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 🤣

Yes, I wander about this, too.
I always put mine behind my ear or under my armpit.

Well exactly. Who can be arsed with the faff of having the toothbrush stored elsewhere and moving around the house with it? Or brushing your teeth in the kitchen?

Keeping toohtbrushes by the sink is one of those things that people have done for generations and has not bothered germ-obsessed people until recently, when someone invented toothbrush covers and similar.

I don't spend any time panicking about germs or "poo particles".

I don't get this poo particles argument. If poo is aerosolised by flushing, unless you have a remote flush, you get it quite literally all over you - in your eyes, nose, mouth, hair - when you flush.

That said, I really dislike toilets in bathrooms. They should be separate.

I'm not sure the kitchen is a much better place to keep your toothbrush either...

I've kept my toothbrush in a cup in the bathroom for 41 years, and I'm still going strong. So does everyone I know.

Because im an older lady who grey up making mud sandwiches between dock leaves, making slug and snail houses, and I dont give 2 hoots( or any other amount for that matter) about pool particles, its a complete non issue.
Poo is not scary to me. Neither are any other bodily fluids.

because it’s better to brush your teeth in the first place you get to in the morning and last place you visit at night than not brush them. and as @TooBigForMyBootssaid 🤷🏽‍♀️

A study has shown that toilet lids still allow a significant amount of particles to plume into the air. But closing the lid when flushing will help to minimise.

OP, why don't you fit a cabinet for brushes, toothpaste etc?

I've never come across anyone loading toothbrushes in the kitchen.

Go European and have a separate toilet !

I do agree with the whole there will be germ particles in the air anyway argument but, I do think it's also incredibly lazy to not put the lid down on the loo when flushing.

I think you’re deeply overstating the extent to which “poo particles” fly around your bathroom. If they do, then you’re also breathing them in, and they aren’t likely to stop at the bathroom door.

I’d suggest the overwhelming majority of people keep theirs in the bathroom. I don’t see an avalanche of people with poo-related illnesses.

Your can take basic hygiene precautions and that’s totally sensible; you can’t avoid contact with germs or bacteria, nor should you, beyond those basic, easy steps.

I'd don't shit on my toothbrush or near it? It goes in the toilet. I wash in the sink.

how often are you dropping your toothbrush in the toilet to make this statement?! And why aren’t you throwing it away if it does fall in the toilet 😭

Yes that's a good point that if they are landing on a toothbrush we are also breathing them in.

Oh my God are you STILL going on and on and on and on and on and on about absolutely nothing? 😅😃😅

FFS love, get a life. You're wrong and that's that.

Oh, don't worry I won't be back, what a stupid, pointless thread.

…for the poo particles to enter?

Seriously though, it will dry more slowly when covered (even with air holes) than when not covered which I would be pretty confident is more problematic than poo particles - lots of bacteria just don’t do very well in dry conditions and will die quickly, and are then harmless - but moisture and any gunk on the brush provides an environment they can survive and multiply.

I never thought of this. I think in future I’ll stop cleaning the loo with my toothbrush before cleaning my teeth with it. 😗

Er, just close the toilet lid before you flush? I’m actually a bit grossed out by dripping toothbrushes - that have been cleaning food particles and bacteria out of people mouthes - being kept in the kitchen!

…more importantly, why do people yhink it’s a good idea to have the toilet in thr bathroom?

I agree with you. I never keep a tooth brush in a bathroom when the bathroom includeds a toilet. I come from a country where toilets are a separate room /or until recently always were/.

Mine lives in the cabinet so no fear of germs there, I wouldn’t keep it out in the open.

For all of my nearly 60 years, our toothbrushes have always been in the bathroom. I have never got sick from that.
I've had colds, flu and various childhood ailments (mumps, chicken pox, etc). Nothing from a toothbrush.

You are definitely ‘a bit germophobey’. More than a bit, actually.

Have been using husband's toothbrush to clean his, my and the cloakroom bog for years and the old bugger is still alive 😭

I keep mine in the bedroom on the charger base, and just take it in to the bathroom when I’m brushing my teeth. No biggie and avoids both the kitchen and poo particles!

It’s all fun and games until it’s noro season though 😆 This is likely very much how norovirus spreads. Not much you can do about it though!