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If you dropped a lid down the toilet...

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TimeToWash · 04/01/2025 21:17

Asking for a friend.... If you dropped the lid of a tube of antiseptic cream (like germolene) down the toilet would you:
A) wash it with bathroom cleaner, dry and put back on.
B) Throw the lid and nearly full tube.
C) Try to fashion a covering from cling film. Or maybe sellotape (would that work?).

OP posts:
fivebyfivebuffy · 04/01/2025 21:18

Wash it and use it

mynameiscalypso · 04/01/2025 21:18

Was there anything other than water in the loo at the time? Assuming not, A, for sure.

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gamerchick · 04/01/2025 21:20

I'd wash it.

You do know toilets use drinking water don't you?

Just give it a wash, dry it, put it back on and put it away OP

SemmaLina · 04/01/2025 21:20

A
from someone who ( cough , had a friend who ) dropped an AirPod down a loo that was being cleaned , so stuck a marigold clad hand into the bleachy water , rinsed it under the hot tap , dried it on her husbands towel and stuck it back in her ear

goodnessidontknow · 04/01/2025 21:20

Wash it then if I was still worried drop it on some Milton before putting it back on.

Brunetteshel · 04/01/2025 21:26

Throw it away
pop open tube in sealed food bag

MassiveSalad22 · 04/01/2025 21:28

A assuming toilet only had water in it.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 04/01/2025 21:30

Throw it away tbh

Some of the tubes in my bathroom don't have lids as I have a habit of misplacing them

DaisyChain505 · 04/01/2025 21:32

Only if the toilet was flushed and empty I would fish it out, pop it in Milton or something and then use it.

eyestosee · 04/01/2025 21:34

Dettol water- or equivalent. Disinfect and rinse. Or soak in boiling water. And re use.🙂

RachelCarew · 04/01/2025 21:35

If the toilet was clean/flushed, I would rinse it, put it in a jar, boil the kettle and cover it with boiling water for a few minutes before drying it/using it.

ilovepixie · 04/01/2025 21:37

I've dropped my glasses down the toilet before. I was cleaning the toilet and they fell in. I just fished them out and washed them under the tap!

KnittedCardi · 04/01/2025 21:45

Wash with hot soapy water. Out back in tube. Job done.

JohnTheRevelator · 04/01/2025 21:58

Wash it and use it. As long as the toilet was clean and flushed,not full of shit!

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 04/01/2025 22:01

Id wash it with boiling water not bathroom cleaner. Or use clingfilm to make a new lid.

Nollybolly6 · 04/01/2025 22:01

A

coldcallerbaiter · 04/01/2025 22:02

C

smallsilvercloud · 04/01/2025 22:02

C I'd Chuck it away and try to save the tube. There still bacteria in the toilet even when flushed and I'd not risk after washing it.

polpolpolpol · 04/01/2025 22:11

I would bin it and put the tube in a food bag

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