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I don't think it is hygenic (although yours looks very clean!)

NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!

A guest should never shriek over his host's choice of decor, even when it's as Panglossian as this. Much better to cover one's mouth & scream in silence.

I understand the need of a place to sit. When I sit on the toilet lid I fold up a towel to sit on. An easy alternative to a toilet seat cover.

Throw it out - you are much better than this . . .

First, it was rude of your friend to shriek at the sight of it. He should have quietly pulled you aside and tried to reason with you.

I can't stand these hairy germ magnets but at least you don't have the tri-fecta of gross with the little matching rug that wraps around the base of the toilet and the larger floor rug.

That base of the toilet rug is the nastiest thing in any bathroom. You just know it's full of pee if there is a man in the house.

that first picture scared me.

I have to agree about the rudeness of your guest. I'd be grateful if you invited me to your house. If you want a shaggy toilet seat cover that's none of my business, until you advertise it to the whole world like here.

There has to be a more attractive alternative.

My bathroom is smaller than this and I sit on the edge of the tub! Also, with a pedestal sink and not much floor or wall space, I am finding storage to be a pain. As a girl with lots of makeup and products, I am curious to see how people with tiny sinks do innovative bathroom storage.

You know, since I'm here, have you ever thought of regrouting your floor?

It wouldn't be that hard. You need something sharp to dig out the old grout as much as possible. Then clean everything up really well and regrout with some white grout. Then seal the grout.

Your floor will look brand spankin' new!

You could replace your toilet seat cover with a nice white one if you wanted too! (that way you would know when it's dirty).

I don't understand the negative reactions to these seat covers. They do make after-bath time much more comfy and they're no more likely to collect germs than anything else located close to the toilet top - I just vacuum and wash mine regularly like everything else in the W/C. I only dislike them when they're obviously synthetic. The fluffy, cottony ones disguise the bland plastic-ness of the seat cover and add a splash of colour and texture. Your ill-mannered friend just wasn't open to the benefits of these retro accessories!

grouse!

I think for your reason, it's ok, maybe you can make a DIY version that's kind of like a cushion?
But I can't have those little rugs.

I think I'd rather just put a towel on the cold toilet seat to continue a chat and lotion up than to get a cover. especially if bare-bummed.

Fiance and I bought a new toilet seat a week ago because the previous one was just flimsy thin plastic which was like trying to sit on a milk jug - didn't work. Now we can sit and not be afraid of falling through. We both giggled and were grossed out by the padded toilet seats in the display at Lowes. soft white vinyl cushioned seats. For those folks who want to STICK to the toilet.

It was rude for your friend to confront you on that, but that hairy thing is really quite awful. I would hold it in if I saw that and excuse myself to leave early if that is no longer possible.

I had no idea that people were anti-toilet seat covers. Maybe it's a Midwest thing, but I've always had them in my bathroom. I wonder what else I've been doing "wrong".

i'm aware of the aversion, but as a dweller in the teeniest bathroom evah, i like my little hairy beast. it's cotton, adds color, and gives me an actual place to sit and groom. a towel would be too slidey. i toss it in the wash along with the towels every week. and it's not like it's actively being peed on or anything. the lower lid is a barrier.

I think the regular washing is key. I have horrible memories of the college boyfriend's bathroom... and that toilet cover was about as bad as you can possibly imagine (along with the rest of the bathroom).

I think the only exception can be when they are intended as a fun, kitsch design element, like you've done. As opposed to de rigor, like a bath mat or towels. But why not put that fun treatment into the bathmat instead? Is this *really* for the lotion? I raise my foot up on the lid to smooth on lotion rather than sitting and bending.

I guess I generally don't like these things anymore than I like knitted toilet paper cozies (remember the doll torsos & skirt combo?), tissue box cozies, wine bottle cozies, etc, which are all tacky little things made to obscure unattractive design.

But hey, it's your bathroom, and your bum. And as ugly goes, this cover just isn't that bad. :-)

So sorry your guest was so rude! :(

I don't like toilet seat covers because they attract attention to the one thing in the bathroom that is ugly!!!

Do the germphobes here have children? Or pets? If you wash the cover weekly, it's no grosser than other things you sit on regularly.

I say, revel in the fluffy seat cover. Tell people 6 stuffed animals died to keep your bum warm after a bath.

Filthy, disgusting, and yet comfy.

Also, the separate hot and cold faucets remind me graduate school in Buffalo. All the old houses I lived in had them. They were awful.

Ha! I'd like to hack fluffy toilet seat covers, brand new ones, into fluffy round throw pillows for our sofas. Are they any good and cheap online resources for these?

They scare me on toilets though.

Ugh.

If you need a place to sit, just toss a towel over the thing.

