....that is the question. I remember as a kid we moved to a house where the master bathroom had a bidet, and my brother and I thought that was so weird! Even today it is not something I have in my own home, but after I posted the information about toilet paper destroying our forests, I got the most unusual reply. A reader wrote in with the following point, which makes total sense (of course it is a sales pitch, but it made me think! And these sprayers that he writes about, don't require that you install a bidet):"Save
Trees? Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and
add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said
it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off
with paper, would you? You'd wash it off?
Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don?t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways."
I am definitely feeling the love, thank you! Further: A hand held bathroom bidet sprayer is so much better than a stand alone bidet and this is why: 1. It's less expensive (potentially allot less) 2.You can install in yourself = no plumber expense 3. It works better by providing more control of where the water spray goes and a greater volume of water flow. 4. It requires no electricity and there are few things that can go wrong with it. 5. It doesn't take up any more space, many bathrooms don't have room for a stand alone bidet. 6. You don’t have to get up and move from the toilet to the bidet which can be rather awkward at times to say the least. Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com