Limits on Toilet Paper and Cleaning Supplies Are Back at Costco
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Supply chains are going to be a mess for years.
You don't need to be a hoarder, and playing the buy-and-resell game is a dick move (and a moral plane fail), but I'd suggest keeping stocked as best you can for at least a one-month timeframe. That means two months' worth of essentials, which you rotate through.
The key thing is to (a) only buy stuff you actually use; and (b) rotate it.
Pro-tip: Ikea sells a more flexible hose that works great LILLREVET.
Water plus soap = clean hands no matter the drying method. Water alone, and the paper towels did better than an air dry.
Absent soap, I'd rather use paper than just water. I'd bet it's strictly more hygienic too. Moving water spreads stuff everywhere.
Should we also shower with a lightly wet piece of TP?
There is no reason why you can't use all the same fun toys over a toilet as you do in the shower, while holding what amounts to a smaller shower head. Hands, soap, towels and even sponges!
The lack of mental creativity here is very entertaining!
I had a friend who would bring a cup of water to the bathroom, barely dip the toilet paper in water, and use the wet paper to get cleaner. But without having (and disposing of the) paper after each pass, I don't see how it would work.
One of the greatest mysteries of the universe right there.
It’s cold water but i think there just aren’t many cold nerves there or something. Definitely not the breathtaking experience of wading out into cold water.
I was kind of disappointed because I was hoping it would extinguish the morning ring of fire after a spicy dinner. It helps but not as much as i was hoping.
There’s also an adjustment period where you figure out the right pressure and get your target practice in. Now I do what I can best be described as the shaq_wiggle.gif and it’s all good.
Huge fan. Going to equip the rest of the house and save the bougie one for the hallway bathroom lol.
https://www.fluidmaster.com/soft-spa-electronic-bidet-toilet...
Home Depot and Lowe's sell these on their websites - much better suited to the task https://www.homedepot.com/p/Brondell-CleanSpa-Easy-Hand-Held...
The head part that I'm talking about is like what you posted, but you can get it much cheaper elsewhere.
It'd make more sense to get something actually designed for the task:
Nice for giving the concept a try: https://www.totousa.com/travel-washlet
For the more committed (requires a power hookup): https://www.totousa.com/products/washlet
It is probably bring pushed away by the small shower, though.
Edit: I was referring to bidet adapters (no power or hot water, attaches to existing toilet). $35 delivered, I was able to install easily in my last house, and just recently, installed for free by the management of my apartment.
It's not perfect but works good enough.
There would be electrical, drywall, and maybe even plumbing work since most toilets are in cramped areas and I would expect possibly needing to move them.
My experience is limited to high cost of living areas though.
My house was built about 15 years ago, and there's a light switch by my toilet, so I could run off of that. There is also an outlet in another room that shares a wall by the toilet, so that would be an option too.
I don't have experience with GFCI (which I imagine is probably code-required around wet areas), but running a regular outlet off of another one is super easy if one is technically (and safety) competent.
I don't think my landlord would even notice, since it blends so well, and now it powers a toothbrush charger as well.
Plumbing is a non-issue, since you just split the toilet feed with a T-joint included in the kit.
"I've found that for this to be effective you have to cut out distractions like FB, Twitter, youtube, reddit, HN, video games, etc..."
This sounds like some made up public relations excuse, and they themselves don't even know what's really going on.
https://www.supplychainbrain.com/
I'd be interested in learning of others.
Ships are backed up offshore waiting to unload delaying shipments, train terminals have run out of temporary storage space causing delays in getting stuff out of ports because there are fewer trains to load it onto, trucks and drivers are less available and unevenly available across the country, shipping containers are in short supply, ship transport costs have tripled and quadrupled, and various countries in South Asia which have very few vaccinations are having to close factories due to Delta because it spreads so fast it escapes their zero covid policies.
The root causes of it all are Delta, globally interdependent supply chains, worker and equipment shortages limiting the ability to scale up, and a much heightened consumer demand, especially in the USA. If we all bought less the problems would mostly solve themselves in a relatively short time (months). As it is, problems are expected late into next year and are likely to drive some price inflation in specific areas (trucking costs are expected to rise at least 5% and probably more, container shipments that cost $3000 now cost $15,000, delays result in shortages causing customers to pay more as they compete with each other). Manufacturing shortages are being driven by the same problems resulting in parts not arriving on time causing temporary shutdowns of assembly lines. None of this is evenly distributed, some products and areas are doing fine, some like cars and electronics will be messed up into next year. There is a shortage of paper pulp because so much has been going into making cardboard boxes to ship goods to consumers.
It's all likely temporary, just going to take a while to sort through (unless a new variant shows up). Getting the entire world vaccinated would help a lot; USA supply chains are very dependent on parts from countries all over the world.