Bad Manners and Brimstone

Quote from: OnyxBird on July 10, 2020, 10:29:53 pm

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I'm honestly not even sure if we have a toilet brush in our house. It's not a tool we use to actually scrub our toilets, and needing it for "smears" has just never seemed to be an issue. We're not out to cruelly doom our guests to embarrassment by not displaying a toilet brush--it's just not an item we use and thus we don't keep one around. (We do have a plunger, but it's not kept in the bathroom.)

Are you saying you never need to clean any of your toilets or are you saying you use something other than a toilet brush?  If the latter, what do you use instead?

We use a sponge (in the hand, to scrub it down with a toilet cleaner, e.g., Comet or something, just to be very clear, since my previous statement was apparently vague enough to confuse multiple people  )

I admit, it never occurred to me that anyone would read that sentence and guess that maybe we just don't clean our toilets!  Or perhaps to imagine that we have somehow acquired miracle toilets that need no cleaning (I wish!).

I take it that some of you only clean toilet bowls with a toilet brush? Do you not also need a sponge or something for the rim and outer surfaces? A brush doesn't seem like it would be very useful/neat for cleaning outside the bowl, and whatever other implement is used for the rim/seat/etc. would have to be assumed to be as potentially germy as whatever you stick in the bowl itself. (In our sponge-only method, the cleaning starts at the least waste-exposed outer surfaces and ends with the inside of the bowl, so germs aren't carried from inside the bowl to other spots.)

Personally, I agree with oogyda that I'd much rather stick my hand in with a (washable) sponge, since I'm gonna be washing my hands thoroughly afterwards anyway, than a toilet brush that seems harder to clean well. And having the brush sit out with the expectation that people will use it on "smears" just exacerbates the potential cleaning issues--everyone who uses it touches the same handle even if your holder is set up to sanitize the brush itself. I've lived in places that needed it, but it's not a tool I care for since we don't seem to have a "smearing" problem in out toilets.