Do You Flush?
January 29, 2008 by Kailani
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Okay, this is a question that I never imagined I’d ever ask but . . . Do you flush after you pee?
The reason I’m asking is that Girlie Girl came home from playing at her friend’s house and informed me that the family does not flush the toilet after they pee. In fact, her friend’s mother told Girlie Girl not to flush unless it was poop.
Now, I know it’s not to save money on their water bill since our homes are part of the same association and we all pay the same maintenance fees no matter how much or how little water we use. Is it a personal thing? Cultural? Just plain conservation?
Then I started to wonder if more people didn’t flush after they pee. After all, it’s not like I go to someone’s home and ask if they prefer I not flush when I’m done. I just assumed that everyone did.
So, do you or someone you know prefer not to flush after peeing? Curious minds (well, me) want to know. And for future reference, if you ever come over for a visit, I prefer that you DO flush! Thank you.
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kailani,
do i hear an invitation?
hee hee hee!
we used to have a water shortage in manila and one time my then boy friend (now husband steve) was visiting and i yelled at him for flushing the toilet “just for pee”
i remember his confusion with what he thought was a custom difference. (he is american)
i wonder if this family is ultra “green.”
the type that re-uses yogurt containers as party cups and does not use commercial toilet bowl cleaners for fear it will harm the environment. (they just scrub with water)
i admire people with that much conviction.
me? i am happy to be in a place that no longer has water shortages–so i flush with glee at every chance i get!
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I’ve been wondering about this too. It seems gross not to flush, but it also seems wasteful after my daughter deposits maybe two teaspoons of urine into the toilet.
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well So CA is in a drought, and we are required to cut back our water conservation by 25% by court order…so many are heading “If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down.”
But if we were in an area where water wasn’t a concern, I’d flush.
since we moved into this house a year ago, we don’t flush until there’s a sizable amount of TP and follow the ‘if it’s yellow…’ philosophy. mainly it’s to cut down on water consumption, both to save money and water. HOWEVER, if we have guests, i make sure the toilet has been recently flushed, and i don’t insist that they don’t flush if they only pee. that’s kinda gross.
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“If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if its brown flush it down”
I don’t usually flush after a #1, unless there is someone else at the house, then I will. Also, I will flush at others’ houses. Interesting (and yet embarassing) question
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Oh wow! I have never heard of this!! Maybe I am too wasteful, but we always flush after anything! What an interesting topic!! Thanks for posting it!
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More ridiculuous: in Japan, women in public bathrooms flush WHILE peeing (to hide the sound of pee) and of course after. Total waste of water.
In our house, we do flush everytime. Even the little girl is used to flushing everytime she finishes.
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We follow the ‘if it’’s yellow…” thing too, until theres too much tp in there or company is coming. I don’t usually ask guests to not flush, that’s just gross! And I always flush when away from home. I think our main reason for doing this is conservation.
That’s an indiscrete question, lol ! But be assured, I flush ! But I also know people who don’t and for a very simple reason, water is very expensive in some parts of Europe. When I stayed with a friend in England she asked me not to flush and this was because of water shortage in summer and the government had asked for. You see there can be many justified reasons. So far we didn’t have to do it.But now most of the people have a toilet with two “speed” flush one for pee one for bigger buisiness.
Lindsay loves to flush the toilet,again and again. We flush in our house.
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Since I am whole all day and pee a lot, I don’t flush each time. I just feel wasteful, but I would never ask guests to do that and I always make sure I flush when they are there. It’s a personal thing and I don’t push it on my family either.
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First time I’ve encountered this question. Anyway, water is not a problem in our area so we flush every time.
I would understand if water is scarce and to conserve water, some people might only flush whenever necessary.
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It depends on what time of the day it. Our bathroom is right next to the kids room and the walls are very thin. So if we flush while the kids are napping or sleeping then flushing the toilet wakes them up. That is only time we don’t flush.
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We have been through water shortage periods where we only flushed when absolutely necessary. Another reason to do it is the conservation aspect. Plus a lot of older people in my family only flush when necessary. My grandmother is on cistern water (she only has what she can collect through rainfall), so everyone is expected to follow that rule.
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P.S. What I think is really funny is that so many people feel like this is a bit of an embarrassing topic. It’s something we all do, why be embarrassed by it:) ?
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I would guess their motives have to do with conservation. We did the same growing up; we lived in the country and had a well (no city water).
Now, if it’s just in the house, we wait to flush. But if there are guests, then of course we flush! Also, I don’t like to flush at night for fear that the sound will wake the baby.
