(iPhone 6, Caramel, 2015-02-13)

Nowadays water conservation is an important problem that we can solve with simple habit changes like not letting the faucet on when brushing your teeth, taking shorter showers, etc. My wife and I are doing our best not to waste any water. For example, we are always washing dishes in a bucket and reuse the waste water in the garden. However, the place wasting the most water in the household is the toilet. We try to flush the toilet as seldom as possible (never to get rid of trash or try to wait after several usage before flushing) but it is not always practical. I thought of changing the toilet for one that has a double-flush system, but a new toilet can be expensive ($250-$300) and mine is a rare pinkish-beige color matching the sink, bath and tiles and I would probably never be able to find the same shade (it would most likely be cheaper and easier to go with the standard white which would be clashing with the rest of the room).
“You love Charles Schulz's cartoon kids. Now it's time to meet his teens!”

One of my cats probably has a part of Maine Coon (or maybe Ragdoll or even Norwegian Forest Cat) in its murky lineage because he grew up to be huge! I mean thirty-two inches long (81 cm) from nose to tail and twenty pounds (9 kg) huge! So he was never confortable using a regular size litter (usually around 14 x 18 inches or 35 x 46 cm) and often did his business outside the litter. Since I was having a hard time finding an affordable larger size litter in pet stores, I therefore had to think outside the box (pardon the pun) to come up with a solution.