WHILE most of us like to use traditional loo roll or a bidet, some families like to do things a bit differently. Toilet paper may seem like an everyday essential, but there are people who've ditched the paper for something new – a reusable family cloth.
![[Mum Elisabeth went viral on Instagram after raving about old scraps of cloth - which she uses as loo roll with her family]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/34dcf86d-db66-40b1-9516-629d276caeaa.jpg?strip=all&w=611)
They are small squares of cloth that are used in exactly the same way as loo roll - except once you're finished they go in a basket to be chucked in the washing machine, rather than straight down the toilet. The new toilet item has become a major hit for a number of eco-friendly families across the world and amongst those raving about the old scraps of cloth is also stay-at-home mum Elisabeth.
![[According to the mother, there are several benefits of ditching regular toilet paper and switching to 'family cloth']](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/im-mum-share-scraps-old-960072315.jpg?strip=all&w=540)
The mum, who is a proud self-proclaimed ''trophy wife'', recently took to Instagram in a desperate attempt to convince fellow social media users to jump on the bizarre trend. According to Elisabeth, whose ''clean living'' content has won her close to 270k fans on her page, there are a handful of benefits of switching to family cloth in your toilet.
One of the biggest pros of ditching regular loo roll and finishing your business with old scraps of cloth was not having to fork out a fortune for regular toilet paper from the shops. In the now-viral video, which has racked up an astronomical 51million views in less than a week, Elisabeth estimated that she and her family were saving an eye-watering £370 a month this way.