Pee is more sterile than you think, so it’s not really causing a health hazard.
hee hee What a great topic to start my morning!
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I see the wisdom behind not flushing, but I am a flusher anyway, except at night. I do flush at night (very quietly) if I’m away from home though.
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WE always fluch, although if i know my daughter is going to be using the toilet after someone, say her brother, and tis only pee, i try to wait until everyone is done, because it does waste water, but if its flushed, no big deal.
My Grandmother does what your daughters friends do, they have well water, out in the country, and they only flush when they have too, due to low water.
But im with you..always flush.
This is a good question actually. In our house, the only time we do not flush is in the middle of the night when the baby is sleeping. For some reason, that noise of the flush wakes her right the heck up and I want to pull my hair out. Her room is right across the hall from the bathroom and even with both doors closed she still will wake up to the flushing noise. P.S. We also have a septic system, so the less flushes the less bogged down our system gets. Haven’t you heard the phrase…”If its yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down!”
We flush all the time aside from at night though, and we sure wouldn’t make our guests who visit not flush.
We flush every time. Wasteful? yes, I’m sure but we try to conserve in other ways.
We always flush over here and I’ve never heard of anyone doing otherwise till this post.
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LOL! What a fun question.
Actually, we don’t flush during the night out of respect for the rest of the sleeping family. But I often find myself not flushing during the day sometimes if there’s not much TO flush.
But for the most part, yes, we flush after every pee.
For the most part …
We were flushers up until we got into a extreme drought last summer. We’ve still not recovered from the drought. We’d prefer to flush and if we have guests over, we flush, but for now, we’re trying to conserve.
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We flush regardless of time of day or night. Except for my son. He doesn’t flush because he just plain forgets!
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How interesting! It’s fun reading through all of the responses!
Well, I always flush and while we’re in the midst of potty training, part of the attraction for Emma is flushing but my husband typically does not flush his pee, just poo. I guess I can see how it’s better to save water, never thought of it that way, I just thought it was gross!
Maybe in this age of “green” I need to learn to “let the yellow mellow”.
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I fluctuate. It seems a waste to flush down a few ounces of pee and squares of tp with a gallon or two or four of water. But you want your kids in the habit of it.
But when I was growing up, we did not flush at night, it was loud and right near my parents bedroom, they didn’t want us to flush unless there was poo. That kind of still is ingrained in me, though there is no reason here. My kids can sleep through ANYTHING and they are not near the bathroom, and my husband doesn’t hear it or care. I don’t even hear the toilette or the shower, and it is connected to my room!
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Flush please! I have only ever heard of one family who didn’t and theirs was a money thing. Grayson has a bad habit of not flushing after he pees and I always feel like it makes our bathroom stink.
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The only time I don’t is when I have to go in the middle of the night. I do not want a child waking up from the sound of a flushed toilet. Otherwise, yes, each and every time. I do know others that don’t though and it kinda grosses me out.
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I’m a flusher — but I know many families who do not and their purpose IS water conservation. I guess I can see their point.
We flush at out house. Sometimes in the middle of the night I don’t so I won’t wake my hubs up.
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I flush…
UGH…their bathroom must STINK like pee-pee!!!!
We have really strong water pressure here so when we flush it is LOUD. So we all don’t flush as much in the evenings after DH goes to bed. But in the day time we flush pretty much all the time.
Sometimes I have to check DD’s bathroom because there have been times with it hasn’t gotten flushed in a few days…ewwe! Urine may be steril, but it still smells if it sits.
What gets me is there seems to be a lot of small children who are afraid of the loud noise of public toilets…or they don’t flush for other reasons. And their mothers don’t flush for them!!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve entered a public bathroom to the smell from a child who didn’t flush. EEEWWWWEEE!!!!
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Hahaha….this is too funny! Please be assured that we do flush, no matter what we do. Now trying to teach a 3-year old that is another matter. But we are flushers!
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I too enjoyed reading through the responses. This topic has been quite interesting and has gotten me thinking about how wasteful we can be. Do we really need to flush everytime we pee? My boys don’t think so – they seem to forget from time to time. Has flushing your toilet come to be a privilege?
Well we (including the the boys when they remember) flush and I think we will continue to flush. Isn’t it a bit unsanitary to not flush? I wonder how the bathroom smells for those that follow the “If it’s yellow” theory?
We are flushers although our grandsons sometime forget. Our grand daughter is two and learning about the “potty” and she sticks her little hands everywhere. Please flush at our house.
I’ll stop by your place next time I’m in Hawaii and I’ll be sure to flush too!
