4 ms·

If you're at home, just leave a small towel where you put the TP roll. You're already clean, so now you're just drying yourself off.

• tass 2y ago
  Perhaps if you use soap you’d be clean enough for that, assuming you were the only one using the towel.
  • latchkey 2y ago
    I share space with my partner and we are both very clean in general. I certainly haven't done biological analysis, but in practice I'm totally clean afterwards. Doing a basic visual and smell test, the towel is definitely clean. Far cleaner than had I used TP. We just throw the small towel in the clothes wash after use and keep a clean stack near the toilet. Haven't bought toilet paper in many years, wouldn't go back.
    • tass 2y ago
      Ah I see. A stack of towels is very different from “a towel”. I cant bring myself to get rid of tp especially for if guests come by, but imagine towels do a better job of drying than paper.
      • latchkey 2y ago
        It isn't like you get that wet either. I don't know how big or hairy your butthole is, but it isn't like I'm getting a giant part of my body soaking wet. It is just a couple drops of water after you shake off. If you're wearing underwear, it isn't that big of a deal if a couple drops of water get on there. You probably sweat more than that into your clothes each day. People make a big deal out of something that really isn't.
        • tass 2y ago
          First thing I do when I move is install a bidet (bought the house I’m in now, so just replaced the toilets with fully integrated ones). Not buying much tp any more of course, but it still serves a purpose.