Flushing the toilet after every wee.

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10 litres per flush is a huge amount of water per wee (that's what I believe our cistern holds).
I don't think it's necessary to flush after every wee. My friend thinks I'm tight and unhygienic.
What's your view...
Are you a 'if it's yellow let it mellow'...I am reasonable
Or...'eww you filthy sod'..I am unreasonable

I mean…sure they’re my kids but their skin still has dirt and bacteria that sloughs off into the bath water!

I get regular utis anyway, I cannot imagine it is in any way hygienic to bathe in someone’s used bath water, even if that someone is a small child? I mean, some times I have a quick shower or strip wash to save water, but I could not use someone else’s used water. I find that weirder than the no flushing thing from a hygiene perspective.

Frigging hell, reading this thread worries me who my daughter is going to meet and marry and have to TRAIN to flush the fucking toilet every time. I didn’t know I lived and worked amongst such minging behaviour. Eye opening.

It’s 2026 people. It hasn’t stopped raining since Christmas.

It's absolutely gross not to flush. My children drive me mad not flushing. To be fair the youngest can't reach but the others have no excuse. It reeks and it stains the limescale so the toilets look absolutely minging and I am the only one who bothers to clean them

If I'm literally going right after them e.g. in a public toilet or it's a forced wee before we go out then OK you can have two wees to one flush. But leaving the wee in the toilet is horrible and I'm sure the miniscule amount of water saved is counteracted by the extra chemicals I have to shove down the toilet to clean it.

I don’t flush during the night as it wakes people up.

👏👏👏 I’m so glad my MIL wasn’t one of the non flushing brigade and showed her sons how to flush a toilet. This place is madness at times!

My bill is ridiculous since partner moved in but I never thought of this to save a bit as I’m in on my own all day working and have an issue smelling bad things anyway so this may be a good shout for me mid week! We put blue toilet block down every loo so I think it should still clean ok. Cheers

I've got kidney issues so need to flush everytime. My toilet uses between 4 and 6 litres. Got to keep an eye on the colour so need the toilet to be clean to do that.

It smells so I flush

I'm with your friend here! Not sure I could leave a toilet without flushing! I don't fancy seeing it either on my next visit in 🤢

I'm on a water meter and definitely don't flush after every wee (I do if I have guests and it kills me!) That's a complete waste of water IMO.

DH says I have beefy wees so I have to flush 😂

This is why I insist too
Surely everyone else can smell it? My ex used to leave it and the smell would actually make me gag.

Plus it stains

Vom.

Can I play the 'foreigner' card and ask what the deal is with sharing bath water? So, you have a bath and when you're finished you leave that lukewarm water full of soap suds and skin cells and the dirt you scrubbed off yourself, so the next person hops into THAT water and uses it to clean themselves? I don't want to google it 😬

Not playing all superior, we do wacky stuff where I'm from too.

With regards to the flushing question, yeah sometimes I pretend to 'forget' to flush so we can save some water, but that's mainly because I work from home a lot and have a bladder the size of a subatomic particle.

I dont go to Greece.

I can camp in a tent or stay in a 5 star hotel but I need a fully functioning flushable toilet, even if I have to walk across a muddy field to get to it!

It has rained non stop here for weeks. I have no concerns about flushing the loo. We don’t at night for urine though.

I have an overactive bladder so pee very very frequently. I use our en-suite and only flush every third pee, and only because I worry that too much paper would block the loo. If I were a man I would probably only flush once a day!

I've always flushed loo roll in Greece 😬 I'm just a bit more careful about the amount of paper I use in one go 😬 More than thirty years I've been doing this, never blocked any toilets. Also just FYI that there's loads of establishments in Greece, be it cafés or hotels or whatever, where you are more than welcome to flush loo roll as all the plumbing has been updated. The flushing thing isn't something that happens by default everywhere in the country.

You could put a closed bottle of tap water in your cistern and reduce each flush by 1.5 litres. Or a brick.
Use the toilet, flush the toilet and PUT THE LID BACK DOWN!

People also used to bathe once a week, share dirty bath water, use outdoor bathrooms and throw chamber pot contents from upstairs windows. We’ve progressed.

I live on my own so don't always flush after a wee - but I usually do out of habit. If anyone else is staying, including my partner, I always flush. I wouldn't want to see his wee so don't expect him to look at mine.

White vinegar in the loo, leave a few hours or overnight, comes off really easily. Might have to use a dreaded brush for a once over though, sorry!

Or maybe your daughter will meet and marry someone who will TRAIN her in his ways, or will he not be allowed a contrary opinion in his own home? A typical MN woman then, my way or the highway!

This is nothing, I once caught a friend peeing in a mug in her kitchen, then tipping it down the sink, washed down with a tiny splash of water. She said it was to save water, but omg I have never been back there since 😂She probably shat down the garden

I don’t flush after every wee. It does not smell as the amount of urine is small comparing to the quantity of water in the bowl. I often put a little bit of bleach in the bowl so the bowl doesn’t stain.
If I have guests I obviously flush.

I also have shallow baths and wear my clothes more than once before washing them (except for underwear, socks and base layer touching my underarms).

Doing otherwise would feel wasteful and unnecessary.