Do you close the full lid on your toilet when it is not in use?
Why in heaven’s name would you not? You bought the lid. Use it!
Yes, always. It contains the spray from the flush.
Yes. My toilet seat is heated, and my bathroom is cold. Closing the lid and draping a towel over it retains the heat. You don’t want to sit on an unheated toilet seat when you’re half awake and it’s 45 degrees in your bathroom!
StG
Nope. I guess I’m a barbarian, then again I’ve been known to piss in the kitchen sink when the bathrooms are all occupied.
I take the dishes out first - I’m not Hitler.
Yes. It looks better, contains spray, provides a handy seat for toenail trimming or lazy tooth brushing, and keeps curious animals out of trouble. Also it eliminates the “seat up or down” argument entirely in a coed household. I am interested to hear reasons to leave it open.
I’ve got pets. Lid stays closed to minimize offending my sensibilities.
Yes I close it . That way I can’t drop anything in it and thw dog can’t drink out of it.
Yes. The one time I forgot, a cat jumped in and I was late to work.
Oh, yes. The reasons are many and varied.
Lid closed. Curious felines like to watch it flush, so sometimes the lid gets closed after the flush, but it’s always down when not in use. I don’t want the curious felines to go for a swim, or a drink. I’ve always thought it was a perfect solution to the “seat up or down” argument, too. Everyone is to close the lid!
Open, in case I forget to fill the dog’s water bowl. Which means that the seat is often wet when I sit down.
Open.
I didn’t buy a lid, I bought a seat. They threw the lid in for free!
Besides, I am liable to stumble into the dark bathroom at 4am, sit down and let out a little dribble… before I realize that the reason it felt funny when I sat is that it was closed.
We have cats, so of course.
Other: I am not attractive and just intelligent enough to realize if I don’t close the lid, the dog will drop things into the toilet. Honestly, he’s like a two-year-old child in that regard. Makes a horrible mess when trying to fish it out, too. And some things you just don’t want to use again after they’ve been in the toilet, even if they were in their case.
No. I think it’s disgusting to have to touch any part of the toilet except the flushing handle, and I am displeased when guests close the lid. Yes, I know all about toilet plume. I don’t care about that.
This is my beef with people who don’t use their turn signals. THEY’RE INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF THE CAR!
That having been said, I don’t put the lid down. Why would you if you just have to open it again? Same reason I don’t make my bed. Is the queen coming over? Do I have a shoot with Architectural Digest? You throw the covers back, go about your business for 12-16 hours. Lie back down in the bed and flip the covers over you.
However, I live alone now. When I was with my husband we kept the lid closed because of the cats.
Yes - a) to contain the toilet plume, and b) because we have a very small bathroom and it’s not uncommon for things to fall off the vanity, which I would prefer not to have to fish out of the toilet.
Yes, I keep mine closed. I don’t want the dog mistaking it for his water bowl.
Once I read Cecil’s article about toilet water being aerosolized on flushing, I saw the light and became and “always down” sort of person. Once I told my mom, the RN, she too joined me in righteousness.
Alas, my father wallows in sin and filth and will not heed the call to salvation.
It’s all pipes!