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Storing toilet cleaning bottles next to the loo?

135 replies

penguinsarecool · 30/12/2015 18:42

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?

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Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 20:35

Would you line up your oven cleaner, surface spray, dishwasher tablets in full view in the kitchen?

Quite possibly, if that was the most convenient arrangement. The prime function of a kitchen is to be utilitarian, not to look nice.

AppleSetsSail · 30/12/2015 20:38

So its kinda contradictory if you clean your bathroom only to have a whole load of other crap on display?!

Some people are not bothered by clutter. I find it surprising that some people are happy to have various appliance cords exposed, cleaning products out, cereal boxes, tupperware containers of medicine, crates of toys, little bowls of whatnot... I couldn't live happily with this kind of discord. I have a friend who keeps a mop and bucket in her bathroom. Shock

Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 20:38

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.

O.M.G. I think I've heard it all now. Sorry, but I think that's the ultimate in naff.

AppleSetsSail · 30/12/2015 20:39

The prime function of a kitchen is to be utilitarian, not to look nice.

No! No! The two are not mutually exclusive!

PinkBallerina · 30/12/2015 20:39

No you're not the only one OP. I had a fight with a cleaner once about this matter. At the time we had a house with 4 toilets. She asked me to buy 4 bottles of toilet cleaner and so i did. The next day each toilet had a bottle next to it.

I hated it so removed them and put them back in the utility room. Following day they were all back there and her reasoning was "it was important to separate the toilet cleaning products from the rest of the house products for hygene reasons". I argued that i was unlikely to want to clean the sink with toilet duck but she kept putting the damm bottles of cleaner back. After a month i gave up and found another cleaner.

Pipbin · 30/12/2015 20:40

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

No, I keep my bleach and toilet brush (quell horreur), next to the toilet because that is where I use them. I'm not thinking about what someone nosy fucker thinks.
I do care that my toilet is clean and I demonstrate that by keeping my toilet clean.

Maybe I should get a toilet brush and bleach just for show.

Enkopkaffetak · 30/12/2015 20:42

when children were young we stored in a cupboard when we moved here youngest was almost 5 so it just went to the toilet and stayed there.

nebulae · 30/12/2015 20:43

Agree OP. Looks awful. Should be stored in a cupboard.

Not everyone has a cupboard in the bathroom though. I don't, there's no room.

NewLife4Me · 30/12/2015 20:44

Same here, moved if anyone with small children come round, and were on a higher shelf when our dc were little.
Really embarrassing for a guest/visitor to have to ask where it is kept if they want to clean up after themselves.

Not very hospitable OP, or do you tell them when they arrive?

merrymouse · 30/12/2015 20:45

If this kind of detail bothers you, does it mean that you are permanently distraught, or does it mean that your life is so blissfully happy that your only problem is where other people store their toilet duck? Confused

AppleSetsSail · 30/12/2015 20:45

O.M.G. I think I've heard it all now. Sorry, but I think that's the ultimate in naff.

I must defend my honour - I think it looks far better than a Fairy bottle.

Storing toilet cleaning bottles next to the loo?
MinesAPintOfTea · 30/12/2015 20:47

Another one with no room for a cupboard. We don't all have acres of room in our bathroom.

Kitchens have cupboards. If I'm leaving something on the side it will be something I use a lot. My dm however wont leave the hand soap on the side in the kitchen. Then their house has lots of bugs...

roundaboutthetown · 30/12/2015 20:50

Clutter is not essential cleaning products. Clutter is being daft enough to decant bottles of essential cleaning products into other bottles, so that you have double the number of bottles necessary to do the job. Grin Oh, and putting things out just for display that nobody is supposed to use. It's horrible staying in a house where everything practical is hidden away, because you just get the feeling they are itching to get all the people out of the way, too, so that they can tidy up after them and lock everything away in cupboards.

NewLife4Me · 30/12/2015 20:51

Our toilets aren't in the bathroom and there's no room for cupboards in them as well as the sinks.
Oh and we have one bathroom it seems like enough Grin certainly couldn't be faffing with en suites, be like having a bathroom in your bedroom and kind of weird.

roundaboutthetown · 30/12/2015 20:52

Sorry, Apple! Lovely bottles. Xmas Grin

Pipbin · 30/12/2015 20:52

In fairness AppleSetsSail with a beautiful sink like that it makes sense.

NorbertDentressangle · 30/12/2015 20:52

Ours are in a cupboard in the bathroom.

DD was 2 when we moved here and then we had DS so the cleaning stuff was always shut away and has stayed there.

TBH I prefer it not being on display just because it makes the bathroom look a bit tidier.

Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 20:52

The prime function of a kitchen is to be utilitarian, not to look nice.

No! No! The two are not mutually exclusive!

Apparently they are, if people are so horrified by the sight of a bottle of kitchen cleaner by the sink.

Apple, I'm really shocked that you're not using a cut-glass decanter for your washing-up liquid.

AppleSetsSail · 30/12/2015 20:54

Apple, I'm really shocked that you're not using a cut-glass decanter for your washing-up liquid.

Don't be ridiculous Wink

Original poster
penguinsarecool · 30/12/2015 20:54

I'm the same for cleaning bottles and washing up bottles in kitchens too.

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AppleSetsSail · 30/12/2015 20:55

thank you pipbin Flowers

roundaboutthetown · 30/12/2015 20:57

Do you find people asking you where the washing up liquid is, Apple? Or does nobody ever offer to wash up for you?

Nospringflower · 30/12/2015 20:57

I'm with your Apple - I keep my washing up liquid in the cupboard under the sink. Hate it when my partner leaves it out!!

Floggingmolly · 30/12/2015 20:57

A cautionary tale... a friend's 6 year old once wiped their bum with Flash wipes, thinking they were those moist toilet tissues...
Get them in the cupboard!

BurningBridges · 30/12/2015 20:58

Apple's sink is aspirational. Not sure about the black plastic washing up brush tho. C'mon Apple - we're all looking at you!

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