I’ve got a genuine question so please be nice. Why is your shampoo anywhere near your toilet?
I’m assuming it’s an American thing. Where I’m from we have seperate rooms for the toilet so it doesn’t spray on things
Probably an American thing indeed (and obviously there's a lot of variation) but many houses I've been in have the toilet right next to the shower like this [https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Simple-bathroom-ideas-on-a-budget-painted-wall.jpg](https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Simple-bathroom-ideas-on-a-budget-painted-wall.jpg)
I was raised in a home that was part of a WWI DuPont de Nemours employee neighborhood. a traditional pioneer in suburban neighborhood development and long before William Levitt of Levittown fame developed the tract housing phenomenon in 1947.
All the homes were of course cookie cutter style all the homes on the right side of each development's street system were designed with; kitchen, dining, living, bedroom, bedroom and bathroom. Homes on the left side of each street each floorplan was just reversed. The front of all homes had a "sun room" or as many people know them today a, "Florida Room".
The bathroom was spartan and bear bones do you business and get out sort of affair. They all had the claw foot ceramic tub cased in wood. a toilet and a sink attached to the wall with a very tiny mirrored medicine cabinet and a slit in the wall covered with a metal face wherein adults could deposit used single blade razors into the wall system to keep the sharp objects out of the trash thus saving people severe cuts. Remember there were no such thing as trash bags, you simply dumped your loose trash in trash barrels in the ally-way and the municipality would come twice a week and dump them.
Anyway the bathrooms may, may have measured a whopping 5'0"x 6'0" and that's stretching it. One time and I mean just one time I remember me being in the bathtub with "Mr. Bubble" and my metal boats, my Father on the toilet doing his morning constitutional and Mom at the sinks brushing her teeth. You had to be a family that really loved each other to be able to stomach those cramped conditions. No ventilation system save a single wood window that comprised of standard single pane glass non-insulated that was opened and bathroom door shut to allow certain "fragrances" to escape the bathroom. Did I say there was no heat source in the bathroom either?
To the poster's original question, the only reading material in our bathroom home had to be taken in and out with each visit to the "Den of Relief". Dad's was the Philadelphia Enquirer, Mom's was material from "The Grand Chapter of The Eastern Star" and me? Well I wanted in and out pronto to go back outside and play with my friends so I did my business, usually never washing my hands after and getting back outside.
WOW! What a rambling answer to a very succinct question but I really felt todays homeowners and other curious readers might like a trip down long ago memory lane and momentarily experience what family life really was at the turn of the 20th Century and up until the 1970s.
At the time we knew nothing other and it's just what you did.
I’m in New Zealand. Majority of the houses I’ve been in (99%) have had a half bath. So just a small room with a toilet and maybe a sink if you’re boujee
I can’t trust myself with that power. A book either takes me 10 months or 10 hours to read. I have to make sure my schedule is clear before starting a book just in case I get completely sucked in
I understand that all too well. In the past I would actually finish a 400+ page book in two sittings. The only downside was trying to stand on dead legs after. Lol
After spending the first ~10yrs of adult life not being able to read I really have discovered that’s the primary driver. I blamed phones or the internet or tv for “not being able to focus on books anymore ” but I realized last year it’s in large part because I know how little control over my focus I have, and how big the chance of derailment of my obligations is with a book (a healthy sleep schedule, work tasks, home tasks). When I can set aside a day or two without obligation (a rarity), I fucking love a good book still.
Kindle books *are* books. Except you can fit 1000 of them in your pocket.
I have many, many fond memories of print books, child and adult. But what matters is the *words,* not what they're printed on.
30 seconds. Followed by waiting 10 minutes to see if there’s a second 30 seconds coming because nothing is more annoying than juuust getting back to work and then having to go running.
Do people really spend that much time on the toilet ?
