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where we droppin', boys?
So I think they wiped with moss-on-a-stick which is cool but I also think they had communal moss-on-a-stick which really is most heinously uncool and not cash money at all :(
They had communal sponge on a stick they washed the sponges between use. There was a restroom attendant whose job it was to do that. Fun fact this is where the expression shit end of the stick originates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium#:~:text=The%20xylospongium%20or%20tersorium%2C%20also,spongos)%20fixed%20at%20one%20end.
Definitely a horrendous idea and not cash money at all. I'd be carrying my own water bucket. Why not wash your ass with clean water (like India)? I'm pretty sure they also had soap then and to save soap you can also use soap water. I mean it's really not hard to have a bucket or well with soap water and use flowing water to rinse.