Homemade Washable Toilet Paper

BelleL · #81 12/12/07, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildwood Flower

I've been laughing so hard I cried....

However, I have to add one more vote for the washable rags.

My DH only has the use of one arm, and it is limited. He can't handle TP. So finally we came up with the wet rag routine, which beats having assistance from ME!

I just bought about 4 dozen white washcloths from Wal Mart.

I myself use the Scott TP--1000 sheets!

I know this is funy! I have had a good laugh too.
I have tried using washcloths and they were a little too rough for me.If you need to buy more, you might try baby washcloths, they are soft and gentle.
Scott TP, is one of the more expensive TP.If you are going to buy TP it is Better to to spend the extra buck than to use the cheaper the John Wayne TP, you know rough and tough.

Murron · #82 12/12/07, 08:14 PM

There is a John Wayne brand of TP????

Sorry.

BelleL · #83 12/12/07, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Farmerwilly2

I've not totaled all of the votes here but I'll go out on a limb with an early projection and say, uhh, Yep!!! You're the only one. Still it works for you and that's good enough in my book. As for using the vinegar I recall that's what the Romans used in their public baths. I absolutely draw the line at using the communal sponge on a stick. No wonder their empire fell, at least the barbarians knew enough to bathe after their constitutional.

Well, I guess those barbarians had a lot of time on their hands if they bathed after every time they went. Why some days I might go three or four times a day. That would be too many baths for me so I just wash my behind and go about my day.

brdibug · #84 12/12/07, 08:23 PM

I have to drop in my 2 cents...haha. First of all, I give kudos to Belle to have this conversation. I don't currently practice the reusable tp...but do on the menstral issue. If SHTF I am prepared to go this route. And have stockpiled for such. Butt...for now...Even though I don't practice...I'll give my vote in Belles favor due to it being a viable solution to a touchy situation. LOL

BelleL · #85 12/12/07, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Murron

There is a John Wayne brand of TP????

Sorry.

It is a nick name for rough TP. Don't you know who John Wayne is? He was "Rough and Tough".

naturewoman · #86 12/12/07, 08:27 PM

This has got to be one of the funniest threads I've seen in awhile.

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What about when you wash your behind on a washcloth and then you wash your face on it?!?!

If you can't figure out which end to wash first, then you have more problems than keeping your heinie clean.

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Think of those poor doctors who look at all those dirty behinds with piece of t.p. and smeared poop.

Again, if you are going to the doc to let him look at your behinds, and don't shower first, you probably aren't too worried about it.

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Yes, I can smell some people 10 feet away. When a person has poop on their behind it smells up the whole room or building with stink.

OMG...you must have bloodhound genes in your family.

Oh, and just to set you straight, if you can smell em, they probably just let loose a silent one and were hoping no one would notice.

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I won't deal with anyone's poop.
With the wipes there is no poop to deal with, the Borax soaks it away.

Hey, I hate to tell you this, but it's just been dissolved..it didn't magically go anywhere.

BelleL, you need to meet TxAprilMagic. We should lock the two of you in a bathroom and let you duke it out!

Betho · #87 12/12/07, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BelleL

It is a nick name for rough TP. Don't you know who John Wayne is? He was "Rough and Tough".

don't forget the last part "And doesn't take no ------ off anyone!"

Watcher48 · #88 12/12/07, 08:34 PM

Frankly I use TP to get the worst of it. followed by a hot,wet soft Cottenelle paper towel to finish and clean all crevices and finish with a buff of a dry Cottenelle paper towel.

BelleL · #89 12/12/07, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Betho

don't forget the last part "And doesn't take no ------ off anyone!"

That is right!! I forgot that last part!!!!!! It is ture about TP too, it won't take it off very well.

comfortablynumb · #90 12/12/07, 08:40 PM

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I am just here to share my homesteading, money saving lifestyle.

