A sticky question of toilet paper for liveaboards

[Orange]

Whenever we have chartered a boat, we have always used plastic bags to store used toilet paper. We would prop up a plastic bag in each head & throw it away in a suitable receptacle every few days. Although we can put up with unsightly bags on our own boat, the biggest minus of this process is the very high usage of plastic bags long term.

Planning for our liveaboard boat, I wonder what others would suggest on how to temporarily store toilet paper?

 

[Tony Cross]

If you look around, especially in the Med, you'll find you can buy small bins that you can put the plastic bags into. That way they don't look quite so unsightly.

 

[alant]

Whenever we have chartered a boat, we have always used plastic bags to store used toilet paper. We would prop up a plastic bag in each head & throw it away in a suitable receptacle every few days. Although we can put up with unsightly bags on our own boat, the biggest minus of this process is the very high usage of plastic bags long term.

Planning for our liveaboard boat, I wonder what others would suggest on how to temporarily store toilet paper?

Change your diet if it gets that sticky.

 

[Orange]

The unsightly bit is not so bad, unless we have land lubber visitors. The concern is the high usage of plastic bags.

 

[FirstAway]

We use disposable nappy bags in a small bin, about the right size to disposed of every day or two, and cheap.

 

[Orange]

That's a good idea, thanks.

 

[Sandyman]

Rolls of doggie poo bags.

 

[Orange]

Yikes!

What do you do with them short term?

 

[catmandoo]

Change your diet if it gets that sticky.

Dont use toilet paper at all . Go to supermarket and get dishwasher brush with disposable pads . each pad can last a long time if you wash in the pan after flushing or shoogling in sea water in a bucket


Get one with a nice curve on the handle and with foam pads - easy to us when sitting on the loo too . Don't use washing up liquid . It nips

 

[GrahamM376]

Yikes!

What do you do with them short term?

At least they keep the flies away from the galley

 

[Orange]

Dont use toilet paper at all . Go to supermarket and get dishwasher brush with disposable pads . each pad can last a long time if you wash in the pan after flushing or shoogling in sea water in a bucket


Get one with a nice curve on the handle and with foam pads - easy to us when sitting on the loo too . Don't use washing up liquid . It nips

Giggle! At least you didn't suggest Brillo pads?

 

[Orange]

At least they keep the flies away from the galley

Good idea then!

 

[GHA]

Planning for our liveaboard boat, I wonder what others would suggest on how to temporarily store toilet paper?

Don't use it

Do what lots of the world does and have a little wash down there with the shower head, then all you need to do is dry

 

[Orange]

I'm just about to have my dinner. :disgust:

 

[affinite]

We use disposable nappy bags in a small bin, about the right size to disposed of every day or two, and cheap.

+1

 

[NormanS]

Strange customs in foreign parts. What do you people do at home?

We flush ours down the loo.

 

[greeny]

Hang the full bags off the pushpit rail along with the empty plastic water bottles.

 

[NormanS]

Hang the full bags off the pushpit rail along with the empty plastic water bottles.

You're not one of those disgusting doggy walkers who hang their bags of dog shit on fences and trees, are you?

 

[GHA]

Strange customs in foreign parts. What do you people do at home?

We flush ours down the loo.

Depends what you think of as foreign
In probably a large proportion of the world people have a wee wash, and think of using paper as a bit, well, ugh!

If you want to clean your hands you don't rub them on a bit of loo roll, do you?

 

[NormanS]

Depends what you think of as foreign
In probably a large proportion of the world people have a wee wash, and think of using paper as a bit, well, ugh!

If you want to clean your hands you don't rub them on a bit of loo roll, do you?

It's not the method that repulses me, it's the storage of the paper, if the paper method is chosen.