kimberlysteele | The Clean Toilet Challenge Begins!

Are you in for the Clean Toilet Challenge?

The Clean Toilet challenge is a magical experiment to see if keeping the toilet clean brings money luck and other forms of good fortune to the home or business where the toilet is located. Many cultures believe that an immaculate toilet improves your financial bottom line, and I have explained this belief in a blog post that is linked in comments.

If you’d like to be part of the Clean Toilet Challenge, starting sometime this week of June 22, begin keeping your toilet very clean and plan on cleaning it everyday until December 22. At the beginning of your clean toilet journey, make a mental snapshot of where you are financially, what the general state of your household is, and how lucky you feel. On December 22, take the same sort of mental snapshot. Since I keep a journal, I’m making a note of my bank account numbers today, though I have been keeping my toilet clean all month already, and I can say my finances have already improved considerably and I have been able to afford some luxuries I usually do without, such as eating at restaurants 4x a week when it’s usually more like 4x a month.

Every day after you use or clean your toilet, you can optionally say this little rhyme: "Toilet, toilet handling waste, thank you for your saving grace." I recommend cleaning the toilet with a spray bottle with half vinegar and half water for a safe, all natural, non-toxic clean.

At the end of the Clean Toilet Challenge, I’d like to compare notes with everyone here on Dreamwidth and at my TikTok account @whitewitchoftheprairie. Happy Solstice and see you at the other end of the Challenge.

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From: (Anonymous)

I did my first cleaning yesterday. One thing I've noticed is that one cleaning leads to another (dang, that tub could use a scrubbing couldn't it?).

This morning I ran some errands. I found a penny on the pavement (but then I'm always finding a picking up loose change.) Then going into RiteAid, I found I had a $6 rewards credit which I promptly used, turning a nearly $7 purchase into 83 cents. Not big bucks I'll grant you, but an interesting development all the same.

JLfromNH/Fuschia Choleric Armadillo

From: (Anonymous)

I started yesterday, and found a $7 check I’d overlooked—it was in with the junk mail, to be thrown out. Hmmm.

🎼From Natchez to Mobile
From Memphis to Saint Joe
Wherever the four winds blow
A toilet’s a neat thing
A clean and a sweet thing
That’ll lead you to some funds in the night 🎼

—Princess Cutekitten

From:

causticus

What do you use for disinfectant?

From: (Anonymous)

I'll take you up on this. I got financially battered by the pandemic and am now aiming to make a recovery so this came along at just the right time. Check in with you at the solstice!

-Turquoise Harebrained Boar

From: (Anonymous)

I am in for the challenge.

I typically do a comprehensive clean of the bathroom once a week. But I also do a quick clean of the toilet bowl daily. I just swish and scrub a bit with the toilet brush, sometimes with a spritz of cleaner. I despise a dirty toilet. My mindset is basically of doing a chore in a perfunctory manner.

I am curious to find out if doing a slightly more thorough daily clean of the toilet with an attitude of appreciation causes any changes.

I ordered a nice glass spray bottle and some Florida Water. On the 20th, while waiting for the packages to arrive, I started to clean each day with a mindset of dedication to the task and grattitude for the blessing of indoor plumbing.

Since then, I found out the annual church fundraisers would cover more money than I expected for my kid's camp. And family members have decided to give us some of the inheritance early for tax purposes. They've done this before, but they stopped a few years ago. The financial benefits could be coincidence, but the timing is provocative.

Heloise

From: (Anonymous)

If you try to buy Florida Water from a store in Florida, this is what may happen.

Question: Excuse me, where could I find Florida Water?

Store 1: Bottled water is along the back wall. But I don't know if any of it is local.

Store 2: Ma'am, are you from The North?

Store 3: Do you mean, like, the ocean?

Heloise

From:

methylethyl

Maybe I can be your control group ;) Other commitments prevent me including any dedications to the toilet goddess... but I've been cleaning my toilet daily anyway, as it's just a good idea. Feels nice, and as another commenter mentioned, once the toilet is all nice, then the sink and the tub start giving me the sad eyes, like "won't you clean us too? Please? So yeah, my bathroom is cleaner than usually all-around now, not just the toilet. Nice.

From: (Anonymous)

I'm in! And I am so glad that you are doing so well, Kimberly. Congratulations!

These past two weeks I've missed a day here and there, but honestly it takes no time at all to give our two toilets a once-over and flush. It's an easy hit of "accomplishment". Your cleaning recipe is a pleasure to use.

A couple days ago, my husband and I found $15.00 on one of the trails we walk regularly. There was no one to be seen, so we figured it was ours.

Valerie

From: (Anonymous)

I am in, I have already started really. I do not use much in the way of cleaning products as it is usually just overconsumption to do so, I am shampoo less, etc... Anyway, before I started on the daily brush of the toilet bowl, it seemed to have hard water marks by the water line, etc... But, just a daily scrub with the brush has made it cleaner than it has ever been. That just came off over days of daily brushing.

Atmospheric River

From: (Anonymous)

I got a notice my car insurance price was lowered.

/-Princess Cutekitten

From:

miow

Starting today.

Thanks for this working.

From: (Anonymous)

... needless to say, darted right out and got another one.

As others have commented, the radius of 'clean' is gradually expanding outward from the toilet. "Oh, why don't I wipe off the side of the bathtub too?" etc.

The toughest part is working 5 years' worth of lime off the inside of the bowl (using CLR periodically for that) but the toilet already looks much better-- and happier.

- Cicada Grove