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For the most part we are flushers, especially since there’s 4 adults plus my 14 year old and while urine may be more sanitary than we think, if you take vitamins or supplements of any kind, it smells. Now there are times when we have let it mellow, due to water shortages and when the kids were younger at night so as not to wake them, or if i’m the only one up and it’s late and i start going every 15 minutes for some reason and i don’t want to wake everyone by flushing every commercial break. i don’t think it’s gross to follow the mellow yellow rule even if there isn’t a water shortage, it’s a green thing and a money saver. look at it this way, if everyone in your association used less water, your fees could possibly be reduced as they would be paying less for water/sewage usage… anyway, interesting topic!
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I’m howling… what a funny question. We are in a time where it is more than cultural. We tried it for a while but it was kinda yucky to leave it. (b/c we wanted to be more green and lower our water bill)
We’ve moved out to the country and have our own water now… of course I”m lucky if the kids remember to flush….
We flush after peeing. Except at night. My daughter doesn’t always, but that’s okay.
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I flush — unless it’s the middle of the night and/or there’s a baby sleeping in the next room. If it falls under one of those scenarios, I leave the lid up to remind me to flush the next time I enter the bathroom.
(But I have to say, I can understand people not flushing pee to save water. We used to have our own well. It would have made sense for us, even if we didn’t do it.)
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We flush, though I know people that don’t for conservation reasons.
I flush all the time, but the male members of this household seem to think it’s optional…
And just so you don’t feel so bad about blogging about flushing, I had a flushing-related experience yesterday and the first thing I thought was “I have to blog about this!” Of course, I haven’t done it yet. I can’t get my head on straight these days, but for you, I’ll do it now
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If I have to pee in the middle of the night, I never flush, but only because I don’t want to hear the noise. I would like to know how the people who don’t flush after pee keep their toilets from getting clogged? My SIL’s parents throw used TP in the trash……..including BM’s GROSS!
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We do the “if it’s yellow” thing too. When you drink 70 oz of water a day, it’s not even yellow!
We’re always sure to piggyback duties. So if someone peed, we’ll ask if anyone else needs to go.
I think ours stems from the fact we have a septic tank. And flushing the toilet 20 times a day is not good.
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Not always
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well, i live alone so i only flush every couple of pees. my toilet constantly runs, so it’s not long before there is fresh water in the bowl even though i didn’t flush. however, if i have company or i’m somewhere else i always flush and would never ask someone to not flush! eww
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We flush! My husband is a plumber and he insists that we flush. Something about seeing/smelling enough of it during the day somedays *yuck*…..I don’t know. We are potty training and Blake (3 y/o) loves to flush – he just throws tp in it and flushes. We are looking into new low flow toilets and new bathroom doors with higher knobs that Blake can’t reach
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Wow, I never thought of NOT flushing… I always hate when someone at my house doesn’t flush, because then I feel like the bacteria and WHATEVER has a chance to grow, etc. I have to say I DO hate flushing public toilets, but I do it anyway and run out as quickly as I can, because I hate when someone leaves it unflushed before I get there.
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We are a family of flushers. Partly because it’s just gross to leave that pee there… party habit (I’m sure)… and partly because we are not beyond the point that Zoe thinks the the toilet bowl is just a fun place to splash around in.
That said… we don’t flush at night if it’s just pee. It always seems so loud at night.
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I had no idea that people didn’t flush… and it looks like a lot of your readers don’t for conservation reasons. Wow… well, we flush every time. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, we wash our hands each time too
Well, it’s a little talked about fact that if I’m alone at home I will wait until I have “peed” two or three times before flushing. But when I’m not alone I flush everytime. Occasionally if it’s during the night I don’t.
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FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK…..
I live in GA. we are in the middle of a severe draught. it was actually on the news (out of atlanta) tips on saving water……ONLY FLUSH IF YOU GO #2, flush at the end of the day for pee pee! REALLY, THEY SAID THAT…ON THE NEWS
OHH, but FYI, I always forget and flush anyway
When I first read your question, my immediate thought was “who DOESN’T flush.
But after reading some of the responses, it gave me reason to ponder.
I guess, if you’re short on water, you may not flush every time. But for me, as long as we have plenty of water, I’ll flush every time.
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Country folk don’t flush for #1 in summer, especially. But when you have a septic tank, you are mindful of your wastes.
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We don’t flush after we pee, either, for two reasons:
1. The local municipality that handles our water/sewer is infamous for loading the highest amounts of chemicals in our system that Federal Law will allow–and we live only miles from the Cedar and St Croix Rivers. So, we flush to contribute as little as possible to the poisoning of the local ecology.
