To flush or not to flush ?

Strapped

I'm reliably informed by student acquaintances that one sits in the sink (and then it falls off the wall...)

DKLS

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

If its yellow, let it mellow. If its brown, flush it down.

Urrgghhhh I flush at every visit day or night, I can understand if your on a water meter that you would want to conserve water.

What would the incentive be to not flush as frequently for me who just pays monthly water rates.

Edit: I am not trying to be flippant or provoke an angry response, just would like feedback as to what the environmental benefits are of reducing water consumption, I must admit I do use a lot of water, 1 shower and 1 bath a day, wash the car once or twice a week, partial water cganges on my fishtank, couple of loads of washing a week etc etc.

FemmeAuFoyer

We keep our bath water/shower water in buckets and use that to flush the toilets, and then only after about 32-3 wees or a poo. I bath our 3 boys all together in the same water (and not even every day:eek:), and I don't use soap. We keep the water in the bath and take a bucketfull when we need to flush a toilet. I have friends now that realise if there is a bucket in the toilet they can use that for flushing the loo. At night we don't flush the loo. I clean our loo with vinegar every fee days and there is no problem with staining, despite living in a very hard water area. It bugs me to use drinking water to flush sway body waste when there are so many people in the world without drinking water!

moneysavingwannabe

Hi,

Does everyone know you can get free water hippos from your water company?

They are plastic pouches with sand or something inside. They inflate in the cistern and save between 1 - 2litres of water every flush (If your toilet isn't a new water saving one)

moonrakerz

moneysavingwannabe wrote: »

Hi,

Does everyone know you can get free water hippos from your water company?

They are plastic pouches with sand or something inside. They inflate in the cistern and save between 1 - 2litres of water every flush (If your toilet isn't a new water saving one)

Use the bottom half of a 2ltr milk container - recycle it !!

geordie_joe

moonrakerz wrote: »

Use the bottom half of a 2ltr milk container - recycle it !!

I've got a 1ltre vinegar bottle in mine, filled with water. Lid on, of course.

But the point moonrakerz is making is that it doesn't have to be a specially made thing, many other things will do just as well. Even a brick.

Please don't use one of those big blocks of Crack Cocaine, my neighbour tried it and the coppers just wouldn't believe it was make shift water saving device.

POSSETTE

Caterina wrote: »

No flush at night and mostly no flush during the day (if no poo of course), but my kids will flush and flush and flush, no getting sense into teenage heads! We have recently opted for a water meter and I really get mad at seeing my money flushed down the loo!

Caterina

they will get the message if you deduct 50p off thier pocket money everytime they flush for just a wee!!:rolleyes:
we ask each other if they want the loo after one of us has been,so it doesnt get left too long,but we dont flush at night..if im on my own for a day i will do 3 wee before flushing..im on meter too.

geordie_joe

POSSETTE wrote: »

they will get the message if you deduct 50p off thier pocket money everytime they flush for just a wee!!:rolleyes:

To do that you would need to be in there with them watching what they do.

POSSETTE wrote: »

we ask each other if they want the loo after one of us has been,

And they reply "It depends on what you have left in it"

Seriously tho, it is hard to get everyone to follow your ideas. Especially as we have had generations growing up being told certain things are not socially acceptable. Many people would never leave the house without perfume and deodorant to hide their natural odour. Many more would be embarrassed to "leave something behind in the toilet" even if it is only liquid.

Little girls are taught that it is "not nice" to f*rt in public. Come one girls, how long/well do you have to know a man before you are comfortable f*rting in his presence?

All I can say is keep at it, but you are fighting an uphill battle. Just look back at some of the posts when the idea was first mentioned. People were saying they could never "not flush" . I'm sure some said it would be disgusting.

We've had decades of companies telling us that if we don't use deodorant we will stink and people will shrink from us, and that if our toilets aren't hygienically clean and smell like a pine forest our visitors will be disgusted.

You're fighting a generation that's been told they need to buy chemicals to cover up natural things, but if you keep fighting you can win.

Just remember that this generation thinks that something someone else does must be acceptable.

Lead from the front, but not the behind.

I reckon if I'd thought about it, I could have made that last line really funny

couttleberry

Well said Geordie. We're the no-flush brigade here aparats from solids. It also stops the cat from drinking out of the toilet bowl.

It goes with the principal of not bathing/showering small children unless they are dirty. Years ago my Gp said not to bath/shower/wash childrens hair more than twice a week as it helpsprevent eczema. He was right.

geordie_joe

couttleberry wrote: »

It goes with the principal of not bathing/showering small children unless they are dirty. Years ago my Gp said not to bath/shower/wash childrens hair more than twice a week as it helpsprevent eczema. He was right.

I was brought up in the 60's and I only had a bath on Sunday night. Until I was old enough to go to the youth club disco on a Friday night, then it was a bath after school on Fridays too.

I also remember being in hospital for a couple of weeks around 1971. They made me have a bath on Sunday afternoon on both Sundays. When I complained it was too early for a bath I was told they had 47 kids and two baths, so bathing had to start early so everyone could have a bath.

Turned out I was lucky, the older kids who bathed later complained that the water was cold.