I was £56k in debt & needed to save cash so stopped using LOO ROLL – you’re literally throwing money down the toilet
LOADS of families are having to think of savvy ways to save money these days. But for most of us, buying toilet roll is non-negotiable. No matter what, most families will find a way to squeeze a couple of extra pounds out of their budget to ensure there’s always fresh toilet roll on hand. But […]
LOADS of families are having to think of savvy ways to save money these days.
But for most of us, buying toilet roll is non-negotiable.
No matter what, most families will find a way to squeeze a couple of extra pounds out of their budget to ensure there’s always fresh toilet roll on hand.
But Amber Allen, along husband Joseph and their three kids, decided that it was an unnecessary expense.
“We’ve used cloth instead of toilet paper for the past three years,” Amber stated in an update video on her YouTube channel.
She continued: “We started not using toilet paper for several reasons, we were trying to get out of about $70,000 (£56,000) of debt so we cut anything out of our budget that we could.”
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The mum-of-three confessed that they got rid of their Netflix subscription and completely stopped shopping “of pretty much any kind”, as well as eating frugally.
“One day it occurred to me, why are we using toilet paper, we are literally throwing our money down the toilet.
“I just couldn’t wrap my head around why we were doing that.”
Amber decided to research alternative options to toilet paper and came across cloth wipes online, “not many people were doing it,” she admitted.
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Not wanting to waste money on buying new cloth, Amber cut up clothes that she didn’t like or that were damaged, repurposing them as cloth toilet wipes.
However the super saver quickly discovered that they wore out “insanely fast”, so she began buying second-hand baby blankets made out of flannel.
She estimates in doing so her she’s saved between £700 and $1,200 over the past three years.
The family do still buy toilet paper, but it’s for guests only, she joked: “We used to have a BYOR (bring your own roll) rule in our house.”
But the family eventually decided to be a more generous and eventually purchased one pack of toilet roll for guests to use.
As for the families used cloth, the sustainability lover explained that they keep a bucket in the bathroom with water in “to keep things nice and liquidy”
They wash the used cloths every other day, “please wash your cloth wipes in a separate load from your clothing,” she expalined.
Adding that her husband has “made the mistake of washing used cloths with our clothing” and “there’s no coming back from washing your soiled cloth with clothing or bedding without soaking everything in bathtub with baking soda.”
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Amber doesn’t judge people who use toilet paper, “do what works for you”, she said, admitting that “after using cloth wipes for years we are kind of getting tired of it.”
The process is very time consuming, she explained, adding that “it takes work, but we’re going to keep going, for now.”
