Baby wipes...
...block your bog. I know from painful experience from spending an exceedingly hung over morning with my head and shoulders down a manhole (guffaw, fnarr, fweep) scraping baby wipes from the shit encrusted waste pipes beneath my driveway, after my dear father had crimped off a length of spine, flushed and watched in horror as his poo-baby floated to the rim of the crapper.

From that point onwards, I actively encouraged my wife to desist from flushing baby wipes down the trap. My daughter uses moist paper tissue instead, which she kindly also allows me to use. Far fewer finger-through-the-damp-bog-paper-and-into-my-own-ruddy-tea-towel-holder incidences, and I get to wipe my arse with Winnie-the-Pooh. Sweet. I knew there had to be some benefits from having children.
(Tighthead, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 19:59, 3 replies)

My brother unblocked an oveflowing drain in his garden last year
and removed several carrier bags of stinky baby wipes. The wipes don't disintegrate like bog paper does and get caught in the pipes.

His family don't use them so they're coming from another household nearby. I told him to print out a letter of advice and shove copies through all the doors of the houses up-pipe from him.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 23:11, closed)

i only use them for the final wipe
Just for the extra freshness, so 1 a day max down the bog
(Kip, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 8:56, closed)

Butt (see what I did there?), that's how it starts.
Thats what they all say. You use one a day, then gradually it creeps up, and before you know it, you're up to your neck in shite, scrabbling in your drains.

We now use Tesco own toddler wipes, guaranteed not to clag your drains*, and in a choice of fruity flavours (WTF?); fruits of the forest and citrus, or something.




* may not be true
(Tighthead, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:28, closed)

*wants a citrusy tea towell holder

God knows what brand the Missus buys, the first thing she does is take them all out of the packet and put them in a Disney Cars tub so the look more appealing to the little one.
(Kip, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 13:56, closed)

For a a citrusy tea towel holder
take a plastic Jif lemon into the shower and give it a squirt.
Let us know how you get on.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:46, closed)

stung my ring sonewhat
The idea was a good one though.
(Kip, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:54, closed)

for this very reason...
... it is unwise to use kitchen roll to wipe your arse because you've run out of bog roll and are too lazy or skint to buy more. Toilet roll (and moist toilet tissue) is specifically formulated to disintegrate in water.

Kitchen roll, baby wipes, old newspapers, Conservative party election leaflets etc are either not specifically designed to disintegrate or are specifically designed not to disintegrate.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 14:54, closed)

But the Conservative party election leaflets
feel sooooooooo goooooooooooooooood.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:44, closed)