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Couple a browns hanging around for a day or two never hurt anyone. Be honest?
Honestly, just....UGH. The amount of water saved does not compensate for the smell, unsanitary condition and just plain nastiness involved by leaving feces sitting in a toilet for days. YUCK.
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I worked at a major water district in California during two severe droughts. Back then the "if it's yellow" thing and using bricks, plastic bottles or dams in the toilet tank did save water, because 50's-80's toilets used as much as 7 gallons/flush, after 1993 used 3.5 gallons. The current toilets being sold today are down to 1.6 gallons and as a result there are more sewer pipe clogs. Unless you still have really old toilets, not flushing is not worth the risk of paying a plumber to save such a small amount of water.
I have my own bathroom / toilet and the bathroom door is always closed.
The toilet is in a window'd room with the window open all the time. There is no smell, other than the initial letting go. And, the smell is something I observe too.. A healthy poop has a sweet, clean smell and it should be pleasant to the deficate'r
I like to leave a few hanging around in there to save water / money and its interesting to observe them and see what one looks like in comparison to the last. Things fall apart fast because I eat lots of fruit. When I eat meat, they stay bound together. Look, Im a curious frugal person and I am always looking to learn something new.
It's no wonder you live alone. Good Lord. Disgusting.
Couple a browns hanging around for a day or two never hurt anyone. Be honest?
HAHAHAHA...too funny!
Being on a well, there are times when water conservation enters the mind.
In my opinion there's better ways to save on using water.
Stick with the "if it's brown flush it down".
Maybe you could keep your dish water and use that to flush the toilet, or keep buckets outside to catch any rain and use that.
she didn't say she lives alone. She said she has her own bathroom.
Her opening post mentioned living alone. Still, ew. Perhaps her poop smells sweet to her, the "defecator," but I can pretty much guarantee that it doesn't smell good to any one else. This reminds me of that episode of "Hoarders" where that poor afflicted person saved her poop and pee in jugs....
As Harry suggested, it's time for this person to get a composting toilet or use grey water to flush her toilet if she's that concerned about water conservation and/or comparing the breakdown of her last poo to the most recent one.
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I was just wondering about this the other day. If the "spray from flushed toilets" is true, why do medical centers have toilets with NO lids?
That's a wee bit like asking why there aren't lids on urinals. The lids on top of toilet seats aren't needed in medical centers or other public places and would just make more work for the janitors to clean up. The lids on home toilets only serve the purpose to provide a flat surface to sit on in the home bathroom or to prevent things from falling into the toilet. The lids do not prevent spray or vapour from the toilet bowl getting between the 1/4" gap between the toilet bowl rim and the toilet seat. Go look at most toilet seats and you'll see they have 4 little feet on them that hold them up off the toilet bowl rim and thus creating a gap all the way round. That is to help prevent pools of condensation and other nasty stuff from gathering between the seat and the rim and rotting or pitting the seat, and from running down the outsides of the toilet pedestal and onto the floor.
I had a cousin that had that sign over her toilet . We do live in the desert so I can agree to that; however, wife wants everything flushed every time. Letting brown lay there seems nasty IMHO.
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