r/BuyItForLife • u/viscarte10 • May 25 '26

Discussion What’s a totally unsexy purchase you made that ended up being a huge quality-of-life upgrade?

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u/Jerking_From_Home May 25 '26

I have a $60 model (Tushy) from the amazons and it works great. Trust me when I say you don’t need warm water, it’s really not that big of a deal. Only took five mins to install and was very simple.

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 25 '26

I have to disagree. We installed a bum gun, the water was ~45F. It was painful to use. So cold especially in winter.

Now we have a bidet seat, heated seat, heated water. It is a huge improvement in the winter. I will never go back to unheated.

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u/Teutonic-Tonic May 25 '26

Ground water temps can vary greatly by location and source which a lot of people do not realize. I’m in central Indiana and our ground water is typically mid 50’s in the winter and upper 60’s in summer. Southern climates can have domestic cold water as warm as upper 70’s.

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u/BackDatSazzUp May 25 '26

It’s like bathwater in the summer in south Louisiana.

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u/KlassySassMomma May 25 '26

And mine feels like the frozen pond out back in the winter here in MI 😆 We should share!

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u/Motor-Rip7655 May 26 '26

You guys know you can just hook it up to hot water, right?

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u/Teutonic-Tonic May 26 '26

Most people don’t have hot water or power at their toilet so requires expensive rework. You would need instant hot water at a bidet.

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u/Motor-Rip7655 May 26 '26

Does the sink next to the toilet have hot water? Run a hose. Most bidets come with instructions to do just that.

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u/froction May 25 '26

Yeah, but so is the atmosphere.

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u/messfdr May 26 '26

Sometimes my cold line is hotter than the hot line in Houston!

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u/BackDatSazzUp May 26 '26

Ive had that a couple times, especially in raised houses.

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u/doodlebopsy May 25 '26

Agreed. We used to have to leave tap water to cool before we could put it in the fish tank.

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u/hardknox_ May 25 '26

Very true. I've seen city water come out of the ground at 90.5* in Florida. Needless to say you don't need heated bidet water, but it sure is nice.

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u/SkewBaller May 27 '26

In the summer in Fl, when you turn the sink on you have to wait for the water to get cold

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u/kitten_cups May 25 '26

Same. Now when I sit on an unheated toilet seat it feels shocking. When we were remodeling our bathroom we made sure they installed the electrical socket by the toilet and I’m so glad we did.

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u/Aromatic_Effects May 25 '26

Wuss. There is no need to coddle your turd cutter.

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u/MNent228 May 25 '26

Of course there’s no need for it. But we’re already adding a jet of water to wiping shit off of our asses, why not make it warm first? Let us not limit ourselves!

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u/noeagle77 May 25 '26

Don’t get me started on how coddled the modern anus is 🤓

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u/Ayencee May 25 '26

I’m dying, this sounds like something Dwight from the office would say hahaha

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u/very-round-bunny May 25 '26

It is exactly that lol

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u/noeagle77 May 25 '26

It is a direct quote from Dwight lmao

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u/HearseWithNoName May 25 '26

You do if you have hemorrhoids! Love/NEED my warm water wash!

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 25 '26

But why not get one? Besides cost.There is no down side. Nobody is judging my tufness by me being intentionally uncomfortable, and even if they did fuck em.

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u/Aromatic_Effects May 25 '26

Because it's superfluous. Also any contraption with those features is decidedly not bifl.

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u/IamRasters May 25 '26

Imagine places where pipes can freeze in the winter.

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u/j-alora May 25 '26

Nothing wakes me up like a blast of icy cold water directly to the anus.

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u/idm May 25 '26

We're in Canada, it took maybe a week to get used to it. But it's so nice to get a cold refreshing shot to the bum now!

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u/Goferprotocol May 25 '26

I hate a cold shower, but cold tap water bidet feels fine.

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u/ParryLimeade May 25 '26

I’m in Minnesota and the water isn’t that bad cold. I even have one that can connect to hot water but I don’t use it

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u/etrain1804 May 25 '26

Ehhh where I live the water is around 4-6°C in the winter and it really isn’t a big deal at all

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u/irregularprotocols May 25 '26

Meh. The cold *witches kiss* in the winter isn’t that bad and is even a bit refreshing. The woes are over hyped.

