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?

This drives me crazy too especially the skid marks in the toilet. However my dh leaves marks EVERY time he does no 2 and no matter what I say he will not use the brush on it afterwards. So disgusting. Also leaves the dirty dish water in the basin after washing up and the dish cloth floating in it. Very very annoying!!!!

My Dh also leaves the mankey dishwater and I do want to kill him for that. However,should he ever EVER leave a skid in the lavatory, then I really would kill him ...... STONE DEAD ......

Oh my god, don't get me started on washing up water and dishcloths - that is a whole new thread in itself!

Hmmm I tempted to post a pic of the skanky toilet where I worked one day

Tho that would 'out' me as was on Fb - then again a lot of people do know I'm Blondes on here from childcare and bereavement threads

I'm sure that wasn't the intent OP. I've just been surprised by the intensity of sentiment on here. I don't think you would see a similar thread written by men all bending over backwards to explain the extent they go to to keep their toilet bowls sparkly clean.
Still waiting for the posters brave enough to say that they don't give a rat's arse.

If I go to a Very Clean friend's house, I clean the loo and wipe the washbasin over after using the bathroom. I'm terrified they might find a fragment of my DNA in there and have a heart attack.

In my own house, I am such a slovenly slattern that few venture in, and I don't blame them. My bog's not particularly dirty, though. I just clean it when it looks like it needs it - a couple of times a day or a couple of times a month (I've never counted) depending on the state of my health & diet, I guess. None of you will ever see it, though - you'd have run away before you got to the bathroom

I have 'known' toilets that were always dirty, because the bowl was worn & pitted. You sometimes find those in rented properties with cheapskate landlords. If you descale them, the porcelain flakes away with the limescale. SillyBilly, did you know you can get bleach blocks to drop in the cistern? I used them when I rented a house with a scaled & peeling bog - I couldn't get the stuff off, but I could bleach it!

Oh God, this thread has grimmed me out, and I've gone and given the bathroom and loo a scrub.

The non-loo brushers, though - I have a question for you.

The gloves?! You can't possibly re-use them...?! Someone mentioned washing their gloved hands in the basin after scrubbing the loo.....! Surely not?!

I find this gloved scrubbing far more grim than a loo brush, supposing you're not disposing of the gloves after every, single use.

Sprite - yeh that is true ... Men are lazy sods !

The basket of face cloths instead of a reusable hand towel in the loo is something my German friends all seem to do.

No loo brush but loads of disposable latex gloves. I get them from Amazon in giant packs and they're really cheap. Okay - not as cheap as a loo brush but I still prefer them.
When my son was younger he was always peeing over the toilet seat and sometimes in the middle of the night I'd get up for the loo and sit in it - yuck. I told him if he did'nt stop I'd mop it up with toilet paper and make him suck on it.
Don't know of he believed me but the seat seemed a lot drier afterwards.

Hahah chocolate! Genius parenting ;)

I'm with chocolate on the gloves v loo brush. At least you can chuck them straight away and aren't leaving a bog brush in your house for germs to breed on!

Lillamay are you kate garawy from daybreak!? She hates bog brushes too and was going on about them this week :)
How exciting she may actually be on this thread hehe !

Heh I noticed that as well keep.. makes you wonder

I like my disposable gloves as well but that's just for sensory issues. I'm still happy with my bog brush - which is still clean looking.

I know, everlong - it just isn't!

Well how I clean them is: spray, leave for 15 or so mins then flush. Whatever is left, gloves on, big wad of loo roll and wipe, flush again, wash gloved hands and hang to dry over bath hand rails and wash hands.

I actually cannot believe nobody else picked up on this! Gloved hands down bog, and then WASHED in the basin, for the toilet remnants to be liberally scattered all over the basin and surrounds - hand soap/gel? Hand towel? Toothbrushes?! - and then hung up to drip dry onto the floor.....?

And people think this is better than a brush?!?!?!

I can see that a brush is not perfect, but this is so not the solution, right?

Japanese - the thought of it makes me heave! I am going to get some of these latex gloves methinks for my false tan application though! Sod putting my hands down a toilet!

As long as you clean your loo brush, and change regularly - ithink it is ok personally ...

A pp explained- leave loo brush in a toilet full of bleach. Then out back in its holder (also full of bleach)

Yanbu

I'm no kim or aggie but we've just spent a few days staying with family whose (3) toilets were unbearable. Seriously - no excuse!

This thread makes me despair.

Judging others on the cleanliness of their loos, house etc. is always about women judging women.

Never heard someone say "oh that bloke is disgusting, his loo is disgusting" , it is always the woman's responsibility , whether she is sahm or wohm.

I don't mind a loo that is not sparking clean, the 30 seconds I spend there.

Agree fiscal - shouldn't be about women's standards but household standards. The friends we stayed with have 3 teenage boys who've never been made to clean up the toilet.

I'm not fussy but tbh it turned my stomach - piss on theporcelainand seats which was obviously a build up over quite a while. Skid marks to make your eyes water.No hand wash / no hand towel.

Shower was equally as scruffy.

I clean fresh skids with a blast from the shower head, flush again, then use the loo brush and bleach for a scrub round. Dried on skids are attacked with brush and bleach. I rinse the brush with shower head over the loo and leave in bleach in holder.
Those of you who use loo paper/wipes...how do you tackle the ones under the water?

Fresh skids = fine and totally understandable (dd2 is a phantom 'pooer, excessive loo roll, non flusher' despite many reminders)

Older skids = not nice

Fiscal- as I have said on here before, 'my friends and family' in question do consist of males too..
I appreciate your sentiment (being a feminist myself) but I think you are jumping to conclusions

Fiscal - I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's apparent from this thread that however unfair it may be, women tend to be the ones who clean the loos in their houses. I doubt many of them accept it as their job as women, but I bet most of the women on this thread have tried and failed to get the men in their families to do their fair share of the bog cleaning. I know I have!