My husband thinks IABU for NOT allowing

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Toilet brushes in the house.

I have a toilet duck one with disposable brushes which you flush after one use.
And strongly feel this is the only option for hygiene. I can't bear the thought of my toddler or baby getting their hands on a poo encrusted toilet brush, or god forbid coming anywhere near the poo water which is always to be found pooling in the bottom of the toilet brush holder.

In my opinion it is beyond minging to own them, especially if you have young children in the house.

My husband thinks I am an anal germ hater.

What say the wise users of Mumsnet?

We have a loo like that Dutch one, I LOATHE it and one of the reasons we need a brush!

Oh, God- the poo shelf! I had forgotten! Everything else about living in the Netherlands (maybe the clue is in the name!) was lovely, but the poo shelf........

I think my possibly irrational hatred of toilet brushes comes from when I was about 8 and my sister was 9. I caught her swirling it around the bath to make our bubbles bubblier . I then had to get in that bath, vile.

I don't have one but put bleach down every now and then and occasionally give them a really good scrub with an old kitchen scrubber, a la Alex Polizzi. It then goes in the bin and the rubber gloves washed well. And we have a 'no shoes in the house policy' but that's because of dirt, not germs. The rest of my house is pretty dusty and untidy!

We have 4 - 4 loos, 4 brushes. They don't get used often but are occasionally necessary.

I got rid of ours when we discovered ds "painting" with it. (Was the weekend.) Dh and I both disgusted and prompted me to spend a lot of time cleaning the bathroom and kitchen.

Anyone know what happens to the disposable brushes? Do they biodegrade? Or are they likely to wash up on a beach somewhere and get either investigated by toddlers there/stuck in the gut of an animal or just cause disease/pollution?

i just use bleach too,seems to do the job,we dont seem to be messy enough to even need a brush.

I would be very surprised it they are bio degradable.

I am absolutely sure they are not biodegradable- and even if they are, it will take years for them to degrade.

And all this bleach going into the system- honestly, does nobody think for a second of the impact on the environment?

This is why reading Jilly Cooper's Class as an impressionable teen was such a mistake.

I can't read MNers having fits of vapours about bog brushes and germs without thinking that you are all like Jen Teale, and are the type of women to carry tampons in a little blue box and make rustling noises in a public toilet cubicle so people can't 'hear things'.

I am fucked if I am putting my hand down a bowl and scrubbing someone else's solidified shit off. They can use a loo brush. Which costs a few quid so can be replaced every few months.

I don't care what Alex Polizzi (hotelier, so has chambermaids paid to put their hands down the pan) or those Kim and Aggie types (cleaning obsessives so don't count) do - in real life, if someone goes to the loo and leaves a stain I want there to be a brush there so they can clean it there and then. Not leave it for me to scrub.

Bleach wouldn't get rid of shit smears by itself anyway, surely.

I have one but hardly ever use it.
I hid it in the bathroom cupboard, after my friend told me about her niece drinking the liquid out of the toilet brush holder when she was at her Nan's house. It came out of both ends a few hours later!

I use toilet roll to wipe skids away. And throw away wipe (not Eco friendly I know).

Getorf- remember Rupert being furious because he said what's her name was poisoning his dogs by putting blue stuff in the cistern?

And yes- I can't get my head round sharing a house with somebody who thought it was somebody else's job to clean the loo after them!

Yes . He also ripped all the net curtains his american wife put up in the downstairs bedrooms.

I am fucked if I am putting my hand down a bowl and scrubbing someone else's solidified shit off.

It always really surprises me when I go to other people's houses and there is solidified shit in the loo. And frankly there usually is. It's vile. Here, whoever does it wipes it away immediately.

ok a genuine question for all loo brush haiters - so you use a cloth and gloves or an old kitchen scrubber. But..what does the rest of the family do in the mean time? In case they leave marks that really need scrubbing, just leave them there for you to clean?

What about guests, I would be mortified to leave marks in someone else's toilet when visiting, are you ok with it or do you expect the guest to stick their hand in the toilet to scrub the marks with toilet paper?

Can you imagine going to the loo, looking down and seeing how disgusting it looked, and then walk off thinking 'muggins will clean it' and then expecting said muggins to want to have sex with you later.

I would never behave like that, I would be too bloody ashamed to expect someone else to clean up after me.

Anyway I love threads like this.

The MN judgement of the most innocent looking household implements. I remember similar threads about butter dishes, tea towels, j cloths and bathmats.

Hazlenut, here, we wipe away with toilet paper then flush between cleans. No skids in my pan.

Got to love a good butter dish.

How do you clean shit marks out of the toilet with toilet paper?

What's the anti-butter-dish argument? And what is the more desirable alternative?

Well if they're fresh they just come off Leaving them to solidify is rancid.

Cold unspreadable butter, apparently! And holey toast.