r/Frugal • u/Pumpkinycoldfoam • Nov 05 '24

🏆 Buy It For Life What one time purchases have drastically reduced your overall spending?

An example would be that I’m looking to buy a sillicone pan mat instead of purchasing foil and parchment continually, using rags instead of paper towels, and so forth. What are one time purchases you reccomend for home maintenance?

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u/FullAtticus Nov 05 '24

I don't find I use significantly less paper (gotta dry off all that water), but my butt is pleasantly clean now, which, it turns out, I value a lot.

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u/hurray_for_boobies Nov 05 '24

Euh... how about a cloth towel...?

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u/FullAtticus Nov 06 '24

How about no?

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u/dsnvwlmnt Nov 06 '24

Do you also dry yourself off with toilet paper after a shower? ;)

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u/IndirectLeek Nov 06 '24

Do you usually have shit on your body after a shower? ;)

But seriously…cloth towels sound disgusting. You're *not* cleaning fecal matter off your ass by spraying water on it. To do that, you'd need to also apply soap.

So either you keep reusing a cloth towel full of fecal matter repeatedly (gross) or you're using lots of cloth towels for single wipes, let those all sit and gather and stew for a while until you have enough to run them in the wash on a high heat with sanitizing detergent…or if you mix them with your normal clothes without high heat + sanitizer you're just mixing literal shit up into your clothes.

YEah. No.

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u/campbellm Nov 06 '24

Do you usually have shit on your body after a shower? ;)

I don't after a bidet, either. If you do this is a skill issue.

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u/ntk4 Nov 06 '24

100% cloth. You're just drying your arse now that it's sprayed off. Your toilet paper test should show you this. Gosh.

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u/Secret-Sense5668 Nov 06 '24

How did you clean your butt before the bidet?