AIBU to think no one actually does this!

[freebreeze]

I recently read an article (can't remember where now) where the author described how you can tell a lot about a person by what they store in their bathroom cabinet! Really???? AIBU to doubt that anyone actually does have a rummage through another person's cupboard whilst nipping to the loo? (Light hearted thread intended!! Be honest!)

[MrsD14]

My MIL definitely noses through our bathroom cabinet. Every. Single. Time. I almost feel sad for her that it's so boring - cotton wool, Calpol, bonjela, other small child related crap and some posh soap I don't really like which was a well meant present from an auntie, which I'm saving to put out when that aunt visits us for a special occasion. When we were ttc I deliberately kept the ovulation sticks and pregnancy tests elsewhere as I knew she'd look. totally going to try the marble thing now

[VenusInFauxFurs]

Who keeps interesting stuff in their bathroom? Mine is just a testament to me storing stuff way too long. (Five year old sun cream, ten year old Bonjela...)

My bedroom wardrobe in the other hand is full of filthy pervery.

[RudeElf]

My cabinet
Top shelf L-R
Listerine mouthwash, aquafresh kids mouthwash, Asda essentials bubble bath, lavender oil, top marks head lice treatment, two shower caps, nail brush, spare liquid hand soap (palmolive), bleach, anti mould sprayc febreeze air freshener

Bottom shelf L-R
Toilet roll

Dont know what it says about me though.

[Buckinbronco]

Yes I look in bathroom cabinets- fascinating

[RhombusRiley]

I don't think I'd open a bathroom cabinet and look at things like tampax and medicine, but I do love seeing people's bathroom things like what shampoo they have, perfume, posh face creams and make-up. Partly just because I like that kind of stuff and it gives me ideas or tells me if they have the same favourites as me.

I'm also very introverted / shy / possibly ASD and if I'm at a dinner party I need to go to the bathroom for a good few minutes to get my socialising strength up. I like to have a little sit and look at the goods. :) I don't like it when people have a boring empty bathroom with nothing to look at, so inconsiderate.

[Hidinginplainsite]

I thought everyone does. Yes the marble thing is quite a common ruse to out the nosy fuckers.

[Mousefinkle]

I don't have a bathroom cabinet but if I did I wouldn't be embarrassed by anything in it. Surely it's just medicine, sanitary towels/tampons, toothpaste etc. Nothing out of the ordinary, it's pretty boring really . Unless people find tampons and thrush cream anything to giggle about but then I don't suppose children are tall enough to reach it.

[Oysterbabe]

I found some lube in the cabinet of some guy I dated for a while. It was something like sainburys basics lube in a really grubby bottle. Put me right off.

[MyKingdomForBrie]

I have actually gone in a friend's bathroom cabinet before desperately looking for sanpro in an unexpected emergency - I'd have been mortified if marbles poured out on me! Had absolutely no interest in anything but her tampax...

[StitchesInTime]

I've looked in other people's bathroom cupboards before when I've gone to the toilet and there's no toilet paper or soap.

But not looking just for the sake of nosying around. I can't imagine the typical bathroom cupboard containing much of interest.

[unlucky83]

I would never look in someone's cupboards - I just couldn't - even when told to help myself to tea and coffee once watching a friend's child for a short time in a semi emergency I couldn't cos I would have to open cupboards to find it!
However I have an acquaintance who has a lovely, always absolutely immaculate house (although I do always like to imagine that upstairs is carnage .)
Their downstairs cloak is also a shower room, it has designer label shampoos etc on display on spotless shelves and posh hand soap etc.
One day as I was washing my hands something caught my eye as being out of place on a shelf in front of me - it was a grubby plastic tumbler containing a tube of pile cream. I just thought they are human after all! I id wonder where it was normally hidden and noticed they don't have a bathroom cabinet but do have a biggish cupboard in there - haven't looked inside (wouldn't) but now imagine it full of value hand soap and shampoo and conditioner, slightly mouldy body sponges etc... the things you would find on display in my bathroom ...

