Do you clean your own toilet?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a cleaning lady and I clean the toilets before she comes over or if they look dirty.

This is funny

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Anonymous wrote:It's so weird that people have some moral stance on cleaning their own house vs hiring a service... when clearly you hire people to do other stuff.

My husband wants to do all the home projects himself. It gets annoying sometimes. He is too slow and always running to Home Depot for more tools. I don't think we saved a lot of money lol

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We do everything DIY, never outsource.

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Anonymous wrote:I would never want someone else to clean my toilet. I think it's weird. It's so easy to do too. Cleaners are a huge waste of money (obviously fine if you have money to burn).

I would not like the same rag or sponge wiping around toilet seats, then sinks,...

I have to use alcohol on the toilet seats, then throw away the paper towel.

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I clean toilets! I usually clean the master, guest and powder room toilet. I usually do it last so I can throw the rags straight into the washing machine. At one point I lived in a part of the world where everyone had a live in maid who cleaned toilets (and everything else) and I think it’s better that my kids are cleaning their own toilets now. They do a crap job (ba dum dum), but whatever. The maid used to iron our underwea, clean our shoes with toothbrushes, and clean the hair out of my hairbrush, which was weird and terrifying how quickly you could get used to such a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans seem to dislike cleaning their behinds as well and think of patting with a piece of dry toilet paper as good enough cleaning after pooping. We buy so much unnecessary stuff for household but getting washing hose or bidets seems too expensive and unnecessary. Why would anyone expect us to clean or disinfect our toilets on daily basis?

So true.

We got this installed and I recommend it highly.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's also crucial to teach your kids to have these skills. We all knew the person in the dorm who couldn't do their own laundry or couldn't do basic sewing or ironing. And I think many of us have found excuses to leave when confronted with a date or friend's filthy apartment

How hard do you think it is to clean a toilet? Or frankly do laundry?

I never cleaned growing up. We had a maid who came every day. I never did laundry and I didn't even make my bed because she did. When I got to college I was fully able to make my bed and do my laundry. And I was also able to clean a toilet when I moved into my first apartment. These are not difficult skills.

Same. My kids never did it. We had a weekly cleaning service and I'm a good at maintaining in between their visits. Kids weren't required to do house chores as their schools had long hours, activities, commute, homework and advance curriculum with regular testing. They only had weekends to relax and and socialize.

My kids have all that, minus the long commute. They take turns cleaning their bathroom on a weekly rotating basis. They also make their own beds and put their dishes in the dishwasher. These are the most basic of chores, which is why they're expected to do them. The point is to teach personal responsibility and respect for shared space, which is part of being a good family member / future roommate.

I am an immigrant and I disagree. No personal responsibility is learned by kids by doing assigned chores in this way in American households. Usually , the kids do a half-ass job and parents are ok with it because they themselves don't have to do it. That's all. Mostly, it is dereliction of parental duty in the guise of delegation of duties.

The most effective way to teach children adulting skills is to teach it to them many, many times and make them assist you while you are doing the chores. Also, if you have raised your kids in an immaculate house, if your kids always wear freshly laundered and ironed clothes, if your kids eat balanced, well prepared, delicious and freshly cooked food for all meals, if your kids have seen you hosting graciously - they will learn these things and when they leave your household to start their own, they will be well prepared.

My kids did no chores at home but knew how to do all these chores when they went to college. They kept a clean room, were able to host parties, launder their clothes, make their beds, iron their clothes etc. and teach others too. They were the only ones in a dorm suite shared by 4 kids who changed their bed sheets every week. Why? Because they were raised with clean bed linens that got changed weekly, and they were grossed out by dirty bedsheets.

Another similar parenting fallacy I have heard from my American neighbors is when they encourage their high school kids to date and have sex. The rationale is that they will become better romantic partners with practice and therefore will become better spouses when they marry. LOL. How is that working out? A huge number of marriages in the US ends in divorce. Usually kids coming from intact families will not divorce. Teach your kids to concentrate on their education so that they can go to college, make a good living, marry another educated person and keep their marriage intact to give a better future to their kids - and you do that by your own example. Similarly, teach your kids to want a clean home and you do that by your own example.

Monkey see, monkey do.

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I can clean when I need to. I also employ a cleaner every two weeks. There is nothing that I outsource that I cannot do myself.

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Anonymous wrote:I must prefer cleaning toilets to dusting or baseboards. It’s quick and shows instant results. My baseboards are very neglected because it’s so tedious and boring.

+1 cleaning toilets takes no time at all and also immediately makes the bathroom smell fresher even if you don't do anything else. Before we have company I always clean the toilets and wipe down the sinks and mirrors in the bathroom unless the cleaners just came. I think it's nice for guests to be able to use a fresh clean bathroom.

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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.

So that you are self sufficient.

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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.

What? An MBA elevates you above your own s#it? Wow, I had no idea. Gotta get one.

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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.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so weird that people have some moral stance on cleaning their own house vs hiring a service... when clearly you hire people to do other stuff.

My husband wants to do all the home projects himself. It gets annoying sometimes. He is too slow and always running to Home Depot for more tools. I don't think we saved a lot of money lol

This is my husband too, but I do think we’ve saved a lot of money. We hire out anything too big or hard but it’s amazing what you can learn on YouTube these days. He also doesn’t like having cleaners or landscapers so we do that too. I had various cleaners when my kids were smaller but it was always a little lacking and stuff would get broken or messed up. And the price kept going up. We stopped the last time at Covid and haven’t looked back.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a cleaning lady and I clean the toilets before she comes over or if they look dirty.

This is funny

I do the same but only if they look dirty. I'll look in the bowl and lift the lids and clean off whatever I can see. I don't think I'm any better than our house cleaners, and I don't expect them to clean gross stuff. I also make sure there's no hair in the shower drains, the sinks aren't disgusting, etc. I don't vacuum but the whole house is picked up so that they don't have to move things to clean other than items that sit out (for example books on a shelf that they dust).