2. I am a staunch Traditionalist Catholic and believe, along with mystics like Francis of Assisi, San Juan de la Cruz, Teresa de Avila, etc. that water and other natural recourses are sacred gifts and should be preserved whenever and however possible.
If that makes me gross, so what? I pick my nose and eat my boogers, to….lol….
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BTW:
For whoever’s interested, and thinks pee is gross….just an fyi.
I worked in nursing (hospitals) for 15 long, tortuous years. It always cracked me up to watch new cna’s and housekeepers trying to clean up tinkle off the floors, or change wet bed sheets. Why?
***URINE IS STERILE, PEOPLE!!!***
…Dermatologists even recommend the first fresh pee of the day as a skin cleanse for those people who have bad acne, but who are too sensitive to take harsh medications.
The mineral salts and urea in pee have other medicinal uses as well.
Pee is also great for houseplants and gardens as fertilizer, not to mention keeping the deer out.
Oh, and Gandhi used to drink his when he fasted (look it up–it’s true) so that nothing of his life was wasted….
Betcha never wanted to know any of that, did ya? ;o)
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Shoot, so sorry.
And, one last thing.
We grow houseplants in our bathrooms. So, no, even though the toilet only gets flushed a couple time a day by either of us, it smells like Dove soap, and that’s all
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What I want to know is do you flush after you FART in the toilet? Just kidding.
We usually do flush after peeing, but I have known people that didn’t..and I don’t think it is horrible to not flush (though we do).
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I don’t always flush after I pee. I doesn’t matter to me if the other people in the house don’t flush either. The only time it does matter is when their urine smells like some kind of sulphuric toxic waste and they leave it floating around the toilet for me to sniff when I have to pee myself.
If the pee stinks then flush it! If it doesn’t, you can flush if you want.
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The only time I’d heard (before today anyway) of people not flushing was a little girl who came to visit when I was young. She never flushed when she pee’d…but then she also still had an outhouse in her yard. I always thought it had something to do with that. Of course, that was many MANY years ago!
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I flush, except when I get up in the middle of the night to pee because I live in fear of waking up my twins. Our toilet is loud and their room is right across from the bathroom!
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Well, now I’ve heard everything.
And today of all days! Why? Because when I went to court this a.m., the topic of conversation was about the human waste in the stairwell of the parking lot adjacent to the courthouse.
NO joke. It was beyond disgusting.
I went to my car at lunchtime because I went back to my office for awhile.
When I returned to court at 1:30, I refused to park in that lot again and look at that. I decided that I don’t earn enough money to have to walk around that. So I went to the lot around the corner.
So how ’bout we talk about the homeless problem and how it impacts those of us just trying to earn an honest day’s pay . . .
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I don’t care if it’s a little dribble – please flush! Eeewww, that’s just nasty!
I’ve been reading some of the comments and am quite surprised myself at many of the answers, aren’t you?
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We do flush for any and all things that go into the toilet. And I recognize the waste, but I don’t like pee smell and if it just sits there then it’s all pee-smelly and YUCK.
I have good friends where the rule is pee does not get flushed. I follow their rules in their house.
I also go camping in places where that is the rule, and I follow the rules there too.
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The only time I let “yellow mellow” is when I pee during the middle of the night, because heaven forbid ANYTHING wake the sleeping toddler! Otherwise, yeah FLUSH PLEASE!!! EWW!
Was just laughing at desi’s comment, because I am also in GA where we have “Water Watch” on the news! I can totally corroborate her post about the news reports telling you not to flush “every time”! I couldn’t believe it either…but if it’s going to be the difference between water for my shower in a month, I’ll wait to flush!! LOL
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I have heard of others doing this before, but here in our house we always do unless its in the middle of the night and since we co-sleep, do not want to wake the girls.
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here in Mexico it is very much “If it’s yellow” . . . but we do and don’t follow that . . . It’s a mood thing, but at other peoples houses, most definitly we flush.
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We’re definitely having a water shortage/drought here in Georgia, and I’ve heard of people doing this. Actually, I’ve heard people on the radio actually advising us to do this. Somehow, I just can’t. Seems to much like a port-a-potty to me.
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I come from a very dry place which constantly has water restrictions, so I don’t flush after every pee. If we have visitors I flush, but when it’s just my family I don’t. I think it is extraordinarily wasteful to flush after every little dribble. If you are lucky enough to live somewhere with lots of water, be very grateful because a lot of the world is very dry. And in not too many years your little part of the world might be dry too.
