Does your SO flush the toilet?

[Minnesota!]

I'm the gross one - I hate wasting water. I don't flush after #1...

Same here. We flush only after a few uses. Wasting water and all. And, never overnight.

 

[Skippy918]

My kids are the ones who forget to flush.

 

[leebee]

Not only does he flush, he SITS. Yup, no pee on the seat/floor, and no "falling" that dreaded 1/2 inch when the seat is left up. He washes his hands AND closes the lid. Pretty much nirvana, as far as I see it!

 

[LinderInWonderland]

We were all asked to conserve water during the drought this summer. It's the easiest way to do it, so neither of us flush after only peeing. Hands are ALWAYS washed (DH is a chef, so he is an obsessive hand washer anyway) and the lid is put down so nothing falls in.

 

[arminnie]

He would not be my DH if he didn't flush. I was grossed out by roommates who didn't flush in the middle of the night years ago. I flushed even when living in No. Calif. during two major droughts.

I do not tolerate bodily waste.

 

[Christine]

We flush; however, when I was growing up we had a septic tank and we did not regularly flush because of it. I hated that.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I seriously can't believe I just got into an argument with my DH about this. He rarely flushes the toilet when he pees. I am sitting in the room right next to him, and I can clearly him him peeing. He walks out of the bathroom and I snap at him about not flushing the toilet! He thinks that if he is peeing clear, what does it matter if he flushes it or not? I told him it is disgusting, and I want it flushed! He said it is a waste of water and that it "must be that time of the month" for me because *I* am acting crazy.
Ughhh...don't even get me started about him not washing his hands afterwards.

Thoughts??

I live alone and if i just pee no I don't flush as your dh said its a waste of water. In fact next time I move I will remove the toilets and replace with waterless composting toilets (not easy to do in current house)

 

[mom2AidanAndEli]

I can honestly say I never realized this was a thing!! People don't flush? Really?

I'm not OCD or a germaphobe about much but the thought of leaving a dirty toilet sitting there is just gross to me. Doesn't it smell? I mean even just #1 has an odor to it!

Yes, even in the middle of the night we flush. And I have two teenage boys as well and with all honesty I've never walked into a bathroom and found an already used toilet. AND they all know to put the seat down--their wives will thank me one day!

 

[MickeySP]

I would have a bigger problem with him blaming the fact that you didn't like something on it being that time of the month.

Wait until your menopausal then you get to be really crazy

 

[tvguy]

I can honestly say I never realized this was a thing!! People don't flush? Really?

I'm not OCD or a germaphobe about much but the thought of leaving a dirty toilet sitting there is just gross to me. Doesn't it smell? I mean even just #1 has an odor to it!

Yes, even in the middle of the night we flush. And I have two teenage boys as well and with all honesty I've never walked into a bathroom and found an already used toilet. AND they all know to put the seat down--their wives will thank me one day!

I had an Aunt and Uncle who lived in an area of Canada that didn't get indoor plumbing until 1985. They had an outhouse out back, and a problem with bears at night.....so you used the "honey bucket" if you had to go in the middle of the night. No way to flush a bucket.

 

[cabanafrau]

I realize it's been a little sparse around here lately, but this is where things have come to?

 

[fly girl]

Since this germaphobe can't take a cat/dog in a doctors office, needless to say the toilet is flushed every time -- as is hand washing!

I'm sure when I'm not around it's possible for the no flush/hand wash (cringing just thinking about it ) but seeing that he does it all the time, why he would break habit? But he is a guy so who the hell knows. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

 

[fly girl]

Always!!! One place I am a it OCD is the bathroom. I keep my toothbrush on my dresser since you don't even want to know how far reaching fecal matte is when flushed. Not taking any chances.

PREACH!!

 

[Wendy31]

We have 3 kids, so the toilets don't always get flushed - well, our daughter tends to always flush, but for the boys, especially the 6 year old, it's a different story.

Additionally, if someone is in the shower & the toilet flushes, the water gets incredibly hot & loses pressures & it seems to take FOREVER until it returns to normal, so, if it's just #1, the person is supposed to wait until the other person is out of the shower before flushing.

However, coincidentally, my Timehop from 2 years ago is "The only time my children tend to flush the toilet is when I'm in the shower."

DH & I share a bathroom, &, truthfully, I'm probably the one who doesn't always flush after #1. We have a septic tank, & it just seems wasteful to me to flush each time. DH does flush each time - unless it's in the middle of the night.

Oh, & not that it matters, but in both our bathroom & the kids' bathroom, the toilets are in separate rooms from the sinks.

We always wash hands!

Also, in our over 20 years of marriage, DH has NEVER left the seat up. His momma trained him well!

 

[dashofsunshine]

My husbands family lives about an hour and a half outside of NYC. They have well water that comes into their house. The entire family (his mom, dad, and brother) all use the same bathroom, and they all only flush the toilet when it's number 2. I think that is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I just wasn't raised that way. You use the toilet, you flush it. They don't have water/money problems. When my hubs moved down here with me, I told him he flushes it every time he uses it. He has adapted well and we have no issues. But every time we visit his parents, it grosses me out.

 

[bcla]

So I suppose no-one here has heard about "waterless" urinals? It's kind of complicated, but they basically don't flush. They contain a cartridge with a special fluid that keeps sewer gases from coming out from the trap.

They do get cleaned however. And basically fresh urine doesn't have much of an odor and won't unless it's mixed with tap water, which will release ammonia.

 

[Kitty 34]

Always

 

[nkereina]

I can honestly say I never realized this was a thing!! People don't flush? Really?

I'm not OCD or a germaphobe about much but the thought of leaving a dirty toilet sitting there is just gross to me. Doesn't it smell? I mean even just #1 has an odor to it!

Yes, even in the middle of the night we flush. And I have two teenage boys as well and with all honesty I've never walked into a bathroom and found an already used toilet. AND they all know to put the seat down--their wives will thank me one day!

My thoughts exactly. My initial thought was the smell. Pee smells, no matter how hydrated you are. Letting it marinate in the toilet, even during the night, would skeeve me out. Even when I walk into a public bathroom, if there's pee in the toilet, I'll walk out and go to another stall. Not dealing with that.

Considering flushing to be wasteful sounds extreme to me, save for people in drought areas. If your water pressure is adjusted accordingly and you have a newer toilet (low flow), then you're not using much water at all and it's pennies every time you flush. I would think taking a bath or an extended shower would be more wasteful than flushing.

 

[bcla]

My thoughts exactly. My initial thought was the smell. Pee smells, no matter how hydrated you are. Letting it marinate in the toilet, even during the night, would skeeve me out. Even when I walk into a public bathroom, if there's pee in the toilet, I'll walk out and go to another stall. Not dealing with that.

Considering flushing to be wasteful sounds extreme to me, save for people in drought areas. If your water pressure is adjusted accordingly and you have a newer toilet (low flow), then you're not using much water at all and it's pennies every time you flush. I would think taking a bath or an extended shower would be more wasteful than flushing.

Again - fresh urine doesn't have much of an odor unless one is sick. If you've ever given a urine sample, you'll probably notice that it doesn't really smell that much. It's when the urine is in contact with the minerals in tap water that it releases ammonia.

Well - I have a problem at home so I experimented with washing myself with just 3 gallons of water, not including my hair. It was actually pretty simple. I'm thinking of trying it if I go camping where there's no shower facilities.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Nope, I live in a house with 3 members of the male species. I am the only one who knows what that knob on the side of the toilet is for.

My husband's problem is that he is a horrible, certifiable, OCD germaphobe and he can't touch the flusher because the kids may have touched it. It's apparently ok for me to do so.