Whether it's hung over or under, the most important consideration when it comes to your toilet paper is its proximity to the toilet. “The key is to create visible storage ideas that are in or ...

It's a cause of arguments in households around the world. And over 150 years since the toilet roll was invented, the question of how exactly it should be oriented still triggers furious debate.

Journalist Owen Williams thinks he's found the right way to hang toilet paper. He tweeted a picture of the first TP patent. The drawings, from 1891, show the paper clearly hanging over the roll.

A soggy roll of toilet paper is of no use to anyone. Some people just set the empty coffee can, open side down, on the toilet seat and put the paper roll under it.