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July 25, 2014 at 10:40 am #344706Rakkits
I came across this idea on Pinterest, but the creator of this cool Portable Potty are the folks at puget sound preppers you take a bucket, a section of pool noodle, a trash bag and you make your own potty bucket.
Just line the bucket with the trashbag, slip the slit pool noodle over the edge for a toilet seat and attach a roll of tp to the metal handle. instant, portable potty with no fuss!
This homemade portable potty works really well during storms when the power goes out unexpectedly and you haven’t had time to prepare by filling up the bathtub to be able to flush the toilet. Or in houses like mine that don’t even have a bathtub, we only have showers in our bathrooms.
This is wonderful for camping, long car trips where you don’t necessarily want to use public restrooms (especially with little kids!), Boating, all of the items fit in the bucket until it’s needed. Someone can hold up a towel for you for privacy if you’re floating on the lake! etc.
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July 25, 2014 at 3:35 pm #456641jaster
I think this is a great idea. I camp alot.
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July 26, 2014 at 12:28 am #456652Ilikecheap1949
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July 26, 2014 at 1:08 am #456669ourboydbear
Awesomely different but very useful. I think I’ll need to make for traveling with grandkids that hate to go in the woods. I’m thinking of putting a little cat litter in the bottom of the bag.
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July 26, 2014 at 2:44 am #456672weashby
A good tip we have used on our travels with a similar toilet. Have a container of garden lime beside the toilet. Cover waste with a sprinkling of the lime following each use.
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July 26, 2014 at 2:46 am #456673Bevwp
now this is truly priceless. What a great idea!
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July 27, 2014 at 12:20 am #456753pugworthy
OK, this is a silly idea…
Sure, you could dump it down your toilet, but only if it was a little bit.
And yes you could put it in a pit toilet, but then what do you do with the bag?!
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July 27, 2014 at 12:22 pm #456787greeneyes0412
Do what was done on Road Hogs, hang in a tree so the bears don’t get it. Actually have to agree, can’t put this in the garbage because of human waste. Best place to dump is in a outhouse and wash the bag out before depositing in the garbage.
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July 27, 2014 at 2:46 pm #456792coll345
People throw diapers in the trash all the time….what would be the difference?
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July 27, 2014 at 6:12 pm #456815vondiehmon
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July 27, 2014 at 7:28 pm #456820dixie2007
If you lose the bag and use sawdust or recycled newspaper litter (yesterdays news) than you create an ecofriendly, combustable travel potty.
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July 27, 2014 at 8:03 pm #456822Missy445
I like this idea, I may use one of these for my son’s mancave, will mostlikely use the kitty litter and some dodorizer, to keep it from smelling so much.
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July 27, 2014 at 8:46 pm #456801aolstad
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July 28, 2014 at 1:52 pm #456875jmeyers0976
take a bag of peat moss and toss a scoop of it over your deposit and it will help keep bugs away too.
@Rakkits 539082 wrote:
just line the bucket with the trashbag, slip the slit pool noodle over the edge for a toilet seat and attach a roll of tp to the metal handle. instant, portable potty with no fuss!
this is wonderful for camping, long car trips where you don’t necessarily want to use public restrooms (especially with little kids!), etc.
(mod note: added credit to the creator of this idea!)
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July 29, 2014 at 2:16 am #456929CrescendoPeace
This is a great alternative to a marine porta potty, in a boat or rv, or to the wooden humanure toilet, for those with less space. i really like the addition of the pool noodle – cheap, comfy, and easily replaced when needed.
the humanure handbook – basic instructions for using a humanure toilet.the humanure toilet uses plain sawdust to cover the waste and control odors, which can be composted over time and used to fertilize trees and other non-food plants, but takes a full season for the waste to be fully composted.
a better solution might be to cover the waste with bokashi, which would pickle it in six weeks or less, which then could either be further composted and act as a booster to a regular compost pile, fed to earthworms (which love bokashi), or placed directly into the planting hole for shrubs and trees, which take off when planted in bokashi.
bokashi is what i will be using in my own humanure toilet.
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July 31, 2014 at 7:33 pm #457078canelson
@Ilikecheap1949 539624 wrote:
A nice touch for privacy is a hula hoop with a shower curtain attached with rings and hung from a low branch of a tree.
It works around a one ring baby swim pool for bathing privacy as well.
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August 17, 2014 at 2:59 pm #457908billzbrat
I will definitely try this method the next time I go camping -
August 17, 2014 at 11:43 pm #457924Zwazo
Dig a hole and use it..cover it. That’s the old fashioned way and it worked fine! I can’t imagine taking this gussied up pail on a trip!
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August 17, 2014 at 11:46 pm #457922Zwazo
pugworthy, I totally agree with you!
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August 18, 2014 at 2:04 am #457927mountainlakelas
thanks!
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June 3, 2015 at 10:13 pm #461388HollyEskew
@Rakkits 539082 wrote:
why can’t i get the noodle around the top of the bucket?
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April 29, 2016 at 1:03 am #463097Daniel64
Do it like a cat litter box. Use clumping kitty litter and flush it down the toilet.
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