Would you stop using Toilet Paper?

More thoughts on this. Okay you could use fern and broad leaf maple leaves too. Before someone invented disposable diapers most people in America used cotton diapers, rinsed the diaper that was dirty into a pail of water and threw the water down the toilet. They then washed the diapers with hot soap and water. I think we need to go back to that instead of filling our landfills with poopy diapers where flies crawl and maggots form and flies travel and come to your house and crawl on your plates. The bible says to use a spade or shovel and bury your offal. Wiping and cleaning water is good. In the woods like I said there are plants to be harvested and used if need that are not too harsh on the tush. However you need to know what plants to use. You would not want stinging nettles, poison oak, ivy or sumac or cactus LOL. But you could find natural things to use if put to the necessity of doing such. Again old cotton rags could be used, put in a pail of water and then washed with hot water and soap.

LOL No I didn't say to use cactus "OUCH" I said you would need to be careful and not use them. Or some of the others. I think the Europeans use something in the bathroom called a Bidet or something like that. American's don't have these don't know why.

Celanith... good alternatives... But cactus :) Anyhow I think the human race over the ages overcome this issue in many ways and and as you just pointed out options such as cotton diapers can be reconsidered. BTW, what is the European concept of washing your backside built in? I am not aware of something like that. Cheers! Ram

Exactly my point. Cheers! Ram

I do not use toilet papers as far as possible. I prefer to wash up most of the time and only if there is no water available resort to toilet paper!! Cheers! Ram

have u started not to use toilet paper?

Also what many people do not understand is trees do die as well. They like all other things have a life span. Some trees live longer than other trees. White Fir for example has a tendacy to rot from within and you do not see this. Cedar trees live much much longer as do Oak. But they are indeed renewable. I know of people who planted trees 70 years ago and their son harvested them and that was some 30 years ago and the son planted more and they are going to be ready to harvest again in 25-35 more years. They grow fast in the Pacific Northwest and if Pine really fast there are some ready to harvest in 25 years.

Sure. This is really a topic that affects an individual and each individual has the right to voice his/her opinion. Cheers! Ram

Yes, that is why this topic is quite interesting. If you come down to Asia people feel more comfortable and hygenic with water and soap. You go towards the west and people feel more comfortable and hygenic with tissue paper. There are no statistic available to prove either right or wrong :) But yes, it is a habit and I very much understand how difficult it is to change a habit that you enter from a very young age. Cheers! Ram

How true! Cultures are extremely different. Great way to handle a delicate situation.

:) so then you can actually cut off on the toilet paper and after washing up use a towel!! Cheers! Ram

Toilet Paper is an essentials for me. I cannot stop using it. Toilet paper is also very versatile. Toilet paper has many uses, some obvious and some not so much. You can use toilet paper to clean your eye glasses and your sunglasses. You can also blow your nose, stop a nose bleed and even temporarily stop the bleeding of a cut with the help of toilet paper. The most popular use of toilet paper doesn't involve your sunglasses or your nose. Most often it's just the toilet and you. It's not likely that you are and while in the comfort of your home you should have the comfort you deserve.

Yes, toilet paper is no doubt versatile. But at least we Indians use water and a small piece of cloth for any of the above purposes you mentioned. It is easy to do and does not involve paper at all. Cheers! Ram

care to elaborate? how will water supply will be poisoned? in my understanding you will wash and water is flush straight to the toilet.

Exactly. As long as we do not excrete industrial waste, I think bio degradable waste will not poison water.. :) Cheers! Ram

Sand would be interesting, but the side effects might be a bit too much :) But in places where there is a water shortage, I do not think there is any concern with usage of tissues. Human needs have to be catered to one way or the other. It is more at places where there is no shortage of water that we are talking about here. Cheers! Ram

Hmm... Can you at least try and see if your usage of paper is efficient i.e. as minimal as possible... Cheers! Ram

Yes, that is true. Recycled paper reduces the amount of trees being cut, but the problem is that the recyclability of paper is much less compared to water and hence if we move towards using water, it has a much better and longer impact. Cheers! Ram

I don't know, but I wouldn't give up using toilet paper. I find it more hygienic.

I think it's different culture that we are talking here. In Western countries, you're only using toilet paper to wash, in Asia we usually have like bidets or toilet spray to wash and then we use tissue to wipe the water. But yeah it will be weird if you ask that in Western countries restaurant hehe

Yes, difference in cultures is definitely one thing. The other aspect is that it is often difficult to change a practice as basic as washing a bum that you do at least once everyday all your life and changing that habit, so that reluctance or skepticism is definitely understandable, but believe it is not as clumsy as you think it is :) Cheers! Ram

Exactly the point, water is used anyway to flush!! Cheers! Ram

Anything that reduces the usage is a good sign. Cheers! Ram

I think places outside your control, you really cannot do much, but even if you take care of it at places within your control, it is really good enough. Cheers! Ram

At least maybe you can start reducing the usage. I have seen some who use too many tissues at one go!! Cheers! Ram

:) But if you see some other responses the people used to using water and soap, sometimes develop rashes with Tissue paper :) So I guess it is a question of what we are used to. But it is a topic that is so personal that everyone will have a say :) Cheers! Ram

Fantastic. Cheers! Ram

I definitely agree with the usage of toilet paper at places that have a shortage of water. After all human needs have to be catered to. I am only talking about places where there is no shortage of water. Most of the developed nations do not have a shortage of water as they now have figured out ways and means of getting the water. Cheers! Ram

Toilet computer!! LOL!! Keep them coming :) Cheers! Ram

Water is more recyclable than paper. More percentage of water can be easily recycled and re-used back in circulation. Anyhow water is used for flushing after use, so the additional small amount does not really impact much. Cheers! Ram

Lessening it's use is a start. I think gradual reduction is the best way to slowly get accustomed to the idea. Believe me I think giving up on this is going to be more difficult than asking smokers to quit as smoking is a habit that person gets around his teens and after a decade or so people ask to quit. But here is an habit that we have entered from a very young age and it is an almost involuntary action :) Cheers! Ram