Storing toilet cleaning bottles next to the loo?

[penguinsarecool]

Am i the only one who dislikes seeing an array of toilet cleaning and bleach bottles next to the loo or on top of the cistern when i go to someone else's house?

[roundaboutthetown]

I believe George found the ingredients for his medicine in high up cupboards. At least before you decant your bleach into pretty containers, it has a safety cap on it. Although, more seriously, yes, cleaning products should be kept out of reach of small children.

[SurvivalOfTheUnfittest]

I know that at least one person has mentioned this, but I keep my cleaning products in the highest cupboard possible. I am friends with a speech and language therapist who has treated multiple children in Great Ormand Street Hospital who have swallowed bleach and burnt away their oesophagus. It frightens me how many people store such things at a child's level. If you have small children in or visiting your house (and those under ten who might have read George's Marvellous Medicine), please consider moving cleaning products to a high up place.

[roundaboutthetown]

Yuk to cleaning your poo away with a toilet brush and not using some bleach with it. I'm not getting near that toilet brush any time soon!

[intothewoods]

Dipan that's really patronising, it takes no longer to bung it in the cupboard after using than to put it down by the loo

[AppleSetsSail]

My feeling is that people with time to keep putting cleaning bottles away into designated cupboards and worrying whether their loos and kitchens look pretty really don't have enough to fill their lives.

Well, I suspect your life is pretty empty. So there.

[moopymoodle]

At least these people are cleaning their toilets though. Tbh I don't care about seeing them if it means the toilet is reasonably clean when I use it. Wouldn't have loads next to my toilet but that's my preference I don't judge others for it

[SusannahD]

I only don't have it there in case DS messes with it, but otherwise that seems the best place.

[EskiVodkaCranberry]

Madness! I wash my hand towel each day because we all use that, shower towels every few days.
Cleaning products- minimal on display, rest in cupboard... I say display, i mean they're sat there. I can't think what I've seen in friends houses, must be more vigilant

[Topseyt]

If keeping a bottle of bleach next to each toilet in my house makes me an untidy slattern then I am guilty as charged.

I can't say it has ever even occurred to me to look at how other people store their toilet cleaner.

[Nospringflower]

Dipan I think that about lots of things / people but it is totally not true for me. I don't have enough time to worry about putting them away but somehow manage to. I am someone who has a really tidy house but its not as clean as it could be ... or as well up kept. And there's lots of stuff rammed in cupboards out of sight whereas I would really like the cupboards to be tidy too.

[WhoKn0wsWhereTheMistletoes]

Why would guests need bleach? Quick scrub with the loo brush and skids are gone. However I have no objection to seeing cleaning products visible in bathrooms. I feel more relaxed in non-showhome style houses.

[roundaboutthetown]

So where do you keep your kitchen soap, then, PurpleTreeFrog*? Or do you go to the loo sink after handling raw meat, raw eggs, etc?

[Dipankrispaneven]

My feeling is that people with time to keep putting cleaning bottles away into designated cupboards and worrying whether their loos and kitchens look pretty really don't have enough to fill their lives.

[LittleBeautyBelle]

Needs to be put away but nearby.

[Nospringflower]

I wash my shower towels after every use but not the hand towel - that stays until it looks a bit minging :)

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Not me, I wash my towel when it smells not so fresh. I try to run a fairly green operation (I fail, mostly, but try)

Nor me , but my excuse is simply I have a very high level capability for ignoring stuff like this.

[intothewoods]

Dipankrispaneven I'm a hide the bottles as they are ugly type person but I don't wash my towels every single day, 2 or 3 times a week usually.

[AppleSetsSail]

Out of interest - how many people who hate having loo cleaner next to the loo also wash their towels every day?

Not me, I wash my towel when it smells not so fresh. I try to run a fairly green operation (I fail, mostly, but try).

[intothewoods]

roundabout I leave the loo brush out just in case of guest emergencies

[PurpleTreeFrog]

People tend to wash their hands in the loo sink rather than the kitchen sink so I generally don't get that problem, Dipankrispaneven. It's not that hard to squirt it into the sink or sponge either, actually it means you can do it with one hand.

It also "rations" it really well because only a small amount comes out at a time, instead of a big blob, so it means a bottle of Fairy lasts ages.

As you can tell, I am very proud of my washing up liquid dispenser

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Am I going to get flamed if I say I have a caddy (in a naice white wood effect, with a lid) that holds bleach, cleaning products and a couple of toilet rolls in my bathrooms?

That would be the sensible compromise between the sensitive hiders and the shameless flaunters ; or alternatively it is the Liberal Democrat equivalent of cleansing product storage and appeals to almost no-one.

[Samcro]

Ya u
Its a toilet that people shit in
Its never going to be pretty

[PurpleTreeFrog]

Anyway, I don't exactly get the OP... Okay, if there are 7 almost-empty bottles of various loo products scattered around your loo, I might think "that's a bit messy", but in general I'd rather see cleaning products than skidmarks!

I do judge people's loos and sinks a bit though. Some of my friends have loads of hairs and soap gunk in the sink, horrible dried up cracked bits of soap, toothpaste and 100 toiletries cluttering up the place so much that you know it probably never gets cleaned...

This makes me not want to use their hand towel, because if the rest of it is dirty, the towel is probably rarely washed and festooned with germs too. And once you start thinking about that, you start thinking about how dirty their hands must be and wondering if you'll get food poisoning when you eat the dinner...

[Dipankrispaneven]

Out of interest - how many people who hate having loo cleaner next to the loo also wash their towels every day?

[mineofuselessinformation]

I read this thread much earlier, then RL got in the way....
Am I going to get flamed if I say I have a caddy (in a naice white wood effect, with a lid) that holds bleach, cleaning products and a couple of toilet rolls in my bathrooms?