AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

Wonder how all those medieval types coped with their poop pongs. Bet they weren't demanding air freshener.

I'm sorry but you absolutely are.
As someone who is made quite badly ill by air fresheners I absolutely welcome homes that have none. I really don't understand why everything nowadays has to be highly scented. Or actually I do ... its because of advertising trying to make us believe that natural smells are undesirable so companies can make money off selling us products that contain carcogenic chemicals and hormone disrupters and neurotoxins. Air fresheners have stickly molecules specifically designed to cling, so they mask the smell by coating your nose and airways with chemicals. Think about that.

I can't bear air fresheners - the smell makes me nauseous and that applies to many people who have chemical sensitivity. They contain toxic, including carcinogenic, chemicals and pollute the environment.

For goodness sake - just strike a match, and it eradicates the cause of the smell. It immediately burns the methane.

I don’t understand how people don’t know this!

Get a life.

Yep, air freshener and bleach in all toilets. I think you're totally normal.

Toilet brushes are vile. Just wipe the poop off with toilet paper.

I agree. I have mentioned this on numerous posts where people have talked about what they allow in various bathrooms in their homes.

No-one seems to take any notice. They would rather spray nasty chemicals into the atmosphere.

Bonkers!

Only on MN ‘my shit doesn’t smell’
Love this batshittery

My house, my choice, my rules. If it angers you that much don’t visit other people.

i hate areal sprays I think they’re way more nauseating than the smell of poo. I’ve got a friend who is very sensitive to chemical compounds like this and can’t go near them such that it really made me think about what I put in my home.

You can time your poos for when you leave? 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I think it’s quite normal. I always have one in my bathroom.

I understand your actions but personally hate the smell of commercial air fresheners. We leave a spray deodorant and modest spray fragrance in each bathroom which can be used for their intended purpose as well as to spray the bathroom to cover any major smells. I also try to make sure the windows are easily opened in case any guests want to clear the air!

Would not want to use a toilet if there is no air freshener? You have a choice? When I need to go I have to go

Only men shit?
You think women only shit at home?
Even more bizarre you think men would clean a toilet! I can barely get the men in my house to flush

Why on earth should I buy an air freshener just in case a visitor is offended because I don’t have one? 😂😂😂😂

I don't put my shoes on furniture or lick the floor, so am good anyway 😂

I am yet to find a study showing that people who keep their shoes indoors are more likely to suffer from Toxoplasmosis or the black plague, or that kids have a higher absence rate at school

I don't care if people keep or take off their shoes at home, I just find the outrage amusing.

Do you mean you keep them on when visiting others, or if you're popping home quickly to pick something up; or do you actively wear them in the house all the time?

My DF used to wear shoes all the time when at home, even when he hadn't been out and wasn't going out anywhere - I always found that really odd (DM, DSis and I never did that). Maybe the home he grew up in had carpets that were even more minging than the pavement outside?!

she broke up with a very lovely man the first time she went to his house because he had an air freshener in his bathroom

I presume she's pointedly never dated any taxi drivers, with their obligatory 'magic tree' hanging over the rear view mirror just next to the furry dice, then...?!

@ThePurpleShark

its everywhere on the pavements. You might not walk in it but plenty of people do meaning there are traces of it all over.

You would have hated Mr Toad

why do you have to walk in dog shit? Even my kids knew not to do that before they even started primary school

I always thought many Mumnsnetters walked around like their shit don’t stink. This thread confirms it.