The toilet brush.
Yes. The toilet brush. It’s the most vile, disgusting and bacteria laden apparatus in the house.
Aside from the Husband.
Oh, come on, you knew I had to say something.
We have an ongoing argument here: To clean or not to clean.
I say between purchases, the holder and brush has to be cleaned once and a while.
Mike believes that since it harbours all the disgustingness of the toilet it should be left to fester.
So, dear Internetz, I turn to you.
The question(s): Clean or not to clean? And how often do you replace that disgusting festering vile object?
Let’s discuss! I’ll see you in the comments.
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erm… is it bad that I never considered washing the toilet brush?
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Yes. Yes it is.
I don’t think we can be twins anymore.
I’m with Angie…never considered it! This post cracked me up, though, and now I’m going to obsess–but just how would you clean such a thing??
aimee´s last blog post..Are you organized yet? (Psssst, it’s a giveaway!)
I just wash the holder and spray the brush with a bleach and water mix. I don’t scrub it down… that’s disgusting. LOL
Just throw it in the dishwasher with the toothbrushes!
ps – I’m with the others…never thought of it and never will.
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OMG. The dishwasher? Gah!! Toss the sextoys in at the same time?
Ok, in the dishwasher – fine. But with the toothbrushes?? Peggy! Ick!
I try never to think about the “vile” thing…but now that you have mentioned it? Have to clean. More that the rinsing off I do now….ick, ick, ick….
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In the dishwasher is NOT fine. What are you talking about?! LOL
Ack. Gawd, I never considered cleaning the toilet brush. Now I’m totally grossed out and will immediately go home and throw mine out and start over with a new one. They should just be disposable—use once and throw out. Ick.
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Disposable is not really conducive to living greener. LOL Well, unless they’re biodegradable.
I’m not a clean freak/germaphobe. But … I clean the toilet brush every time.
I fill the sink with hot water and Mr. Clean and soak the brush in there along with the brush holder. I also replace them every 2-3 months.
My husband does not do this.
His opinion is that the bathroom only needs to be cleaned once a month.
laural´s last blog post..Stupid Parenting
Soak the brush with the tooth brush holder?!
I use the disposable brushes. I do clean the handle after I dispose of the brush with Chlorox and steamy water. I don’t think my husband has ever cleaned a toilet bowl.
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Toilets make me gag – I can’t touch them. Thank God that guy I married is sweet enough to do the bathroom cleaning.
I can’t stand the thought of that nasty brush being cleaned anywhere else in the house – all that cross-contaminative splatter.
I buy a new one every month – its only a couple bucks.
You mean swirling it around in the water as you flush down the cleaner doesn’t count? I guess I never considered “cleaning “it as it is used to “clean”…. ::blink:: ::blink::
We don’t have a toilet brush because I know without a doubt my kids would pick that crap up and be running around the house with it as some nasty weapon, regardless of all the warnings I’d given them not to mess with it. What this means is I put my damn hand in the toilets to clean them. If there was a way to get the entire toilet cleaned, inside and out, without a nasty brush sitting around or having to put my hands in it, I would embrace it and call it my own.
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I’m pretty sure Billy Mays can help you with that. He’s got a product for everything.
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The toilet brush is my biggest and naughtiest not-so-secret-anymore sin against the environment. I buy them in bulk at IKEA and toss them when I think they have reached maximum groddiness. In between the tossings, I put a diluted bleach in holder and somehow, through the grace of I don’t know what, Gigi hasn’t used it for a sword fight. But now that I’ve said that….
And I cannot believe I just confessed my green sin AND discussed toilet brushes. I love you Sam.
katie ~ motherbumper´s last blog post..The Big Tease
You naughty naughty sinner. Makes me HOT.
Um… I let the cleaning people deal with it.
I’m not kidding. I work three internet jobs so I don’t have to clean my toilet. I’m not proud.
Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah´s last blog post..Cheese Powder
Kuddos to you.
But now you’re going to think about whether or not they clean it!?
I occasionally spray it liberally with bleachy bathroom cleaner, and replace it when we move (which has been every couple of years).
Sounds like me
Wait…you’re supposed to clean your toilet???
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Dirtbag. LOL
What is with people and toilet brushes and toothbrush holders?! LOL
I just can’t even fathom putting my toothbrush holder and toiletbrush together. I mean, one holds something I brush my teeth with and the other scrubs the shitter.
I use the disposable kind that dissolve in the toilet after about a minute. (Lysol brand?)
They are the shit. Haha…
I, uh, don’t clean mine. Ever. In fact, the last time I cleaned the toilet I FINALLY threw away my old one because it was so nasty. I haven’t bought a new one yet. I should probably do that, huh?
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Oh, wow. I bleach mine every once in awhile. But replace it? REALLY??
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Nah, I don’t really clean it, but I try to swish it around in the toilet with some cleaner after I’ve scrubbed the toilet and flushed it once.
But you know my pet peeve? The toilet brush, whether in or out of a holder, that sits OUT, in the corner or whatever. It seems I see one without a holder just as often as with the holder in the corner of people’s bathrooms.
It should be put away OUT OF SIGHT!!!!
Ick!!!!!
Put the toilet brush AWAY, people!!!
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I use disposable toilet brushes with the paper thingy on the end because I cannot cope with the poo laden bacteria home that is the standard loo brush….. I clean my bathroom every day because I nearly passed out the first time I saw my toddler first born play with the loo seat and then put her hand in her mouth…. since then…. toilet cleaned every time someone takes a winnie and bathroom cleaned every day…..
we could probably eat tea of my toilet it’s that clean….
Toilets are yukky!!! Bleurgh!
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Toss it out. A new one is like what, $4? Totally worth it.
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