WIPES DOWN THE TOILET BY FIONA CUMMINGS

OK, this blog may make some, angry. Here I go. So, it’s on our news that those born in the past thirty years or so, will never own their own home. So, what is proposed? We pay more tax to support the youth. And the government will give £10,000 for a start enabling the young people to get a mortgage.

 

Outrage, is one word I’m feeling, why? Well, a family on our news said it all. As the Grandmother spoke words so true.

 

See when the Grandmother left school, she took any job going just to earn money and she saved to buy her first house. She has had the same job all of her life. her daughter who seemed to be in her forties, also left school and took a job where she has been for 23 years. The 21-year-old Granddaughter/daughter, left University, lives at home with the lady in her forties, her Mother. She says, the youngest, she has a university grant to pay for. yeah, and it was your choice to go to university, and your choice to drink on nights out when you were there and your choice in your Grandmothers words, to have a car, your Grandmother didn’t ever have that luxury. Go on holidays with friends, again that is a luxury. So, in other words, kids want their cake and want to eat it too… if she had left University, not moaned as if it was her right to get into debt and get others to pay for it, and not had a car but saved for a house instead, then fine. Now if she chooses to go on holidays, drive her car, and not complain about not being able to get a house, then fine.

 

Our young people want everything now. my Son works hard, drives his car and goes on holiday. But you won’t hear him complaining about not being able to afford a house. First time he does, I will tell him to remember the thousands he has spent on his cars and holidays. Money that would have paid for his house. Well, a good start anyway.

 

House prices are ridiculous, but when our house price goes up, we, house owners, are happy.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I know of people who are hard workers, don’t have holidays or cars and can’t get on the housing ladder, but I honestly think the majority of people trying to get a mortgage, also enjoy their holidays and new cars.

  

Something else which caught my eye, or ear today, that I was reading.

93% of the blockages in our sewers in the UK, are related to wet wipes.

Really?

 

You know the wet wipes you can get for the toilet/toilet paper? It’s said they are flushable. Well it has been found out that they are not flushable. They don’t disintegrate in the sewerage system and cause major blockages.

 

In Australia, 75% of blockages are caused by wet wipes. The adverts say the wipes dissolve like toilet paper. Wrong. Wipes are made from a material called air-laid paper and are impregnated in cleansing chemicals, disinfectants, and cosmetic scents.

 

We personally pay £30 per month for our water in England, that’s just our bill, other households may pay more, but for £30, we have the best water in the world for drinking. We even have clean water in our toilets an yet we treat our toilets like out of sight out of mind. In London, the river Thames, took three weeks to unblock a mass of junk people put down their toilets, not only wipes, but baby’s nappies, condoms and women’s sanitary items. It’s disgusting.

 

  So, on that note I shall go for now and my next blog will be one of cheer… but just a thought, next time you buy your wipes, please put them in the bin, if they are cleaning wipes that is… not if you are using them as toilet rolls.