Do you like brushing your teeth with toilet bowl water?

Because if like most people, you keep your tooth brush on the bathroom sink — that’s essentially what you’re doing.

Yummy.

After coming across the article “The 16 worse places to stash your stuff” in Prevention magazine, I felt enlightened and educated. But mostly I felt nauseas . Apparently, when you flush, the 3.2 million microbes per square inch of germy-gunk in your toilet bowl is propelled as far as 6 feet, settling on the floor, the sink… and your toothbrush.

Fix it: Keep your toothbrush in a cabinet

Some other tidbits to keep you healthier, slimmer and not so icky. Read More »

Public bathrooms are gross. I am not some freakish germaphobe, but even I realize that sharing a toilet with hundreds of strangers (especially drunk ones) is not fun. Or sanitary. Even if you believe what Dr. Oz (the awesome doc on Oprah) said about toilet seats being pretty clean surfaces, the rest of the situation is not. The floor, the flusher, the tampon trash can that people probably push open with their used….things.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Anyways, I don’t know about you but I know that I am pretty careful when using the bathroom. I lay TP down on the seat before I sit down, flush the toilet with my foot, and never (EVER!) put my handbag on the floor.

But until I saw this new invention, I never even considered the gross factor that is the toilet paper dispenser.

Who knows who/what has touched that thing? And the long strip of paper hanging out from the roll when you get in there? Lord knows where that’s been dangling. I don’t even want to think about it.

Okay, I just did and now I’m getting sick again. Read More »

Preparing for a first date is a stressful time. During the primping and pre-pimping process, the last thing we need before going on a hot date is trouble with our technological gadgets.

The toilet bowl is #1 killer of cell phones today, and being that before a date, we spend a lot of time in the bathroom, it doesn’t make for a good combination. I know so many people who have lost their phones due to unwanted trips down the ceramic place-in-the-sky. Haven’t we learned our lesson yet? DO NOT GO NEAR A TOILET WITH A CELL PHONE ON OR NEAR YOUR PERSON. It never ends well.

Well….that is until I found out about this little helpful tip.

The Washington Post reports the story of one guy who, after dropping his Blackberry down the toilet, saved it by sticking it in a bowl of rice.

Strange, but kinda cool, huh? Read More »

Last night, while out at a tiny bar that had paper dragons on the ceiling but still managed to charge me 6 bucks for a half a shot of vodka and cranberry juice, I decided to brave the winding line for the bathrooms. (You should know I have a weird phobia about public bathrooms—or rather, a phobia about the locks in public bathrooms. I never trust the things. No matter where I am, I’m always convinced someone’s going to open the door on me. Convinced.)

Anyway, after finally squeezing myself into the tiny stall and finding the hidden light switch, I realized I was standing in one of the grossest places I had ever willingly ventured into. Unidentified water everywhere, overflowing trashcan, a toilet with half the seat broken off (I mean, how does that happen?), and a tampon box that defied imagination. This place was revolting with a capital Revulsion.

So now here comes the question women have to deal with all the time; how does one actually pee in a place that’s sure to infect you with every disease God has ever created?

Option 1: The Squat. This is basically a move that keeps your skin from actually coming into contact with anything disgusting. A lot of times this move is difficult in tight jeans and small spaces, but it can be done. Just make sure that cute underwear you just bought is held safely out of pee range.

Option 2: The Half-Cheek. If you’re in a super hurry and don’t really care about the thousands of other people who have used the place before you, you can sit on the seat so just enough of one cheek is touching it. This move gives you optimum balance with minimal skin on porcelain contact. Read More »