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When I go to people's houses, their toilet paper area never seems to have as much of that goddamn dust all over the place. Is it my toilet paper? I swear even when I clean, there's a film of that stuff that comes up all over the toilet and behind the toilet. Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: I have a bidet. You still need to dry your ass and vulva with a bidet. Guests still want toilet paper. Now I'm more concerned - do y'all not have toilet paper just because you have a bidet?? It's not safe to leave your ass moist!

Sounds like it's a brand issue though but my partner is unwilling to switch from the ultra soft whatever we have so I guess I'm SOL.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Okay some people are answering with Bidet as a solution, which makes no sense (you are not going to hose down the bathroom are you?)

A photo could be useful in diagnosis, but maybe not. It could be the TP brand, it could also be regular dust since you mention it gets behind the toilet seat too.

Are you near a window? The worst cases of dust in the bathrooms that I've seen were caused by debris from the window. It doesn't even need to be a large window. My money is on the TP brand from the sounds of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I have a bidet with toilet paper to dry off/for guests/for various other uses for toilet paper.

Not near a window and the dust is thicker and primarily builds up below the toilet paper roll and on the holder. It's not the same as regular dust build up. I mitigate by placing the bin under the roll but it still gets everywhere.

It's hard to get a picture but this is the thicker dust on my toilet brush, which sits just next to the bin/toilet. Toilet brush with dust on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You need to clean more. Plain and simple.
That is not "toilet paper dust". That's filth.

I don't mean that in a derogatory way. You literally just have to clean more often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I can see the fuzz. Yes it's probably the brand of paper. That's a nice granite brush holder you got there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

answering with Bidet as a solution, which makes no sense (you are not going to hose down the bathroom are you?)

It makes perfect sense. If you don't use TP, there's no paper dust in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's if the dust is caused by the paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What else are they doing in there for there to get that much paper dust? Book binding?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Man, it's getting harder and harder to determine if people are joking or not. I am quite sure you are, but just in the case that you are serious, OP never mentioned paper dust to start with, just dust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

There's no way they didn't mean the layer of tp dust that comes from some extra soft brands of toilet paper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

You can't just leave your ass moist, why aren't y'all using TP to dry off???