Beach house/houseguest etiquette: go poop in *your* bathroom, not the powder room

[Anonymous]

Ya'll clearly have no family members with IBD's, Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis. If you did you would be happy that the family member reached any toilet in your house. As an IBD sufferer I've scrubbed floors when I could not reach any toilet in time.

I don't understand the point of having a toilet if it can't be used.

[Anonymous]

If I was suffering from diahhrea, I would not accept an invitation into a friends home. I think people should poop in their own homes. If you are staying overnight then you would have a bathroom that you were asked to use and you should do that. If you have medical issues so you have constant diarrhea then you need to entertain in your own home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ya'll clearly have no family members with IBD's, Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis. If you did you would be happy that the family member reached any toilet in your house. As an IBD sufferer I've scrubbed floors when I could not reach any toilet in time.

I don't understand the point of having a toilet if it can't be used.

Most of us don’t scrub our toilets every day. But if someone in the house had diarrhea then we need to. If you splatter diarrhea in someone else’s toilet then I really hope you’re cleaning it thoroughly afterwards or it will be completely gross in a day or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

Speak for yourself. Ours is in the front hall. Bathrooms should not be near kitchens/living areas.

Yes, let us stipulate: If you can't put your powder room in a discrete area, better not to have one at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

You are very mentally il along with the ip. Why not get an outhouse then?

Oh god, I would LOVE to install an outhouse for my DH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

Speak for yourself. Ours is in the front hall. Bathrooms should not be near kitchens/living areas.

So people walk in your door and smell poop? Not much better.

[Anonymous]

I had absolutely no idea people were so uptight about this. Now I truly understand the meaning behind the term "anal."

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you're staying with people who have digestive problems.

Most normal healthy people poop in about the same time it takes for a "quick pee." And it doesn't smell.

You poop, it's under water, and flushed in <60 seconds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ya'll clearly have no family members with IBD's, Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis. If you did you would be happy that the family member reached any toilet in your house. As an IBD sufferer I've scrubbed floors when I could not reach any toilet in time.

I don't understand the point of having a toilet if it can't be used.

I'm sure if OP had people like that in her life she wouldn't have posted. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of these threads is that there are so many people on here that pretend it never occurred to them that shit has an odor or that there are any cultural norms at all surrounding bathrooms. It's fairly universal to use a private bathroom when possible. It's literally everyone's preference not to have to go number 2 when someone might walk in right after you, especially at a party or something like that where you know people.

In real life, the only people I have ever known to take dumps in powder rooms are men over 60. Its's the same throat clearing, nose blowing crew that snores and is just sort of all-around disgusting.

I’m one of the PPs who thinks it’s deeply weird OP (and you apparently) care where anyone else poops. I guess my house growing up had well ventilated bathrooms? Neither of them were “private” nor did we have issues with odor. So when I say that prior to DCUM threads I had literally never contemplated which bathroom to use other than the nearest free one I speak nothing but the truth. I enjoy going through my life not thinking about my friends’ bathroom habits. It’s a nice way to live. You should try it.

Hear hear, pp! Another sane person!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

You are very mentally il along with the ip. Why not get an outhouse then?

Oh god, I would LOVE to install an outhouse for my DH.

That would go great on your front porch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! If you are sharing a beach house with family/friends, and you have a room or rooms with your family’s own bathroom, don’t poop in the powder room/don’t tie up the powder room. The powder room—usually near the kitchen/on the main level—is for washing hands or a quick pee. It is not for you to sit there and grunt and drop a load while others are waiting to wash hands/quickly pee, and then have to smell your stench.

This also goes for when you are a houseguest. In my home, guests have the entire lower level to themselves—full bath, full bedroom with queen-size bed, private sitting area with TV. THAT is where you go to poop, don’t use the powder room on the main level for this purpose.

I said what I said.

Please tell this to my in-laws. They insist on pooping in the bathroom off the living/dining room in our small house when they have the whole downstairs guest suite. Ugh!

SAME. With both my parents and ILs. You have an entire floor of my home to yourself during your visits, including a full bath that no one else uses while you are visiting. And yet they not only poop in the main floor bathroom, they tie it up for like 20 minutes at a time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! If you are sharing a beach house with family/friends, and you have a room or rooms with your family’s own bathroom, don’t poop in the powder room/don’t tie up the powder room. The powder room—usually near the kitchen/on the main level—is for washing hands or a quick pee. It is not for you to sit there and grunt and drop a load while others are waiting to wash hands/quickly pee, and then have to smell your stench.

This also goes for when you are a houseguest. In my home, guests have the entire lower level to themselves—full bath, full bedroom with queen-size bed, private sitting area with TV. THAT is where you go to poop, don’t use the powder room on the main level for this purpose.

I said what I said.

Please tell this to my in-laws. They insist on pooping in the bathroom off the living/dining room in our small house when they have the whole downstairs guest suite. Ugh!

SAME. With both my parents and ILs. You have an entire floor of my home to yourself during your visits, including a full bath that no one else uses while you are visiting. And yet they not only poop in the main floor bathroom, they tie it up for like 20 minutes at a time.

OMG if my mother did this I would say something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

Speak for yourself. Ours is in the front hall. Bathrooms should not be near kitchens/living areas.

Yes, let us stipulate: If you can't put your powder room in a discrete area, better not to have one at all.

Amen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. This is why I think powder rooms are disgusting. They are always in the middle of high traffic areas. I don’t want to hear anyone poop or pee while I’m making dinner or chatting with a friend.

Speak for yourself. Ours is in the front hall. Bathrooms should not be near kitchens/living areas.

So people walk in your door and smell poop? Not much better.

I don’t use that bathroom. It’s for guests. How often are guests walking in and out of your house once they’ve arrive to socialize?