u/Sovud22

We've been living full time in our tiny house for about a year and a half now. We're off grid and don't have a black tank, so we went with a dry flush toilet pretty early on.

We've had a Laveo the whole time and honestly it has been pretty uneventful, which is probably the best thing I can say about a toilet lol. It flushes, seals, and we haven't had any major mechanical issues with it.

The only thing I've started paying more attention to lately is the refill cost.

When we bought it I was mostly thinking about avoiding plumbing and a black tank. I definitely wasn't sitting there calculating what bags would cost after 18 months of using it every day.

There are two of us and we usually end up going through around two bags a day. Individually it doesn't feel like much, but after doing it this long I've started noticing how much we're spending on refills.

That's what sent me down the rabbit hole of looking at other dry flush setups.

One I'm curious about is modiwell.

Their refill setup looks cheaper from what I can find, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what people actually pay once they've owned one for a while. Starter packs and website pricing don't really tell me much about the real long-term cost.

The other difference I'm curious about is the sealing system.

With the Laveo, everything gets twisted off into the continuous liner, so eventually you're dealing with that whole chain when you empty it.

From what I understand, modiwell heat seals each use separately.

I have no idea if that actually makes much difference in normal daily use, though. It sounds different on paper, but tiny house stuff has taught me that a feature can sound great until you've used it 500 times.

So I'm mostly hoping to hear from someone who's actually owned both, or at least lived with one of them long enough that the honeymoon period is over.

How have the seals held up?

Any jams or weird mechanical issues after a year or more?

What are you realistically paying for refills?

And are there any little ongoing costs or annoyances that you didn't know about when you first bought it?

I'm not really trying to figure out which one has the better spec sheet. I can read those.

I'm more interested in the boring stuff you only learn after the toilet has been sitting three feet from your bed for a year.

A couple guys I work with camp near Quartzsite every January and spend most mornings riding the desert roads south of town. They finally talked me into joining them for five nights at La Posa this winter.

One of them has room for another bike in his toy hauler, so I’ve been looking at electric dirt bikes. The Hikeep MAD is one I came across, but I haven’t bought or ridden it yet.

We wouldn’t be doing anything crazy. Mostly hard-packed desert roads, loose rock and a few shallow washes for a couple hours in the morning. What I can’t figure out is how much of a pain charging becomes once you’re actually camped without hookups.

The trailer has rooftop solar and a generator, but my friend normally uses the solar for the house batteries and only runs the generator when he really needs it. I don’t want to show up with a bike that turns his campsite into a charging station every afternoon.

For people who bring an electric dirt bike or motorcycle while boondocking, how do you handle charging without spending half the trip listening to the generator?

47, and the changes I notice most now are uneven tone and two sun spots along my left cheek. The fine lines also become much more obvious whenever my skin gets dry.

My routine is pretty basic: cleanser, moisturizer, and SPF. I haven’t really wanted to add another active, but a friend recently gave me her VYM mask because it had been sitting unused in her bathroom.

I’ve never tried LED before, so I’m trying to set reasonable expectations before I start using it several nights a week. If you used a mask consistently for 8 to 12 weeks or longer, could you actually see a difference in normal bathroom light, or was it something you only noticed when comparing photos? I’m mainly wondering about dullness and uneven tone. I’m not expecting it to erase the spots or lines.