11 Things You Should Never Flush Down Your Toilet Bowl, If Not Shit Will Hit the Fan

Last Updated on 2016-05-19 , 1:53 pm

Have you ever had the experience of not being able to flush the toilet and the water begins to rise and you see your shit just swimming and whirling in the toilet bowl? Well, if you haven’t, the heavens have been watching over you. For some of us who have experienced it, it’s something out of our worst nightmares.

Plumbing problems like that can be avoided if we all just educate ourselves about things that can and cannot be flushed down the toilet bowl. For the sake of all humanity and all respected plumbers out there, please refer to these 11 things you should NEVER flush down the toilet bowl, if not SHIT WILL definitely hit the fan.

Bathroom wipes/Wet wipes
They may be ‘disposable’ and some even claim to be ‘flushable’ but the reality is, these things are just too thick to go down the toilet. Flushable, puh-lease!

Medication/ Pharmaceuticals
You probably flush your expired/unused pills down the toilet for safety reasons but did you know that it’s more dangerous than safe? It’s not a matter of clogging the toilet but a matter of contaminating the water supply which is just as huge of an issue.

Hair
The average person experiences hair fall every day but just because these things are a natural part of the human body, hair is actually the main cause of most major pipe blockages! So dispose them in the garbage instead, okay?

Condoms
Just don’t. It’s really not difficult to dispose them nicely and discreetly in the trash.

Grease/ Oil/ Food
When fats go into your body, it tends to build up at the side of the artery walls over time, clogging it. It’s sort of the same mechanics with the toilet. Want your toilet to suffer a stroke? Be my guest.

Disposable Diapers/ Sanitary pads/ Tampons
Again, just don’t. I thought we were a civilized society. Come on, people!

Herbicides/ Pesticides/ Insecticides
Chemicals as such like pharmaceuticals, can contaminate the sewage system. So unless you want some unwanted sewage creature mutation to happen, don’t even think about it. Actually, I’m not even surprised if these mutations have already happened.

Cotton pads/ cotton balls/ swabs
Like wet wipes, these thick stuff can and will clog your toilet.

Kitty Litter
It’s only right and practically harmless, right? Nope. Those stuff are made from sand and clay which cannot and should not be flushed down the toilet. Also, cat waste contains parasites and toxins that will definitely contaminate the water system.

Cigarette Butts
Don’t flush down one miserable cigarette butt that contain toxic chemicals and will contaminate the water supply if it ends up there. Plus, you’ll usually have to flush a couple of times because the damn cigarette butt just kept floating in the bowl. #Truestory

Your Dead Goldfish
I know it’s a common ritual but please, have a little more respect for the creature and the sewage system! Shame on you. And this doesn’t just apply to goldfishes.

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