When I go to people’s houses, their toilet paper area never seems to have as much of that goddamn dust all over the place. Is it my toilet paper? I swear even when I clean, there’s a film of that stuff that comes up all over the toilet and behind the toilet. Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: I have a bidet. You still need to dry your ass and vulva with a bidet. Guests still want toilet paper. Now I’m more concerned - do y’all not have toilet paper just because you have a bidet?? It’s not safe to leave your ass moist!

Sounds like it’s a brand issue though but my partner is unwilling to switch from the ultra soft whatever we have so I guess I’m SOL.

  • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
    47·
    1 天前

    Everyone wipes down their bathrooms before company comes over, and lives with a layer of TP dust and pubes the rest of the time.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    19 小时前

    I’ve never had toilet paper like that. I buy supermarket own brand stuff here in the UK. Even when I’ve bought cheap stuff I’ve not had that issue.

    Switch to a different brand. The paper they’re using is bad of it’s flaking off all the time.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    19 小时前

    You’re probably buying ultra soft fluffy cloud nothing but air toilet paper. You’re also probably not using a bidet.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      18 小时前

      Yeah, thanks, it sounds like you’re right since people using other brands don’t seem to have this issue. My partner is extremely particular about this brand of TP though so I guess I’m just gonna have to live with it.

      • db2@lemmy.world
        1·
        17 小时前

        Unless it’s an allergy issue just get something else and put it in the old bag. I did this with dish soap until others admitted the store brand at half the cost worked just as well… they couldn’t deny it as they’d been happily using it for months without complaint.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    13·
    12 小时前

    Personally I think the bidet is the problem - you aren’t going through tp quickly enough. It has more time to fall apart.

    All I got is try other brands and clean more often.

    While you say your partner is unwilling to switch, there are still multiple ultra soft brands. For example I’ve switched from Charmin Ultrasoft to Kirkland (Costco). It seems just as soft, but it has less dust, its individual sheets are bigger, and it’s cheaper

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      12 小时前

      Yeah, that dust is getting on your vulva, I have a bidet too. I prefer papers that are similar to scotts, where there is no dust. That extra soft stuff is aweful.

      I’d buy what I wanted and just use it myself if my husband cared.

  • waitaminute@midwest.social
    13·
    1 天前

    Omg this happened to me for the first time with the last batch of toilet paper I got. It was from target. I never had that happen before that!

    Got toilet paper from aldi this time and thank god it is better.

    • adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca
      8·
      22 小时前

      You still need to wipe after using a bidet. Whether you’re wiping water off your butt or poop, I highly doubt in either case anyone is using that towel on their face afterwards, so it’s moot. You’re either keeping poo towels or you’re wiping with paper that gets flushed with the poo. If you think the former is more developed then so be it, but my diet doesn’t necessitate power washing my asshole after pooping and keeping poo towels is a non-starter for me.

    • hinterlufer@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 天前

      I don’t understand these things. All I’ve ever tried to use are waaayy too strong and cause water to splash everywhere. I do have an under-the-toilet-seat one and I like that very much, butI never got the hand of the handheld ones

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        23 小时前

        The bum gun does take some practice.

        You pretty much shuffle forward a little, position the BG behind the disaffected area, at an obtuse angle to your sphincter, ease on, I mean really ease on the gas until you can confirm that all splash is going down into the bowl, finally you can really pucker up and hit it.

        The thing is… you still need some TP to dry off after.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        1·
        24 小时前

        ah I’ve yet to try the integrated ones ! Regarding the flow, I guess it should be controlled somewhere upstream

  • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 天前

    Never heard of such a thing. I’d try different brands, does not sound normal that the paper would shed.

    But I think just about every bathroom would get regular dust buildup pretty quickly especially if it’s a flat (not a house) where one of the only outward air vents would usually be there.

    Just mentioning that because a lot of people don’t seem to clean their bathroom floors — or other surfaces for that matter, that aren’t the actual toilet seat or the faucet — all that regularly. We’ve just recently had this talk with a friend of mine who’s a bachelor and was complaining about how his bathroom is somehow built wrong or faulty because it gets so dusty so quickly, and used ours as an example of how easy we have it because his would need constant cleaning to look similarly decent.

    Had to tell them that unfortunately we are cleaning it, out of this very same necessity, very frequently and that’s the only reason it looks like it does as opposed to theirs…

    Just a thought: Maybe others just clean it more often and that’s why there isn’t dust visible. You’d be a visitor on other peoples’ homes, so they very likely do some extra scrubbing right before you visit. Maybe you just don’t happen to see the place as it is in an average day, if not actively and frequently kept clean, and that’s why you think others don’t have the same buildup. You witness your bathroom every single day after all, others only occasionally.