I am trying so hard to convince my husband to let me remove ours. I hate hate hate it, but he absolutely INSISTS on keeping it. He also insists on a bathroom rug that takes up almost the whole floor (gag). This is a man that grew up in a house with a fully (wall to wall) carpeted bathroom, though. There is no reasoning with him.

When I try to argue about it or just 'forget' to put it back on after washing he whines that he lets me decorate pretty much the whole house and that is the one thing about which he puts his foot down.

that's disgusting.

Hrm, most likely the guest wasn't being rude --maybe he was a close friend who thought they should know that toilet seat covers are NOT OK. :)

"Girrrrl, what are you thinking?" :)

ugh.
If I HAD to have one, I'd go with white so that it could pretend to be just a lid... not a lid with a cozy.

My .02

NO!

Since you like hanging out in the loo, fold a towel to a comfortable width and drape it over the edge of the tub. not the toilet seat.

my take on bathrooms is do your business then get out! that goes for showers and other ablutions.

I'm rather more curious about the fact that it looks like your toilet is wearing a necklace.

Honestly, that's not the grossest thing I've ever seen (lots of my guy friends have bathrooms that I refuse to use). I use the covers at home and they get washed regularly, just like everything else in my bathroom.

One thought did occur to me for the people that keep on suggesting the folded-up towel scenario-- do you think you could hack a toilet seat cover out of a towel instead? That way, it's not the "reviled" shaggy toilet seat cover, but you don't constantly have to yank down a towel to cover the seat, either. I imagine you could use your old cover as a pattern and then just sew on some elastic to make it stay put...

I am also curious about the toilet necklace - rosary?
I don't like the idea of a cover, and the thought of sitting on one (or the the bare lid) with bare bum is unthinkable to me.
That said, I actually like your fuzzy cover - better than the plush set of my childhood.
Looks like you may not be sitting on the edge of the tub as its a clawfoot and not enough perching area.

We just had a talk about this last night... I just can't see the reason why there isn't another solution.... I just... idk. I know the concept for it is very harmless and the "look" might be ok; but once I thought it thru I realized there are so many things wrong with it. (All listed here). Still. No.

I guess I don't really see the need to sit in my bathroom unless it's for using the toilet for its first function. If I had a huge spa-like bath, maybe, but I don't. I also don't get toilet seat covers. While I certainly wouldn't shriek if I were in someone's house, a little part of me did just now. I just don't like them, or rugs in front--I like it to be hard-surfaced so I can clean the heck out of it.

Is that thing mauve? Really, Abby, you had to buy the mauve one?

No NO NOOOO.

Yeah, that is a little peculiar. A toilet medallion.

You've really gussied up your pooper!

Nothing like the smell of stale urine in the morning!

Stay standing and lean in the doorway, or pull up a stool just outside the bathroom, but please, lose that horrid fuzzy thing!

I have a vintage chair in my main bathroom, which frees me from any need to pimp my porcelain.

Besides the aesthetic aversion to sticking a shag toupé on my loo, there's a more practical reason that this doesn't appeal to me: being a guy, when you lift the lid, the rug makes it so thick that it barely stays up when leaning against the back of the toilet. It usually teeters on the brink of falling over or worse, comes crashing down when you, um... least want it to.

that's pretty bad, guys. i mean, why is there a need for conversation in the bathroom anyway? just use the bathroom as the peace & quiet space of the house. hehe if the conversation REALLY needs to go on, it can wait till the other is done.

to me, it's like a moo-moo. regardless of comfort, you really just shouldn't start down that slippery slope. what's next doiles?

as for the scream... it might be rude, but considering you write for AT, they probably thought it was a joke. it'd be like going to martha's house & seeing a jar of ragu & cheese whiz in the fridge. hehe

wow i think the AT'ers responses were even more traumatizing.

Get a new toilet seat - we have a lovely wooden one that is warm and comfy when you sit on it - no fluffy monstrosities needed!

haha Alice33 I had the same ongoing struggle with my husband. But I FINALLY won and that thing is gone!

There is just something so unsettling about it.

so wrong. so very very wrong.

i think it would be less creepy if it was slightly less big and furry and shaggy... it somehow seems gross to have something so big and furry and shaggy so close to the toilet. like who knows what germs can get trapped in there.

Hm. Are folks using "toilet seat" as the same as "toilet lid"? Because I find lids a must and lid covers fairly gross.

I agree, you need a solid surface to sit on that's not the toilet seat. But why cover it in fabric? (Unless you can rig some really cool upholstered fabric that velcros on/off for easy washing--I just may be able to get on board with that.)

I personally don't want them in my house but to each his own....I think it would be kind neat to have a cover that was cross stitched with a crown for your the porcelain throne or some other random object just for fun