Frances pees more than anyone I have ever met. More than me, in fact, and many of my friends would say I am the most frequent pee-er they know. She pees especially much in the middle of the night, so much that there is often a line to use the bathroom. Over the past couple of weeks, whilst sharing a bathroom AND doing the household toilet paper purchasing, I calculated that she goes through 1/2 roll of toilet paper per night. Per night, folks. That's one roll of TP every two days. Frances is also the president of Green Group at her High School, and prioritizes environmental sustainability in her daily routine. So, if it's yellow she lets it mellow, accumulating 1/2 roll of yellow, mellow toilet paper in the toilet bowl over the course of the night. You can imagine the clogging.
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| Frankie Jane on Day 1 Also featured: pee rags and wooden box for used ones |
We have cut up some squares of old shirt and stowed them in a basket. When we pee, we will use a square and dispose of it in a wooden box with a lid. When we have used a round's worth of pee rags we will boil the used ones for reuse. The only time we will use toilet paper is in the case of a poop. Even when we poop, though, we have agreed that if we think in was a "clean sweep" (a solid poop that slid out without leaving gushies on butt hole) we will then also use a pee rag.
This is a cool environmental website for people who do little things to help save the planet. In High School I ordered shirts for a bunch of people when we started our composting system. They should make ones that say "Use a Pee Rag". "Cloth Diapers" is pretty much the same, though. If this all works out maybe we will order shirts,
wear them for a little, and then cut them up to use as more pee rags.
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1/18/16: we never used the pee rags. In fact, I think they are still in that little box near the toilet, untouched.
