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This made me laugh
I'm a pretty frugal little cupcake and have done a lot of things in order to save money, but I draw the line at this. I have officially found the thing that I will not do in order to save money...especially since industrial TP is some seriously scratchy shiznit and my hiney likes quilted action. 
There's an longer explanation (with photos) of how they do this on her blog.
Would you do this to save money? I think I'd rather cut back elsewhere and keep the Charmin...
Re: This made me laugh
yeah - I have cut out a lot of our paper products but would draw the line at getting rid of TP.
although kind of related - with the amount of nasty pads I'm going through I wish I had cloth pads. I forgot how yucky pads are (well actually how yucky a flow is, with my hormone issues I rarely got periods) and (TMI) how there is a yucky scent no matter what you do/how clean you are. I just bought some 7th generation ones and hope they are better, but I really think cloth might be nice.
Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm a shy pooper. I will sit and squeeze it back until the bathroom is empty, no matter how long it takes.
are skid marks the new thing? again...ewwwwww
lisa: how do i c+p someone's post as i'm responding? like you just did with mine
i know i hate being in the bathroom when someone is in process of dropping a load. i know it's a natural thing and all that but it's just yucky
haha, i totally go at work. makes me feel good that i'm getting paid to poop...haha! AND i'm not using TP at home
Down at the bottom of their post - hit "Quote" instead of "Reply".
OMG this reminds me...someone I work with seriously needs more fiber in their diet or something. Every time I go in there and they're in a stall (the doors are a little high off the ground so you can see shoes, so I know who the person is and that it's the same person every time), I hear all of this straining and grunting. Kinda makes me want to leave a bran muffin or something on their desk.
No-o-o-o!!! No, no, no. I don't even know what she means by "family cloth" ... I thought that meant a family's Scottish kilt pattern. I can't bring myself to read her blog. Does she mean that they wipe themselves with fabric and then put it in the washer and dryer?!
(please let the answer be no)
Newlyweds since 2007
Indeedy it does.
Apparently they only use the cloth wipes for #1, not #2. The used cloths are put in a bin or something and then she does a load of washing with them once or twice a week (on their own, not chucked in with the rest of their clothes - there's a whole other post about this).
I guess it's no different from using cloth wipes on a baby, but for some reason it grosses me out WAY more.
I am a Frugalista but this is ridiculous...all to save $114? Wow. I'd rather cut back on something else to save that little amount of money. Now, if by doing this she was saving $1500 or more a year, well then, I'd consider it...since you can have a nice getaway for that kind of coin!
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Gross! Who would want poo in their washing machine? I would kill the environment with the 10 loads of bleach that I would have to run after a load of poo-rags. If I were so poor that I couldn't afford TP, I would stop eating... so, I wouldn't have to poo. Think of all the money I would save!
Of course not... but, that's almost as bad as her logic. I'm still in shock that someone is cutting up fabric to wipe feces to store until laundry day.
Have any of you seen the show Hoarders?
EDIT: Sorry, I thought you wrote that they use it for #2. While I should delete it, I think my horror over the thought should stay. I'll change my fast response to: If I were so poor that I could not use a strip of TP to wipe my tinkle, I would shake it, shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture.
Newlyweds since 2007
ROTFLMAO! Nancy, you're too funny! FWIW we've been putting pee pee and poo poo in our washer every other day for over a month now that Libby is here! But yeah, it's not adult pee and poop.
We do "family cloth" in the way that we don't really use paper towels much (we buy them but use them sparingly)...we use dish towels and wash cloths for most things that other people would run to the paper towels for...
Honestly, I could see using cloth to deal with pee (which, let's face it, is the majority of TP used by women, right? I mean we pee WAY more than we poo each day). But she's not really saving a ton of money (especially if you factor that some of her $114 "saved" is going towards the laundry costs of detergent, water, electricity, time spent rolling her other paper, etc.) If it were to save paper/trees, then there might be some merit to it.
There's a BIG difference between being frugal and being cheap. She's just being cheap. If she really wanted to look into an alternative, why not install a bidet or something?
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There's even a bigger difference between being cheep and being gross!
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Oh. My. Gawd.
I have no words.
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