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AIBU?

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to think DH should clean his own shit!

22 replies

IsabelleRinging · 18/04/2012 14:51

When DH does a poo he flushes the toilet, but more often than not he leaves brown streaks in the bottom of the bowl.

AIBU to expect him to put some bleach down, scrub with the toilet brush and reflush?

What happens in other houses? In ours it's either I leave it until it naturally wears away, or I clean it for him. I have asked him to clean it, I have complained, I have tried to show him how to clean it, but was told to not be so patronising. He still thinks it's ok!

I think it's insulting to leave it like that.

Does he think he's too good to clean the loo?
Does he think he's so important that I need to put up with his shit?

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scuzy · 18/04/2012 14:55

firstly, euwww!

secondly yanbu. dp can he a lazy fucker at times but he does clean the loo after him. he has no excuse there is bleach and wipes and brush beside loo.

is he not embarrassed by it?

scuzy · 18/04/2012 14:56

how many toilets in your house?

blackeyedsusan · 18/04/2012 14:59

not very sexy is it? I am sure it will kill the mood at some point... Wink

Pastabee · 18/04/2012 14:59

YANBU.

squoosh · 18/04/2012 14:59

Ugh. That would give me major rage as well as vomitiness.

An adult leaving shit marks in the toilet. NO excuse. You need to work hard at shaming him into it. It's disrespectful for him to leave his smelly turdy remains behind thinking 'oh, she'll clean up after me'.

Would he have anything to say if you left used tampons lying around?

IsabelleRinging · 18/04/2012 14:59

We have 3. He only poos in one though! (the main family bathroom one) , one is too cold and the other is in the attic.

I am embarrassed for him, obviously he is not! Needless to say he wouldn't leave it in a house he was visiting!

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Gargula · 18/04/2012 15:01

I clean up everyone's shitty streaks.
DH, DS, and DDs.

If I summoned the energy I may be able to feel slightly aggrieved.

But as it only takes about 5 mins of my time, I simple can not be arsed to feel bothered.

FondleWithCare · 18/04/2012 15:03

Ugh. My partner cleans his own and I would not be doing it for him. He's an adult, he can cope with cleaning up after himself.

IsabelleRinging · 18/04/2012 15:04

The problem is if I don't clean it then it stays like that until it eventually comes off by itself!

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scuzy · 18/04/2012 15:06

wait until he is in there next time dropping a load and go in with gas mask and take all the loo roll hostage and insist he must clean the loo before he gets to clean his ass!!!

CreepyWeeBrackets · 18/04/2012 15:06

It is fucking disrespectful to leave skids in a loo which another person will use, full stop.

It did take a -year or two-- while for DH to cop on to this but he had lived alone for decades.

CreepyWeeBrackets · 18/04/2012 15:06

strikeout fail...

Noqontrol · 18/04/2012 15:07

I clear up everyones shitty streaks too. I used to complain about it, it is gross, but I've moved into a gradual acceptance that I am obviously the shitty streak cleaner Sad

BarbarianMum · 18/04/2012 15:08

Oh I couldn't be doing with that. But then I can't imagine dh doing it, either.

In fact, I can't wait for ds1 to turn 7 - an age where one surely can be trusted with a loo brush, so that'll be 1 less to clean up after.

Babylon1 · 18/04/2012 15:09

We have two loos in our house, I make a point of only ever using the upstairs one, unless an absolute dire emergency (usually a mouthful of sick which needs to be deposited quickly - sorry if that's TMI Blush)

This morning, I noticed, while depositing said gobful of puke, the disgusting state of the downstairs loo, and duly pointed it out to DH. He was about to blame DD1 as she uses the loo quite frequently, but I think the realisation that DD1 is only 7YO made him rethink this, and he went off nd fetched some cleaner stuff and cleaned said loo......

I don't think YABU at all, we tend to have rules in this house along the lines of:

you open it, you close it
you finish it, you put the empty wrapping in the bin
you finish the loo roll, you put a new one on
you dirty it, you clean it

etc etc

Equality.........

Now standards of cleaning....... that is a different matter entirely!!!! LOL :o

SuePurblyBusinesslike · 18/04/2012 15:09

Poo AND loo brushes. This could run and run

Adversecamber · 18/04/2012 15:09

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Longdistance · 18/04/2012 15:10

I am with u! Urgh! My dh does this in all 3 toilets. He leaves it, also forgets 2 spray freshener, and open window/turn ventilator on.
I leave it, and it really winds me up 2 Angry When I mention 2 clean he will do it, but then he'll do it again, and I'm sick me whining about it.
I find it disrespectful 2 be leaving his turd stains on the loo, but ur lucky it's just the one loo!

AWomanCalledHorse · 18/04/2012 15:12

I clean the toilet no matter who makes shitty streaks....although I was surprised MIL left them in the loo, I thought only blokes left skid marks

YonWhaleFish · 18/04/2012 15:12

I screech shout "DH, you've left shit all over the bowl AGAIN, come here quick I need a wee"

And stand over him while he cleans it up. I go on and on and on about how disgusting it is, and after a week long series of leaving enough mess that it looked like he'd had a shit & not wiped or flushed, I said that if it happened again I'd take a picture and put it on FB. I have been known to leave a comment on his FB wall to shame and embarrass him after weeks of not listening. It's not happened since, but it still will I bet.

I never clean it up - it's not my shit!

CreepyWeeBrackets · 18/04/2012 15:15

Never mind the shit, I remember being utterly appalled to be informed that some men just "shake it"

WTAF? There IS always lavatory paper and you just spray your urine around? Who do you think will clean it up?

Onto the tiles and the floor and the droplets going in the direction of the toothbrushes because you can't be arsed to dry your wet knob?

I have had to retrain DH and I suspect I am not the only one...

Chilenachica · 18/04/2012 15:17

I used to have this problem, I solved it by not cleaning the loo after OH and the then pre-teen step son. Amazingly, it turns out they didn't like a skanky toilet anymore than I did.

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