I use ice cubes as toilet paper. Two birds one stone.

Ice cubes are much worse. Four parts of the process annoy me:
1) If you fill it up too fast, you either get uneven distribution of water or 1 big undifferentiated cube.
2) The slow transfer (even if you don't have to walk)
3) The fact that there's never a flat space in the freezer to put the tray, and that to maintain one, you have to sacrifice tons of vertical space.
4) The slow freezing process.

I propose the invention of a "microfreeze" similar to the one Harrison Ford made in The Mosquito Coast.

refilling the ice cube tray

Hey the toothbrush poll was also very important.

Not only that, I always bump it on the lip of the freezer shelf so I dump 1/2 the water to the bottom of the freezer. D'oh!

Ice cube tray.

Not only for the above stated reasons, but also because filling the tray means I just emptied the tray, so now I've got cold hands.

DIY Bidet.

the only time that I use Ice Cubes is when I'm drinking so I usually end up refilling the trays drunk which usually means me spilling water all over myself

Carbonite solves everything.

TP, if only for the increased no-more-in-the-house risk.

I voted "refilling the ice-cube tray(s)", given the probability of uneven distribution of water (per Haq), spillage (per TimmyJoe), & pooling of water at freezer's bottom (per I can't recall (Chappy?)).

On the other hand, reinstalling the toilet-paper is easy. I always make sure to have at least half a twelve-pack in the closet, while also keeping two rolls in the medicine cabinet (which is directly afore my toilet, so easily accessed even when TP supply runs out mid-wipe).

both of these polls say a lot about the folks on obner.

Of course a masterpiece on the roomie front is to never refill the brita and then one day, oh at say 1am, refill it... ensuring that whoever goes to pour from it at 5am will end up with the whole fucker spilt on the floor.

wtf? explain how this is possible. the laws of nature are meant to be obeyed, dammit.

I voted TP for the risks associated with not having extra rolls in the bathroom, or that the only extra rolls are that cheap sandpaper-like shit.

although, the challenges posed by ice tray refill are often daunting.

Yeah, but the problem with this was that I always ended up with "massive chunk" after partial thaw/freeze and would end up beating the bag of ice all about the freezer with an ice pick just trying to get a few cubes.

Absoloutely.
And my wife just puts the new roll on top of the toilet, waiting for the TP fairy to come and put the damn thing on the holder. Which I always do.

And yes, I realize that I just called myself a "fairy." I'm secure enough my manhood to do that.

True, but since I was mainly using the ice for cocktails I wasnt too picky about its consistency---plus I always have a claw hammer pretty close by.

ice cube tray

however, our fridge has an ice maker, so i'm saved from that tedium now.

Changing the toilet paper means you need to spend more money on more rolls.... Ice cubes are free.... I'm still sticking with ice cubes as my answer.

Unless you own your home -- which, I believe, you do -- & pay a water bill.

Yeah, but if you run out of a-wipe, you've still probably got some Kleenex or paper towels in the house. You might have to shuffle around with pants befloored to reach them, but they're there.

Incidentally, Cottonelle Flushable Moist Wipes are the greatest invention of the 21st Century.

Agreed. Hard to believe sometimes that in a war over this subject with my roomates one time I resorted to newspapers and coffee filters

To all you who whine about spilling water out of the ice cube tray en route from the sink, I ask this; ever think of setting the empty tray in a flat spot in the freezer, filling a big glass of water and just pouring the water into the tray that way?

No messy transport, easy to fill evenly...

This ain't rocket science people.

I've seen very few freezers in people's homes empty enough to go swinging a glass of water around inside it.