This is One Part of Going Green I Can’t Stomach
I’m no tree hugger. I am an avid user of disposable diapers. I like my convenience products and I give no second thoughts to their packaging. But I do try to do what I can. I am the energy police around the house, constantly nagging at Jake to turn off lights and ceiling fans when he leaves rooms, and not run the water for so long, and I recycle everything that the city I live in will allow me to recycle.
But lately I’ve decided I need to try to do more, and to that end I’ve tried to embrace this whole not flushing the toilet after every use theory of water conservation. You know, if it’s yellow, let it mellow.
Is it just me, or is it really startling when you go to pee, to lift the seat and see a previous um, offering? I can’t help it. I like a fresh bowl. I’m like that really weird little guy from Ally McBeal. It freaks me out. Seeing my own pee there is hard enough but seeing someone else’s pee hanging out makes me gag. This is why I hate public restrooms and will go to great lengths to avoid using one if possible.
This week, the first week of my experiment, Jake has been out of town so it’s only been my own pee that I encounter. I think I may have to abandon this plan. Jake I DO NOT pee in front of each other. If I can’t handle hearing him pee or seeing him pee, how on earth could I handle stumbling across his pee staring at me in the bowl? Will I ever get over this little hang up of mine? Can I get over it in time to save the planet?
I’m sorry for this post. I know it’s vile.
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the only time I don’t flush is when I think it might wake lance up in the early morning hours and i immediately flush as soon as it is morning because I can’t go in a used bowl, you a brave woman.
You can’t stand to even hear Jake pee? I must admit I’m giggling a little bit over that part.
Like the other Sarah, the only time a toilet isn’t flushed in this house is during the middle of the night.
We tend to let it mellow at night too. I try to let it mellow during the day if I remember, but the whole active toddler thing doesn’t really lend to remembering my social security number at times, let alone flushing a bowl.
We have no problem peeing in front of each other. Although, there was no mellowing when I was pregnant. That bowl had to be flushed every time he went. His pee made me literally gag when I was pregnant.
We do much the same as Statia: not much flushing overnight especially since I’m peeing 3-4 times a night.
During the day it’s different. We have a kindergartner who doesn’t have very good bathroom habits as it is so as soon as we see him head to the bathroom, we are giving the instructions: turn on the light, lift the lid, flush, wash your hands, shut off the light…even before he’s reached that step.
It’s not as big a deal for men to pee into a “used” bowl, because they are standing up and their bodies are so far away from the backsplash. I guess it wouldn’t be as gross if a woman peed into her own pee… since it probably splashed on her the first time anyway. Personally, I prefer using cloth diapers and reusable products to having my husband PEE ON MY BUM! Good for you for thinking green, though.
You are so funny! What a riot this post is .. I think Allison’s logic is right on the money!!! Peeing in my own pee is fine; and even my kids and with hubs, well we share our ensuite so pee’s all right.
Donna, you’re no freak… Lily & I are the same way. (No pee-sound-hearing, pee-watching, etc.) We’re also all about being green whichever way we can … but there’s something very natural (and perhaps green?) about wanting to rid my home of waste as soon as possible! I say flush away.