Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are

listening to episode 220 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice-weekly show

about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show we are discussing the days.

Now full disclosure, we're not just talking about the days we're also talking about

pee and poo and private parts on this week's episode. I'm going to do my absolute best

to keep this conversation PG rated, but just know that we're talking about bathroom happenings on today's show.

Now listener Dana, shout out to Dana, hello, Dana asked that I do an episode on The Days and I must say that The Days are a

popular topic in our closed Facebook group, the Sustainable Minimalists. So doing an

episode on this topic has been on my mind. I thought

about interviewing a brand representative from a bidet attachment company, but

then I thought to myself, well, no, this is a tricky subject.

If I had a brand rep come on, the brand rep would just talk about how great their product is,

and I'm not necessarily sure that would be doing the topic justice.

And so I needed somebody who was willing to be down and dirty, real honest about their bidet trying experience. That will be me. So long story short I bought a bidet

attachment from Tushy for my master bathroom toilet and what made me decide ultimately to pull the plug

was that on one non-descript Saturday morning

one of my daughters shouted down from upstairs that we were out of toilet paper and she needed toilet paper.

So I walk to the basement where I keep our stash and it's empty and then I walk to the powder room

bathroom and there's none in there and then I walk upstairs all the way to the second floor and look in

those bathrooms for extra toilet paper and lo and behold there's no toilet paper

anywhere we were out and I just had a moment where I thought to myself, what a waste of time, what a waste of money,

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