colored TP doll for Christmas one year.

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Beth_Pleasant@reddit

My grandma had a pink and black bathroom and a blue and black bathroom (you know the post-war tiles I am talking about). And she had matching toilet paper for each one. I thought it was so fancy!

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