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

Dr. Bronner's magic soap label

We read the backs of shampoo bottles.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader!

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

Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao

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.

Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

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

Magazines and newspapers.

I wiped with a CD instead.

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

Video game instruction manuals

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.

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

Good ole Reader's Digest.

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

I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet

Books.

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