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We use toilet paper, but when i worked as an Outward Bound instructor we used leaves in the summer, and snow in the winter to wipe - believe it or not snow is THE BEST toilet paper!!! Leaves you feeling super fresh I joked to my roommates after moving back to the city that I was going to keep a cooler of snow in the bathroom to use as toilet paper - they were not amused!
Good luck with going paperless! Sounds like a noble pursuit!

I'm considering making the change, at least only for wet applications. I'm interested in mama cloth too, but there's no way I would scrape cloth wipes in addition to my diapers.

I would absolutely consider it. In fact, it wouldn't be a huge deal to cut it out now.

i would go cloth for #1, but not for #2

I'd switch to cloth for sure but DH would lose his freaking mind if I told him I was no longer buying TP.

I would never ever use cloth for myself, no thank you.

I've never used a bidet but I'd be willing to try it. My brother has and said he loves it and wanted to switch to one.

I might use a bidet to reduce the amount of TP used but not eliminate TP.

I'm on board with cloth diapering and cloth wipes. But I just can't do "mama cloth" or "family cloth". My husband stinks up the entire downstairs, I don't need to be washing that, too! lol.

However, I just asked my husband and his only question is, how warm would the water of a bidet be? LOL

We live in Canada, it gets pretty cold up here. That would be a rude awakening on a winter morning.

No no no. Pry the TP from my cold dead hands!

@IRunForFun: I imagine you could use a towel, but you wouldn't want to get those mixed up! And then... When you have company? Ick.

We use almost exclusively 100% recycled TP...but not ready for cloth. And I know what bidets are...but I'm not sure how they work. Isn't there a risk of cross-contamination with high pressure water???

No, no, no, no. I'll find other ways to cut down my carbon footprint, thanks.

My husband used water already, since its cultural. He thinks just using paper is dirty and doesn't get clean enough. We both really want one of those awesomr Japanese bidet toilets with the different sprays, heated seat, automatic lid lift and close, and butt dryer all in one. One of his friends has one and its SO nice.

But we would still have tp for backup. Also I imagine bidet arent terribly green with all the extra water usage.

Defibitely not down to use reusable cloths. I actually had to do that one summer that I lived in a tent in Zimbabwe. No washing machines so we had to hand wash the small towels in a bucket. Lets just say...that summer I became well aware that I frequently have what's known as "sticky poop", aka 1000 wipe poo. And using 10 small towels per session and then hasving to hand wash it yourself was a special form of hell.

TP for the win!

I am not sure how much of an environmental impact it would make using cloth wipes over TP.

nope. cold, dead hands.

@Sapphiresun: what do you use for blotting meat in the kitchen? i pretty much use cloth for everything, cloth napkins, cloth unpaper towels, but i still have real paper towels for blotting meat in the kitchen and for cleaning cat vomit (i tried using cloth for cat vomit.... i couldn't get it all off the cloth and ended up with the rubber gasket in the washer getting cat vomit trapped in it it was gross). it freaks me out to think of chicken juice in with my things & it would seem wasteful to wash one alone because it's touched chicken. do you do a whole load of kitchen towels or mix them in?

Umm.... if you use the bidet, don't you need loo roll to dry with? And if you use cloth wipes.... umm.... what do guests use???

Cold.dead.hands.

We've switched to cloth for everything else but TP is a little out of my comfort zone. I am definitely open to having a bidet in our future house, but would probably still keep some TP around.

@Sapphiresun: We're the same. No paper napkins or paper towels, and we part time CD, but no way I'm cleaning my or DH's poop off anything.