Comments on: Save Money by Not Flushing the Toilet?

By: poof then flush

poof then flush — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:17 +0000

I live alone, am unemployed and recently had a friend tell me she saved quite a bit. It was amazing to see my ten dollar water bill go to 20.00 a month now that I am home. Yes, I use the back bathroom and flush every third time. I know I am saving money.

By: TFS

TFS — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:39:11 +0000

Go outside and pee. Diluted urine is an excellent fertilizer; if applied straight, it makes a good (and organic) weedkiller. It jumpstarts the action in your compost heap. Why waste it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:01:31 +0000

This is hilarious. A conversation over 5 months has been spent on talking about a toilet and how many times you flush it. You will save money if you didn’t have the internet to have this conversation on…

By: M

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:15:42 +0000

Build a sawdust toilet, compost heap, and grow your own food. stop pooping in drinking water and turn your excrement into fertilizer. then you really save.

By: twilight

twilight — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:47:24 +0000

i also agree with D a couple of posts up. If how many times you flush the toilet is your biggest problem mone-wise, you’re gonna have rude awaking in a few years!!

By: twilight

twilight — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:37:01 +0000

i think thats a bad idea to get into even though it “sounds” like a good idea. You get into that kind of a habit, you start going to public places and not flushing the toilet. I guess word is getting around on my college campus because i’ve entered the college library so many times and found toilets not flushed with #2 that i’ve totally lost count how many remain unflushed. And depending on how long its sat there, it usually then stinks up the whole bathroom that you want to throw up upon entering. And people are wondering where swine flu is coming from?? How much disease comes from a stagnant toilet that has sat for say three hours in a public place?? I’ve even seen a college professor do it. COME ON FLush the TOILET!!!! ITS NOT that HARD!!

By: D

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:57:51 +0000

There are so many other places in your home where you should first be looking to save money. While my wife thinks that it would be ok to wait (if its only #1) I think its nasty. If you don’t want to flush, go build an outhouse in your backyard for yourself. Another thing you could do that is a bit more shall we say “modern” is to update your toilet. I just remodeled our hall bathroom and replaced our 40 year old 3.5 or 4 gpm toilet with a 1.25gpm high efficiency toilet. I paid less than $200 for it. Also make sure that you don’t have any leaky faucets. The good news is this; If you don’t want to spend $200 for a more efficient toilet the wood for an outhouse, a shovel and hammer and nails will cost a lot less than that. You’ll start seeing your savings almost immediately. I do think the silliest thing you did to be sure was mess with a pregnant woman about how many times she flushes the toilet. That would be last thing on your mind if you were carrying around an extra 15 or 20 pounds pushing on your organs (and most importantly your BLADDER) plus the incessant back pain for 9 months. And if you’re counting flushes now, what are you going to do when the diapers, daycare, schooling and college fees hit you across the mouth? Your private outhouse is sounding better by the minute. Good luck however you sort it out.

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By: L.

L. — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:43:04 +0000

Water bills are no laughing matter. We pay twice for our H2O usage: metered out of the tap, and billed the same amount for sewer. Having moved to a larger home, we saw our bills leap fourfold. I suggested the ‘why not save a flush’ technique in order to do two main things: save money on water, and save POTABLE water for the overall benefit of the planet. I don’t think it’s been mentioned, but does anyone else in N. America not think it is ridiculous to use drinking water to flush our waste? We save water, we save money, and we reduce the risk of plumbing issues in the future. Well worth the early squeamish factor in my book.

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