I was on another thread reading about how electric doorbells cost money to run and it made me think of the possible disgusting toilet habits of OzBargainers to save a few cents.
So, the Poll question is "What's your toilet flushing behavior?"
My personal preference is to always flush.
Wait until you hear about a thing called rain. It'll blow your mind.
@Protractor: Are you one of those guys who sits in the middle of the Nepean Highway blocking traffic
@OzzyOzbourne: Maybe blow the cobwebs off, and use your primary school googling skills?
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-wate…
https://www.wri.org/insights/highest-water-stressed-countrie…
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250726234415.h…
For starters more and more water is used,altered,and/or locked up in industrial process taking it out of the system.
@Scrooge McDuck: Next minute: Local environmentalist shocked to discover the motion of the ocean is due to the moon
The problem with rain is … it needs to be caught.
ie. dams.
And you know where they built the dams?
Where there was available land.
Not where it rained the most.
And you know where they built the dams?
Where there was available land.
That's not really correct. The land is purchased as needed and it's more about the surrounding catchment than the actual rain that falls on the lake.
There is one dam in NSW the lake rarely fills because it was built in a rain shadow and (what a shock) the land that was purchased happened to belong to a politician but hey-ho it was the 1960s/70s.
the land that was purchased happened to belong to a politician but hey-ho it was the 1960s/70s.
Luckily its 2025 and stuff like that doesn't happen anymore.
/s
Explains why your sandwich is wet
Mostly its about the amount of water, rather than the money.
I do it just in case a parched Bear Grylls ever comes for a visit
No to mention it causes havoc with your plumbing the silent build up of calcium in those pipes is crazy!
Plumbers love this one trick.
'how much money does flushing the toilet cost?'
urine the money - I did the math - my 11 litre cistern (new ones may be smaller) at $2.20/KL would cost $2.20x11/1000 = 2.4c/flush
I have a toilet weight on the flush tube to help seal the sometimes leaky base flat round washer, and I hold the flush button down 4 seconds for pee, 12 seconds for poo - so pee might use say 40% or closer to 1c/flush
however, as I live in a strata unit with a single common water meter, my unit entitlement share is 1.4% of common bills
so my net cost of toilet flushing is then more like 1.4% of 1 or 2.4c/flush
making it more like 0.014c/pee and 0.034c/poo
6 pees/day=0.084c/day, 1 poo/day=0.034c/day, total 0.12c/day
but if I paid the whole bill myself, more like 8.4c/day
I'll let myself out now …😞
Ha ha nice work.
I wonder what all these people who have toilets full of stinking p*ss do with their extra 8 cents a day?
"It's $30 a year!!!!!" they will cry
If there's noticeable smell I'll flush, otherwise it's wasted water. It's possible you're underhydrating.
Now do the amount of water flushed per 26 million ppl, flushing 2 or 3 times a day.
(I'll let you off the extra 1.5 million over-stayer plane arrivals,)s
You'll be pleased to know Sydneysiders at least will soon be drinking and washing with and flushing with the same water (and pee and poo and soap and food waste and industrial chemicals) that gets 'wasted' by being used for sanitation.
Anyone who follows this rule is mentally ill in my opinion.
Flushing toilets with fully treated, potable, safe to drink, drinkable water is obscene.
Imagine if using bottle drinking water instead. Will anyone?
Water, every drop counts.
When you consider that it costs billions of dollars PA to make all our water drinkable, and about 80-90% is used for anything but drinking or washing, we deserve to pay through the nose for water, or be forced to use retreated water.The idea that pure drinkable ancient water, that took thousands of years to filter it's way into finite aquifers can be wiped out in a few decades is abhorrent.
Most of the water we treat to world standard drinking quality is used for industrial shit,watering lawns.washing rocks,cars and any manner of third/fourth priority uses, you'd think the whole country was Waterworld, and not a desert dominated continent. If we paid the full price for the water we used, people would be paying $20 a litre for basic bottled water instead of $6. That day will come. Sooner than people think.
Self-flagellation with a side serving of sea water. It's fun for the whole family and it's what we deserve, god damn it.
@Daabido: OK money bags. Pay triple and more,each year $$ for your desal water, and watch the ocean cark as the hyper-saline water slowly kills it off. And spend a hundred$ a week on bottled water for your morning latte. Nobody cares.
Electric doorbells with a camera is a smart idea. Get the battery version and recharge batteries off solar, or get the powered version and hack together some solar for it.
PoE + Solar powered home + Solar battery.
install a urinal
will they flush the urinal though….
Pee outside! Dogs and Cats do!
Mine like to pee inside on the couch
Your choice!
In the tropics the "natural" fauna is more than enough.
🤣
If you're doing things correctly and only peeing in your toilet, you'll never need to flush. Use the toilet at the local park and save on water, toilet paper and soap. While you're on the crapper, you can make use of the free BBQ to heat some water to take home for bath time.
There was a cranky old hermit, that used to walk to the toilets/showers at the nearby park carrying buckets. Nobody went near him to look in the buckets.
i can imagine that council bbq guy also bottling up water using discarded bottles from the recycling bin at the park to take back to flush the dunny lol
(then collect the 10c refund on another day for the bottle)
I once spotted a scruffy looking guy with a high vis vest and trolley going around to all the bins in the park and collecting the containers for a 10c refund. I thought it was brilliant and wondered why I hadn't thought of it first. He'd even invested in the special key to open the door.
