To judge someone on their toilet ?

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I know I probably am...

I am no snob, but ...

Jesus Christ, what is it with folk and not cleaning their shitters?

I immediately lose alot of respect for someone who has a filthy toilet. Ok, so a one off fine. Esspecially of kids live there. But I have been to a few mates houses and their toilet is always filthy. I now cannot eat there and always equate them as being grotty :/ its awful, I know.

Am I abnormal? AIBU?

KeepOn Okay let me describe my toilet.

No skid marks - I spray those off immediately with a high pressure sprayer meant for cloth nappy cleaning. Anything it doesn't get off I use the brush. If DH leaves a skid I tell him to go and clean it immediately.

Occasionally I will dump a child poo into the toilet and it will leave a skid that I don't immediately attend to because the child in question needs attention. But it will get dealt with by the end of day.

If I notice the toilet bowl is mucky around the rim I wipe it but tbh I feel resentful that dh doesn't do this after every wee. He literally doesn't believe it's him, he thinks my wee sprays up under the seat!

So I am not as bad as some of the people described above....

BUT I rarely clean the toilet properly, maybe once every couple of months!! And the floor has not been cleaned for ages

I would obviously prefer to have a sparkling toilet, but maybe I'm too lazy?? I honestly don't know.

Poughie how can you not know why you have a dirty toilet?

Sorry. Cross post.

I judge resturants on their loos, if they can't keep a public part of the resturant clean what are their kitchens like.

I have left a cafe before on these grounds.

I went round one friends house, went to the loo and refused to use it before i cleaned it (his cleaner was ill was his excuse)

KeepOn well yes the blockages are annoying but I have invested in a large plunger and it's actually quite satisfying to watch everything go floating away once you get the hang of effective plunging.

I have also found that if you keep a mothball in the toilet the cockroaches stay away. Makes the house smell like a public loo, but you can't have everything.

I'm confused by dirty toilets. How do they get so bad? My friend has two boys and I've barfed using theirs. But I have two boys too and if they leave the bathroom a state they get shouted on to clean it up. Think I've had to do that a couple of times.

And loo brushes - yes! Otherwise how do you get down into the u bend? No way I'm doing that with gloves on. Brush all the way.

And actually I don't even clean mine that often and it's fine. Maybe this is the one area in life where I'm winning. Yay...toilet champ...

YANBU. My house is usually a mess but it's never dirty. I'm constantly bleaching the toilet, just in case of unexpected guests.

I used to get fed up with my DP always peeing on the toilet seat. Apparently it wouldn't stay up but he is a plumber so I'm pretty sure it would have been an easy fix. Got to the end of my tether one day and used his towel to clean it up

We have now moved and have a perfectly working toilet seat

Dirty toilets are manky YANBU
It takes a minute tops to clean skiddies off with a brush.

Oh ffs have just gone and given the bloody thing a little clean.

I don't feel like I've really cleaned it though add I didn't get down and wipe the back of it or the outsides of the bowl... Do you people with clean toilets do that all the time or are you just focusing on the inside bits mainly.

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You can tell if a child or adult has just used the loo and not cleaned it properly as oppose to a toilet being filthy.

If someone is unclean the whole bathroom looks grimy. I have experienced not wanting to use the loo in someone's home. If I have to, I rush in and out.

When we have visitors I regularly check the bathroom is clean.

There is no excuse for a filthy toilet. None at all!

A 4 year old may make a mess and you as a parent are responsible for clearing it up in and outside of the home.

When my dd uses the loo I am right behind her to clean up. On the odd occasion she goes without informing us and we have words.

I grew up with a clean toilet.

I clean the toilet seat several times a day. The toilet in and out is cleaned several times a week.

Bit of a strange thread, really. Is anyone seriously likely to respond saying no, they respect people all the more if they have a dirty loo?

Nennypops- it was more along the lines of, am i abnormal for judging people with a filthy loo..?

Poughie i clean inside and around daily... Ok i sit give the back of it a scrub everyday... But the main parts I do.

I dont give the back *

YANBU. I do too. My terminally single SIL has a toilet that makes the one in Trainspotting look like a sterile operating theatre. No wonder she is single. Even my frankly barely better DH is grossed out by it. Before we had DS2 my PIL occasionally stayed. They always left the ensuite in the most disgusting state. I told DH he had to clean it, and if he didn't I would tell them they'd not only left it a state but their son was just as lazy as them and expected their DIL to clean up after them. He cleaned it up. I also agree with whoever said that they judge restaurants by the toilets.

Obviously I clean mine at least daily, the outside and rim with spray and toilet paper. The inside with a brush and lime scale remover like harpic. It gets an extra clean before my cleaner comes. She's a human being and I would never expect her to deal with bodily fluids. So I also empty the bathroom bin if I'm on my period, dispose of all nappies and empty the bedroom bin if it has tissues we've used after shagging in it.

That train spotting toilet has scarred me for life!

I am the exact same on poor toilet facilities in restruants. I always judge a restruant on is toilet and have been known to complain to establishments about their filthy bogs!

Yeah, I'd judge a mingy loo with dried crusty skidders

My house looks like a few bombs have gone off today, but my loo is clean

DD2 is the queen of skidding the loo so I'm continually cleaning it.

I also bought a steam cleaner a few months ago, it's my gadget of choice at the moment and the novelty hasn't worn off yet so any excuse to get it out and I'm there with bells on

Romy - you sound obsessed. You will give your dd a complex if you make her feel bad for leaving a mark in the loo.

Mintyy - what sort of a complex would a dc get from being taught to clean up after themselves, exactly??
Please enlighten us, as I am struggling to think of any this end!

"When my dd uses the loo I am right behind her to clean up. On the odd occasion she goes without informing us and we have words."

That just sounds rather ott to me.

And then

"I clean the toilet seat several times a day. The toilet in and out is cleaned several times a week."

again, imho, that is excessive obsession with the cleanliness of one's toilet.

Hmm, maybe ... I must be a tad ott on it too then.