FGS!!! Come and tell DH that toilet brushes are DISGUSTING

[thebrownstuff]

I know that we've had this toilet brush conversation numerous times....but, Please come and let DH know that I am not being unreasonable to have put our toilet brush in the outside shed.

The sight of toilet brushes makes me feel sick. I bought those clip on flushable toilet brush thingys which I think is the more hygenic and pleasant approach to getting rid of the shit as it were DH claims that everyone he knows owns/uses toilet brushes

Namechanged for this as I don't want DH (yes you) to know my regular name. Go easy on him as the argument has come up while he's making himself useful cleaning the bathroom, so it's not all craziness from him.

Plainly people are not using the right technique here. There should not be anything on the brush - ever.

When the brush has been used one should flush the toilet while the brush is still in the bowl and give it a vigorous sluicing. Then once a week clean the toilet, bleach and leave the brush in the water at the bottom of the toilet for an hour. Flush to wash off the bleach and place back in bowl holder which you have previously emptied down the toilet.

Beenbeta, you're a man...so your opinion doesn't count
Oh! and also anyone who disagreed with me, your opinion doesn't count...because I didn't read your responses out to dh .
Mrbrownstuff says that surely me and my imaginery friends have more important thgings to discuss? can';t think what myself.
As he won't actually look at the thread, I can now tell you that I threw the crappy

Probably why you need a toilet brush beenbeta....I clean my toilets everyday...yeugh

Great more rubbish being flushed down the loos that will eventually end up in the sea.

Toilet brushes are only yucky if you don't clean them. Actually the toilet duck (or whatever you use) probably does a pretty good job of cleaning the brush when it's used.

YABU but your DH is not.

You're all(the 'eeeew'-ers) bonkers! Do you throw your toothbrush out after every use (think of all the old bits of food festering between the bristles!)?

What's the big deal? I pour Harpic or whatever down there, leave it a bit, brush and flush whilst rinsing the brush in the falling water. The bloody thing is covered in bleach and rinsed in clean water - how is that disgusting?!

Those disposable things are horrible, so wasteful. Don't you have to touch them to detach them from the plastic stick that you store under your sink? How is the stick cleaned, surely that comes into contact with the inside of the loo sometimes? (Not being funny, just curious) Oh, how the other half live!

Okay.

You people who dont use toilet brushes. You just bleach your pan or you use a disposable and then bleach your pan.

So, your pan has no crap stuck to it, and then you have bleached it, so you consider it clean.

My toilet brush no longer has any crap stuck to it either after a vigourous sluicing and flushing, and has been bleached, and is therefore as clean as your toilet.

Or are you saying your toilet is disgusting and unclean as well as my toilet brush?

Trust me, its psychological, or, you've been using them incorrectly.

Sloany - I seen that on a few MC threads - it's enough to make me heave - just the thought that someone actually does that then reuses it - OMG (and that is NOT mooncup envy!).

No sloany , I can safely say my toilet is cleaner than your toilet brush.

I would say Chip my old mate that I have actually bleached my mooncup (do you approve? )

It was taking on a slightly rusty pallour.

Now its lovely, like brand new tuppaware!

How scurry? What do you do to your toilet that i dont do to my toilet brush?

Please elaborate.

sloany & beenbeta - I am with you.

Disposable anything is the curse of our age. Just give everything a good clean and be done with faux-sqeamishness.

There are a few odd, but apparently quite widely held, opinions that I've encountered on Mumsnet that I've never encountered in real life. And this phobia about toilet brushes is right up with the best of them - along with the not leaving your children in the car while you pay at a petrol station and the never letting your children of doors without Factor 50 on.

Really strange. It's not like you lick the toilet brush, is it? You use it, with a disinfectant/bleach and a flush of fresh water, to clean a toilet. You bleach it regularly.

I clean my toilets daily....anything that needs washing off gets washed off with toilet tissue. (yes I put my hand down the toilet).

I don't feel the need to place a bristle brush in shit to clean my toilets. That just introduces more germ potential...transferring germs to more surfaces....it is just not necessary.

Prepare to be disgusted

My mother knew a lady who put her toilet brush in the dishwasher eughy eeeeugh!

'Mooncup envy'?! Haha! I love that phrase ChippingIn
Can see the logic of the flush water coming from the cistern but it just doesn't sit right does it? I mean it touches the toilet on the way out! Ick.

vomit

no one will ever change my view on loo brushes but please be warned.

If I look right whilst having a slash chez vous i will return to my cup of earl grey GREEN and it WILL NOT be with envy

my pants will be judgy judgy and I am not ashamed to say it

Sloany - please don't tell me that women don't normally bleach their MC's regularly... surely you would at least at the end of a cycle?? It's a shame they don't (yet) make disposable ones as I'd quite like to give one a go - but I don't think I could get it in the right place (have short arm-big belly syndrome) and all that washing and reinserting.... not really me - but I'd try a disposable one...?!

Singersgirl - do you have kids yet?? I assume you don't with broad statements like this It's not like you lick the toilet brush, is it?

I have children aged 12 and 9 - how old are yours, Chipping In? Funnily enough they've both survived the presence of toilet brushes in our house. When they were at the stage of licking everything, I put toilet brushes in cupboards/out of reach with the bleach etc. Most people I know have toilet brushes (though I haven't done a study) and oddly enough all their kids are fine too, with no incidence of toilet-brush caused illness.

ChippingIn, I think you might have missed the point about mooncups...

ahh mumsnet

so otherworldly

I thought the point of MC was not to shove wads of cotton wool in your pants or up your minnie!?!

I have a confession.

I get 30p ones from Asda and throw them out as often as possible. Even once a week.

Total drain on the earth, and I should be whipped. I know.

But I hate them sooooooo.

OCD anyone?