Are you a toilet brusher or mummy hand wrapper?

For our out of the U.S. peas, I forgot to mention in the above post, that is a cleaning service. (But I do have the brushes in the house.)

OMG, that's hilarious!!!

I use a shitstick to clean the bowl. Then after cleaning I rinse off any visible poo flakes by flushing the toilet again and holding the brush under the flushing water. And I clean it in bleach afterwards.

It would not have occurred to me that people stick their hand in the bowl to clean it.




I use the brush to clean under the rim first, then sometimes I also use a disposbale cloth to finish the job.

I don't like adding more disposable stuff to landfill than I have to so I probably wouldn't use them but to be honest I've never even looked to see if we have disposable toilet brush things here!

A toilet brush rinsed and bleached is fine by me.

I've never come across a 'shelf' toilet in Europe...do I want to google them???

I have a brush that I don't like but haven't found better as of yet. Then I take a Clorox wipe around the inside rim because it grosses me out not to do it. I also have a million disposable rubber gloves. No skin contact. At all.

As someone who lived in Germany for years, I can vouch for the toilets with a shelf. So bizarre. In my opinion, there is more to it than wanting to save water, but I really don't want to know the psychology behind it.

I never knew people stuck their hand in the toilet to clean it. The things you learn here!

Are you asking about skid marks? You've never has a deposit fall anywhere other than dead centre? Never had one leave marks on the side on the way down? How very neat.

crazy4scraps I used to live at the beach where the water was incredibly hard and sulfurous and left nasty brown stains. CLR was a life saver. You can soak items in a mix of CLR and water--so we just added CLR in the toilet bowl and let it sit. For super hard stains, we would scrub the stains with the CLR. My dad was in real estate, had several different offices and had rental properties, so I've cleaned a ton of nasty, stained toilets. --it also worked on that nasty film on the metal in the showers, the doors, and we'd soak the shower heads in CLR. The marina store could barely keep it on the shelves because it worked so well on the boats.

For our toilet now, we use those new cleaning tabs. They work really well--dh takes some bladder medication that leaves coloured deposits in the toilet, and these tabs clean it right off. For the deeper cleaning, we use this thick, blue toilet cleaner that you squirt around the rim and let it drip down. This stuff works so well. I wish they had this when I was growing up. 

It's just the two of us, and we don't feel like doing a ton of housekeeping. With minimal effort our toilets remain spotless. I don't care how sick I am, I'm not using a stained, dirty toilet. That isn't an issue with these products.

~Clicketty Click~

Expensive but very good. I invested in quite a few of their products a while back and have not been disappointed.

What the what!

this is funny timing. my girlfriend was complaining the other day about a couple of cleaning jobs she has taken on and decided it's just not worth it for her. she said "and people who never clean their toilet think that stupid little brush is going to do anything. that thing is useless". i said "stupid brush? how do YOU clean your toilet??". she is rubber gloves (special pair for the toilet) and an sos pad.
my brush thingy does just fine thank you and even with gloves, i would prefer not to stick my hand in the toilet.

true story.... my cell phone literally LEAPT out of my coat pocket and into the toilet at the movie theatre. i was horrified. i had an argument with myself about whether i was "going in" after it. i finally caved and reached in to get it. and dropped it again as i was pulling it out so had to stick my hand in again. i washed my hands with soap and water for 10 mins straight, i swear, kids got all the popcorn that dady. and i couldn't eat using my left hand for months!! each time i remembered and had been eating with that hand, i instantly lost my appetite and felt queasy. lol!

This is so funny. Only the peas....

I also am a schitstick brush user. Lots of cleaner in and around, a few swishes, rinse it off and done. Then I wash hands. Been doing that for many years, and I'm still here. While I'm not squeamish about putting my hand in if necessary, wrapping my hand in toilet paper seems ineffective to me.

Also very grateful to not have three boys to clean up after any more......

My mom always made us empty the water out of the bowl so we didn't have to deal with the water and diluting our cleaner. It's much easier to use a pumice stone that way too, although I've never had luck using one getting rid of the line. All you have to do is pour a bucket of water into the toilet and it will suck it all out except a small amount in the bottom. I hate cleaning the toilet!

empty toilet bowl