I think we should all treat water like every other consumable we use – don’t waste it because it costs the earth!
Very important topic!
I’m with the conservation-minded people above, and don’t flush every time – and not because we have metered water, because we don’t. I just don’t want to waste it.
Just checking: have you all put bricks, water-filled plastic bottles, or purpose-made hippos in your cisterns to reduce the amount of water that you flush each time?
There is a huge volume of clean water wasted each time you flush … here in the UK you can get these hippos from the water companies to help conserve water. These days I think low-flow has become standard, but if you have old-style plumbing, as we do, it is horribly wasteful.
We used to have a septic tank, and had to explain to visiting women about not flushing ‘everything’ – now that’s an embarrassing discussion. One time I’d left it too late, and the plumbing team were out there with rods to unblock the system while our visitors were still here. Oddly, they have never come back to visit again …
We flush as little as possible to try and save water (not because of cost to ourselves, but cost to the planet).
I flush.
I saw a neat toilet handle in a Starbucks a while back. You pull it up for #1 and down for #2. It uses less water to flush the pee. Quite fascinating!
Too funny! It’s probably related to conservation, rather than money. I’ve heard many times, “If it’s yellow let me mellow; if it’s brown flush it down.” My husband does not like for me to “let it mellow”. I usually flush every time I use the bathroom. Sometimes if he’s not around, I’ll leave it until the next time I go. It makes me feel good to help out a bit with saving our water.
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At night I don’t flush because it wakes my son. He always forgets to flush after peeing but will often “courtesy flush” while going poop. Go figure.
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I’ve never heard of anybody having a no-flush policy in their home. But with all of the focus on living greener these days, it really doesn’t surprise me. Seems like a stinky way to conserve though!
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ok, now that is gross! But I do admit that I won’t flush if I have a midnight pee, simply b/c I don’t want to wake up my girl, who sleeps next to the bathroom. But besides that, flush is a must!
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I do flush after i pee.
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I always flush…and always wash too.
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Nope.
We’re a “If it’s yellow let it mellow” type. Saves money and water.
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i am a flusher — it is out of habit and the way i was brought up. my parents always said it is out of cleanliness, good bathroom hygiene and politeness of the next person using the bathroom.
if it is a water drought i see the point but unfortunately a lot of younger kids/ teens do it because their either lazy or forget to do it. I see some adults in public rest stops not flushing too and it’s just gross.
to me, i really hate to see a toilet not being flushed and it grosses me out big time. plus I would think the smell of a collection of pee from multiple people not flushing may just be too much for me.
I’ll go as far as to say that if there ever was a water drought in an area for an extended time where i was living — i’ll move as i am NOT cutting back on not flushing!
Please tell me that even if you are conserving water by not flushing that you at least wash your hands after you do a pee. Sterile or not sterile, I am just cringing at the thought of shaking hands with someone that doesn’t wash their hands when I visit their house.
Saying that, there are couple of new rest stops that have the new waterless urinal system.
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We definitely flush! I have never lived somewhere where we had to conserve our water. That would be an easy way to do it.
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Kailani:
Thanks for contributing this post to this week’s Carnival of Family Life, hosted at A Child Chosen. The Carnival will be live on Monday, February 5, 2008, so I hope you and your readers will stop by and check out all of the fabulous entries included this week!
And just for the record: FLUSH. Every time. No exceptions. No debate. To not flush each and every time is disgusting and uncivilized, in my not very humble opinion.
If you’re not going to flush, just get a portapotty, install it in your backyard, and go for it. You’re turning your indoor bathroom into a portapotty by not flushing, so if you really want to save water, get the real thing already. Jeez . . .
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LOL! I found you through the Carnival of Family Life, which I submitted an article to, also.
I am one who lets it mellow in an effort to conserve water, but I’d never make that request of anyone else.
I actually wrote a post on this awhile back, included in my Gross and Not-So-Gross Ways to Save Water post. This being the gross part.
These comments have been great fun to read!
We always flush, but we have lots of rain water from our water catchment where we live on the Big Island. In Maui where my sister in law lives in Haiku, they have a mandatory voluntary water restriction of I think 20% because they are in a drought.
Needless to say, they only flush for #2.
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We ALWAYS flush here, but we have a well, and plenty of water.
One of my friends on city water doesn’t flush unless it’s #2. They really need to save money, and the city has gone up on prices because of a perceived shortage. I’m not convinced. Anyway, my kids were very confused when they visited.
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Yes. I do. and if I find myself at someone’s house who doesn’t, I will flush before I pee too. (backsplash grosses me out) I am pee-phobic.
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