To wonder why people/it’s considered normal to keep toothbrushes in bathrooms?

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Why is it considered normal for toothbrushes to be left in bathrooms, near toilets, poo particles just flying around. Even if everyone guest and children/husband remembers to put the lid down before flushing.. it’s still somewhere where people poo, why keep something you put in your mouth in there?!

Our toothbrushes live in the kitchen, I just load up with toothpaste, brush, then spit out in the bathroom, rinse toothbrush and return it to the kitchen.

AIBU to think in hindsight, the bathroom is a really weird unhygienic place to keep toothbrushes or am I being a bit germaphobey 🤣

Is there a basin in the loo? If not, how do you wash your hands hygienically after the loo?

What is weird is to have toilets in the bathroom as a standard.

After wiping your bum, you open the door, go out of the toilet, then open the bathroom door, so you have contaminated two areas before you wash your hands!

It’s far more hygienic! Saves contaminating areas touched by hands between toilet and bathroom.

How on earth are you wiping your bum?

That depends on the house. My bathroom is downstairs, as is the kitchen. There's a small loo and basin upstairs.

I never understand the fuss about items in the bathroom being “covered in poo particles”
Surely people must realise that they themselves are also covered in poo particles if they have been in said bathroom to actually do the poo. Clothes, hair, face etc

However clean you think you are it’s impossible not to contaminate your hands when wiping your bum; by that I don’t mean they get smeared with poo,( though they might, especially with kids) but they are in the area of faecal bacteria, so some must be on the hand.

You will hate my house then. My bathroom/loo is attached to my kitchen.

So what? I don’t live in a clinical environment. I grew up in a house with a separate loo to bathroom. It was fine.

Yep, my parents house has a loo separate to the bathroom. You use the loo, and then go to the bathroom to wash your hands. It is hardly rocket science.

That’s only ok if there’s a washbasin in the loo

No, there isn't. Literally just a toilet.

Not exactly hygienic, as washbasin essential to wash hands before leaving toilet. I imagine it’s an older house?

I am not sure of the age but it is a council house so they can't really do much about it.
But public loos do not have wash basins in the cubicles (apart from disabled ones) so it is not really something out of the ordinary.

We have a cupboard in the bathroom that the toothbrushes are in.

Do you make everyone in your family and workplace go outside to fart too?

I do think this is a lot of unecessary excess worry! I have reached nearly 70 despite having my toothbrush out in the bathroom and I don't think it's been problematic. Of course, I can't clone myself and repeat those years putting the brush elsewhere! (And towels, and loo rolls as a PP said)!

If I clean my teeth in front of the bathroom mirror I get lots of little splashes of spit on it. I have to clean the mirror every day. I think that happening in the kitchen is not very hygienic. But each to their own.

I keep toothbrushes in the downstairs loo , noones allowed to poo in there as it's the guest loo . Poos go upstairs!

Why do you care what's normal?

I would quite like to introduce this rule at work, actually.

Omg so much germophobia on here

Just rinse the brush under the tap before you start

Some public loos do now, and hopefully it will be the norm in new ones, same as it is in new houses

Why can't you spit in the sink?