So on a decluttering thread on Reddit, I mentioned that it's my dream, should I ever get to remodel my bathroom, to make a sink cabinet with a tilt-out side so I can stash the plunger and the toilet brush (I want to take advantage of the deep back corner of the cabinet, which is hard to access, and also the extra vertical height you get behind the sink there, since the plunger is tall).
A couple of people got really, really insistent that it was rude ("my worst nightmare," one of them said) to not have the plunger immediately apparent in case a guest had a problem and needed to use it on your toilet. (They didn't say this, but obviously someone with IBS or Crohn's might really want a toilet brush without having a conversation about it.)
OK, so I figured I'd make sure to put some sort of label (this is all a pipe dream at the moment, mind you), so if someone was going, "doesn't she have a plunger?" there would be a little plunger icon on the side of the cabinet by the cabinet knob for that compartment.
But no, that wasn't good enough. So now I'm wondering--would I be rude to hide the plunger and the toilet brush? It is important to have them out and easily findable?
(The biggest reason I want them inside the cabinet is that I don't want to have to clean around them, nor do I want to have to clean them, or any decorative holder they might be in, every week. Everything in the bathroom gets dusty with skin cells, etc., since 3 people shower and towel off in there, plus the area around the toilet gets splatter, so it's not an easy-to-wipe-off area. And, of course, it's ugly and I don't think there are attractive holders for decent plungers, and then the whole area looks really cluttered--a plunger the toilet-brush holder, and a trash can all in the same area. A guest is far more likely to need to use a trash can than the other two, and I'd personally rather look at a trash can.)