What Is Your Experience?

I used to have to share a bathroom with my brother, and his toilet aim was awful. I swear he stood across the room to pee; he's leave a puddle in front of the toilet. Nothing grosser than walking into the bathroom barefoot in the night and stepping into a puddle of pee. I think that, combined with sitting on a toilet with it's seat up, had to trump any of my teenage make-up messiness.

my husband and my boys. Mostly my husband. They would say me though. My cloths are in there sometimes on the floor but those are not gross. My youngest does not realize that when he pees it still splashes. And my husband leaves his whiskers on the counter when he shaves. And stuff like that. And then they leave empty bottles in the shower and on the counter and if I don't do anything about the the toilet paper rolls (empty) will build up around the sink. And unfortunately we only have one bathroom.

We only have one bathroom in the house. Sigh.

My son is the worst. He likes to play in there. What is that quote...something like, "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing." That's what it feels like with our bathroom. It's like his little lair.

Hard to say with us - DD is only 5 and has made it her duty to wipe out toothpaste blobs when she's done and stepsons don't live here, but I will say they don't seem to trash the bathroom too badly when they stay here to visit. But the thing is, guys end up producing, ahem, "splatter", and they seem oblivious to it - my hubby especially. I find it not only on the toilet rim, but on the floor beside the toilet, walls next to the toilet, and even on the wall OVER AND BEHIND the toilet. Hubby claims it's from the pee hitting the water and splashing upward, but I'm sure it's more from them shaking it dry at the end. It's awful! It's enough for me to want to make them all pee sitting down! I also have a dear friend with 2 little boys and we love hanging out at her house for play dates, but her bathroom makes me cringe - it always smells like little boy pee, even after she's bragged about her husband cleaning it before he left for work that morning!

Bathrooms the girls win hands down. Now my daughter's car, I think the missing link can be found in there. :(

bleh...I just cleaned my bathroom and by FAR the boys are worse. It's disgusting. Seriously...how hard is it to pick UP the toilet seat and pee IN the toilet??? Instead, the boys (9 and 6) pee ON the seat. And lord only knows what my husband is doing in there. But his hair is all over the place. BLEH.
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This is funny.
My husband is the messiest. But he would tell you he is the least messiest. Ugh.

My daughter and son, are actually pretty good about things in the bathroom.
They are 5 and 9.

We are all very clean in our bathroom, but my husband and I compare public bathrooms all the time and it seems that women are BY FAR the most disgusting. Just walking into a women's restroom makes me feel like I need a bleach dip. Blech!

My husband is the messiest - it's as if he cannot see something once it's put down.

My SD is disgusting LOL. Can't tell you how many times I've had to have very blunt conversations about tampon etiquette (really, leave no trace - the whole family shouldn't know when someone has her period), conditioner everywhere, makeup everywhere, hair product residue, using my white hand towels to remove make-up, using my razor (gross and yes she has her own!!), shave gel dripping down the shower wall, strands of hair all over the place etc.

She now cleans the bathroom as one of her regular chores.

The boys are a little gross with toothpaste in the sink but they generally pee in the toilet and have good aim. My husband is famous for leaving whiskers and globs of toothpaste in the sink. But really, no one competes with the nastiness our girl leaves in her wake.

I only have daughters, no sons (first one is currently baking). So I can vouch for the fact the girls, are, indeed, DISGUSTING!!

boys/men
by FAR.

Women tend to have loose hairs fall on the floor at whatever spot they normally brush their hair. And sometimes the counter tops might have a few things lying around. But that's typically about it, as far as my experience. For boys/men: gobs of soap/shave cream/toothpaste and other sundry goops globbed all over the sink. Flecks of "stuff" on the mirror from flossing. Trash. The plastic shrink wrap off of ANYTHING that gets opened in the bathroom is just one example. Soap boxes left lying on the counters is another. Many of you "regulars" know that I have posted before about my husband leaving used dental floss wherever he happens to be finished with it, this includes the bathroom floor. Hair in the bottom of the shower. Soap slivers left in the bottom of the shower. Dirty clothes strewn the length of the bathroom. And we haven't even GOTTEN to the actual toilet yet. And we ALL know men are way worse there. Drips are often found, if one but opens their eyes and looks. It SOOOOO gross. :(

Love, Love Love this post. My son recently went off to college and when he left I realized just him and me clean the bathroom. We are both pretty OCD when it comes to a clean bathroom.

I am the only girl in the house with 2 guys formerly 3. So the toilet is the most offensive thing ever. Every time I go in there I need to plan in advance because I need to thoroughly clean it before I can properly use it. GROSS but necessary.

I can't believe the mess my SD makes in the bathroom along with the lake of water left on the floor after her shower. She almost never flushes and it is sooooo gross. I have had to speak with her about wrapping up her pads before tossing them in the trash, my daughter (5yo) didn’t understand what is was and I don't want to see it.

My daughter has her own bathroom and it is the cleanest. She always flushes, puts her dirty clothes in the hamper and doesn't leave the shower a mess. The master bath is not too bad, my hubby tries to help keep it clean because he got tired of me complaining.

I cannot stand a dirty bathroom, I need a clean toilet, sink and tub/shower or I want to vomit. I think that women can be worse in the bathroom, when I worked as a server the women’s room was always way nastier than the men’s room.

Hubby and I use the same bathroom - it stays pretty neat.

My SS and GD use the front bath. Theirs is definitely messier!

I have my own bathroom (YAY!) and it is spotless.

My husband and 14yo son share a bathroom, and it is the nastiest, but it honestly doesn't get too bad because my 14yo son cleans it once a week. My husband is much worse than my son. My son got my clean genes. :)

Our 8yo son has his own bathroom, and it is fairly clean. It isn't as clean as mine, but it isn't totally disgusting either. The boys clean that one, too. I am only responsible for mine, thank goodness!

The final answer to your question is that in our house boys are definitely dirtier, but I think if I had teenage girls my answer would be different. ;)