to still use the brush I dropped down the public toilet?

[justelliotandme]

I just dropped my brush down a public toilet. WIBU to take it home wrapped in paper towels, pop it in boiling water for an hour, then carry on using it? It's a bloody good brush!!!

What were you brushing

GreenEyesandNiceHam

Buy a new one. Everytime you brush your hair you'll think 'toilet brush'.

stick it in the washing machine - works for me!

Ha, ha...
conjures up a picture!!

As long as it wasn't a toothbrush...

nope, washing machine, good as new if you can forget it, but presumably you put your hand in to retrieve it so if you can forgive your hand after a wash you can forgive your brush

Eww YABU, it's just a brush, chuck it away.

Euw! nooooooo!!!

Throw it out!

I'd chuck it in the dishwasher then carry on using it. You're only using it on hair, not putting it in your mouth!

No NO ......e-coli on the dishes!!! nooooooooooo

Tortoise - your suggestion made me boak even more than OP's (double boak emoticon)

Hope it didn't land in brown stuff!!!
Just wash n go. :-)

In the dishwasher!

Throw it away.

I once had a housemate who hung a long-handled brush up next to the loo. 'It's a loo brush,' thought I, not unreasonably in the circumstances, and used it as such for some weeks until I discovered . . .

. . . it was her back brush.

you boiled it for an hour, it will be fine.

lol at people putting brushes in the washing machine

Get another brush.

hahahahahahah hobnob

hobnob she had enough back hair to warrant a brush?

And I thought I was practically a yeti.

OP - I am never going to be able to borrow a hairbrush from anyone for the rest of my life in case they turn out to be you...

Eew yuck. Why the hell were you using a public toilet?

What's wrong with using the dishwasher? It gets hot enough to sterilise bottles etc so any germs would be killed off.

I think I would really really want to boil it and use it again, but it would be useless because I don't think I would be able to bring myself use it knowing where it had been.

I'm not sure if I could use it again even if I soaked it in bleach .... for several days ...