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Does Rid-X work? (ultra vanity)

Posted on 09/15/2007 2:42:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle

Seeking ways to avoid stressing a delicate septic system.


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KEYWORDS: homemanagement; ridx; septic
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To: cmsgop

May I ask how much that cost you?, sounds $$$

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Yes, 6,000 worth of $$$


81 posted on 09/15/2007 7:50:03 PM PDT by Southerngl
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To: Fishtalk
I’m not a dude my house does not stink.

None of my posts were intended to offend. I’m sorry if I came across as rude.

I was joking and I thought you were too.

Please tell me that this was a joke -

“Put a trash can next to the toilet and tell all females to depost their toilet paper there after use”

82 posted on 09/15/2007 8:01:11 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Fishtalk
I’m responding to myself because there are idiots who go Ewwwww to a perfectly good post but I am prompted to add....

....that bit about a trash can for toilet paper used by females after wiping themselves after urination


pardon me,

You didn’t specify whether it was paper used after urination or defecation. Perhaps if some idiots were a bit more clear the rest of us idiots would experience fewer misunderstandings!

Too be perfectly honest, your post looked a lot like what some folk on FR have posted as humor...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897165/posts?page=5#5

As for me, I grew up in a city and never dealt with a septic system. At least my ignorance can be cured with education. I think your’s is beyond help!

83 posted on 09/15/2007 8:08:55 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

Then I must offer an apology as well. I did misunderstand.

This is one of those kinds of posts where I must leave because I am much too wise and too much fun to waste my insightful wit on those who want to argue and act like children.

Let me leave with this: The saying is “If’s it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.”

This is a true folkism, I did not invent it, it’s been around for a long time and it is practiced by those with limited toilet facilities.

So if you “let it mellow”, which is the yellow stuff, again we apply common sense. We all have it. Females generally, unless I’m the only one, take a couple of swirls of toilet paper and wipe themselves.

Now we do not want to put this toilet paper into the toilet, keep in mind the common sense thing, to sit and mellow with the yellow stuff. Because, say, you need to add some more yellow to the mellow later and still no brown so no need to flush, well you don’t want to put even more toilet paper in the toilet. Soon, depending on how much yellow you’re mellowing in a day, if all the toilet paper was sitting and soaking in a toilet bowl, well that alone might clog up the septic system.

I have a small rather inconspicuous flip top trash can that sits next to the toilet. One can take their foot and flip it open quickly to deposit those few swirls of toilet paper now wet with maybe two to three drops of the urine that sometimes, not always but at times and it’s why we wipe ourselves, might drip off when we think we’re done with our stream. Men can generally just shake it off so to speak.

So we’re not talking a major smell thing here, use your common sense. Sorry if you , whoever you may be, don’t have any.

I’d rather have those little wads of toilet paper in that discrete trash can which nobody knows what it is for except members of the family than a toilet full of soaking toilet paper. Which is what you get if you yellow it, mellow it, and throw toilet paper in to soak along with it.

That saying...the yellow and the mellow, the brown and the down....it’s been around for a long time. It’s one of those old witticisms that folks used to live by.

So I’m done and I will not respond to any more posts because I must, move on and entertain other folk who are not so small and mean.


84 posted on 09/15/2007 8:51:35 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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To: Fishtalk

You sound an awful lot like John Kerry.


85 posted on 09/15/2007 8:57:08 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Fishtalk

If you dislike the “swamp” you live in so much, why bother continuing to live there?

I’ve had problems with Delaware for years, it’s a reason I moved, but even I never disparaged it as much as you do.


86 posted on 09/15/2007 9:23:28 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Gabz; Fishtalk
Forget about it. Fishtalk is much to wise, witty and fun to converse with us common folk.

I’m guessing she’s angry at Delaware for the same reason I really didn’t enjoy Manus, Kyrgyzstan when I passed through the area on my way to and from Afghanistan.

You see, if you needed a bathroom and didn’t know where to look you simply waited for the wind to change direction. I’m guessing the “atmosphere” in her house is similar.

It’s a common trait amongst self important, arrogant elitists.

87 posted on 09/15/2007 9:38:12 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear; Fishtalk
It’s a common trait amongst self important, arrogant elitists.

