BLOG: Week One Without the Toilet

Hello,

Last week I talked about starting a challenge of not using the toilet at all. I said I would keep people updated on how it goes. Well, one week later and here I am!

I'll save the stats for the end of the post but, firstly, I will say that I made it through the week with 0 toilet uses. It hasn't been without issue though. In fact, I've discovered a couple, one of which was really embarrassing.

The more mundane of the problems is simply the rubbing on my thighs. I've quickly discovered that thick nappies are simply not designed for walking in. They are made for being on your hands and knees and crawling around!

Right now, I haven't really fixed the issue. I said at the outset that this WASN'T an attempt to wear 24/7 or unpotty train myself, so right now, if I need to walk somewhere, I'm doing it between nappies. What I need to do is buy myself some pull-ups. Perhaps that'll be for when I next head out to the shops.

There is a logistics issue as well. I'm not flush with money, I'm thankful for all my subscribers, of course, but my income is decidedly not enough for infinite diapers. So I've been keeping an eye on how many nappies I'm using. I'm finding that I can make it with only two nappies a day, one that I wake up in and then another that will get me through the day. It means I go to bed pretty darn wet, but that leads me into the next point...

Messy nappies. I know they aren't everyone's thing, but I personally love them. Usually, my routine in a nappy is mess it, "enjoy" it, take it off. However, if I want to minimise nappy usage, I need to hold off on the second and third steps. Basically, I'm getting used to being messy for longer periods of time. This has meant a change (ha ha) to what I usually do which is taking some getting used to.

On the first day this week, I woke up, messed my nappy not long afterwards, "enjoyed" it and got changed... only to discover something that others may already know, something my girlfriend informed me all parents with young children discover: "There's always more poop!"

In other words, that second nappy ended up messy very soon after the first requiring another change. Lesson learned. After messing, don't assume there isn't more to come sooner rather than later!

Which leads into the most embarrassing incident... A few days ago, I got out of my messy morning nappy, had a shower, and then felt another need to poop. I didn't want to put a diaper on only to mess it right away and I want to avoid the toilet if at all possible... That's when I remembered the puppy pads...

It was something my girlfriend bought me, mostly as a joke, a few years ago. I very much have a "puppy" element to me and she evidently thought puppy pads would be funny. Little fif she know that they are actually useful! They are perfect for sitting on when you're worried you might leak, for example.

Well, I needed to poop again... Nappies were out, the toilet was out... So I grabbed the puppy pad, put it on the floor and squatted over it like a dog who hadn't been let outside. Needless to say, it was quite the humbling experience!

It worked though, and now I'm extra careful with when I take nappies off. I need to make supplies last after all.

So, I'm keeping a few different stats to see how it goes over the year. These are what I've recorded, if you have ideas for something else to keep track of, just let me know in a comment of message!

Week One Stats:

Number of nappies used: 13

Messy nappies: 8

Toilet uses: 0

Times “overexcited” in nappy: 5

Number of leaks: 0

That's it for week one! Here's to week two being another success!