Take your small trolley as well so you can cook dinner….
… Which is a bin chicken, goes well boiled up with some fish sauce
Depends on the time and who's home.
If the whole family has just come back home from going out and all need to pee at once then yeah we'd leave it for the last person to flush. It'll be silly to flush the toilet like 4-5 times in like 5 minutes. Similar to if we are all heading out as a family.
If I'm the only one home and need to head out for the day, then yes I'll flush it.
why the negs. makes sense. oh nvm ozb
Who doesn’t love smelling the fermenting piss of other family members
Made me lol
I'm sure it helps build some strong bonds between them 😂
I think you all need to drink a lot more water and maybe go see a doctor…
As a parent of a young family that still remembers changing nappies, the smell of wee in toilet is nothing. If it bothers you it probably tells me you haven’t had kids before.
Just because you endure it for your baby doesn't mean you should unnecessarily force it upon yourself for life
@SlickMick: Your don’t even have to touch anything, your just pissing in a bowl. It’s nothing compared to wiping poo.
People pick up poo all day long at dog parks, that’s worse! I don’t see anyone saying don’t own dogs cause you have to pick up poo.
@cloudy: I know people who shouldn't own dogs because they don't pick up after them.
But worse than what? Dog poo in the park is worse that a toilet full of pee in your home? I disagree.
Do you guys cross swords? All for one and one for all
Flush regardless cos I’m not a grot
Tried it and found that it is a false economy because you spend more in cleaning than it saves in water.
TIL I learned that some people don't flush the toilet.
Same people probably don't wash their hands afterwards either.
Same people probably don't wash their hands afterwards either.
I'm still alive
but I hope I never meet you
I love it when I work with those people who piss and walk straight out.
Today I learned I learned that some people don't flush the toilet.
Only so the little man that lives in there gets some sleep on his RDO.
Actually they use 2 fridges, a milk and a meat fridge.
This effectively means 2x 1/7th of energy saved.
Eating 25hrs of slowly eating food that gets colder so the next pee will be on Saturday after dark.
Enough liquid to save the wick for the next day off.
Bet their Nokias charge on uneaten potatoes, every other means would be called a waste.
Where else can one save money?
Since when was this a "rule"? It's pure laziness and lack of hygiene if you're deliberately not flushing the toilet.
much easier just to use a bush in the backyard
Sort of related.. but was curious that if you drink say 5L of water a everyday, I’d imagine the first few days you’ll be peeing every 10mins
But would your body eventually think “maybe I need all this water” and you’ll eventually regulate your pee schedule?
5L is an insane amount of water to have a day?
Yes, your body does regulate your pee schedule eventually, to maybe once every hour or half hour.
source: drank 600ml an hour every hour.
Then you had a 595ml piss 5 minutes after?
Pretty much, as I didn't gain weight.
i yell out to my wife not to flush if i'm going to go number 1 straight after.. other than that always flush 1 ro 2
Thank you for your honesty
Do You Follow The “If It’s Yellow, Let It Mellow” Rule?
I think its mainly for those who run off Tank Water and in a Rural Area who want to preserve water they do have.
I have mains water available, but have a 2000L water tank for toilet water (caught from the roof). We have run out a few times in 5 years and had to switch to mains for a few weeks whilst the tanks top out.
Yeah, we also shared bath water, but now really enjoying civilisation.
As a tank water only household I can confirm this is true. We hold up to 125k litres but conscious of every drop used.
Do you find the tank water smells at all? Everyone I have asked about this tries to get you not to install it, says it gets mucky or has a musty smell and it's a pain to deal with, but I haven't heard from anyone who actually has one
For me, 2 is always a flush.
1 is usually a flush, unless someone else is waiting at the door to pee, or it is the middle of the night. That one is more out of habit than anything else, probably from childhood when the flush was a bit louder or something.
Rain water tank. So no
In some countries you are not allowed to flush after 10pm
In eastern Russia yesterday most of the dunnies got reverse flushed.
Too soon
I'll try again tomorrow.
In Soviet Russia, dunnies flush you….
Go and live there then. /s
also google donald trump pee tape
Is he still sitting down to offload his spent diet coke?
It’s good for your body to sit… easier to fart etc
@WhyAmICommenting: That may explain his latest medical condition. His legs are swollen and his ankles are filled with orange buffalo milk yoghurt. (or artificial tan residue. the jury's still out).
I'm actually surprised that the grovelling gimps around him don't siphon his toxic pustule encrusted bodily fluids around the clock. Bottle them, and flog them on truth as truth serum.
@c64: Something that small only needs a drop, or two.
( I recall Ms Daniels saying a similar thing, on another topic)
The greatest achievement by big businesses is convincing the common public that WE are the problem with global warming.
Not flushing your toilet isn't going to save the Earth, and it's surely not going to save you any tangible amount of money.
You're being a tad harsh on their stellar record.
I think the greater achievement , by scale, is how they changed the climate in such a short time and amplified extreme weather events, while simultaneously creating a cooker movement (from once intelligent humans) to convince the true intelligent ppl it's all BS.
Anyone who follows this rule is mentally ill in my opinion.
Seriously how much money does flushing the toilet cost?