[VenusInFauxFurs]

That's a really good point Kingdom, I'm sure I've surreptitiously looked for sanpro, tissues, room freshener etc in people's bathrooms.

I hope nobody really does the marble thing. If that happened I would exit the house, the friendship and possibly the country pretty damn quickly.

[WhatTheActualFugg]

My guest bathroom cupboard is beautifully organised with everything a guest may require when visiting my guest bathroom.

Spare toothbrush, sanitary items, new pack of tooth floss, plasters, paracetamol, cotton wool balls and buds, a few nappies in various sizes, baby wipes. Spare loo rolls, of course.

I am a domestic goddess.

total bullshit

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

Bollox. The bathroom cabinet is where I hide all the stuff we hardly use anymore, you'd get proper information from the window sill.

[getyourfingeroutyournose]

My sister came home from Uni once and didn't realise guests had turned up whilst she went to the loo. She came stomping down stairs shouting "WHO'S GOT THE FARMER GILES THEN?!?" (Piles) Whilst holding my dad's hemorrhoid spray...

Wrong time to snoop sister! Even if it was her own family.

[JaneJeffer]

I don't care who looks at anything in my bathroom but if I'm in someone else's bathroom I touch as little as possible. Germs!

[Judydreamsofhorses]

We have a sort of wicker cabinet thing in the bathroom. In it are things like spare toothpaste, medicines (cold stuff, ibuprofen, indigestion tablets), tampons, pads and contact lenses. There's also a basket with shower gels, body creams, cotton wool, and razors. Perfume and makeup/skincare are on my dressing table. DP has blood pressure meds which he keeps in the spare room (his man cave). We are very boring.

[Judydreamsofhorses]

Bedside table is tissues, earplugs, pillow spray and a coaster. God, we are dull.

[lorelei9here]

I don't look but I read a novel where a character desperately went through cabinets looking for Diazepam. I just about get a prescription each year (I use it for sleep) so I immediately removed them from the bathroom just in case!!

I've had some people ask where I keep posh face cream etc. Their faces fall when I tell them the cheap boring stuff in the bathroom is all there is. My sis has cupboards full of Oil of Roses Nourished by songs of nightingales and fanned with a grape leaf etc.

[QuimReaper]

The thing is though, for instance, I keep the naice Aesop stuff DP and his mum have bought me over the years in the cabinet; the Body Shop stuff I actually use is beside the bath, where I can actually use it...!

[FirstWeTakeManhattan]

If someone's left a moisturiser out then I might clock what sort it is, otherwise I just wouldn't care.

We have narrow wooden units in each bathroom so everything's on display. All pretty normal though.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

In the cabinet in my downstairs loo are - cleaning spray, a spare loo roll and a pile of spare light bulbs. Upstairs we have a drawer unit with again spare loo roll, my sanpro, dh's hair cutting clippers, bags for the bathroom bin and some odds and ends. I really don't think anyone will be too fussed about the sight of dh's half used tub of swarfega.
I keep all my medicine in a kitchen cupboard as that's where I make my morning cup of tea so I can take it. This just confirms that I am, in fact, really really boring. Oh well.

[AnArrowToTheKnee]

Only reason I've ever gone through a cabinet is looking for sanpro, who does it just to be nosy? I don't have a cabinet, just a shelf mostly filled with smelly bath shite that I got for Christmas/birthdays and will never use. Medicines are kept in a locked cupboard in the kitchen so nobody can see what we have to keep it away from DS

[Girlwhowearsglasses]

www.the-pool.com/people/women-we-love/2016/8/the-pool-chats-to-sali-hughes-the-directors-cut

It's Sali Hughes that writes a series on people's bathrooms. The link is her own

[SlimCheesy]

I'm shocked that people snoop like that! In ours they would only find ancient calcium tablets, cotton buds, vitamin tablets, DH's shaving kit. Afree that the windowsill would be much more relevant!

(Thank god we have an ensuite and a cloak room that visitors go to).