ER Emergency Ready Portable Snap-on Toilet Seat with Lid for 5-gallon Bucket

For our recent Labor Day camping trip, I purchased this toilet seat along with the privacy pop-up tent. I wanted a middle-of-the-night potty so I didn’t have to take that 3am spooky walk to a desolate campground bathroom. We used a 5 gallon Lowes bucket that we already owned and we screwed it down to two 2×4’s (as feet)which helped stablize it and raise it a bit for a more natural height. I used others suggestions on here and bought deodorized 13gal garbage bags to line bucket, then filled with a couple inches (not just a cup as some mentioned?!) of Fresh Step cat litter. This worked beautifully! The cat litter acted as an absorber and a silencer. The next morning; I would take the bag out, tie it up and dump it in the dumpster. There was no smell at all, the litter was an excellent suggestion, and everything was solidified. Then, I sprayed the bucket with lysol (nothing got in or on it, just a precaution), cleaned the seat with a bleach wipe and set it back up for the next night. I agree with other posters about the toilet seat back being weird…it doesn’t go back quite far enough so it leans on your back. FYI – we only used this for emergency peeing at night and it worked very well for it’s intended purpose!

OK, so the title of my review may sound a bit odd – I agree. I car camp extensively all over New York State and also fly to the National Parks and am able to take almost all of the gear that I use when car camping in NYS except for a porta-toilet. I am a very active above knee amputee (with prosthesis) and probably do more than most people with 2 legs. That being said, I don’t sleep with my prosthesis on and if I need to use the facilities during the night it can be a pain to carry a flashlight while using crutches at 3 a.m. I’ve always had to get the site right next to the facilities when I fly to my camping destination because of this. These sites aren’t always the best sites with regard to privacy and noise level due to the in and out traffic. This eliminates (no pun intended) that problem.

Used it for the first time while camping this weekend. We needed something for our camper that did not take up lots of space and this was the perfect answer. I purchased a standard 5 gal bucket from our local store and the seat snapped tightly to it! We used 8 gal kitchen bags and double bagged the bucket and added a bit of kitty litter (adding a little each time we went). No more walking to the outhouse in the middle of the night for this mom, or any more accidents with the kids because they can’t make it in time. One happy camper!

This is a good item to have for traveling, camping, etc. Glad that I bought it, and if I had it to do over, I would purchase it again.

I was going to buy the version that also included the bucket but it was out of stock so I bought the seat only and found the perfect bucket for it. It is a lot more sturdy and comfortable than I thought it was going to be.

What can I say? This product is perfect for those of us who have to get up in the middle of the night and don’t want to walk what equates to 3 blocks to the campground bathroom. And I can think of a lot of other uses as well. It was easy to use, easy to clean up after and worked as it was advertized.

It is what it is, but it’s also incredibly flimsy. I’d consider myself “average” size for an American, which means I could probably refuse seconds once in a while and still not wither away, but that said, tread lightly on this thing, folks…

So nice for camping, put a little all purpose cleaner and water in there and you are all set!

Wow, why haven’t I heard of this before? No nasty-stinky-messy bags for me, though. Wood shavings or leaf mold makes for non-stinky, non-spilling toilet-ing.

It seems uncanny the number of times my water has been shut off due to construction or other factors beyond my control. After being without running water, and because of my disability having a difficult time lugging water to flush the toilet each time, I decided to get a luggable loo and some kitty litter and trash bags.