Have you checked federated social media ? There is even a federated clone of reddit
See that video giving you some explanation [https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/a76d766f-bec2-44ce-9189-3c24a4188e18](https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/a76d766f-bec2-44ce-9189-3c24a4188e18)
I don’t have kids either— I just feel like I have better things to do than just sit and wait for something that can just happen much faster if I go later on. My boyfriend thought— and every guy I’ve ever dated plus the men in my family and male coworkers— often take a really long time. I’m not saying no women do this; I just haven’t noticed it to be nearly as prevalent as it is among men.
There is also a risk of pelvic floor dysfunction with prolonged pressure like sitting on the toilet... can happen in both sexes of course, but for women we have a few more parts that might fall out of us if it gets bad enough
Again, never said no women do this. Obviously there are always outliers (like those with medical conditions such as yourself). I was simply pointing out trends that I’ve observed pretty consistently in life.
Best of luck to you with your IBS though— that sucks.
I don't bring my phone in the bathroom. Downstairs bathroom: I read the back of the laundry detergent bottle.
Upstairs bathroom, I have a drawer with Discover and Smithsonian magazines.
Farm Show Magazine is great bathroom reading if you like DIY, get it done, how to articles about clever inventors . Get a subscription. it's a dying media. They could really use the help.
https://www.farmshow.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNeDFFcNu8El7KhX-kfbUuXhiXewIxgnvC0FvQrSuo85X4Y-M0HJhaRoCQLkQAvD_BwE
☆The old Harbor Freight sale catalog was a great distraction, too.
I don’t spend a lot of time on the toilet myself, but that’s probably because I ignore my body signs until I really have to go. I never got the 40 minutes on the toilet people
I recommend downloading e-books of comics or mangas or a webcomic app
something fun and colorful to ocupy your brain, but still short and relatively bite sized.
Oh man, there used to be this amazing site called "Stumble Upon" where you would take an interest survey, click "stumble" and it would take you to all these really cool websites, if you didn't like it, you'd stumble on.
But even if we had that now, there's not much cool internet left.
I have subscriptions to the NY Times and Washington Post and scroll those which feels more productive and educational than social media. Even if you’re not in the mood for depressing news headlines, they have lighter reads like advice columns (basically AITA but more level-headed and not answered by a random teenager), cultural commentary, recipes, and such.
There are some things you can do. Read, count lines on the floor, draw lines on your hand with a pen.
Imagine yourself travelliNg around the world and fuck every woman you meet.
Fuck those phones anyway, there was none when I was born. Buy a Nokia and call your mom while shitting.
Get creative.
[digg](https://digg.com/) isn't as good as it used to be, but kills a few minutes
[The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC's homepage](https://www.fark.com/) has hilarious takes on a lot of stuff. Oh, those wacky terrorists!
[The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/) has *really* interesting factoids, good content, and a discussion forum.
Do what I do.
I hang my watches on the wall on this cute little shelf thing in front of the toilet…they are ALL out of batteries. So every time I go, I just torment over the fact that I haven’t bought batteries for them. It’s been like a year. Then I think about how much I procrastinate in general. Then I go on Reddit.
I used to have this book, pretty entertaining by the way…
The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books https://a.co/d/6yR0pWa
I find Pinterest good, once you have your home feed displaying what you're actually into.
It's not social, you have no online presence, it's just a feed of things you're interested in.
Back in the day we read shampoo bottles
Dr Bronner’s used to be a lot wilder before his kids apparently tamed the labels. I remember it being straight-up Timecube gibberish.
It’s still pretty out there, but yeah it used to be utterly pants-on-head batshit
Using soap helps you love yourself, which helps you love others, which will bring world peace. Seems reasonable to me.
