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lillibet_dripping

Sorry if this is TMI (and any gentlemen, please look away now!)
For various reasons I prefer sanitary towels to internal protection. I used to buy the nightime, heavy-duty pads at £1.99 for 10 but have since discovered that the maternity pads are just as good at £0.99 for 10.
(Only thing is, I hope nobody sees me down the baby aisle!!)

daffodiltulip

btw, when I say the hand held bidet thingy is plumbed into the toilet supply, I do mean the clean water before it goes into the tank!
I prefer tampons mostly but I find the own brand ones are a bit more fiddly, and therefore, under the circumstance, less hygienic so I feel it is worth paying more for the branded ones. Luckily, they keep and are needed every so often, so I keep my eyes open for offers and the Boots voucher for extra points etc. When I do use pads, toward the end for what I see as better internal hygiene, or for extra protection, I nearly always buy the basics but I'll now check out the maternity ones. I buy Sainsbury's basics nappy sacks as dog poo bags.

Unity

Emstick14 wrote: »

Thanks, we currently use a jug but always seem to drip water from the bath to the toilet! The reason for using a jug was coz the water needs to be forced as such in order to flush the stuff away if you see what I mean. A normal flush is very quick so contents are flushed in one go, we found with a normal tall beaker it just didn't do the job!

Unless you have one of the old high cisterns, it is easier to lift the top off, hold the ballcock up so the cistern 'thinks' it's full then fill it with a large milk container full of bath water. Then you can flush as normal with all the power of a regular flush.

sparrer

sparrer wrote: »

If you have a cistern with the lid that lifts off its easy to pour a bucket, or milk containers, of water in there after a flush, so the bath water fills the cistern before the mains water can, iyswim. It also makes the flush more effective than pouring the water directly into the pan. Have been doing this for some months since I read about it, it gets rid of all body waste effectively.

Unity wrote: »

Unless you have one of the old high cisterns, it is easier to lift the top off, hold the ballcock up so the cistern 'thinks' it's full then fill it with a large milk container full of bath water. Then you can flush as normal with all the power of a regular flush.

That's what I said!

consultant31

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I am totally grossed out by a suggestion that I wash my most intimate area with the water supply for the toilet. It's where I draw the MSE line.

:eek::eek::eek:

Blimey - you can't think the poster meant using the water in the bottom of the toilet for goodness sake!!! Surely it's obvious they meant plumbing it in to the supply that is going to the toilet cistern. There's nothing gross about that at all :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

consultant31 wrote: »

Blimey - you can't think the poster meant using the water in the bottom of the toilet for goodness sake!!! Surely it's obvious they meant plumbing it in to the supply that is going to the toilet cistern. There's nothing gross about that at all :rotfl:

Of course it's obvious, but the thought of the inlet system is bad enough. Give me a supply from the shower any day.

Japanese and Korean toilets give you a wash and blow dry. You need an instruction manual to work them

daffodiltulip

Japanese and Korean toilets give you a wash and blow dry.

LOL - the image... do they provide tongs and a little brush to make sure everything is just so?

daffodiltulip

I remember ages ago my gran had plastic bidet (essentially a plastic washing up bowl type thing) that fit over the toilet bowl and had a little plug. It would be filled with water then, having been used, the plug would be pulled and the water would drain directly into the loo. A rinse and wipe of the plastic bidet, then popped aside somewhere.

Fruball

daffodiltulip wrote: »

I remember ages ago my gran had plastic bidet (essentially a plastic washing up bowl type thing) that fit over the toilet bowl and had a little plug. It would be filled with water then, having been used, the plug would be pulled and the water would drain directly into the loo. A rinse and wipe of the plastic bidet, then popped aside somewhere.

You can get those on Amazon I had a quick look for toilet bidets and they popped up :rotfl:

daffodiltulip

I entered that into Google and came up with
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Bidet , which gives step one as "use the toilet first"!