I appreciate your input, but when I get so poor I have to pinch pennies by doing this idea, I'll have more problems than no TP.
I can buy 4 rolls for 1.50, its not a major hurt.
lol
wow by my figures thats..... 80 rolls oF TP a month (assuming you also look for the $1.50 4 pac too)
you need some fiber.
LOL

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First off, Why would anyone go around stinking!!! I have a stink-phobia. I can't stand to smell body oders of any kind. Pure laziness is the reason for B.O.
If you are going to be around anyone you should be respectful enough to have a clean body.
Yes, I can smell some people 10 feet away. When a person has poop on their behind it smells up the whole room or building with stink.
Some people stink so much that they get used to their smell and don't even know they stink. Take a poll, ask your friends how YOU smell.

10 feet away... thats impressive. Using no soap and no clorox, you might be just used to some serious odors of your own.

When you bathe daily, BO is almost impossible.
I will agree there are a great number of people you can smell a mile away.... I assure you, the use of TP is a sub-micro % of their problem.

No soap and no clorox, I think you might be scent blind to a few of your own ripe odors...

"dont knock it till you try it".....
I'll pass.

ok I'll toss out a question to just about = your tp-smears-poop-all-over-you-and-doesnt-clean statement...

you wet the cloth, (no soap) and then wipe...
now are you or are you not now just creating poop water in said cloth, and smearing it around on your behind?
when you dry your behind off, you are just drying off diluted humanure tea from your buttockz.
Soap is basically a water soluable oil. Dirt is usually a combination of solid contaminants mixed with body oil. The soap oil does not separate the contaminants from your body. Actually it combines with the body oil since they are mutually attracted and combined at the molecular level and it traps the contaminants with it. When they are rinsed with water, water soluable soap oil dissolves taking with it the dirty oil.

http://www.edinformatics.com/interac...cules/soap.htm
http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa081301a.htm

So warm water, on a cloth, creates poop water you smear all over your rump, then you dry off the poop tea and bada bing! are you not still covered in a micro thin film of humanure tea? (fresh no less!)

how is thiss better than scraping the poop off you with a dry piece of TP?
(which in my experience, rarely smears poo farther than a centimeter from where it exits, on a good day)

if I try this, I fear I will 1)water down the poo and 2)spread this poo-tea farther than I wish to have it spread and 3) end up having to take a soapy rag to myself every time I go pound one out.

quite honestly.... the repercussions kinda freak me out a little.

BelleL · #91 12/12/07, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Watcher48

Frankly I use TP to get the worst of it. followed by a hot,wet soft Cottenelle paper towel to finish and clean all crevices and finish with a buff of a dry Cottenelle paper towel.

Wow!!! You practice good hygeine! I bet there ain't no stink on you!!!

ihedrick · #92 12/12/07, 08:42 PM

OK I gotta say it...people doo what they gotta doo...TP or washable wipes. (While not a washable TP practitioner; just taking it into consideration as cost saver/emergency survival tool)

BelleL · #93 12/12/07, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by comfortablynumb

I appreciate your input, but when I get so poor I have to pinch pennies by doing this idea, I'll have more problems than no TP.
I can buy 4 rolls for 1.50, its not a major hurt.
lol
wow by my figures thats..... 80 rolls oF TP a month (assuming you also look for the $1.50 4 pac too)
you need some fiber.
LOL

10 feet away... thats impressive. Using no soap and no clorox, you might be just used to some serious odors of your own.

When you bathe daily, BO is almost impossible.
I will agree there are a great number of people you can smell a mile away.... I assure you, the use of TP is a sub-micro % of their problem.

