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Pot of Gold

Posted by Helen Killer

48 comments

I don’t know about you, but when I go to the bathroom I want my own personal toilet paper, not a pile of communal ass rags. That’s a level of closeness I don’t need to reach with anyone. And how is this even good for the environment? Think of all the extra loads of laundry you’re going to have to do just to get your toilet paper clean. If you’re going to do this, at least make them all brown.

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Oct 14, 2009
8:33 am

#1 blablover5 :

Or if your old Uncle Hubert comes over and sees some of those lying around he’s gonna think “Hey, free handkerchief for my suit”

Ugh

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Oct 14, 2009
8:42 am

#2 The Mayor of Bethville :

Honey! Can you bring me some rainbow cloth wipes to replace toilet paper?

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Oct 14, 2009
9:59 am

#3 pottery123 :

Man, i am going to start carrying a roll of toilet paper in purse, just in case I am ever visiting anyone who uses these.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:11 am

#4 sar-sar :

That is so unsanitary.

Anyone else remember the forum thread where someone was asking if they should sell their old used underwear, or recycle them into a product…
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5976287
yuck.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:29 am

#5 worldfamousfudgy :

The only thing more disturbing than the existence of this listing is the number of “sets” this seller has sold. There is nothing sanitary about wiping your butt with cloth– especially when you consider that the “wipes” will have to accumulate until you have enough to wash a load of laundry. Disgusting concept.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:33 am

#6 vangoghbabe :

I want mine monogrammed, damn it!! That way no one, and I mean no one, will mistake them for their own!

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Oct 14, 2009
10:36 am

#7 bllsunrise :

Tickets!!!!!!Get your SHIT tickets here!!!!!!

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Oct 14, 2009
10:37 am

#8 Helen Killer :

@worldfamousfudgy – She also makes WASHABLE TAMPONS.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:39 am

#9 nutcase :

@vangoghbabe: or wants to steal them.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:50 am

#10 vangoghbabe :

they will go great with my Pokemon reusable sanitary napkin……hey…wonder if anyone would notice the table linens changed this holiday season????

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Oct 14, 2009
11:40 am

#11 smartiepants :

ok and btw the reusable paper towels are also called hand towels … fyi

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Oct 14, 2009
12:22 pm

#12 Flo Moe :

Where does one store the dirty ones after use? That is what really bothers me. Do you just stack up a poopy pile on the back of the toilet until laundry day?

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Oct 14, 2009
12:47 pm

#13 vangoghbabe :

So, we’ve all decided these little square fabric wonders have multiple uses…toilet paper(given), hankies, napkins for thanksgiving(can get the colors for each season to correspond), coasters, fill them with beans to play corn hole games in the back yard with the kids…no pun intended….

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Oct 14, 2009
1:07 pm

#14 ebeth :

This all started with those damn Luna Pads…what’s next? knitted condoms?

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Oct 14, 2009
1:16 pm

#15 nutcase :

they could also have sent them in the windows 7 party packs. you know: napkins, coasters…

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Oct 14, 2009
2:03 pm

#16 coolmama :

I’ve thought everything so far was hysterical, but I’m jumping to the defense of this one!

We use cloth wipes (though not nearly as fancy as these!)

They are no different than cloth diapers, though maybe everyone here thinks those are gross, too? I don’t understand why the idea that they are unsanitary– they get washed! Seriously, not a big deal.

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Oct 14, 2009
2:07 pm

#17 Mom24Babes :

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Oct 14, 2009
2:41 pm

#18 John Foley :

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Oct 14, 2009
4:00 pm

#19 gazoo :

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Oct 14, 2009
7:47 pm

#20 YankBoffin :

Laundry is one of the most energy-intensive processes that goes on in a home. This isn’t helping. Just use 100% recycled TP. It’s not too bad price wise if you order from Amazon.

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Oct 14, 2009
7:49 pm

#21 vangoghbabe :

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Oct 14, 2009
9:54 pm

#22 Jenni :

@sar-sar,
I will now OFFICIALLY never buy anything from etsy for fear that it’s filled with used underwear. Thank you.

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Oct 14, 2009
10:34 pm

#23 PussDaddy :

Waves to the toilet paper/stuffed plushie thread. I missed you! I wrote a poem in your honor.