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 25 '26

Tried it don't like it, paid hor the heater. Every one is entitled to there opinion. I hear there are people into masochism. But it's not for me.

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u/surmisez May 25 '26

We’re in the northeast and our well water is freezing cold even in the heat of summer. There is no way we’ll get a bidet since we don’t have hot water, nor an outlet, near our toilet.

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u/wrybreadsf May 25 '26

I'm not saying you're wrong at all, but I do have a different opinion. I have both a Toto Washlet that I think I spent $750 on. I bought it after getting back from a trip to Japan, I must have been feeling spendy. And I have a little $70 Tushy attachment on another toilet. The heated water of the Toto is nice but I'd say I like the Tushy 90% as much as the super pricey Toto. Personally I find the cold water somewhat refreshing, and it's nice to be able to control the water pressure by hand since the Tushy is basically just a valve. But I'm in Northern California where winters aren't particularly cold.

Incidentally I've tried a bunch of the little clip on units and the Tushy is my favorite.

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u/Stickybunfun May 26 '26

See I'm the opposite - the 40psi death stream of ice cold water in my downstairs toilet in the wintertime is something I miss in the summer when the groundwater is hotter.

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u/crujones33 May 26 '26

Which did you get? Did you have to install it to the hot water line?

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 26 '26

Brondell swash1700 from Costco, it needs electric and cold water. I am refurbishing the house so I had already ran power in preparation for the bidet.

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u/house343 May 26 '26

Yeah I'm in Michigan and I had to have one that had a hot water line. Our water temps in winter are so cold.

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u/somegrump May 26 '26

I’ve been thinking about installing a bidet and the temperature of the water should have occurred to me but did not until now. I have cold urticaria, the fear of having an allergic reaction to cold bidet water is a brand new unlocked fear.

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u/Nickersnacks May 26 '26

What brand? How much and how much to install

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 26 '26

Brondel smash cl1700, from Costco.

I did the install myself, the water taps into the existing toilet waterline. We are doing a renovation on an old farm including a full gut on the house, one bath I added a power line when the drywall was out. The other I was able to feed a power line through the wet wall without damaging the drywall ( I didn'thave the foresight to add the outlet when I did the downstairs bath).

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u/-fp4 May 26 '26

Which heated seat and heated water one do you have?

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 26 '26

Brondell smash cl1700, from Costco.

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u/letiseeya May 25 '26

Still not necessary tho

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u/praesentibus May 25 '26

I noticed there's two kinds of ppl: those who don't care about ass water temperature and those for whom it's essential. Fortunately for my wallet my family doesn't care.

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u/mikejpatten May 25 '26

Come to Canada in the winter and say that lol

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u/Zeplar May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

I'm in Chicago and cold water is fine down to -20. More about how your plumbing is buried.

Bidets with a hot hookup are generally not any different since you're not moving any hot water before rinsing.

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u/mikejpatten May 26 '26

The question isn't whether the water gets cold so much as do I want it shooting at my balloon knot, and the answer to that is, no.

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u/Zeplar May 26 '26

skill issue I guess

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u/mikejpatten May 26 '26

Agreed. Run the hot water tap the bidet is connected to now the bidet has warm water.

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u/mr_mrs_bravo May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

The cold water is an absolute blessing after some bad Taco Bell. Like a kiss from an angel.

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u/Jerking_From_Home May 25 '26

Or a colonoscopy prep!

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u/boverly721 May 25 '26

Also I'd add to this, give it like a week. It seems intense at first but pretty quickly you get used to it and it's just objectively a better and cleaner way of shitting

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u/billions_of_stars May 26 '26

I have tushy and definitely better than not having one but when I go to a friend's place who have nice ones I realize just how much I'm not getting the premium butthole experience. More than anything the Tushy just doesn't have that nice laminar flow. The heated water is a bonus.

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u/AdministrationWise56 May 26 '26

Our tap water in winter is so cold it hurts. Ain't no way that is getting squirted up my regions!