Toilet roll is surprisingly expensive and can eat up your weekly shopping budget, especially if you're a big household. One woman has found a way to by-pass this expense - by not buying any at all.
Instead she makes all her guests use the bidet installed, with no other option available for reluctant guests. Bidets are more common in certain European countries but are not found very often in the UK or US.
TikTok user @lovegood_allie, known as Allie, shared a video re-enacting what happens when everyone finds out she doesn't have toilet roll, which now has over 40.9k likes.
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"Hey, where’s your toilet paper?" the 'family member' asked in the TikTok, with Allie replying: "I don’t have toilet paper - I have a bidet."
"What the ffff? You really don’t have toilet paper?" the guest said, to which Allie responds: "Yeah, no, toilet paper doesn’t get you clean, and there’s so many chemicals that are used on it. But I can show you the bidet.
"So sit down like normal, do your business and use this. This button controls on and the pressure of the water that’s gonna come out.
"Don’t turn the dial all the way because you will get blasted."
The family member decides to use the bidet, although not without hesitation, calling it "weird" and asking for napkins or paper towels. In the end Allie shows them converted and says her family member bought a bidet themselves.
Allie's video was captioned: "Reenactment of my family seeing my holistic lifestyle, I have saved thousands of dollars since switching to a bidet!"
Despite her enthusiasm the commenters were unconvinced, with one saying: "You should definitely give people a heads up or keep some toilet paper for when guests come over. Being caught off guard by that isn't nice."
Another said: "But after it blasts water all over me I’m going to need to dry ???" which seemed to be the prevailing worry. A third said: "you need to wipe after tho bc it’s actually dangerous to leave it wet!"
Other viewers had more pressing issues like "how do you blow your nose" or "there is no way water gets all of it away".
Women pointed out that when on your period the bidet might not be the best option, while others said that in countries where bidets are common both toilet paper and bidets are used.
