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AIBU to think it is never ok to keep shampoo and shower gel on the side of the bath?

189 replies

DrDance · 17/08/2013 22:05

Surely , you finish your bath/shower and remove the bottles and out them back on shelf/ledge

You do not leave then on the sie of the bath

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everlong · 17/08/2013 22:43

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FoundAChopinLizt · 17/08/2013 22:46

I allow mine to roam free throughout the bathroom. Confining them to one shelf or ledge is terribly cruel. Will report you to toiletry cruelty commission.

Freedom for all toiletries.

Now.

ladymalfoy · 17/08/2013 22:46

I keep my stuff on the SIDES of bath. Plural! And in a large bowl in the corner of the bath. It is MY bathroom. DH has en suite.

doorbellringer · 17/08/2013 22:47

Euphemia - you have made my eyes burn looking at that obscene toilet roll. I hope you are happy.

Am I the only one with a shower tidy wire thing that everything lives on? Self cleaning under running shower water - no gloopy rings (shudder). Reachable from the bath and easy to chuck stuff back into? Flannels hang neatly from hooks on the bottom.

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DrDance · 17/08/2013 22:47

no why would I keep a toaster in cupboard?

I'm not a closet warm bread muncher

EVERY BATHROOM IN THE WORLD has a windowledge/sill.......stick your stuff on it if you dnt have a shelf...........do not leave it around the bath

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Mintyy · 17/08/2013 22:47

Yabu

OddBoots · 17/08/2013 22:50

I have no shelf and no room for one but I have been thinking of getting one of these - does anyone have one, are they any good?

PrincessScrumpy · 17/08/2013 22:53

Don't have a shelf or a window ledge/sill - one bath room has a sky light window and the other, shock horror, has no window. Plus, in a house of 5 why add to the work by getting toiletries out every night then putting them away? Madness (although my mum and dad put their's in a cupboard, they don't have young dc and mum seems to like jobs so she can be a martyr)
I do put my toaster in a cupboard - don't use it that much and needed space for the slow cooker.
Can honestly say it's never occurred to me to be an issue!

Original poster
DrDance · 17/08/2013 22:54

I had one and they are crap ......sorry . It works well for about 2 weeks then gets clogged and nothin comes out

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Ilovemyself · 17/08/2013 22:55

foundachopinlistz. Free range toiletries. How middle class. Grin

Edendance · 17/08/2013 22:55

I wish I had a shelf Sad

IneedAyoniNickname · 17/08/2013 22:56

But my window is next to the bath, the windowledge looks much like it could be the side of the bath, only slightly higher. Plus when I keep stuff on the window ledge ds2 has a tendency to knock it out when he opens the window to talk to the neighbours.

I'll continue to keep it on the end of the bath thanks. Actually, there is a kind of shelf at the end of the bath, so maybe that's ok after all Confused

whois · 17/08/2013 22:58

OP YANBU if you are referring to a multitude of bottles and tubs. Cluttered and hard to clean.

I do keep every day shower gel, shampoo and conditioner out tho on the end of the bath...

Mintyy · 17/08/2013 22:59

I would only put my toiletries away in a cupboard if I was planning to sell my house and had the estate agent coming round to take pictures. At all other times I cba - I have a gazillion other things to put away every day, why make work putting away things that you are going to use again within 12 hours?? Confused

FoundAChopinLizt · 17/08/2013 22:59

IEnvymyself

I'm so middle clarz I think shower gel is a waste of money Wink

Flibbertyjibbet · 17/08/2013 22:59

Who has shelves in the bathroom?

I don't leave shower gel, shampoo and conditioner on the side of the bath, oh noooo. I leave them all around the inside ledge of the separate walk in shower.

HoneyDragon · 17/08/2013 23:00

Ifancyashandy can I come round and have a bath at your house?

StuntGirl · 17/08/2013 23:01

More guidance is needed for those poor unpriviledged folk without shelves. What is the Nutter's Bathroom Etiquette for that?

Cravingdairy · 17/08/2013 23:04

My bath, my house, my toiletries and I'll keep them in the toilet if I want to.

jacks365 · 17/08/2013 23:04

I wouldn't want my toiletries on the windowsill that would make my bathroom look untidy. I have a bath with a very wide edge which makes a good shelf so they look neater there. My window is opposite the door but the bath is tucked away so for my bathroom it works, others might not.

I don't own a toaster.

littlewhitebag · 17/08/2013 23:04

No window ledges in any of my bathrooms. Velux skylights here.

LizzyDay · 17/08/2013 23:05

StuntGirl - you could probably improvise with a special absorbent side-of-bath doily, in the absence of a shelf.

LizzyDay · 17/08/2013 23:07

Or decant your shampoo into tap-shaped bottles, so that they blend in.

oohdaddypig · 17/08/2013 23:10

The side of our bath is sloped. The fecking bottles, with their slime on the bottom, slide off side of bath and land on my toes when I'm standing in the shower. Every fucking morning.

Did you design my bath, OP?

KnitterInTheNW · 17/08/2013 23:11

The only reason that bottles get tidied away from the side of the bath in our house is because if they're not, they get squeezed out onto the bath mat by 21 month old DS2 Grin

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