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Toilet scrubber
How do you ladies keep your toilet scrubber clean? I know that one of those one time use things would be better, and it wouldn't get bacteria or anything, but being on a budget, me without a job, and a baby on the way .... its not the best use of money in my opinion.
So, for those of you with traditional toilet scrubbers, what do you do keep them clean? We have one now, and its in its own little container, but the brush is getting brown and disgusting, and the handle is SO grimy. I need to go buy a new one today, but I didn't want to go do that before I got some beautiful advice from you guys.
TIA!
Re: Toilet scrubber
Google Scrubbing Bubbles coupons. Print one off for the one time brush with the disinfectant.
Go to target.com and search for coupons. They usually have one for the same item.
Go to Target, buy item, use both coupons. It'll only cost $3-4. Sometimes the Target coupon is a B1G1 for the brush and a refill, so that's even better- you can get the brush and 12 refills (so 18 weeks' worth of cleaning) for $5ish.
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I agree, the disposable kinds would probably be less germy, but I'm too cheap for them too and I don't usually like one-use items that I gotta toss and keep buying over and over.
My toilet brush isn't in the best shape either. Usually every once in a while I spray it down with a mix of water and bleach--probably more bleach than actually need but it makes me feel better about it lol. You could probably mix up a bucket of the same type of mixter and try to submerge it in there.
I'm holding out for a better alternative too. I feel like they should make little cannisters you can put them in that'll steam them or sanitize them somehow. But if I'm too cheap for the disposables, at this point in time I'm definitely too cheap for something like that too! Hopefully someday in the not-too-distant future it'll move up on my household priorities list.
I have a cheap-o, and a white one no less!
What I do is simple: Once a month, I run a bucketful of HOT water and mix in a little bleach. Then I let the mixture saturate the bristles for at least an hour. I throw the holder in there, too, for good measure.
After I take them out of the solution and let them dry, I pour just a tiny bit of bleach into the bottom of the holder.
Toilet maintenance is important, too; I scrub my toilet about 2x a week and since I do it so often it takes me about thirty seconds flat and my brush doesn't get (visibly) dirty. HTH!
Yeah, disposable things like that just seem wildly irresponsible to me. Manufacturing, packaging, shipping, constant expense, disposal resorces. Ew. So I'm with you. I've had several, and my favorite has actually been the smallest, cheapest one I've had. It's got a pretty short handle, so it fits really far back behind the toilet, easy to hide. It also has just a little bowl-shaped holder, just big enough to cover the small brush, so it dries out almost immediately after use. It stays pretty darn clean as long as it stays dry. The worst one I had had a little tube-type keeper and a lid, so it was damp and dark in there all the time, making it a moldy mess.
I do soak mine in bleachy water when I think about it and when it's been a while.
I buy the cheap Ikea 99 brushes 2x a year. I run all my toilet brushes and scrub brushes through the dishwasher once a month. I run the dishwasher once a month with citric acid, so I load up the brushes right before that.
I really don't see why people get so grossed out about toilet brushes. Your kitchen sink harbors much more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
I just don't like the idea of rubbing more bacteria all over something by using something you don't clean or sanitize each use.
I sanitize my sink every night too- It grosses me out to have anything in there either, especially because I cook every day and bake on weekends- I wouldn't want people eating food that came out of a dirty kitchen either.
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