We read the ingredients on shampoo bottles and we liked it!

We read the backs of shampoo bottles.

Dr. Bronner's magic soap label

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader!

Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.

I feel like that's the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn't have to be the guinea pig.

Magazine racks. Every home had a small one next to the toilet

We had a little basket thingy with books and magazines. Stuff like Calvin & Hobbes, I Spy books, Popular Science magazines, etc.

Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.

We used to have words printed on paper (the pressed corpses of trees) called books, magazines, and newspapers. They'd bring one of those.

Farmers Almanac. Used to come with a pre-drilled hole for hanging on a hook in the outhouse.

LOL. Playboy magazine. 70% was real articles. When you weren't pooping you wood use the other 15%.

Magazines and newspapers.

Take a book with you....or start reading the backs of the cleaning products under the sink

I wiped with a CD instead.

We didn't have to poop back then. The act of pooping was invented by Larry Smartphone, who also happened to invent the smartphone. They were released together originally as a bundle but everyone has both nowadays anyways and you can mix and match.

Our bathroom door has a built-in magazine rack dating back to the 70s. It holds phones pretty well too.

Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

We'd look through the bathroom window, there was always something funny going on. Such as packs of velociraptors fighting each other, or a mastodon causing wreck on the neighbour's garden.

Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao

Good ole Reader's Digest.

Video game instruction manuals

Well, before phones made social media conveniently available, people largely had to deposit their shit via telephone, written word, or in person.

My grandparents had like a basket full of magazines, comic books, etc beside the toilet. It was pretty good. They often buy weekly reader's digest and stuff like that. So it was usually new every time we visit.

you stare at a wall.

Try it next time.

Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.

We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.

series of mirrors displaying the tv in the living room

Teletype with an acoustic coupler. You place the handset into the rubber cups that block out the sound, so that the modem noises were clear through the phone line.

The perforations in modern toilet paper are an homage to the holes in the punched tape used to feed the teletype pre-recorded instructions.

Magazines and we read the ingredient list of bottles, like bleech.