Do you flush the toilet when it is urine and no “solids”? This is for at home, with no one outside of the immediate family or usual residents expected to be around. Does it depend if it is a shared bathroom or your own bathroom?
Our family habit is if you are the first pee in the bowl = don’t flush, if you are the second pee = flush.
Only under circumstances under which water is to be conserved.
Pee, left in a toilet for a while, gets a stank to it. The dogs don’t seem to mind, but the rest of us in the house not only don’t like the stanks, but are disturbed at what the dogs are drinking, whether THEY mind or NOT.
The only time we don’t flush is in the dark of night because our idiot dog takes the sound to mean we’re up and therefore we should release her from her crate. So first one up who intends to stay up will flush. And assuming we’re not under water restrictions, we flush away.
The majority of the time, no. I drink a lot of water all day and into the evening so I go a lot and by the end of the day it’s pretty colorless and odorless. I guess that changes over night though, so I’ll usually flush after the morning pee because who wants to smell *that *whilst putting on one’s makeup :eek:
There was a time in the not too distant past when I was jobless and quite poor and I had a boyfriend who was constantly at my house and the rule was the same. He unfortunately did not drink much in the way of water - just lots and lots of Guiness, and his er, byproduct was pretty concentrated. Sorry for TMI; just thought it was relevant to the subject.
I flush about every other time, whether there’s a drought or not. I always flush anything that’s there before I got to bed and before I leave the house just so that it doesn’t sit for a long time and stink things up.
At my house, yes. But there was one time when I held off. I was attending a party at someone’s summer lake house where there was sign on the toilet: NFFSWW-SSO. Accompanied with a translation: “No Flushing For Simple Wee-Wee - Septic System Overflow”.
I mean, what else can you do?
I flush no matter what; the only exception might be for a tissue I used to dry water off the sink or something. Sometimes I have to share my father’s bathroom when we have guests and he doesn’t always flush pee. I find it gross.
I live alone. I flush.
Embarrassed to say, water is insanely cheap where I live. While I’m not out there trying to waste water for funsies (like, I turn it off when I brush my teeth) I am not taking pains to conserve it.
Drought Chic. (There was a lovely collection of cartoons by Shary Flenniken. One of the cutest is a pic of a guy who is staring at a toilet that has a sign above it: “If it’s brown flush it down; if it’s yellow, let it mellow.” The caption beneath the picture is “A visitor from Vermont gets the message.”
The cats often follow me into the bathroom, and it’s important to teach them good hygiene. I flush.
Yes. My cat appreciates it.
In the summer when its hot, yes. In the winter, not as much.
I flush every time. To be honest, I thought that not flushing the toilet was a joke.
I live alone, no city water service so I have a well and a water softener. If it’s just urine, I don’t flush until I can actually smell it. If it’s the weekend and I’m drinking beer, my urine is pretty clear and odorless and in that situation I will pee many times before I flush.
I tried that for a while, it was gross. Just pee, I’d flush the toilet about once a day. It smelled awful in there, like a public restroom/locker room. On top of that, the toilet got dirty much quicker. Where I normally give the toilet a quick scrub (no chemicals) once a week and actually clean it about once a month, I found myself having to really clean the bowl, really well, about once a week.
After about a month of it I did the math. IIRC, saving, let’s say, 3 flushes per day worked out to a savings of about $5 per year. Living next to a Great Lake means water conservation isn’t an issue and I can afford the $5 per year to not have my house smell like urine. Besides, I would have spent more than that in cleaning supplies.
We don’t to save water. We also flush with a bucket in the shower. No smell that I’ve ever smelled. Yes, left long enough it does stain, but if you leave the toilet bowl cleaner in for five minutes or so before brushing it all goes away.
I remember “if it’s brown …” from a drought in New York 50 years ago. And I’m sure it was old then.
Just my wife and I, and I’ve seen much grosser stuff from here when she was in labor.
Not at night time.
I lived with a big family, growing up, and flushing the can always woke one or more people.
We’re in a drought, so I follow the “if it’s yellow let it mellow; if it’s brown flush it down” rule. Except I always flush before going to bed. That stuff can get kinda stinky by morning.
Collect pee in empty gallon jugs. Dilute approx. 10x with water ( = about the same as one flush ).
Pour into garden sprinkling can and sprinkle out in your garden. Be sure to spread it around, not pour it all in one spot.
Watch your plants grow and bloom like crazy.
Be sure to sprinkle it around ASAP, certainly within the same day, or even at 10x dilution it will get rancid and stink.
(ETA: Not sure if this is good to do every day. Maybe once a week is more like it. Too much will kill your plants. See third link below.)
Example cite. You can google to find many other articles on the subject.
Even (gasp!) Dr. Mercola is on board with this!
Cecil discusses too! Note the importance of that big dilution factor!
I let it mellow, too, even though I really don’t need to (living on the Great Lakes). It’s “brown” often enough that the “yellow” doesn’t generally have a chance to start stinking.