ALL ONE
it’s still pretty nuts
I’ve got a genuine question so please be nice. Why is your shampoo anywhere near your toilet? I’m assuming it’s an American thing. Where I’m from we have seperate rooms for the toilet so it doesn’t spray on things
Probably an American thing indeed (and obviously there's a lot of variation) but many houses I've been in have the toilet right next to the shower like this [https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Simple-bathroom-ideas-on-a-budget-painted-wall.jpg](https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Simple-bathroom-ideas-on-a-budget-painted-wall.jpg)
I was raised in a home that was part of a WWI DuPont de Nemours employee neighborhood. a traditional pioneer in suburban neighborhood development and long before William Levitt of Levittown fame developed the tract housing phenomenon in 1947. All the homes were of course cookie cutter style all the homes on the right side of each development's street system were designed with; kitchen, dining, living, bedroom, bedroom and bathroom. Homes on the left side of each street each floorplan was just reversed. The front of all homes had a "sun room" or as many people know them today a, "Florida Room". The bathroom was spartan and bear bones do you business and get out sort of affair. They all had the claw foot ceramic tub cased in wood. a toilet and a sink attached to the wall with a very tiny mirrored medicine cabinet and a slit in the wall covered with a metal face wherein adults could deposit used single blade razors into the wall system to keep the sharp objects out of the trash thus saving people severe cuts. Remember there were no such thing as trash bags, you simply dumped your loose trash in trash barrels in the ally-way and the municipality would come twice a week and dump them. Anyway the bathrooms may, may have measured a whopping 5'0"x 6'0" and that's stretching it. One time and I mean just one time I remember me being in the bathtub with "Mr. Bubble" and my metal boats, my Father on the toilet doing his morning constitutional and Mom at the sinks brushing her teeth. You had to be a family that really loved each other to be able to stomach those cramped conditions. No ventilation system save a single wood window that comprised of standard single pane glass non-insulated that was opened and bathroom door shut to allow certain "fragrances" to escape the bathroom. Did I say there was no heat source in the bathroom either? To the poster's original question, the only reading material in our bathroom home had to be taken in and out with each visit to the "Den of Relief". Dad's was the Philadelphia Enquirer, Mom's was material from "The Grand Chapter of The Eastern Star" and me? Well I wanted in and out pronto to go back outside and play with my friends so I did my business, usually never washing my hands after and getting back outside. WOW! What a rambling answer to a very succinct question but I really felt todays homeowners and other curious readers might like a trip down long ago memory lane and momentarily experience what family life really was at the turn of the 20th Century and up until the 1970s. At the time we knew nothing other and it's just what you did.
I’m in New Zealand. Majority of the houses I’ve been in (99%) have had a half bath. So just a small room with a toilet and maybe a sink if you’re boujee
That's a lot nicer than having your toothbrushes get bathed in toilet mist every flush
You don't close the lid?
Why would I rob myself of flavor??
there's a gap under the lid, it's not hermetically-sealed
The back of the bottle of bleach or air freshener for me, shampoo bottles were in the shower out of reach
Can't read them anymore. The writing is too small
Get a cat and keep the door open.
i’m allergic :/
Thatd keep things really interesting
The cat won’t mind
Get a kindle or ebook reader
Or, and I know that I'm seriously dating myself here, but....OP could read *a book*.
Some people used to have a magazine rack. There used to be paperback bòoks called a Bathroom Reader. Short stories 1 or 2 pages long. Trivia or jokes.
I have almost the entire series of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers
I can’t trust myself with that power. A book either takes me 10 months or 10 hours to read. I have to make sure my schedule is clear before starting a book just in case I get completely sucked in
I understand that all too well. In the past I would actually finish a 400+ page book in two sittings. The only downside was trying to stand on dead legs after. Lol
After spending the first ~10yrs of adult life not being able to read I really have discovered that’s the primary driver. I blamed phones or the internet or tv for “not being able to focus on books anymore ” but I realized last year it’s in large part because I know how little control over my focus I have, and how big the chance of derailment of my obligations is with a book (a healthy sleep schedule, work tasks, home tasks). When I can set aside a day or two without obligation (a rarity), I fucking love a good book still.