We don’t care
What they say
Stuff plushies full of used panties
And fuck the CPSIA!

PussDaddy

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Oct 14, 2009
10:36 pm

#24 PussDaddy :

For those of you comparing these to cloth diapers, how many of you actually crap your pants into a cloth diaper?
Which leads me to ask, why does my new plushie smell so bad?

PussDaddy

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Oct 14, 2009
10:40 pm

#25 EMPM :

This is exactly what I have been looking for! There is nothing like the feeling of a tiny rainbow cloth wipe running across a dirty anus. And the real beauty is, they change colors depending on what you eat!

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Oct 14, 2009
11:40 pm

#26 priceless :

I’m with #24 on this one: Close your eyes and imagine changing a cloth diaper on a baby… strategic placement of hands on the cloth, proper sealing/disposal etc.
Now think of WIPING YOUR ASS WITH A HANKIE THEN CASUALLY THROWING IT IN THE OPEN HAMPER NEXT TO YOU. Yum, what a nice aroma to have wafting through your entire house not to mention the lovely cleanup and the nice microbe filled scum it will leave on whatever they touch… a little H1N1 anyone?

Not exactly a direct analogy.

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Oct 14, 2009
11:41 pm

#27 priceless :

Honey, what have I said about restocking the bathroom?!?! You KNOW I can only shit on the red ones!

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Oct 15, 2009
2:12 am

#28 primitiveperson :

Given that you need to flush away what you’ve done in the toilet anyway, I can’t see any major issue with the environmental impact of toilet paper. You do what you need to do with it, and dispose of it neatly and quickly.

With these things, you’d need some sort of container to store them in until you had enough of them to wash, and you’d have great difficulty containing the smell. Also, you’d have to wash them at a pretty high temperature to get them really clean, which uses a lot of water, detergent and energy, and would you really want to wash them alongside your clothes? If you did, there’s a risk of cross-contamination, i.e. stains and smells on your clothes! So, you’d have to wash them as a separate load, which is even more uneconomic and wasteful!

If you really want to abandon toilet paper, do what various Asian cultures do, and use your hand and a bowl of water.

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Oct 15, 2009
2:15 am

#29 primitiveperson :

The thing with cloth diapers is that you’d generally get enough of them to fill a whole laundry load in a day or two, which makes them somewhat more efficient, and if you’re using them, you’d normally have some sort of storage container for them, and be willing to accept some of the inconvenience.

With these, I suspect there’s almost zero appeal, even to hardcore Greens. Recycled toilet paper has been available for years.

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Oct 15, 2009
11:18 am

#30 Eveline :

People who have no problem with this clearly never went to the toilet after my beloved boyfriend… I would NOT want to save up all his used toiletcloths until I’d have enough to wash them.. EEWWWW!!

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Oct 15, 2009
11:54 am

#31 tomasz. :

50 tiny cloth rainbow wipes to replace toilet paper

Fads to replace common sense

Disease to replace hygiene

Shit to replace everything

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Oct 15, 2009
12:31 pm

#32 BillsBayou :

Ever eat too much of any cuisine to which you’re not accustomed? It goes through your system like a freight train. It comes out like cookies made of corn and peanut encrusted chocolate tar. Where am I supposed to put these eco-friendly e-coli wad-bombs of cloth? Am I supposed to give the cloth a shake to remove any hangers-on before dropping the cloth into a bucket? I doubt my efficacy at shaking a sticky tootsie roll off of cloth and into the bowl. It’s more likely going to flick off over the seat and onto the wall; or worse, me.

So. Who’s in charge of removing the corn-packed tar-cookies from the cloth before it goes into the wash? Are we going to find corn and peanuts in the dryer lint-trap? Do you know why it’s brown? Your liver, the toxin-filter of the body, pumps bile and bilirubin into the colon to digest food and dispose of toxins. What can’t be digested just passes on through. Is this what you want tumbling around your front-loading washer?

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Oct 15, 2009
1:35 pm

#33 PussDaddy :

Toilet paper is bio-degradable people. Ever tried to wipe up some water with it? It shreds to pieces and disintegrates in your hands.