You've got that right.

I've posted my fair share of diatribes about Delaware on FR, but at least I had been living there more than 15 years, not just 15 minutes..........

Her elistist mindset about the rednecks of Delaware is part of the reason we moved.........too many of those kind moved in to get away from the cesspools they lived in, just to turn around and work to turn their new location into the same.

88 posted on 09/15/2007 9:46:50 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Gabz; Fishtalk
Her elistist mindset about the rednecks of Delaware is part of the reason we moved.........too many of those kind moved in to get away from the cesspools they lived in, just to turn around and work to turn their new location into the same.

What annoyed me is she expected me to understand the purpose behind her bathroom antics.

I grew up with city plumbing! Previously, I had only heard about people throwing toilet paper in a garbage can in Mexico!

Small minded people can seldom understand that people from different backgrounds won’t necessarily understand the odd practices of others.

I really shouldn’t be having this much fun but I have no doubt she’s watching this thread. She must be fuming because she swore she wouldn’t respond to any posts.

;-)

89 posted on 09/15/2007 10:04:30 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: spunkets
Way too complicated.

Not exactly an "Energy Star" rated appliance, either. Those heating coils suck some kilowatt-hours.

The upside, though, is the potential for mischief after emptying the ash bin. Bring some to work mixed into one of those "International Delight" coffee flavorings - and offer some to your liberal co-workers or employees. :-)

90 posted on 09/16/2007 12:38:05 AM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: IncPen

RID X ping


91 posted on 09/16/2007 1:37:57 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
He said that he went to Mexico on vacation and wherever it was they went, they did not flush used toilet paper, figured that it would always clog the pipes

I'm friends with two local plumbers (and we have a sizeable hispanic population)...they say this is true and one of the more disgusting things they see in homes.

It's a cultural thing - in rural Mexico, everything's pretty much just a pit system.

The local WalMart, by the way, has bilingual signs in the bathroom stalls requesting that used paper be flushed...but you still see lots of wads on the floor. Wifey now "holds it" until we get home.

92 posted on 09/16/2007 6:32:11 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: antisocial

Add celery, eggshells, potato peelings, and the like. Being on septic, we run as little as we can down the disposal.


93 posted on 09/16/2007 6:34:44 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: j. earl carter
I put the head in a garbage can full of water and Rid-x. The flesh was completely gone (skin, hair, muscle, cartilage, everything) in just a couple of weeks.

Cool! I'm pretty unhappy with how long the local ant mounds have been taking to dispose of my enemies bodies.

94 posted on 09/16/2007 6:37:11 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Mamzelle

Save yourself some money and pour a few packages of yeast and a few Tablespoons of sugar down the drain each month.


95 posted on 09/16/2007 6:38:43 AM PDT by senorita
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To: Gabz

But William Donald Schaefer said there’s no indoor plumbing on the Shore!


96 posted on 09/16/2007 6:43:30 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Mamzelle

FWIW, I used it and when I sold my house with a forty year old spetic system, it passed the Massachusetts Title V inspection, probably the strictest inspection in the country. (Especially since it was within 300 feet of a stream, which ups the standard.)

The inspector (a private contractor), who was hoping for a lucrative remediation job, looked crestfallen as he mumbled, “I can’t fail it just because it’s old.”

I also had it pumped annually, and about ten years before, had inlet baffles installed. (Inlet baffles prevent churning, which allows solids to remain suspended and get into the leaching field.

I would suggest annual pumping, ensuring that your inlet and outlet baffles are in good repair are more important.

As to Rid-X, “can’t hurt”.


97 posted on 09/16/2007 6:47:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Mamzelle

Paging Mike Rowe!


98 posted on 09/16/2007 6:47:34 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: ErnBatavia

“but you still see lots of wads on the floor. Wifey now “holds it” until we get home.”

The toilet paper?

Sorry, I couldn’t resist!


99 posted on 09/16/2007 6:52:24 AM PDT by listenhillary (millions crippled by the war on poverty....but we won't pull out)
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To: Scarchin

Don’t miss the deer head story...


100 posted on 09/16/2007 7:12:20 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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