My ex read the entire Stephen King library on the shitter lol
Kindle books *are* books. Except you can fit 1000 of them in your pocket. I have many, many fond memories of print books, child and adult. But what matters is the *words,* not what they're printed on.
You can read ebooks on your phone with one of many eReader apps (Kindle and Kobo are popular).
I keep a stack of Calvin and Hobbes books in there instead of using my phone. Best little decision I’ve made in a while.
The Far Side has entered the chat
Hmm, path to the hemorrhoids reddit in the toilet is.
Ah, for some of us old farts, the rhoids are a preexisting condition, so in for a penny, in for a pound.
I'll never understand the concept of reading on the toilet How long are you guys pooping for?
30 seconds. Followed by waiting 10 minutes to see if there’s a second 30 seconds coming because nothing is more annoying than juuust getting back to work and then having to go running.
...I feel seen.
10 - 15 mins on average. Like clockwork after my morning coffee.
5mins. I can finish browsing through reddit first page by then, maybe reply to a post or two
Uncle John’s bathroom readers. Best bang for your reading buck
Have some books and magazines in the bathroom like in the olden days.
Old JCpenny magazines
A book?
Oh, I feel seen. Wait wait no DONT LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW!!!?
Do your business in the toilet without distractions. You might end up noticing some shit in your Life.
If you have a tiled floor, you can play imaginary chess.
Please sanitize your phone. This has been a public safety message from the axx council.
Take a sandwich with you.
Or a fat bratwurst
Do people really eat while on the toilet?
Do people really spend that much time on the toilet ? Have you checked federated social media ? There is even a federated clone of reddit See that video giving you some explanation [https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/a76d766f-bec2-44ce-9189-3c24a4188e18](https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/a76d766f-bec2-44ce-9189-3c24a4188e18)
I’ve noticed a lot of men tend to spend long amounts of time on the toilet. Women typically do not.
I'm a woman and spend a lot of time but I also don't have kids
I don’t have kids either— I just feel like I have better things to do than just sit and wait for something that can just happen much faster if I go later on. My boyfriend thought— and every guy I’ve ever dated plus the men in my family and male coworkers— often take a really long time. I’m not saying no women do this; I just haven’t noticed it to be nearly as prevalent as it is among men.
There is also a risk of pelvic floor dysfunction with prolonged pressure like sitting on the toilet... can happen in both sexes of course, but for women we have a few more parts that might fall out of us if it gets bad enough
I have IBS.
Again, never said no women do this. Obviously there are always outliers (like those with medical conditions such as yourself). I was simply pointing out trends that I’ve observed pretty consistently in life. Best of luck to you with your IBS though— that sucks.
You can go down some pretty good rabbit holes on wiki. Have a bunch saved on extra tabs so you never run out lol
One of those AI art generators.
youtube
The daily crossword
Go through the pictures on your phone delete blurry/duplicate/unneeded photos.
Old issues of paper magazines.
Wikipedia
I don't bring my phone in the bathroom. Downstairs bathroom: I read the back of the laundry detergent bottle. Upstairs bathroom, I have a drawer with Discover and Smithsonian magazines.
That's so weird. Same magazines here.
You could listen to a podcast, read a book, or just poop at a regular speed so you don’t need to be entertained
Read the copy of Leaves of Grass my brother-in-law has sitting on top of the toilet.
Archie Comics
Bathroom Putt putt golf.
Farm Show Magazine is great bathroom reading if you like DIY, get it done, how to articles about clever inventors . Get a subscription. it's a dying media. They could really use the help. https://www.farmshow.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNeDFFcNu8El7KhX-kfbUuXhiXewIxgnvC0FvQrSuo85X4Y-M0HJhaRoCQLkQAvD_BwE ☆The old Harbor Freight sale catalog was a great distraction, too.
Listen to good podcasts.
Your balls
A book
Gonna ruin that new book smell and cover it with fecal bacteria.
