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To put the camping toilet in the shed?!

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delorisvancartier · 28/07/2019 23:41

So it's my DD2 Birthday in a few weeks & we usually have a bbq for all her friends & drinks for the parents. Our house is a 2 bed end terrace so not very large at all but we do have a large garden which is fab. The last few years with only having one toilet & up to 12+ kids under 10, well you can imagine the state the toilet/bathroom gets in! AIBU this year to use our chemical camping toilet in the shed for the kids to use? I think it's ok but I'm not sure the more I think about it. Obviously we would make the shed child friendly etc?

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LikeDolphinsCanSwin · 29/07/2019 09:09

I recommend the brand clinell wipes and gel for being good for killing nasties. They use this brand in hospitals.

Hospitals do not use them in toilets as a replacement for hand washing!

You absolutely need proper hand-washing facilities. The combination of kids that age, communal food and a loo without hand washing is a disaster waiting to happen.

drspouse · 29/07/2019 09:23

I also think it's fine as an extra - if it's closer and the queue gets long inside people will be happy to have an alternative.

EleanorReally · 29/07/2019 09:24

no one is going to be digging their hands into the salad,

just do it op. sounds fine

MrsMop7 · 29/07/2019 09:35

Mrsmop7 I'd love to come to one of your parties where children don't be children & pee on seats. Such fun.

Are you seriously suggesting my parties would not be fun because the children don't piss all over the toilet seat Hmm

EnoughLifeLessons · 29/07/2019 09:39

Horrible idea. And the kids will all go home and tell their parents...you will forever be the mother that invited kids to her home and then made them use a camping toilet.

EleanorReally · 29/07/2019 09:40

well the parents are invited too

and i should imagine if they are not, and are told the story of the camping toilet they would think it was an ingenious plan

Yesicancancan · 29/07/2019 09:41

Terrible idea. You may as well just tell your guests their kids are not important enough to use the “indoor facilities”. I would judge you.

shadowloveragain · 29/07/2019 09:41

Just keep checking the house toilet to make sure it's clean.

Reastie · 29/07/2019 09:43

Likedolphins you’re right, that may have been a bit confusing, but they use this brand in hospitals. The brand sell specific hand wipes not cleaning wipes. You’re right, not a replacement for soap and water, but better than giving them a bit of antibacterial gel that does nothing but kill bacteria.

Yesicancancan · 29/07/2019 09:46

Just noticed you are offering hand wash . So no actual water?? That is manky and rude.

Grasspigeons · 29/07/2019 09:47

Im a camper so the concept doesnt seem that strange but i dont think the handwashing facilities are enough. I also think the faff of cleaning up the shed and chemical toiket will be more of a faff tgan sorting out the bathroom.

BarbaraofSeville · 29/07/2019 09:50

OP you need to get more civilised friends and family.

We've had an annual family event with booze for as long as I can remember, with about 20-30 attendees and we only have one toilet and the toilet/bathroom has never been 'a state' at the end of the night.

Asking people to use a camping toilet in the shed is quite bonkers.

Itssosunnyout · 29/07/2019 09:51

I'm not quite sure why you have put this on the aibu page but get annoyed when people disagree with you.

LouLouLoupee · 29/07/2019 10:00

I’ve had parties that have resulted in pee on the floor (tbf it was 3/4/5 year olds, and mostly boys.) The children take great delight in letting you know there is pee on the floor. Less than one minute to mop it up with a towel and clean it with a spray and sponge. And then after the party the toilet gets it’s usual weekly clean.
Seems less effort than creating a whole new toilet.
Pee in a shed will absorb into the wood leaving a lifelong stench. Tbh you’d be better putting it behind the shed or something.

Yesicancancan · 29/07/2019 10:02

Agree with faff. Emptying a chemical toilet will be much more grim than keeping the bathroom clean . Sounds lazy to me.

BarbaraofSeville · 29/07/2019 10:06

Wouldn't the parents of the 3/4/5 YO boys take them to the toilet in a strange house and make sure it is left in a civilised state?

Enclume · 29/07/2019 10:13

And then after the party the toilet gets it’s usual weekly clean

Grim. Are you suggesting you don't set your alarm to clean the loo at 4am every day? And again at 4pm?

OP, can't you install a water feature in the garden so the kids have running water to ablute with? Clearly relying on alcogel for a couple of hours is going to see loo germs mutate into giant man-eating barbecue-wrecking rats. Don't say you weren't warned.

werideatdawn · 29/07/2019 10:17

That's gross. If you are serving food people should be washing hands thoroughly with soap and water.
Enjoy your party and the resulting D&V Envy not envy.

lavenderbluedilly · 29/07/2019 10:18

I wouldn’t. DS just pointed out that he wouldn’t want to be known as the kid who had a party where the guests had to go to the toilet in a shed Grin . While I would be happy using it myself, I wouldn’t expect guests to do so.

returnofthecat · 29/07/2019 10:22

I hate this idea as an adult and I would have hated it as a child.

TBH, as I wouldn't have been assertive enough to say anything when only a kid, I would have probably refused to drink anything to avoid having to use the awful toilet in the shed and ended up very dehydrated and unwell.

If you don't want people to use your toilet, you don't invite them into your home, IMHO.

bobstersmum · 29/07/2019 10:31

Hire a portaloo!

llangennith · 29/07/2019 10:45

@delorisvancartier are you talking about a party with just the children there or all the parents too? 12 kids plus 24 parents?
Hire a portaloo.

Yeahnahmum · 29/07/2019 11:30

The state of your toilet after 10 kids using the bathroom??
Are they all 18yo boys, that are heavily majorly, entoxicated?
Because if not.then yabu
I once went to a wedding with 60 people and 1 toilet come to think of it. And it was fine haha

CharityDingle · 29/07/2019 14:52

DS just pointed out that he wouldn’t want to be known as the kid who had a party where the guests had to go to the toilet in a shed.

That's what crossed my mind tbh. It could set up your child for teasing. I would get someone to keep a general eye on the bathroom instead, if I were you, and have plenty of cleaning stuff ready in case it's needed.

LouLouLoupee · 29/07/2019 17:30

@Enclume obviously on top of the weekly clean there’s the thrice daily clean for each of the three bathrooms. And once a month I get all the bathroom suites replaced as is perfectly normal and the only way to be truly hygenic.
(Or I’m a slattern and even a weekly clean is being a bit optimistic Wink I won’t tell you about the loo brushes)

@BarbaraofSeville some would be family, cousins etc, some would be neighbourhood kids whose parents dropped them off etc. My DS used the toilet independently from 3/4 so unless a child asks for help I tend to let them get on with it. I know that kids are likely to make a mess in these circumstances, I’m not precious and happy to clean up after them on such days.

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