Do you clean your own toilet?

[Anonymous]

No. I have had housecleaners for over 20 years. I am happy to pay to have them cleaned weekly.

[Anonymous]

I’m an older guy and regularly clean all four toilets in my mother’s house. I rarely clean the toilet in my place, it’s gross. Actually, the whole place is gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Minority opinion here?
But everyone should clean the toilet after use, at least flush away anything visible and don't leave sprinkled pee.

EVERYONE

then whomever is the toilet cleaner is not offended, and is basically sanitizing.

If you can walk away from a toilet leaving anything visible, you are a horrible human being.

Agreed but the toilet still needs to be cleaned or it will develop a water line..which is a different kind of cleaning.

Absolutely. But the person stuck with cleaning the toilets weekly (for us it is our cleaners) do not have to view visible poop stains or dried pee sprinkles. They do need to be cleaned. It's just more dignified if people are not absolute heathens first.

[Anonymous]

Only on DCUM would you find a question like this. I swear, if there was a service that would come by and wipe your butt for you, half of you would retain them on a daily basis. You can't swish a little brush around in your toilet? Seriously? You hire people for that? Can you put air in your tires?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would you find a question like this. I swear, if there was a service that would come by and wipe your butt for you, half of you would retain them on a daily basis. You can't swish a little brush around in your toilet? Seriously? You hire people for that? Can you put air in your tires?

lol, I wonder this too. It makes no sense to me. It takes zero time plus who has very dirty toilets? Mine are never gross. It's a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

We do not - have a cleaning team - unless we have guests coming

[Anonymous]

My husband does our toilets. I only do if he can’t for some reason. It is my most hated chore.

We had a cleaner for a while, but quality dropped and we haven’t replaced her yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would you find a question like this. I swear, if there was a service that would come by and wipe your butt for you, half of you would retain them on a daily basis. You can't swish a little brush around in your toilet? Seriously? You hire people for that? Can you put air in your tires?

lol, I wonder this too. It makes no sense to me. It takes zero time plus who has very dirty toilets? Mine are never gross. It's a non-issue.

Using and keeping a drippy wet poo infused toilet brush in your bathroom is disgusting. Unless you’ve got ibs, poop stays in the water part of the toilet and couple flushes will wash it all away. Newer toilets have a new way of putting water back into the bowl that keeps toilets pretty consistently clean. I’d rather keep the minimal bacteria in the toilet bowl at low non visible levels, than a wet stinky poo brush in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would you find a question like this. I swear, if there was a service that would come by and wipe your butt for you, half of you would retain them on a daily basis. You can't swish a little brush around in your toilet? Seriously? You hire people for that? Can you put air in your tires?

lol, I wonder this too. It makes no sense to me. It takes zero time plus who has very dirty toilets? Mine are never gross. It's a non-issue.

Using and keeping a drippy wet poo infused toilet brush in your bathroom is disgusting. Unless you’ve got ibs, poop stays in the water part of the toilet and couple flushes will wash it all away. Newer toilets have a new way of putting water back into the bowl that keeps toilets pretty consistently clean. I’d rather keep the minimal bacteria in the toilet bowl at low non visible levels, than a wet stinky poo brush in the bathroom.

So you don't clean your toilet? At all? And you think this means your bathroom and toilet are somehow cleaner than that of people who actually clean their toilets?

Do you wash your hands by holding them limply under a running tap without soap or friction? Running water alone is not a sound cleaning plan, in case that was never taught to you. Google 'biofilm' and learn more; it's a basic scientific principle and not hard to understand once you learn it

-in no way a germophobe but I know how/why/when to clean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have had a housecleaner since I graduated law school in 2006. I've cleaned toilets periodically since then - if someone vomits, when we've moved and haven't found a housecleaner, for several months during covid. But it's very rare to have a number 2 that can't be cleaned with a few flushes, so I'm not cleaning between the housecleaner visits. I work a ton at my job (in a service industry! Often with clients treating me like crap) and make seven figures. I don't want to clean my house or mow the lawn on the weekends.

And honestly, my kid with ADHD barely does chores around the house. It's not worth the effort, and there aren't that many chores to do. Clean up his dishes (often only because I yell at him; he's terrible about remembering himself), sometimes I make him clean his room or make his bed, or fold laundry. We have a lawn service, so with the housecleaner, there just aren't that many chores.

Sometimes I consider that I'm raising a lazy kid. But honestly, I grew up with a sahm who did all this stuff and never asked us kids to do anything. Despite that, the day I left home I was still hardwired to work hard and keep a clean house. My sister has a totally different personality and did not. Eventually (maybe age 30) she developed more internal drive to be clean and handle chores. We grew up in the same house, neither of us having real chores. DS is probably going to grow up being terrible at chores - but that's going to be because he has severe ADHD, and not because I didn't make him do chores. If I made him clean toilets now, it would just be more work for me to oversee the whole process and wouldn't teach him anything. He wouldn't suddenly wake up and be dedicated to chores or have a new outlook.

So I will keep on having my housecleaner and lawn guy come. [/quote

Yeah, it sounds like you realize that this is not a great plan for someone with ADHD- they need more help and guidance, not less. Get on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would you find a question like this. I swear, if there was a service that would come by and wipe your butt for you, half of you would retain them on a daily basis. You can't swish a little brush around in your toilet? Seriously? You hire people for that? Can you put air in your tires?

lol, I wonder this too. It makes no sense to me. It takes zero time plus who has very dirty toilets? Mine are never gross. It's a non-issue.

Using and keeping a drippy wet poo infused toilet brush in your bathroom is disgusting. Unless you’ve got ibs, poop stays in the water part of the toilet and couple flushes will wash it all away. Newer toilets have a new way of putting water back into the bowl that keeps toilets pretty consistently clean. I’d rather keep the minimal bacteria in the toilet bowl at low non visible levels, than a wet stinky poo brush in the bathroom.

So you don't clean your toilet? At all? And you think this means your bathroom and toilet are somehow cleaner than that of people who actually clean their toilets?

Do you wash your hands by holding them limply under a running tap without soap or friction? Running water alone is not a sound cleaning plan, in case that was never taught to you. Google 'biofilm' and learn more; it's a basic scientific principle and not hard to understand once you learn it

-in no way a germophobe but I know how/why/when to clean.

I have a housecleaner every week. That’s fine.

Poop landing on wet porcelain is going to rinse off much more quickly that poop on skin. You understand that porcelain is non porous right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. What’s the point of going to college and then getting an MBA if I’m still going to clean toilets. Ugh.

I have an MBA and I still clean my own toilet. Lemme guess, you don't take out the trash, either.

[Anonymous]

Hell no I don’t clean my own toilet.

This is why I had children. THEY clean the toilets. And have since they were 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell no I don’t clean my own toilet.

This is why I had children. THEY clean the toilets. And have since they were 3.

That just makes me think now your kids are covered in trace amounts of poop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell no I don’t clean my own toilet.

This is why I had children. THEY clean the toilets. And have since they were 3.

Yeah, I bet they do a great job of it, too.