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Oct 15, 2009
5:54 pm

#34 vangoghbabe :

OMG, thought of another use….if you request a scrubbie side you can have a facial cleaner/exfoliator or you can use it to scrub the pots and pans…or the dishwasher safe dildo damn, the gift that keeps giving.
I wonder if we could get the Twilight guys face ironed on one..or two

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Oct 17, 2009
1:51 pm

#35 HomeAlone :

Wait, if they are multifunctional, is the one that gets used as an ass-wipe going to be on my dishes later? I guess you could color code, but then what if you forget the code?? I should tell my hairdresser about this. She would faint because she won’t even wash socks in the same load as underwear.

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Oct 18, 2009
2:16 pm

#36 Karma :

Between these things in the hamper and faithfully following the rule “mellow if yellow” your *green bathroom* will smell as fresh as a sewer.

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Oct 24, 2009
10:48 pm

#37 etsygirladdict :

Item sold on 10/23

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Nov 3, 2009
6:27 am

#38 ihatecowls :

oh and oh so hygenic. I want chunks of poo floating around with my smalls on wash day

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Nov 5, 2009
3:55 pm

#39 Stingray Charles :

I could really use these to teach my kid how to mix colors, “red and brown make reddish-brown, blue and brown make bluish-brown…”

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Nov 11, 2009
11:10 am

#40 WrathOfFoamy :

Well, at least you could get fancy ones embroidered by Lady Caca there, and have nice guest bum-wipes… Just be sure to keep the Purina bag close by, to use as the hamper.

I wonder if the people who bought these things, just ended up using them then throwing them away once they realised how truly disgusting washing these things would be?

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Nov 11, 2009
8:49 pm

#41 itlives :

No more Under or Over arguments! Woo-hoo!

I remember flushing a washcloth down the toilet as a small child. It took a couple flushes to get that puppy to go down. My mother was not pleased. You know that’s how those things would end up, all basic hygiene/21st century/ruined washing machine/amoebic dysentery issues aside.

But aren’t those things sewing patches?

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Nov 26, 2009
12:32 am

#42 snarkeygirl :

Bidet! That is all!

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Dec 3, 2009
9:04 pm

#43 grace289 :

Actually, thanks for bringing up the cloth diaper thing. I’m single and have no kids…so I don’t really know how cloth diapers work. XD But yeah, totally cleared up the debate in my mind. These…hankie/TPwhatevers are totally gross.

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Dec 15, 2009
4:40 pm

#44 kittyofassisi :

Hey I could have used these last week when my pipes were frozen and I didn’t have any water so I put the TP in the garbage instead of flushing it because I had to manual flush with a bucket of water and was trying to not have to do that too often.

No wait! I would not have had water to launder them.

oh forget it.

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Jan 25, 2010
11:24 pm

#45 Madeline :

This person has lost all common sense, trying too hard to be “green” but ended up just being gross. When guests come, these would be like those towels no one feels comfortable using, so people will have to wipe with their underwear. Either way, the result is diapers for grownups.

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Mar 20, 2010
1:01 am

#46 sugaryfun :

The description isn’t there any more so I don’t know about this one but I have seen a description for a similar item that said specifically that it is not for number 2s, just for pee. I can’t see how that’s any worse than cloth nappies or cloth menstrual pads (you just wash them)and you wouldn’t use an open hamper- obviously a small bin with a lid that seals like a small nappy bucket would be better. It’s not something I’d inflict on guests (explaining it must get old) but I might try it…

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Jul 6, 2010
7:25 pm

#47 sugarego :

how many times a day do you pee? like 3? 4? multiply that times the number of people in your house, and add that to the day’s laundry. not that much. you would probably do the same # of loads of laundry each week. the little bit of fabric this adds to your laundry seems negligible.

t.p. isn’t just about waste. it’s about manufacture. usually made of virgin pulp, and bleached (which means dioxin is created). & if you’re using these, hopefully you also know not to waste water to flush…

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Jul 12, 2010
6:27 pm

#48 DRAFTROBIN :

we use these at our house, but only for #1…no #2, we use TP for that. I also use cloth pads. I throw the pads in the shower with me and let them rinse, then throw them all in the washing machine when I wash table napkins, nose napkins, denim, towels. I use hot water, and the items are so small, i dont have to add extra loads of laundry, they fit in the loads im already washing. they do not smell. We put them in a wetbag, just like we did cloth diapers.

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