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?

[Cockbollocks]

I keep mine in the cleaning cupboard. Unless I have just cleaned the bathroom and then I leave them on the windowsill for the rest of the day to show everyone I have cleaned

[BondJayneBond]

if I visit someone's house I am mindful that I am using their bathroom to have a piss not take stock of their housekeeping systems

Sadly not a universal point of view - last time my mum visited my brother's house she locked herself in his bathroom (his toilet's in the same room as the bath and shower) and refused to come out until she'd finished cleaning it to her satisfaction, despite DBro's protests. He claimed he'd cleaned the bathroom before mum visited. Actually, I think that may have convinced him to not keep cleaning products next to his toilet.

[AppleSetsSail]

OP, you're a kindred spirit. I have always wondered how in the hell one could cope with bathroom cleaner on display. I use it only 2x a week or so, so it's pretty easy to pop on over to the nearest cupboard to retrieve it.

[penguinsarecool]

I was going to say maybe its also done as a demonstration of being clean.

[CasperGutman]

I don'the mind seeing them out, as long as they look newish - it's a bit off-putting if it looks like the same bottle's been there for years!

[AppleSetsSail]

I also can't bear to see bottles of washing up liquid on the counter top, I have mine decanted into a pretty glass bottle.

[BurningBridges]

Now you see this is why I don't like inviting people round, even the kids are worried about it now. I try to tell myself and them that no one bothers, no one is worried if your house isn't perfect. But clearly they do!

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

It's the bog
Who cares?

[YouBastardSockBalls]

I keep mine in my cleaning products annexe.

[roundaboutthetown]

Nobody worth bothering with is that bothered by where you keep your washing up liquid and bleach, though, BurningBridges. It's hardly the crime of the century.

[Sparklingbrook]

I go round to peoples houses to see them not to conduct some weird survey on cleaning fluid storage. I couldn't tell you where my friends keep theirs and it doesn't keep me awake at night.

[ArmchairTraveller]

My Gran used to do everything she could to disguise common cleaning materials in various ways.
She also had a knitted lady who hid the spare toilet roll. Thank you for the fond memories, she'd be so proud of you all for maintaining standards of niceness.

[needastrongone]

at bastard

[MinesAPintOfTea]

Our bathroom is too small for cupboards. Keeping them on the windowsill means I can give the look a quick clean whilst DS is in the bath, or the bath a clean whilst he insists I have to stay whilst he is on the loo.

Also I don't want toiletcleaner storing in my wardrobe or downstairs from the bathroom.

[jevoudrais]

I don't like it. But I also don't like the worry of what if one of the dogs decided to chew a bottle of something.

I have 'the bathroom bucket' and 'the kitchen bucket' full of appropriate products all under the kitchen sink. Only product In bathroom is a shower screen spray and it lives in the towel box.

[RubyWoooo]

This has just made me ponder the fact that my MIL has a staggering array of cleaning products on display, yet their bathroom is always disgusting.

[BurningBridges]

I also can't bear to see bottles of washing up liquid on the counter top, I have mine decanted into a pretty glass bottle

sob - I have no glass bottles and decanting would cause a liquid soap related disaster. I am indeed a failure!

[SmileAndNod]

God I have the cleaning products in the window sill in each of the loos and en suite. And washing up liquid by the sink in the kitchen. I'm clearly common a slattern

[LaChatte]

6yo DD and I had a discussion argument about this on Boxing Day, she had received a Sylvanian bathroom set and we were setting it up, I kept putting the little cleaning bottle in the cupboard under the sink, and she kept telling me off and putting it next to the loo. Eventually she went and got the box out of the bin to prove she was right, so sorry OP, we ABU apparently.

[TheRadiantAerynSun]

Our loo cleaning stuff is on the window sill behind the loo along with tampons and air freshener. Maximum convenience/minimum effort.

It's a little room for poos, wees andif you're my DHreading a haynes manual. It doesn't need to be stylish.

[ArmchairTraveller]

One elderly relative keeps a ribbontied basket of lovely, individual, handcrafted artisan soaps on display.
The soap you are supposed to use to wash your hands with is in the cupboard under the basin, because it's ikky to have a used soap visible.
SoapGate, Christmas 1995.

[LMonkey]

Im with you here OP - I hate it - why would anyone choose to have bathroom cleaning products all full-on on display?? It just looks cluttered and unattractive. Would you line up your oven cleaner, surface spray, dishwasher tablets in full view in the kitchen? Or have your furniture polish and window spray on display in your living room? Surely not! Yes you might use your toilet cleaner regularly so its fair enough to keep that in the bathroom but surely its possible to tuck it away somewhere. Surely part of the reason we clean our bathrooms is so that it looks nice, not just for hygiene reasons?? So its kinda contradictory if you clean your bathroom only to have a whole load of other crap on display?!

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

My DM was appalled that I keep spare toilet rolls beside the toilet.

Not entirely sure why, presumably people might assume that I like to have a shit from time to time?

Interestingly, she keeps her toilet cleaning products in the toilet, but covered and dust and cobwebbed to the wall, so,er, horses for courses I guess.

[Sunnyshores]

OP - so if you dont like clutter and hide the bleach bottles away, what do you do with the toilet brush?

Sorry, having thought of it I now have to know!

[Dipankrispaneven]

My DM was appalled that I keep spare toilet rolls beside the toilet.

I'd love to know what she expects people to do if the loo roll runs out when you haven't finished wiping.