Do you keep books in your bathroom?

[singsinthebath]

I recently heard of someone who had a mini library in their downstairs loo!

How many books do you have in your loo?
And what are they?

It's not dirty!

Sit on loo, read book, do your business, put book down, wipe yourself, wash hands. What's dirty about it?

Agree with you Bumperlicious

Until a friend came to stay and took one of my recipe books into the loo to read and then I came over all weird.

There's always reading matter in our loos, usually magazines, school letters and shopping junk catalogues.

Yes things you can pick up and put down like Schotts Almanac, Eats Shoots & Leaves and The Shops by India Knight. I also used to have Reader's Digest (see crap presents thread).

it IS dirty - all poo particles floating round the room - urine drips soaking into the pages

then flush and shit flies everywhere

plus whilst you are reading the poo cakes all round your poo hole

vom

No - hate hate hate it. Whenever I see books or magazines in other bathrooms, I can't help but imagine the owners sitting in a brown, stinky haze with their trousers round their ankles, straining out poo that then sits at the bottom of the loo going all cold and brick hard, turning the pages with their urine and faeces covered hands.

A seriously revolting habit, having books in your loo.

Roffle at "all poo particles floating round the room - urine drips soaking into the pages".

Do you seriously have flying faeces?

When I started the thread it was merely to find out whether people KEPT books in their loo. I did realise that there was such a polarisation between people who did and didn't read on the lav.

men touch their tails and then turn the pages ...ewwww

Nope. Never have and never will.

no. yuk.

I'm bewildered by maisie's friends who seem to get poo and wee all over themselves in their bathrooms - why would they have hands covered in urine and faeces?!

because that's what the loo is for!

Somewhere in the depths of my bedding box of goodies i have the 'hello' edition of Paula Yates sad death.....

anyway...if that had been in someones loo for even a week -I would NEVER read it again and that is saying something

would you take a book that had been on your 'loo bookshelf' to someone with suppressed immunity???

Minute particles of water containing urine and poo splash around the bathroom, that's why - as Posy says, would you give a loo book to a very ill person?

Actually, on second thoughts, please don't answer that, you middens with your loo libraries - I'm not sure I want to know!

haha middens.whit a mammie word

We don't have anyone with suppressed immunity in the house, so I think that's a total straw man. I used to manage an infection control team and people reading in the loo was not one of the things they worried about, in fact the only loo related issue was washing your hands (and actually this isn't even particularly associated with using the loo, as urine is sterile and so no real risk, just something that people should do regularly as we all touch many things so hands are great transmitters).

I don't keep books in the bathroom because of condensation, but I love to read in the bath and dh and I often read magazines whilst on the loo (the Economist has nice short articles which are well suited)

mrsa,c-diff live on hard surfaces,door handles etc.the book transmission hypothesis isnt such a biggie

ds2 had a library book in the shitter with him i was most unimpressed and felt pukey for the next borrower

I don't, am a fast worker, but DP keeps his A-Z collection in the loo.

Somehow, he says, gazing at the street layout of Manchester or Shewsbury helps things along.

Maisie, PPP, you do make me laugh.

A touch of OCD?

OCD? Have you seen my house? No, just hate the thought of books being read in a shite and urine-filled atmosphere by someone straining out a turd.

maisie

I might do a trial on the street corner offering people 'previously bathroomed' books for free and see if there are any takers

Good idea PPP. We do a book swap thing at work - I'll advertise a few that I'll say have been used by DH whilst on the loo v. ones that haven't. I bet I can guess which ones don't have any takers

A friend recently offered me some books to borrow, was glad I declined when she revealed in a differenct conversation that she reads books on the loo. I def have touch of ocd around toilets though. Also was grossed out that dd's playschool wanted loo roles for junk modelling.

sighs I'm off to clear out all the books from out loo now, DH and DS1 love to read in there....but the books are always falling on the floor - and the males in this house don't have a good 'aim' !!! yuck!