What's the worst thing about sharing a bathroom?

7 years ago

Is it your partners excessive collection of beauty products, their bad bathroom manners or perhaps simply the lack of space?

Bathrooms often cause problems. So what is the thing that annoys you most about sharing a bathroom? And have you found any handy solutions?

Let us know in the comments below.

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thuberoom

7 years ago

All of the above but the most annoying is drooling toothpaste on the bathroom mixer tap twice a day, every day. Apparently it is an unbreakable habit. The only solution I have not tried and which has not yet failed, is to kill him.

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Najeebah
7 years ago
annoyances: not replacing toilet paper/ soap/ anything used up, wetting the bathroom, leaving towels there, using up rails and not airing them out elsewhere.
solution: be the first to use the bathroom! lol
User
7 years ago
A lot of things, but someone, (not naming names, ) shaving over an open drawer!
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Ocean Clarke
Original Author
7 years ago
I'm with you both there!
Frankie
7 years ago
All that and why on earth can't the trash go in the container. Next to it, on top of it, behind it , but not in it. Okay correction my Mother doesn't shave over the open drawer. Outside of that we had the same issues. Our solution was to get a house with a second bathroom. I didn't think I was up to thuberoom's solution I've gotten attached to her.
Juliet Docherty
7 years ago
Cleaning the mirror with an e cloth to a standard that would make Kim and Aggie proud, only for other half to wipe it with shaving foam wet hand to 'see properly'.
stabmonkey
7 years ago
tap left on whilst brushing teeth wasting water, missing the pan, spraying lots of deodorant, leaving wet towels on the rail instead of putting them in the laundry tub, using the nicest/newest/most expensive stuff instead of finishing stuff that's needs using up, never replacing the bog roll ...
stabmonkey
7 years ago
To much stuff. Do I really need to have 3 different shampoos, 2 different conditioners, 9 shower gels, soaps, facial washes, cleansers, toners, 5 different fake tans, hair 'products', etc. all over the shelves and in a cabinet that won't close. And I have several drawers stuffed full of toiletries in the bedroom.

I must be so annoying. (blush)
User
7 years ago
And a partridge in a pear treeeeee!
astridx
7 years ago
Hairs (eek!)
Karin Madgwick
7 years ago
This is hilarious ! The list could go on forever!
shenington
7 years ago
Wanting to be in the bathroom the same time as me to have a shave - the bathroom is plenty big enough for both of us but thats not the point I need my space.....
keen bean
7 years ago
No worst things! After six years of married life.... I realise that I most likely have my failings as well as my lovely hubby. I do my best to keep the wet room tidy and clutter free and so does he. (hug) He is well trained and will squeegee down the shower and wipe round the basin after use..... but try as I might I can't get him to close the lid after toileting!!!! ;) old habits die hard.... but I just have to smile and quietly close it :D
Luciana
7 years ago
Hmmm, excuse me, but I wouldn't know... We have separate bathrooms - he uses the main bathroom and I use the guest one. I only go in his' after the cleaning lady's been around.

And yes, I feel very smug, conceited and hoity-toity about it... indeed... :)))
Frankie
7 years ago
As well you should be Luciana. More power to you.
J Brown
7 years ago
I once read a story about an old woman, who was listening to a younger woman complain about how her husband left his whiskers in the sink day after day. The old woman, who was a widow, softly reminded her that those whiskers meant her husband was alive and still with her. She, the older woman, would love to wash the whiskers of her husband down the drain every morning because that would mean her husband was still with her. So, when my husband leaves me stranded on the toilet with no toilet paper, instead of getting angry, I remember to be thankful he is still here to grab the last piece off the roll.
Amber Hughes
7 years ago
Body hair, lack of cleaning up after themselves, boxers left in the corner, not replacing empty used bottles, not cleaning the sink after brushing teeth....
thuberoom
7 years ago
Mmmmm strikes me there are a shedloads of problems with sharing a bathroom and a lot of the solutions are of the suck it up variety. Handy solutions are there none. :-)
AMB
7 years ago
I used to live with someone who used to regularly leave wee on the floor of our tiny bathroom. Needless to say I cleaned it up with their towel.
teenytinyhouse
7 years ago
brownsaregolfing, you brought a lump to my throat. I was going to say when my OH empties his electric razor and misses the bin/loo but suddenly it doesn't annoy me as much anymore.

Having said that, I've just taken in a temporary (female) lodger who, I suspect, is going to be driven nuts by my delicates drying on the towel rail...
Joanna Biddolph
7 years ago
The state of the loo after a sloppy man has been in there. Why can't they give it a quick wipe? It's not hard to do ...

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