Anonymous wrote:OCD OP with a First World problem....

Well - I do have a first world marriage - not one based on an arrangement, coercion, desperation, force by my parents. And I was not a child bride.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone puts the lid down. It is the most fair, sanitary, and attractive way to deal with the up down issue.

I find it quite gross when people leave the lid up and it is right next to the counter or something. Nasty.

It is not the most fair. Under that rule, men have to lift and lower the lid and women don't have to do anything. The fairest system is for people to put the lid where they personally prefer it and to leave it there when they leave.

No, under this rule, everyone needs to lift something, every single time, and then lower when done, every time. Hence fairness. Also more sanitary.

OCD OP with a First World problem....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone puts the lid down. It is the most fair, sanitary, and attractive way to deal with the up down issue.

I find it quite gross when people leave the lid up and it is right next to the counter or something. Nasty.

It is not the most fair. Under that rule, men have to lift and lower the lid and women don't have to do anything. The fairest system is for people to put the lid where they personally prefer it and to leave it there when they leave.

No, dumb dumb. Both men and women would have to lift and lower the lid.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone puts the lid down. It is the most fair, sanitary, and attractive way to deal with the up down issue.

I find it quite gross when people leave the lid up and it is right next to the counter or something. Nasty.

It is not the most fair. Under that rule, men have to lift and lower the lid and women don't have to do anything. The fairest system is for people to put the lid where they personally prefer it and to leave it there when they leave.

Everyone puts the lid down. It is the most fair, sanitary, and attractive way to deal with the up down issue.

I find it quite gross when people leave the lid up and it is right next to the counter or something. Nasty.

I wish my DH would lift the seat up. I'd be delighted to see the seat left up since then I'd know there won't be remnants on the seat!

Buy the weighted seats that gradually close on their own.

Your marriage must be in a bad place if you take the toilet seat up as a personal affront! I accept that DH sometimes leaves the seat up. He accepts that sometimes I leave kitchen cabinets open. Don't take things so personally.

Or you can buy this...
http://flushdowntoiletseat.com

I honestly don't understand.

If you'd divorce over this, then you must not love him very much.

Your husband is correct. All toilet seats in your house should be left up.

These people did the math:

http://www.scq.ubc.ca/up-or-down-an-efficiency-based-argument-for-optimal-toilet-seat-placement/

Superglue the seat down.

And honestly - I cannot live with this.

Why?

My husband either has a permanent inability to remember to out the toilet sest down in our half bath or is intentionally leaving it up - the 1/2 bath opens to our kitchen so when I'm at the kitchen sink, it is especially disgusting to look at the oprn toilet and the underside of the seat. Yes - I'm becoming a broken record about reminding him to put it down because I think he is a bit of an absent minded professor and needs to be reminded. We also have two young sons - and I don't want them to follow this behavior (so far my older potty trained son puts the seat down)...

Anyway - my husband just left the seat of in our master bath, something that he really hasn't done before. I fear that his bad 1/2 bath habit is crossing over to our bathroom - and im about to lose my sh%#. Because reminders / joking etc doesn't seem to work. And honestly - I cannot live with this.

Anyone have a habit like this be the straw that broke the marriages back?