March 17, 2026

Living in abandoned buildings with no electricity or running water leads to a consistant problem - how am I supposed to dispose of all these feces?

If you're lucky, then the abandoned building you are staying in might have a working toilet. There isn't running water, but if you dump a bucket of water into the toilet really fast it will flush naturally. Please for the love of god test to make sure that a toilet actually flushes before you shit in it. The last thing you want is for all of your things in the floor beneath the toilet to be covered in a slurry of turds. If you have a toilet in your basement, then you can absolutley flush that one successfully. Also, even with no toilet you can piss into the drain in the basement without leading to problems.

No toilet? No problem. Just make a squatters toilet. For this you will need a bucket, garbage bags, a board or toilet seat, and a can of coffee grounds. Put the bucket at any location suitable for a decent shitting experience. Place the bag in the bucket like its a trash can. Put the toilet seat or board on top of the bucket. Take a shit in your new toilet. Dump some coffee grounds on that so it doesn't smell. Afterwards, when you have shat a considerable amount you can replace the bag. Finally you can give the conservatives what they want and defecate into something resembling a litter box.

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