Bathroom Question - Lid up or Down?

The lid is down. Why? Because I close it when I flush the toilet. Why? Because I was watching this news show (don't remember which one) and they showed how high the water, pee and poop particles fly out of the bowl every time you flush! gross! They were testing people's toothbrushes and there was fecal matter on them. Since then, lid is closed every time we flush in this house.
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Lid down, but that's just because I don't want my dogs drinking out or it, or my daughter to try and go swimming in it.

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Our lids stay down and our toothbrushes stay in the vanity drawers. Like other posters, I've heard the 'particle theory' from flushes and whether or not it is true, it just skeeves me out to think about it! :)

I also agree that it looks cleaner and neater. The thing I LOVE about our home is that in the master bathroom, the toilet is in it's own little room with a door and that door stays shut, too. I think toilets are just ugly...

DOWN DOWN DOWN!! I am disgusted when I walk into peoples homes to first, see the bathroom door wide open (we close ours here) and to top it off, the lid is up. It's nasty, pee and poop particals fly around the bathroom when you flush, this has been proven!! I am so grateful I married a man who agrees with this and thinks it's gross, he is super clean in the bathroom and he has taught our 7yo son to be just as clean, LOVE HIM FOR THIS!!!! Yep, again, down to be sanitary and neat.

Down. We've taught the boys from day 1 to put all the lids down b/c the dog will drink out of the toilet if its not!!

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It looks neater, yes, but also, after having replaced two hairbrushes in a week after my toddler dropped hers (and guess where it landed!), it's cheaper just to keep the lid down all the time, too. Toddlers aren't the only folk who drop things.

Not only that, but I have a cabinet above the toilet, which I can't reach without standing on the lid.

Ours is always up unless I'm doing something that requires for it to be down. I dont know why, but I dont like them down, its like you have to open it and look in it if you open the lid... wondering what surprises might be in it.
I always leave it up unless I'm visiting someone's home and it was down when I used it, I'll put it down before I leave the bathroom.

I once heard a MAN say on the radio that the toilet is basically an appliance so the lid should be CLOSED.

You wouldn't leave the door of the oven open or the microwave door open so why would you leave the lid open?

I'm STILL in shock a MAN said this! LOL.

I prefer it down, but most of the time (I live with three boys) it is up. I have acutally kicked my kids out of "my" bathroom unless they promise to put lid down, but they forget. Oh well.
FYI: did you know if you don't put lid down before you flush microscopic particles fly in the air - where is your toothbrush.
Another case for keeping the lid closed - LOL!

I like it down, but the men in my house leave it up and one of them even leaves the seat up. I try, but this is a losing battle for me and not the best one for me to pick to fight. That said, I still prefer it down...

ALWAYS down! Not only does it look cleaner and nicer, it prevents any germs from getting back out lol. I watched a thing on toilets and bathrooms actually, and they said if you dont close the lid before you flush the "potty germs" can fly up in the air 6-8 feet! and get in the air. Gross!! So, I always make sure its down even more than I did before.

I live in a house that's all boys (sans me). Both in those who live here and 90% of those who are over here.

Therefore, in our house, seat up generally speaking. I'm the only one who needs it down. Since the seat's up. So is the lid.

Added benefit... there's never any 'surprise!' pee on MY seat. Ha. Victory.

I don't really care either way but I agree that it does look better down- so IF I were a neat freak (LOL), I would insist that the lid stay down. :)

Down, Down, DOWN!!! I read or heard something years ago that said every time you flush the toilet, the water (and whatever other substance(s) are in there) can fly out up to something crazy like 15 feet!! I don't remember where I heard it, but it stuck with me, that's for sure! I know my toothbrush is less than 15 feet, and so is my FACE! The lid is to go down & stay down when not in use in my house!

Seat down (otherwise tiny heinie's fall in!), lid UP (in case of emergency; you know how little one's hold it until the last second!)

Down down down. I am so used to it down that it just looks wrong to me when it's up.

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I agree with V.M.-
It's actually a policy at my office to keep the lids down. My boss strongly believes the feng shui thing.
My aunt is vietnamese and I was very familiar with the philosophy.
I prefer down, but I admit that sometimes in the middle of the night I don't think about it when I'm half asleep and go in to tinkle and sit on the lid.
Not my favorite aspect of the lid being down, but I still prefer it.

Lid down, but mainly because we have a dog that will drink out of it. It does look cleaner to me, too.

I prefer the lid down personally. I think it looks cleaner and nicer and I feel cleaner... However, my hubby prefers it up and he has a bad back so I leave it up for him. I also have little kids who leave it up just in case... although, I have a one year old so I'm constantly putting their lids down..LOL So I'm a lid down person but the rest of my family are lid up people...LOL

I'm surprised there are so many lids down people. I am definitely a seat down and lid down person. When I visit friends houses, I often see the lid up. I don't like it when people visit my house and forget to put the seat down!

It looks cleaner.... more presentable! The lid down will prevent accidents from happening such as make up/brush falling off the sink's counter top and into the toliet. I also put that stuff away when I am done using it. I don't like make up, hair spray, etc.... laying out on my countertop. (Less clutter.... the better.)

