Hey! Did you miss me? I’m back now, and as a counterpoint to the (wonderful!) thinky guest bloggers from the past several days, I present you with pictures of my toilets.
With all apologies to folks who like them, crapper surround-rugs are not something I ever wanted in my own house. But I am now living proof that they are not just for grandma anymore. (For the record, my floor is not yellow. I just have a crappy cell phone.)
They are also for those of us who are sick and tired of stepping in someone else’s urine. (Does that make it sound like I’d be OK with it if it were my own urine?)
Now if they would just make something to solve the problem of accidentally sitting down on a piss-covered toilet seat. Something tells me that with 3 boys I may be doing this for a while.
Would it be so bad to put them all back in diapers?
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I refused to have the crapper rounds in my house also, but have had to submit and buy some for the exact same reason.
My potty trained kid has been with grandma a few weeks and the pee is mysteriously still there. My husband swears it isn’t him. We must have trolls living behind the toilet I guess.
Pee on the floor is my biggest peeve.
Missed you, glad you’re back! The guest posters were great too, thanks for the blogsitting (from those of us that check-in every day).
Oh my God I’m so having this problem. A rug huh? Well maybe it will save the floor…..
Boys are the worse aimers! I think God gave the wrong gender a penis…for more than one reason! LOL!
But wait… isn’t the pee still there on the floor, but now on the rug? Aren’t you still technically stepping in pee? lol
I’m such an idiot!!! I never realized those rugs were urine catchers! That makes perfect sense! I have girls and I sit in their pee all the time. Drives me nuts!!! They jump off the potty prematurely and leave a trail of drops. Gross, but true. I’ve actually gotten in the habit of looking before I sit! Sometimes I forget though. Ick.
Glad your back! Those rugs freak me out! I’d rather see the pee on the floor and clean it up than hide it in the rug and step all over it. Ewwww!
If some moron a kajillion years ago hadn’t decided boys should stand up to pee, we wouldn’t NEED toilet rugs. I threatened husband with death if he taught our boys to stand up to pee, but he didn’t take me seriously. Thus, I have toilet rugs in all three bathrooms.
My daughter has a TERRIBLE habit of not wiping BEFORE she stands up, resulting in dribble. I had to return the dreaded carpet to it’s place as well. I think we have the same one actually.
I’ve always feared toilet carpet…I suspect it is in my future. Ugh.
Yeah, but now you’re standing on a urine saturated mat.
A friend of mine made it the job of the boys/men in the house to clean the bathrooms. She said their aim increased substantially.
Yes, yes, a million times YES. I need something for that urine covered seat because that is JUST WRONG. Boys are so gross.
Yes, it’s gross, but what about your cold cold toes in the middle of the night on a bare (almost bare, except for the pee) floor? I vote for a pee-sprinkled fuzzy mat. Even if, yes, even if it means more laundry to do. Clearly, a lose-lose.
I feel like half my life is spent cleaning up pee in the bathrooms. I like the idea of making the boyz (well, Hubby, actually, until the boyz are old enough…) do it! I’m SURE the mess would decrease. But the toilet carpet just skeeves me out.
Glad to see you’re back!
And with the prices @ Amazon, it may be cheaper/less frustrating to wrap em all up in Huggies and have done with it!
The solution is a jelly bean for clean or put a ping pong ball in the bowl and tell them to aim at that – I have three boys too and when all under 10 the quickest way to nip piss on the floor and seat problem was to march them back into the toilet and make them clean it up – you can start as young as 5 I know from experience
ugh I swore i would never own those damn rugs either but somehow some way SOMEONE always pees on the floor and those darn rugs are perfect at catching it and saving me from slipping and falling and wedging my fat butt in the toilet where I would surely waste away and die before someone found me.
Yikes! I am NOT looking forward to my boys getting bigger to make that mess. We just got our oldest potty-trained, so he is still sitting down. We already have the rugs and now they are for sure going to stay!
I am sooo sick of the pee on the seat and pee on the floor… and of course no one will admit it is their doing. I am certain I am not pissing on the floor. Hmmm…who could it then be??
Lately, my son is the greatest of the two offenders. Apparently he has given up on lifting the toilet seat. I tell my husband someday I will remodel the bathroom to look like something you would find in a gas station- nice drain on the floor. That way I can just hose the place down.
Missed you, lady :) So glad you’re back.
I totally get ya with this bathroom rug.
But with men and young boys in the house, it is a must have.
What I don’t understand is how it gets directly behind the toilet…you know where the rug is not?
I have two boys plus the hubby who’s aim is lacking during times of sleepiness.
Might as well make the bathroom decor yellow. But, with those boys, I changed our decor to the colors of grass, dirt and blood. I hate those rugs too but they are an evil necessity.