Some of the low usage toilets these days work great. Go to Home Depot and look at some of the reviews.
As for the good old days, the old toilets clogged up, too, and had plungers next to them.
Yeah. And they would overflow. Yuck.
Agreed - we always buy new toilets when we buy and move into a new home. I’ve installed a lot of them. This time I upgraded the style and bought these wonderfully sleek models with dual flush modes. I thought the design was beautiful and would make my wife very happy. She was. The design is brilliant and you would never be able to tell it saves water. Don’t get me wrong, congress can wank off for all its idiocy, but I do not mind the 50% reduction in my water bill for our home. There are additional reasons for the reduction but man, I’m good with all of it.
In a storage building where I work on my collection of jalopies there must be 10 or so toilets sitting for decades.
They are from a commercial building that got renovated a few times close by.
I’m sure the guts have long since rotted away. I haven’t touched them.
My experience with older low-flush capacity toilets pretty much mirrored the complaints about frequently having to flush twice for an efficient removal of waste from the bowl. But I've bought two high seat, elongated bowl toilets in recent years and they both work amazingly-well. One is an American Standard. The other, I bought last year from Sam's Club, so it's an import. It flushes FAR BETTER than the 3.something gallon crapper from the 70s that it replaced. That one used to clog up with annoying regularity.
Another thing to consider, the more water you have in the tank, the bigger the potential mess if it does get clogged. I don't think many bowls could contain 3.5 gallons of water without overflowing, but could probably contain 1.3 to 1.5 gallons.