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It's time to check in with the Clean Toilet Challenge! As a quick recap, the Clean Toilet Challenge is an informal, ongoing experiment. By cleaning our toilets everyday, we take part in an ancient belief that staying humble and cleaning your own toilet everyday brings money luck and good fortune.

I think I can safely say my own bottom line has improved since June 2023. I still have some credit card debt -- nothing extreme, but there have been expenses because I lost a family member in October. In spite of some setbacks, I am as busy as I was in 2016-9 when I still had a commercial location and was actually putting away money with zero debt for one of the first times in my adult life. Then the mismanagement of corona devastated my business and threw me from modest savings back into debt. I am not at the point where I have any savings, but I am slowly starting to pay my credit cards off.

In my own case, I see my clean toilet helping me to continue coming up with alternate streams of income. One big win this year was the launch of my Sheet Music By Kimberly Etsy store in late October 2023, which has already brought in $150 worth of revenue with less than 20 pieces of music for sale. I am looking forward to adding more pieces to the store over my winter break.

As I mentioned in the Fall Update, I have been able to relax a bit and because of generous donations to my Bandcamp and BuyMeACoffee sites, I now regularly enjoy a matcha latte or mint hot chocolate on the town at least once a week, and I often get a sandwich at Panera, NafNaf, or McAlisters without sweating it like I used to.

Have you noticed any improvements or strokes of luck that could be owed to a clean and appreciative toilet? Let me know in comments.

Happy Alban Arthuan/Winter Solstice!

It's time to check in on the Clean Toilet Challenge! Since slightly before the 2023 Spring Solstice, I have been cleaning my toilet every day. In my house, we are blessed with two toilets -- my husband built our second half-bathroom in 2021 -- and though I don't clean that toilet as frequently, it has been well-maintained with a less-rigorous cleaning schedule. I have also deep-cleaned two of my parents' toilets and continued to keep them clean whenever I am there, which is about 2-3x per week.

As for money and health luck, I believe I have personally experienced a great deal of both with some of the money luck spilling over to my husband despite the fact I am the only one cleaning the toilets. I have seen a big increase in demand in my music teaching business; so much that I cannot accept all the prospective students that reach out to me. Overall, my statistics are better, with my self-scheduled private lessons up 7 percent from last year. I have also added work at a music school, which has boosted my income considerably. I am simply more comfortable than I was at the beginning of the year before I started the Clean Toilet Challenge. I'm still of an income level where even if I wanted to travel by plane or take hotel vacations (I don't) I could not afford to do it, however, I am able to afford to eat take-out or restaurant food up to 3x a week. This was simply not true of last year. But that's not all. My husband recently got a raise and a better employment situation. He is making 10$ more an hour, which is extremely significant in our world. I believe that keeping the toilets clean has brought good fortune.

For cleaning the toilet, I suggest putting a mixture of white vinegar and water (3 parts water, 1 part vinegar, or half and half) and cleaning the toilet top to bottom with a paper towel. Finish by scrubbing the inside of the bowl with a toilet brush. To initially deep clean a toilet, you may need a wire brush to excavate old rust scale and other nastiness. If the toilet seat is wrecked or cracked, you can buy a replacement. Once the toilet is deep cleaned, daily cleaning will most likely keep in in check. I always finish by thanking the toilet: "Toilet toilet handling waste, thank you for your saving grace."

Has keeping your toilet clean changed anything? I would love to hear your story in comments.

Are you in for the Clean Toilet Challenge?

The Clean Toilet challenge is a magical experiment to see if keeping the toilet clean brings money luck and other forms of good fortune to the home or business where the toilet is located. Many cultures believe that an immaculate toilet improves your financial bottom line, and I have explained this belief in a blog post that is linked in comments.

If you’d like to be part of the Clean Toilet Challenge, starting sometime this week of June 22, begin keeping your toilet very clean and plan on cleaning it everyday until December 22. At the beginning of your clean toilet journey, make a mental snapshot of where you are financially, what the general state of your household is, and how lucky you feel. On December 22, take the same sort of mental snapshot. Since I keep a journal, I’m making a note of my bank account numbers today, though I have been keeping my toilet clean all month already, and I can say my finances have already improved considerably and I have been able to afford some luxuries I usually do without, such as eating at restaurants 4x a week when it’s usually more like 4x a month.

Every day after you use or clean your toilet, you can optionally say this little rhyme: "Toilet, toilet handling waste, thank you for your saving grace." I recommend cleaning the toilet with a spray bottle with half vinegar and half water for a safe, all natural, non-toxic clean.

At the end of the Clean Toilet Challenge, I’d like to compare notes with everyone here on Dreamwidth and at my TikTok account @whitewitchoftheprairie. Happy Solstice and see you at the other end of the Challenge.

In Japan and other Asian cultures, keeping the toilet clean is thought to bring good luck, specifically in the form of earned wealth and prosperity. There is even a toilet deity known as Ususama-myoo who presides over toilet safety. Ususama-myoo is far from alone in presiding over the privy: Ancient Romans had coins and a shrine to Venus Cloacina, who also blessed sexual unions.

For whatever reason, I always appointed myself as official toilet-cleaner of our house when I was a girl and though I wasn't forced, I cleaned all the bathrooms once a week or more despite not liking the job. Nowadays, I understand the value of that sort of etheric labor, and I have learned to tolerate the work a great deal more and detach myself from the gross-out factor. Having become an amateur gardener has helped because gardening steels you against freakouts over gross things -- plunging one's hand into mud and compost has that effect.

A surprising list of fabulously successful Japanese entrepreneurs and entertainers have kept their toilets clean despite being able to afford maidservice. Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda, believed in cleaning his own toilet until the bitter end. He started his company out of a wooden shack. When his shack days were long in the past, Honda commented that he could tell a good company by the state of their toilets, and that dirty toilets were a likely indicator of bad management. Director Takeshi Kitano is rumored to have sworn by cleaning his own toilet, and J-pop singer Kana Uemura had a hit song about appeasing the toilet goddess to honor her grandmother.

Ususama-myoo... yeah, he's not what I expected either!

The Clean Toilet Challenge

I am hosting an informal experiment: the Clean Toilet Challenge. I am looking for people to join me in keeping at least one toilet in their house sparkling clean from the Summer Solstice of June 2023 until the Winter Solstice of 2023. This means that said toilet will require daily cleanings, preferably with mild, all natural cleansers: I suggest 2 parts water to 1 part white vinegar in a spray bottle. in my case, I add a dash of Florida water and a few spritzes of my favorite Eau de Toilette (see what I did there?) but use what you see fit. Please make a note of the state of your bank account, debts, and general state of neediness on June 21st. There is no need to get specific or divulge the information -- all I am looking for is the general vibe of your personal finances. When December 21 arrives, make a comparative mental snapshot of your fiscal state. Is it any better? The same? Worse? I figure the only thing we've all got to lose is a sketchy and neglected toilet, so it's a win-win no matter what happens.

Lately I have been keeping my toilet very clean, both out of the desire to live the principles of the book I am writing, Sacred Homemaking, and out of sheer curiosity. Does keeping one's toilet clean actually result in business luck and earned wealth success? I haven't hit the big time since a couple of weeks ago, but I have seen a decent uptick in music lesson clients and donations for my creative works.

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