Do you use your bathroom? If not, what do you use it for?

[viajera80]

Hello. I'm working on an article about whether most RV owners use their bathrooms or not. If you do, feel free to chime in. If you don't why not and what do you use it for instead? Please give examples of what you do use it for. Thank you!

Edit: the post is for the Do It Yourself RV website

[Ralph_Cramden]

At first I could not figure out why my camper came with a shower and a toilet. I figured it out after a few years. The shower is for storage and the toilet and black tank is for additional potable water capacity. It just takes a small ladle to dip the water back out through the tiny hole, and some good coordination holding that pedal down while doing it. I used to use a Homer bucket to get the water out at that 3" blade valve under the trailer, and then pour it in the gravity fill, but that would get me some strange stares at the campground.

[FunnyCamper]

pennysmom09 wrote:

old guy wrote:
don't know about the rest of the world but that is why I bought a RV with one in it

Exactly! Why pay tens of thousands for your rig with a fully functioning bathroom and schlep to a public bathhouse?

Ditto! We love the rv cause IT HAS full bathroom facilities! One of the top perks to these things 🙂

[pennysmom09]

old guy wrote:
don't know about the rest of the world but that is why I bought a RV with one in it

Exactly! Why pay tens of thousands for your rig with a fully functioning bathroom and schlep to a public bathhouse?

[dodge_guy]

I use it just like at home. With 44 gallons I can go about 5 days or so before it needs to be emptied.

[Padlin]

We have a small trailer with smallish holding tanks. If the public bathrooms are clean and convenient we'll use them, if not we use ours.

I know folks who do not use their bathrooms, folks who only use it for showers and #1, and folks that use nothing but their own. There's no wrong answer to this.

[Crabbypatty]

Hmm lets see, If I'de rather go to the public rest room and bath house, or my very own, brought it with me bathroom? Is that even a choice???

[Isaac-1]

Part of the reason I bought a coach with a large bathroom and neoangle shower was so it would be big enough to be comfortable to use, so that is what I do. The only time I might use a campground restroom is if it is closer than the one in my coach. Such as while doing laundry in the laundry room next door to the showers and restrooms, and my coach is a couple of hundred feet away.

[valhalla360]

Terryallan wrote:
Depends on where we are camping. IF camping on a FULL hookup site. We use the bathroom. IF camping in a primitive campground. We use the CG facilities. Why? Because I'm lazy, (See sig ) and I am not going to take the TT to the dump station. I also am NOT going to use the little blue tote.

Bingo!!!!

It depends. Full hook up, why not use it. If limited access to fresh water and dumping, use it sparingly.

[rhagfo]

Have always use them as I did in my sticks and bricks, now we are full time it is my home!

[D_E_Bishop]

We generally use all our facilities, as of yet we haven't showered in it but that is due to my DW not being able to stand and use the shower. The shower is too small for stool for her to sit on so we use the campground facilities. The other thing she won't use is the convection oven part of the microwave. I have even been known to pass gas while seated in the chairs and sofa.

We paid a good amount of money for the benefit of having those things for just us.

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

Why own a trailer if you don't use the bathroom? My truck gets 12 MPG towing my trailer. Why not just get a tent and get 30 MPG in a car?

People are silly. :R

[flifisher]

We use all of the facilities in our fifthwheel. Our home on wheels.

When my friend and his wife hit the road, they will use the RV Park faclities if available.

[Bobbo]

We use the bathroom just like at home. The rule is nothing goes in the toilet except solid human waste, liquid human waste and toilet paper. No feminine hygiene products. No wipes, even if marketed as "flushable."

[MarkTwain]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
RV is designated as 'self contained'

That means you can sleep in it, cook in it, wash dishes in it, entertain in it, poop in it, pee in it, shower in it without having to interface with any other facilities.

Yep,........we do ALL of the above.
I even sometimes pee in the shower.
Such is life.

X1, just flush with plenty of water each time and you will never have to worry about plugging up your toilet with "number 2". :):) poop poop!

[ScottG]

We generally do #2 at the CG facilities only because we dump at the end of a weekend of camping and the "stuff" hasn't had a chance to breakdown in that short of time.
A short walk wont hurt us and most of the time we're outside anyway and the public facility is only another 30 seconds away.