Ten years ago, I was an early adopter of flushable wipes.

Then I moved into a pre-war building, with pipes so old that they were literally plumbed (from lead, or ‘plumbum’ in Latin) by hand, rather than assembled from pre-existing copper and galvanized steel lengths and bends as plumbing is today. Given those small and uneven pipes, wet wipes more or less instantly gummed up the works, so it was back to traditional toilet paper.

Freshly moved to a modern construction building, I’ve been asked by a bunch of friends about the building’s amenities. Sure, there’s a pool and a roof deck. But what I’m particularly happy about is the flushability. I may be wrecking the NYC sewage system as a whole, but I feel cleaner than I have in years.