You laugh. My father assured me there was no such thing as toilet paper when he grew up. Yep, it was corn cobs.
I wasn't laughing. I'm old enough to have used an outhouse and not as a part of a camping trip either. It was all some of my relatives had for sanitation. While these relatives did use toilet paper, one of my aunts still had a bin for collecting and storing the corn cobs. I also understand that Sears and Monkey Wards catalogs were also quite popular.