People Are Ditching Toilet Paper For Reusable Cloth Rolls And I Have So Many Questions
Let me be clear – I am all for helping the environment and is one of our main goals this year BUT some things are just not meant to be.
Take this for example, People Are Ditching Toilet Paper For Reusable Cloth Rolls And I Have So Many Questions…
For starters, how does this actually work?
I mean, when you use a regular roll of toilet paper you use like a piece, rolled up, wipe and then chuck into the toilet.
This makes it seem so much more messy and digusting.
I mean, some of these rolls are sewn as one big roll so like, do you wipe on a tiny corner and just let it hang there and use another little piece?
Does everyone get their own cloth roll?
Also, if you are washing these quite often, is it really environmentally friendly between all the soap, power and water used?
Personally, I am just genuinely confused and concerned.
I would think every bathroom would smell icky with these being used unless you have a thousand of them and use a new one with every wipe.
I don’t know, maybe I am overanalyzing this but I think it’ll be a hard pass for me.
So, what do you think? Is this a trend you are wanting to get on?
If you are interested, you can find reusable toilet paper rolls here.
YUK!! These would be gross for poo. And that button!!! What the heck?! I can think of a lot of issues with the button. If you’re just drying off from a bidet use a dry wash cloth. We wash our rears with them anyway. Why not dry off with them?
I would rather go out and pick leafs to use instead.
No smell whatsoever. You can use a wet/dry bag for storage. I am sensitive to toilet paper and went this route totally for a while. Then, I realized it was only my vaginal area that disliked toilet paper and so I use them only for when I urinate now – or to dry off my rectal area better after the bidet (mine isn’t electric and doesn’t dry). The wipes also don’t smell in the laundry – the small amount that gets on the cloth isn’t like a smashed bowel movement one a diaper that one must clean off before putting in a diaper pail.
As for cleanliness, I never touch them unless clean except to toss them in the bag and then, only on the clean side. I then wash my hands as I normally do after going the the bathroom. The cloths I just drop into the bag (which has velcro) after use and pour them from bag into washing machine and then drop the bag itself in. Much better than the outdoor toilet my grandparents had on their farm in the 1950s (Yes, I’m that old and they were that poor!) even though they had toilet paper.
I, too, have wondered about whether it was was an environmental advantage. I think not. But it keeps my private parts from becoming a problem.
Also, don’t tell me to try the toilet towelettes. I know you would say it to be kind, but I react to those, too. As for toilet paper, believe me, I tried every brand I could find – fragrance free, organic, soft, rough, etc. The type of paper that absorbs has very small splinters that don’t bother most people but they bother me. The fragrances aren’t so good, either. For me, at least.
@LHJ, please use a muslim shower, you are gonna feel much cleaner
This is for drying a bottom that has just been cleaned with a water pressure BIDET!!!
Haven’t ya’ll ever heard of those???
When using family cloths, you have a bag with them to drop the virtues in. I prefer cloth to paper 100%. However I use paper for poo.
I myself prefer a bucket/lid with a chlorine solution to drop mine in. Not any worse than washing diapers.
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Just no. Even if you want to be environmentally friendly this is taking it too far. We were given common sense for a reason and
cleaning our behinds with pieces of cloth went out along with diaper pails, spittoon and slop jars a LOOONNG time ago.In most parts of the civilized world anyway.
@Mary, I AGREED ? % were in 2021!!!
Umm ? I don’t think this is for me or my family but to each their own
I don’t think this would be good in so many ways. It can’t be healthy having the used ones around for very long. How much of a piece comes off the roll each time you use it? I can’t imagine that button shown would be very comfortable on your private parts. This might come in handy for those camping, riding on a bike long distances and having to stop. For these reasons I veto this idea.
I could see this just for pee but ? oh hell no im feeling sick and the smell oh no ?
YUCK!
HAVE YOU PEOPLE NOT HEARD OF BIDET , OR EVEN TABO
@Earthlingorgeous, well, you may still want a cloth if you are moist below from bidet, so still would apply, but then nothing would stink. Good call!
@Earthlingorgeous, not everyone has a bidet in fact I can think of only one person I have ever known that had a bidet in their bathroom and that was in a very large and very expensive Surrey house most people have modest incomes that dont stretch to overly large bathrooms and luxury items such as a bidet
@Sharon Hall, Toto has a seat replacement that actually works better than a bidet.
@Earthlingorgeous, the idea sounds good but a tabo is not much different than say, a measuring cup. Those & handheld bidets still are a shared product. Seems like it would be a host for bacteria. Also, when spraying, some of the spray might not make it into the toilet. Still, helping the environment is good but nothing is perfect and some things are glorified. In this case, a plastic ‘measuring cup’. Thanks for the tip.
@Sharon Hall, my daughter got us a bidet on Amazon for under 60.00. It was easily attached to our standard toilet, and I love it!
@Carol Oswald, In the US, most people aren’t talking about REAL bidets that you find in Europe and other parts of the world. They are talking about attachable bidets that attach under a toilet seat. They do not clean as well as a built in European bidet but are at least refreshing and do mostly clean, depending upon the person’s shape and texture of bowel movement. They cost from 60 to 110 American dollars on Amazon (but can be purchased elsewhere, too). How I’d love to have a French style one – but those are expensive here, too.