Since I learned NEVER to flush "flushable" wipes down the toilet (per my plumber friend), I have

[CTyankee]

found they make excellent cleaning wipes. I wipe down the entire bathroom with them (except for the mirror) and then put them in the bathroom wastebasket. I clean the floor with them. I shine the faucets with them. I clean the bathrooms once a day now. Everything looks great and I feel good that I can use them all up!

[efhmc]

1. Good to know.

[CTyankee]

2. My daughter told me that dental floss could also clog the pipes. Her family of five did that and

had to have the plumber come. I never would have believed that...

[progree]

8. There was an article in our city newsletter about how floss jams up waste treatment plants.

Nothing should be flushed down the toilet except toilet paper and the product of one's gastro-intestinal system.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Happened to me. Plumber snaked my sewer and pulled out a wad of dental floss.

[Grokenstein]

3. Huge Melbourne fatberg discovered after wet wipes and tissues flushed

Fatberg!! Fatberg!! Fatberg!! Na na na na na na na na na na, FATBERG!!!

https://7news.com.au/business/water/huge-melbourne-fatberg-discovered-after-wet-wipes-and-tissues-flushed-c-974232

Melburnians have been warned to be careful what they choose to flush after a 42-tonne fatberg was discovered in a sewer.

The fatberg was found by Yarra Valley Water workers and took nine hours to dislodge and remove.

It weighed two tonnes - more than the average petrol tanker.

The flushed items believed to have caused the massive blockage in recent weeks included wet wipes, tissues, paper towels and sanitary products.

Over the past few weeks, panic buying amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to toilet paper shortages across the country, with increased purchasing of wet wipes and tissues.

Folks: Get a detachable handheld shower head. When you gotta go (at home), strip down, take your crap, shake off any klingons on your tail, flush, then hop in the shower and blast your ass (carefully, to avoid any splatter onto the shower head, or accidental enemas). Stop smearing poop into your skin and save some trees!

[demmiblue]

4. Or, you could just use cloths with a spritz of vinegar...

or a bleach solution (if absolutely necessary).

Why add to the landfills when it isn't necessary?

[CTyankee]

5. sure. note to self: get more cloths from somewhere...

[demmiblue]

6. One towel would made a whole lot of cloths.

[CTyankee]

7. You mean cut up?

[demmiblue]

9. Yes.

Or, you could use extra socks. They actually work really well for numerous things (I leave a pair by the door to wipe down my doggo's paws after a rain). They are also really good for dusting... depending on the fabric.

[CTyankee]

10. good idea. I have some I dragged out of my drawer to cut up for a mask but am hoping the ones

promised me by two people will be arriving in the mail soon!

[pansypoo53219]

11. i shall never buy one. i reuse old face buff puffs. old toothbrushes.

dishrags.

[CTyankee]

13. Oh, I think folks here misunderstood. I am using up my current supply of wipes, NOT buying new

ones to clean my bathroom. I've got so many of them in my closet it'll take a while before I run out.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. From Wiki on "Fatbergs"...

Notable fatbergs

6 August 2013: A fatberg roughly the size of a bus that weighed 15 tonnes (17 tons), consisting of food fat and wet wipes, was discovered in drains under London Road in Kingston upon Thames, London.[16][17]

1 September 2014: A solid mass of waste fat, wet wipes, food, tennis balls and wood planks the size of a Boeing 747 aeroplane was discovered and cleared by sanitation workers in a drain beneath a 260-foot (80 m) section of road in Shepherd's Bush, London.[18]

September 2014: The sewerage system beneath Melbourne, Australia was clogged by a large mass of fat, grease and waste.[19]

January 2015: As part of a campaign against drain blocking, Welsh Water released a video showing a fatberg in drains in Cardiff.[20]

April 2015: A 40-metre-long (130 ft) fatberg was removed from sewers under Chelsea. It took over two months to remove, and the damage it caused cost an estimated £400,000 to repair.[21]

July 2015: A 120-metre-long (390 ft) fatberg was discovered in Welshpool in mid-Wales.[22]

January 2016: A blockage caused by a fatberg near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, damaged the Eleebana sewage pumping station. The fatberg "weighed about one tonne (1.1 tons) and took four hours to remove" by crane.[23]

September 2017: A 250-metre-long (820 ft) fatberg weighing over 130 tonnes (140 tons) was found under Whitechapel, London.[24] Even working seven days a week at a cost of £1 million per month, officials estimated it would take two months to destroy it.[25][26] Two pieces of the fatberg were cut off on 4 October 2017 and, after several weeks of drying, were displayed at the Museum of London from 9 February 2018 through June 2018, as part of the museum's City Now City Future season.[27][28] According to curator Vyki Sparkes, the fatberg became one of the museum's most popular exhibits.[29]

September 2017: A fatberg of congealed fat, wet wipes, and waste was discovered under the streets of Baltimore, Maryland that caused the spillage of 1.2 million US gallons (4.5 million litres; 1.0 million imperial gallons) of sewage into Jones Falls.[30]

April 2018: A fatberg discovered under South Bank in London is suspected to be larger than the one found under Whitechapel.[31]

December 2018: Sewer workers discovered a fatberg in Sidmouth, Devon that was 64 metres long. Workers took eight weeks to remove it.[32] It was the largest fatberg discovered in the UK outside a major city,[33] and the largest in the history of South West Water.[15]

February 2019: The largest fatberg in the UK was discovered in a sewer at Birchall Street in Liverpool. It weighed 400 tonnes and was 250 metres long. It is still (July 2019) being removed from the sewer as it is proving to be difficult to break-down using conventional tools and equipment.[34]

December 2019: The first occurrence of a large fatberg in the north of England was reported by United Utilities under HM Prison Manchester. The 170 ft-long (52m) fatberg was estimated to weigh "around the same as three elephants", taking several weeks to remove fully.[35]

April 2020: A 42 tonne fatberg the size of a Petrol Tanker was discovered in Melbourne, Australia. It's unusually large size in relation to other Australian blockages(far exceeding the 2014 and 2016 Australian fatburgs) was blamed primarily on the shortage of Toilet Paper caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.[36][37]

[CTyankee]

14. "congealed fat"? Is that from pouring leftover cooking grease down the kitchen sink?

I used to do that, back when I cooked...

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Yes. I used to pour mine into the trash, but every couple of months the plumber...

showed up because others in the complex would pour their bacon grease, wipes, tampons, and other stuff down the toilet. A little washed off the bottom of the pot is no big deal, but the fat from a pound of bacon is a no-no.

FWIW-- there really is no such thing as a "flushable wipe". TP is designed to break down really fast, but everything else has some sort of strengthener in it which keeps it a clogging mass.

[a kennedy]

17. I'm even embarrassed to say my mom, back in the day, used that bacon fat

to dang near cook everything!!!! Everything tasted so good......fat is delicious and makes everything taste great.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Oh yeah! I've used it in the dim past-- better than butter for some things...

and any good Southern cook will sing the praises of leaf lard. Olive oil is for wimps.

But, it became a gamble just not worth it any more.