To ask about the dreaded loo brush?

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This is not supposed to be goady - promise! I know the loo brush is a contentious issue here on MN, but DH and I are having a discussion about what the hell you are supposed to do without one! They are unsightly, yes, and ideally we wouldn’t have one but I cannot understand how you clean the loo under the water otherwise - genuinely want some answers please!

"So you have no problem wiping your bum with loo roll, but once poo has touched the bowl of the toilet it suddenly becomes much more disgusting?

What?"

It is disgusting cos it's not normally my poo!

Coming into close contact with the bowl is not something I want to do thanks very much.

You drop toilet roll into the bowl anyway. No one is asking you to bathe in it.

I'm struggling to find much info about household bleach being that bad but I guess the manufacturing process probably is.

Curious to know if any of you who can't cope with the thought of putting your hands anywhere near the inside of a toilet bowl have never accidentally dropped something in and had to fish it out? How do you cope?

Well of course I can cope.

I’ve just no idea why you’d choose to do it on a regular basis when you could be using a brush. But each to his own and all that, knock yourself out.

And dropping something into the bowl isn’t the same as having to reach in and wipe the shit off it. But I’d have thought that was obvious.

COuld someone explain to me what’s wrong with using bleach? I genuinely don’t know

And dropping something into the bowl isn’t the same as having to reach in and wipe the shit off it. But I’d have thought that was obvious.

No wiping necessary most of the time. Drop in, soak, flush. But I don't get the heebie jeebies about cleaning the toilet after my kids, considering I wiped their crap up for years.

I do the same as gubbsy, one scrub and bin. I buy about a dozen from Ikea and keep them in the cupboard. Yes, I know it's not great environmen tally but needs must.

You're awful. Just so you know. What a bloody awful thing to do. Echoing pp no wonder humanity is fucked.

www.livestrong.com/article/217675-the-effects-of-chlorine-bleach-on-the-environment/

Bleach makes me wheeze and gives me a headache. I hate the smell. The production of it especiallyis bad for the environment and it isn't great for lungs (especially when combined with ammonia.)

I have no problem wiping up crap, I work with small children and they are sticky messy snotty crappy vomity dribbly creatures. However in getting rid of a Jackson Pollock down the toilet a brush is more efficient.

If how the loo brush looks after a few uses is the reason people are throwing them away, you can get ones with black bristles that don't show the grime as much. I always get ones with black bristles, they just look better (I do clean them also!), and they are hidden in a marble container at the side of the toilet so no-one really sees them.
Black bristles all the way!

I've had a cheap white one for years and it's still white and doesn't have brown bits or tissue on it. I make sure I rinse it off under the flush before replacing it back. I've thought about buying a new one but can't see the point really. I'm glad I haven't now after reading how often some people replace them.