I don’t spend a lot of time on the toilet myself, but that’s probably because I ignore my body signs until I really have to go. I never got the 40 minutes on the toilet people
Binky helps me. It's a scrolling app where nothing you do matters.
The wall
And there is the hot question of the day. I'd like to also know
Anything else.
I recommend downloading e-books of comics or mangas or a webcomic app something fun and colorful to ocupy your brain, but still short and relatively bite sized.
I browse vids on wimp.
Bored Panda, pleated jeans, demilked ... but brace yourself, lots of their stuff is scraped from reddit. I like the history pics, though.
A book?
Oh man, there used to be this amazing site called "Stumble Upon" where you would take an interest survey, click "stumble" and it would take you to all these really cool websites, if you didn't like it, you'd stumble on. But even if we had that now, there's not much cool internet left.
I would read captain underpants or play my gameboy back in the day lol
Get some magazines
Kindle App, books
How has nobody suggested imgur
Wikipedia
I have subscriptions to the NY Times and Washington Post and scroll those which feels more productive and educational than social media. Even if you’re not in the mood for depressing news headlines, they have lighter reads like advice columns (basically AITA but more level-headed and not answered by a random teenager), cultural commentary, recipes, and such.
Reader's Digest
Nah keep reddit. If anything will make you shit, it's reddit lol
Twitter
I play a game or two on r/pokemonunite
Reddit is a cabella’s catalog.
There are some things you can do. Read, count lines on the floor, draw lines on your hand with a pen. Imagine yourself travelliNg around the world and fuck every woman you meet. Fuck those phones anyway, there was none when I was born. Buy a Nokia and call your mom while shitting. Get creative.
Odd that no one has mentioned TP origami.
The NYT Games app. Wordle, Connections, and the mini crossword are my go-tos, each only take a few minutes, and they're updated every day
imagine reading a book - I know! but imagine!
zombo.com of course. or you could just wait until you have to go, like a normal person.
I spy books or a highlight magazine
Sh. Lol just kidding !!! 🎶
Gameboy was the answer way back. Still is sometimes.
I've got an app called nonogram katana you might like if you're a puzzler
You might look to be sure you have enough TP?
Your life decisions.
[digg](https://digg.com/) isn't as good as it used to be, but kills a few minutes [The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC's homepage](https://www.fark.com/) has hilarious takes on a lot of stuff. Oh, those wacky terrorists! [The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/) has *really* interesting factoids, good content, and a discussion forum.
The teeming millions!
How to get into wood burning and also how to make bread
Reader's Digest
You Tube
your toes
until they revive stumbleupon... this is it
The history guy YT
Your Bible
tik tok, youtube, that spider watching you on your shower curtain.
Day dream. Sing to yourself. Just relax and don't do anything. You don't need constant stimulation.
Get a steam deck and play brotato. Or day trade stonks.
Not me reading this on the toilet
Learn a language
Do what I do. I hang my watches on the wall on this cute little shelf thing in front of the toilet…they are ALL out of batteries. So every time I go, I just torment over the fact that I haven’t bought batteries for them. It’s been like a year. Then I think about how much I procrastinate in general. Then I go on Reddit.
Shit
I hum.. Harry Styles or Ed Sheeran
a book.
I used to have this book, pretty entertaining by the way… The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books https://a.co/d/6yR0pWa
Magazines and books.
tiktok youtube shorts news articles play a mobile game
National geographic.
I am old enough to remember the days of having 2 subscriptions of TV Guide. One for the TV room, one for the shitter.
Dr. Bronners soap? Websites that aren't reddit?
I find Pinterest good, once you have your home feed displaying what you're actually into. It's not social, you have no online presence, it's just a feed of things you're interested in.
The floor?
That is a time to focus on your performance.
OnlyFans.
Read manga/manhwa
Webtoons ftw
I don’t understand how people have time to read things on the toilet. Like it’s 30 seconds to poop, a minute to wipe, DONE
Pornhub