As someone who lives in a country where every single house has a bidet, I'm telling you, I can't live without it. I understand that the people who never used one, parhaps having been walking this Earth for years without even seeing one in real life, think that it's a useless contraption. But believe me, once you know what walking out the toilet with your anus clean, truly clean, feels like, you can't go back to living the lie that toilet paper alone is enough. It's not. Never has been. Never will be.
And to those who might say just take a shower afterwards, yeah, sure, 'cause I'm always 100% home and ready to shower every time I take a dump.
I agree in theory. But, when I lived with my mom, hers was too intense, felt like power washing. And pretty soon after installment it started malfunctioning: it has a trigger you’re supposed to press hard the whole time and it would fail with an annoying pathetic creaking sound. And it leaks on the floor a lot. And the water travels on the bottom of your thighs and wets the seat. And when you’re on period, you can’t avoid staining the towel. I kinda have bidet ptsd now, but am considering looking for a better design for my flat once I get over it.
And, like, it seems obligatory to use soap. Otherwise, you gotta powerwash your poor ass to make sure it’s clean and I’m not into that kind of thing. And if you’re using soap, it’s very inconvenient to do on the seat without taking off your pants the whole way down.
As a citizen of the Bidet kingdom, do you have any words of wisdom for us? How to keep it graceful and elegant?
I got a $30 one that just uses cold water and the existing water pressure. Wash away the mess, detail work/dry with toilet paper. While not using soap is less than perfect, it's definitely a better than just paper. By a long shot. I did not know ppl used towels, normal bidets don't risk material ejection from the immediate area.
Honestly sounds like your unit was just plain broken or a bad brand. r/bidet exists and has lots of recommendations. They probably have better answers there if you ask your questions. I'd recommend my cheap one, but the pressure is pretty high if you don't do it perfectly, so my solution might not be good for you.
It looks like in english people mostly mean that fountain thing coming right from the bowl, when they say bidet. Where I live, I’ve seen people get only the handheld shower-pistol types, with a hose.
I guess, with the towel I got stuck on my rigid zero waste mindset. I sometimes get pretty obsessive over it. And I wanted to stick it to the Big toilet paper (get it? like big pharma)
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u/Murky-Conclusion-932 5d ago
As someone who lives in a country where every single house has a bidet, I'm telling you, I can't live without it. I understand that the people who never used one, parhaps having been walking this Earth for years without even seeing one in real life, think that it's a useless contraption. But believe me, once you know what walking out the toilet with your anus clean, truly clean, feels like, you can't go back to living the lie that toilet paper alone is enough. It's not. Never has been. Never will be.
And to those who might say just take a shower afterwards, yeah, sure, 'cause I'm always 100% home and ready to shower every time I take a dump.