Saturday, March 21, 2020

Finally did it! Reusable Toilet Paper

I felt a bit shy about posting this online but decided that at this time of toilet-paper mania, it's good to normalize easy, environmentally friendly, and cheap alternatives to one-use paper products. (Also, to panic hoarding!)

So me and my bum are taking one for the team and posting this on my FB & IG, and here:

Ever since I wrote a book for teens about the history of toilets and learned how much t.p. humans use*, I've been wanting to make reusable t.p., (at least for the liquid stuff...).

Now, as the saying goes, needs must!
Down to a few rolls, HouseMate & I (both Pisces!) have taken the enormous (not) step of cutting up some old, soft cloth for wipes.
Also put water in squeeze bottles for a homemade bidet-spray, so the wipe is mostly just for drying water.


Put a plastic bucket with lid next to the toilet and intend to launder the used wipes every couple two three days.
As for sanitary concerns... well, there will be far less body-wastes than in a diaper pail.


*On average, in the USA each person uses about 50 lbs. of toilet paper every year.
The nation spend a total of $6 billion annually on the stuff.
Also--duh--the environmental impact is pretty bad:
"Why Toilet Paper Is Bad for the Environment"