A bidet - yes or no?

[Quattrocento]

Redoing main bathroom and changing things around. Am wondering about a bidet. I would rather like to have one - dd thinks the idea is rather revolting and the boys are keeping well out of the debate (whistling and trying to pretend they did not hear the word bidet).

So then, a bidet, yes or no? Would it put you off the bathroom if you were a hypothetical purchaser?

LOL at 4cento saying 'fifi' like dd1...

It's not the cost of towels (organic face towel in asda are perfect for the role)... it's more feeding the already overflowing laundry basket.

enough bidet talk for me for today. never thought a bidet could be such a controversial thing.

look at the mounting costs.

1. Buying said bidet
2. Using much loo rollage to mop up OR
3. Washing all those towels that you must change daily
4. Special soap only for cleaning the privates

Compare with:

1. Wipe your bum
2. change your pants once a day
3. SHower regular

Oh Pointydog, you have such a great way of summing up a logical argument.

thank you, edam

fingernails?

Have only just got to this.

Living as I do in the land of the bidet, I wouldn't bother, personally. Bidets take up a lot of space in the bathroom (they are small but you need a lot of space in order to manoeuvre comfortably around them and to hang towels, soap etc) and a shower attachment on the bath does the job in hand much more efficiently IMVHO.

If you have a very large bathroom, yoy could install a double corridor shower - much more fun .

yes, I wrote that and then thought, what's that all about?

You know on telly - or maybe cartoons - when someone feels proud and they blow on their fingernails and sort of polish them against their chest?

I did think that maybe I had a distorted image in my head of what I had seen.

Just take a bow like a Proper Edwardian Gentleman, woman! (NOT a curtsey.)

yes, I really should stop seeing my life in cartoon form and start seeing it as more of a period drama . Get myself some gravitas.

I don't recall any cartoon characters that argue as well as you do. More like a Terry Pratchett hero. Not that he does heroes as such, but you know, Commander Vimes or someone.

Or Granny Weatherwax.

I've never read pratchett

Well, you don't have to, I'm not in charge of any syllabus for adult learning or anything. BUT your very succinct post just reminded me of some of his characters. Have just finished his new 'children's' one, The Nation, which is jolly good. (It's just as good for adults, IMO he does Proper Literature just without showing off about it like Literary Novelists do.)

I miss the bidet when in the uk am a complete convert. Great after giving birth and when had infected stitches and had to rinse with some disenfectant stuff . Great for rinsing dd when she has accidents or irritated bum and want to use water only.Also superb for soaking /pre washing minirosas poo vests and babygros.

someone close to me tends not to. That's not good.

Kerry are you implying that people who use bidets do not change their pants daily ????

Ooh had been caught up in RL all day and it's good to see how many people are repelled by or interested in bidets.

Pointy, I think you are secretly fascinated by the thought of all this unnecessary (?) washing of genitalia.

Repelled? How can you be repelled by such a lovely peace of architecture? Bidets look like loveable house pets!!!!

I am actually, quatt. There's dirt fixation at work here. I'm also slightly concerned about the likelihood of chafing caused by all that splashing of the creases.

Pointydog, you have made me laugh and laugh on this thread.

Brilliant - you don't know how much I need it.

I think Moist Toilet Paper is a good compromise, for the mucky, stinky, sticky and sore.

Though I cringed when my American BIL lodger positioned a plastic box of it on my cistern.

it has been a funny thread, blu.

And that box of moist ones - I wouldn't be able to stop myself picturing him wiping and looking and wiping again and drying and looking.