WHILE most of us like to use traditional loo roll or a bidet, some families like to do things a bit differently.
Toilet paper may seem like an everyday essential, but there are people who’ve ditched the paper for something new – a reusable family cloth.
They are small squares of cloth that are used in exactly the same way as loo roll – except once you’re finished they go in a basket to be chucked in the washing machine, rather than straight down the toilet.
The new toilet item has become a major hit for a number of eco-friendly families across the world and amongst those raving about the old scraps of cloth is also stay-at-home mum Elisabeth.
The mum, who is a proud self-proclaimed ”trophy wife”, recently took to Instagram in a desperate attempt to convince fellow social media users to jump on the bizarre trend.
According to Elisabeth, whose ”clean living” content has won her close to 270k fans on her page, there are a handful of benefits of switching to family cloth in your toilet.
One of the biggest pros of ditching regular loo roll and finishing your business with old scraps of cloth was not having to fork out a fortune for regular toilet paper from the shops.
In the now-viral video, which has racked up an astronomical 51million views in less than a week, Elisabeth estimated that she and her family were saving an eye-watering £370 a month this way.
Another benefit she mentioned in the video, where she also zoomed into the grim stains left on the cloth, was every family member learning ”the responsibility and importance of cleaning” the scraps in-between usages.
Not only was Elisabeth allegedly saving a fortune on a monthly basis, the mum added that there was ”no more storage space being wasted for huge rolls of toilet pa[er clogging toxic waste”.
However, some folk weren’t quite convinced by the new idea and thousands flooded to comments to share their thoughts.
One said: ”If you’re using $465 a month on toilet paper, that poor rag ain’t gonna make it a week.”
”That’s disgusting,” wrote another in total disbelief.
”This is why the average life expectancy back in the day was 35 years old,” someone else chimed in, as fourth dubbed Elisabeth a ”f***ing animal”.
”How do I delete someone else’s [social media] account??” a person wondered.
You can make the cloths yourself by cutting up old clothing or they are available to buy in a variety of patterns and designs.
One mum who started using the cloths at home for herself, her husband and their kids, has explained what it’s really like to use them.
She told Buzzfeed: “So far it’s wonderful and I can’t imagine going back.
“In my mind, buying and using disposable toilet paper was literally flushing money down the toilet.
“If you’re wondering, ‘Why would you want to reuse something that you wipe your genitals with?’, I’d answer this question with my own question: ‘Do you throw away your underpants after each use?'”