No soap and no clorox, I think you might be scent blind to a few of your own ripe odors...

you wet the cloth, (no soap) and then wipe...
now are you or are you not now just creating poop water in said cloth, and smearing it around on your behind?
when you dry your behind off, you are just drying off diluted humanure tea from your buttockz.
Soap is basically a water soluable oil. Dirt is usually a combination of solid contaminants mixed with body oil. The soap oil does not separate the contaminants from your body. Actually it combines with the body oil since they are mutually attracted and combined at the molecular level and it traps the contaminants with it. When they are rinsed with water, water soluable soap oil dissolves taking with it the dirty oil.

http://www.edinformatics.com/interac...cules/soap.htm
http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa081301a.htm

So warm water, on a cloth, creates poop water you smear all over your rump, then you dry off the poop tea and bada bing! are you not still covered in a micro thin film of humanure tea? (fresh no less!)

how is thiss better than scraping the poop off you with a dry piece of TP?
(which in my experience, rarely smears poo farther than a centimeter from where it exits, on a good day)

if I try this, I fear I will 1)water down the poo and 2)spread this poo-tea farther than I wish to have it spread and 3) end up having to take a soapy rag to myself every time I go pound one out.

quite honestly.... the repercussions kinda freak me out a little.

oh, no!!! You are little confused about the use of these wipes. I use five or six of these wipes, and for the the last wipe I put a little tea-tree oil, which is a natural disinfectant.
SUPER CLEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EasyDay · #94 12/12/07, 08:49 PM

Some mention the SHTF scenario and would, then, agree to washable wipes.

Wellllll... I remember posting in a thread some year or so ago telling that DH had said, "If we could find a way to grow our own TP, we'd never have to leave the mountain." HTers, resourceful as always, listed 8 or 10 options to TP... most of which sounded more appealing to me than the poo bucket method!

lorian · #95 12/12/07, 08:50 PM

Along this line.........women are starting to use washable sanitary napkins.
Same concept. I might do this except we have one of those STUPID new front loaders that doesn't get anything clean.

I'm in the minority I guess, but I really didn't mind washing baby diapers.
If I had to I'd wash rags for TP.

Kinda gross, but raising kids in general can be "kinda gross" in a lot of ways.

Come to think of it, farmers get poop on them from some creature's behind just about everyday of their lives. Guess most of them just don't want to deal with what comes out of their own behinds!

EasyDay · #96 12/12/07, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by BelleL

oh, no!!! You are little confused about the use of these wipes. I use five or six of these wipes, and for the the last wipe I put a little tea-tree oil, which is a natural disinfectant.
SUPER CLEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! And you poo several times a day?
That's a BUTT LOAD of wipes! (Pun intended)

EasyDay · #97 12/12/07, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by lorian

Come to think of it, farmers get poop on them from some creature's behind just about everyday of their lives. Guess most of them just don't want to deal with what comes out of their own behinds!

Large critter (herbivore) poo is welcome here (i.e, cow, horse, goat). It's much less nasty than dog/cat/chicken/human poo.

BelleL · #98 12/12/07, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by naturewoman

OMG...you must have bloodhound genes in your family.

Oh, and just to set you straight, if you can smell em, they probably just let loose a silent one and were hoping no one would notice.

Yeah, My family members all ahve pretty good sniffer!
No, I have a cousin that poops hi pants and at every family get together it stinks up the whole house, I can even smell it when we go outside to get away from the smell. My sniffer just works too well!
Well, actually, everybody there can smell it and they are all gaging from the smell, butt my mom is the only one who will confront him about the stink. She gives him a washcloth, tells him to get in the bathroom and wash his hind-end, because everybody here knows you pooped your pants.
He denys it though!

BelleL · #99 12/12/07, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by EasyDay

WOW! And you poo several times a day?
That's a BUTT LOAD of wipes! (Pun intended)

Oh yes, I am very healthy!!!! It is normal to go within an hour or two after each meal.
If you don't you might need more fiber!

#**100** 12/12/07, 09:00 PM

In an emergency I have cut the sleeve off my shirt or long underware. As a daily practice I would rather work the extra 1/2 hour for the month and purchase store bought TP. Only when I am ill do I feel like I need a shower following a BM.

My dog eats a good diet, never wipes his butt, rarely takes a shower and does not smell.