Spill the beans... on how to minimise loo paper use

Moneymatta

Has nobody got a bidet?

colinb_2

One sheet is enough. Fold it in half (along the narrow part) and tear out a small piece of paper from the middle of the fold. Stick your finger through the hole and use your finger to 'clean up'. Then grasp the paper tightly and push it up your finger to clean it and discard. Then use the small piece of paper that you took out of the sheet to clean under your finger nail. Brilliant!

felixthemoggy

Quote:
Originally Posted by fivetide
There used to be a website where you could input your salary and then start a timer as you went to the loo. Stop the timer when you come back and it tells you how much you just got paid to drop the kids off at the pool.

5t.
found one - can't believe how many apps there are out there - must be a lot of very bored people at work!!

http://www.workpoop.com/

loving this thread, I used to take toilet paper home from work - couldn't take the actual rolls because they were in holders, so just took the sheets off it! - I still do it now occasionally when I'm out and about!

happy_gardener

My Father in law told me once that he only used one sheet at a time....but tore off one corner of the sqaure before using.
I asked him why he did this....and he told be it was to clean his fingernail afterwards.

Yuk...sorry I asked.....but I laughed too

Sueinbirmingham

I think a factor in how many sheets you use is the consistency of your faeces and that is something you can to some extent regulate by your diet, but some of it you can't.

I'm always embarrassed when away from home by the amount of loopaper I use, because I'm on medication which produces gooey faeces the consistency of cake mix, which make an awful lot of mess around my back passage. The only thing I've found that helps is apricots, which seem to bind things together a bit.

I don't know whether others have a sticky faeces problem - it's not something that usually comes up in conversation.

What I can categorically say is that it takes me a lot of wiping until I'm clean. The first few sheets are just coated in a layer of the goo. I generally use several pads of three or four Andrex shea followed by three wet toilet wipes, followed by another couple of pieces of Andrex.

I also have a chronic crack between my bum cheeks, so I use an antiseptic wipe from up high down to my anus. In the ideal world, cleaning myself well round the back passage would be good enough, but it's very easy for a little bit of faecal matter to find its way higher up when wiping front to back.

Am I the only one here that doesn't have nicely-formed stools? There doesn't appear to be anything like mine on the Bristol Stool Chart that medics use.

BethP

Triple Velvet is the loo paper we use - done so for many years. Does the job very well. We buy when on offer from either Tesco or the Co-operative. (Co-op have it in big packs at 30p a roll sometimes.):j:

Wet wipes are fine if they are NOT flushed down the loo as GRIMEFIGHTERS say they do not disintegrate so they cause blocked drains - pricey to fix (we paid £72.50 to clear our drain back in 1984 so daren't think of the cost it would be now).:beer::j:eek:


Umm... A health tip for ladies: first wipe front to front then with fresh loo paper wipe back to back. If you do both with the same paper you increase the risk of UTIs and/or thrush, particularly past 40 years of age.:eek:

Umm... Another thing is not to put tampons down the loo ever. I did this up to about 41 years of age. I didn't know we should not do this. Apparently they can cause blockages but they end up on our beaches! Yuk.eek::eek:

dappodan1

Washing ones anus and genitalia after urinating or defecating has been a reliGous requirement for Muslims for 1400 years. It's called istanja and they have Muslim hand showers which is basically a hand held douche which sprays water easy to install available from eBay search for Muslim shower or al shattaff. Simply take a feed from the feed to the cistern using a washing machine splitter with stop tap and you simply spray your anus/ penis/ vagina with a jet of fresh water. No need to buy loo roll simply have a lint free towel to dry your sparkling clean bits afterwards.

Western hygiene standards are slowly catching up e.g. Western women have recently discovered the Brazilian and say how much fresher they feel whereas shaving/ removing pubic hair again is a centuries old religious requirement.

BethP

Think on GRIMEFIGHTERS they asked us all not to put tissues down the loo as they do not disintegrate. I used to put tissues into the loo - especially if any of us had a cold so thought I was doing right by flushing away the germy tissues, but I was wrong. So for me, it's NO MORE TISSUES DOWN THE LOO - ONLY LOO PAPER!

In Mexico and Dominican Republic they ask you to put all loo paper in a bucket inside each cubicle cos their systems can't cope with loo paper. Not nice the first couple days of your hols but u get used to it after a while.

andyinyorkshire

I resist the temptation to drink coffee in the morning at home until getting to work or mates house and use their facilities... seem to be seeing less of my mates for some reason recently :mad:

JonBoyRamsbo

I get my toilet roll from Gompels Healthcare ... it's pretty much the same as triple velvet (which I used to use), but so much cheaper. This way my kids can use as much as they like and I'm not out of pocket. I think they're doing 40 rolls for a tenner (just search for lilly Luxury Quilted ... I think that'll find them!) at the moment ... :T ... what a bargain!