I'll give them a try. "Every Little Helps", as they say.
Hopefully they won't cause piles the size of space-hoppers, as has happened to the unfortunate kids depicted on the boxes 
Talking crap
Way back when I was a kid we used to have toilet-tissue that was boxed rather than on a roll. At the time I didn't give much thought to it, and when the stuff became hard to find we moved to "bog-standard" rolls and the memory of it was filed away in the "Obsolete" cabinet. That was way back in the early 70s.
Over the last few years, that memory's been popping back to the forefront of my mind now and again, usually when squatting over a cat-scrape out in the wilds, frantically fighting the elements to regain control of either the uncoiling paper roll or the bag of loose sheets that mark the end of a job well done. The old-fashioned bogroll-in-a-box would be ideal for such duties, I thought - lightweight and simple to pack, less weight and more eco-friendly than wet-wipes, more humane and hygienic than turd-greasing, and safer than using a handful of tick-infested vegetation.
Our searches for said accessory during our weekly supermarket-shopping adventures have always proved fruitless... until yesterday, when Tesco turned up trumps:
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Err, I'm going to regret this I'm sure, but what is 'turd-greasing', BG?!
[coughs and goes back to work]
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@Baz - It's the digital application of Vaseline (or a similar suitable lubricant) to the anus, to facilitate the swift and clean passage of stools.
Proponents of this method claim that it obviates the need for a paper-based clean-up operation. Personally, I think they're just plain weird. Not the sort of folk that you'd shake hands with, IMO.
See http://forums.outdoorsmagic.co.....vX2rhST.97
Well, you did ask. 😀
I can remember boxes of toilet paper, although to be fair the quality of the paper had a little to be desired. It was the semi-slick greaseproof paper variety that always managed to smear everything around and felt quite sharp to use
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thank heavens for wet wipes
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@Backpackbrewer - Yeah, that "tracing paper" stuff was bad. Sometimes it was better to bin the paper and just use the empty box.
still makes me wince thinking about the old style paper in a box. 😯
I trust the modern variety is nice and soft? 😀
Yes indeed, but it's still fairly tear-resistant and finger-proof 🙄