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Wzz · September 2012

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VarunaTT · September 2012

Why would anyone do this? If you're that concerned about water usage, there are toilets that are $100 that have 2 differents settings: one for urine and one for poop. Is there another reason to let this happen?

ReturnOfKuus · September 2012

I do at night, but only because I don't want to make any loud noises and alert the monsters to my presence. I used to flush and then run and jump on the bed before the flushing sound stopped, but then I got a bed that had metal bedposts and damn near broke my toes doing that. So now, I wait until daylight to flush.

MNNEBride · September 2012

We flush at home every time. The only time/place I've "let it mellow" is while on mission trips to Tijuana, Mexico.

NOLABridesmaid · September 2012

I think I care more about a stubborn yellow ring and not being able to remove it. So, that's a no for me.

Wzz · September 2012

I worry about dropping stuff into the toilet and having to deal with it being wet with obvious unclean water.

MNNEBride · September 2012

I'm curious. Why do you ask? There must be a backstory.

6fsn · September 2012

I don't flush at night either. I never want to wake anyone in the house.

jojobrn · September 2012

I don't flush at night either, but husband will. We generally flush once we have both been up in the morning and I tend to flush either every or every other. We have the low flow toilets, but living where I do I grew up during some of our worst dought years out here and was trained to not flush every. single. time.

Wzz · September 2012

not really. it's one of those train of thought type things.

our new toilet flushes super loud, so i didn't want to flush it at 4am. then i thought about how some people leave it unflushed to conserve water, especially in older homes where they may have a well that is not deep enough. most instances like this, it's a vacation home so the expense of fixing the well isn't a priority. then i wondered if there are people who let it mellow in general, not in a specific place like a vacation home.

so you see, it was kind of a dumb train of thought. nothing interesting or scandelous at all.

*Barbie* · September 2012

usually overnight, and if we know the other person is going to be using the toilet in the next few minutes (e.g. we're getting ready to leave the house, i pee, then DK pees, then we flush)

GBCK · September 2012

at night, the sound of getting up and going to the bathroom has probably already woken up the rest of us (small house) unless you trapsed to the top of the basement stairs where the tiny, crampted 1/2 bath is.

I don't see this saving much water--maybe I underestimate?. (especially for those of us who have a well and septic...there isn't any 'cost' to water for me, ecologically or otherwise, unless it's a huge amount of water)

tawillers · September 2012

No. We flush every time.

DG1 · September 2012

Yeah, we practically live in the woods. The house is dead quiet, and flushing has woken up the kids on occasion. So we don't do that anymore.

For a while, H was even opting not to flush down the brown, but I told him I would much rather deal with screaming children than walk in on that, so now he only lets the yellow stuff mellow.

Dex has been trained to do this, too. He won't flush if he knows Des is sleeping. This has only caused problems on one or two occasions, when he peed in their bathroom and I didn't know it, so the toilet didn't get flushed for a few days instead of for a few hours. Gag.

MrsKathyC · September 2012

I answered yes, but it's not every time, and we don't have a sign

We do have a small-flow toilet but our septic tank and "dry well" are really old and starting to show signs of failure. We're getting ready to have some work done on the dry well but until then, we try to flush as little as possible if it's just yellow.

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