LOL LOL LOL. What responses. I love this site. It takes all kinds.

To the ones that had concerns about microscopic particles in the air when flushing . . . unless you have a very unusual toilet that has an airtight seal between the seat and the base and an airtight seal between the lid and the seat the microscopic particles find their way between the lid and seat and base. BTW, if you pass gas and can smell it, guess what microscopic particles are going in the air and where they just came from? ;~))

Some people have such paranoia about "germs", they will throw perfectly good food away, just because the calendar has changed and the meat in the freezer is now "out of date". (I was invited over to a friends house for a cook out. She took 4 T-bone steaks out of her freezer, noted that they "expired" the day before and threw them in the trash because they were "out of date" by one day(!!!!).)

Thanks for the question. Good luck to you and yours.

LOL! As always, you are cracking me up.

I like it down when I am in there, simply because I am always doing a million things (carrying a baby, doing my hair, etc) and worry something will fall in the toilet as I rush around.

And I do agree that it looks neater and cleaner down.

I don't care either way really. I don't even mind the toilet seat being up after the boys use it. I just put it down....takes seconds. There is no way the lid would stay down in my home for long.

seat down, lid up.

I live with all men, including the dogs, & this is how we live.....

& what's interesting is that it's never, ever been an issue or request.

honestly, i've never really thought about it :). if it's at night i would say up because i go to the bathroom a few times a night and as i'm stumbling into the bathroom, i don't want to have to think to lift the lid :). also my son waits until the last minute to go, so he'd probably not make it if he had to lift the lid. i guess for my house, it just depends on who's in there. sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down

We leave it up because one of the cats actually pees in the toilet. We didn't train him to do it - he just started doing it on his own.

i think the main lid should be down, for one, things won't fall in there and the other, according to Dr. Oz when flushed, spray and vapors fly up contaminating thing around, coffee cup, tooth brush, toilet paper.......and it looks neater.

ALWAYS DOWN before flushing! Stuff will fly. Also, we have a big dog that gets very thirsty:).

Down for sure. I also put it down before flushing so the particles don't get sprayed all over the room. Airplane toilets? Oh, lordy, I'm going to be sick!!

We keep ours down too. But, I think most people don't because whenever we have company, the seat is always left up! LOL

I completely agree! Who wants to walk in someone's bathroom & see the icky toilet...no matter how clean it is...w/the seat up...ewww. My hubby has suddenly 'forgotten' how to put the lid AND the seat down...after 21 yrs, you'd think he'd not forget that simple request. But alas I now hafta remind him apparantly. For one thing...we have a cat & I do NOT wanna hafta chase it down & give it a bath...not to mention, clean up the possible wet mess she left behind running outta there...b/c she decided to jump on the toilet only to find the seat and/or lid up & get down in the water...double ewww! but yes, it definitly looks a LOT cleaner & neater/more tidy to see the lid down!!! My mom, however, along w/other friends/relatives leave their's up. I think I just started putting it down when I got a house cat but then I preferred the way it looked w/the lid down. Total yes on this.

down, I heard it was some fung shui way of saving money and keeping your wealth from being flushed away. I"m all about savingmoney ha ha.

Ours is usually up, since I have an almost 4 year that sometimes waits until the last minute to go!

I put it down before I flush. My husband doesn't even always flush. What's that saying "If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow, let it mellow." Well that's my husband for ya about half the time. Lid up after he goes by the way too.

Lid down. I can't fathom the thought of something falling in unexpectedly.
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couldn't agree more....I can't stand the look of a bathroom with the lid up. Plus I read somewhere when you flush it sends up all the bacteria in the air, so I feel like if the lid is left up all the time...what kind of bacteria is floating around the room. Grossed me out enough that I put the lid down before flushing, and keep all things off the sink now. I used to keep the toothbrushes on the sink...but ewwww...now they're tucked safely in a toothbrush holder behind the mirror.

Down!!!! And we have our kids pretty well trained too! :) Everyone always flushes, always washes hands and both of my kids replace the toilet paper when the roll is gone too. I just realized how good I have it! :)

Down. Both bathrooms in our house have shelving over the toilet. (nowhere else to put it) I hate having to fish stuff that accidentally got knocked over when I reached for something else on the shelf out of the toilet.

I missed this it was asked while I was on vacation :) I had to come back and read it after you answered someone else's post on toilet seats as see my post.

I like the lid down!

Its up, its just more convenient that way. Especially when having little ones who do wait until the last minute to go and if the seat is down can't possibly lift it themselves. Ugh.

But I do agree, down does look tidier. :)

ALWAYS Lid down!! I agree with you - plus I don't want stuff falling in the toilet accidentally! It also seems to help the boys get the seat down because EVERYONE puts the lid down, not just them ~

I like the seat down and the lid up. Then its ready for me when I want it. But I also dont like the lid down and getting there and lifting the lid to find it full of glowing yelllow with "snakes" floating around and then having to stand cross legged waiting for it to finish flushing before I can go. If the lid is up can see it everytime I walk past and can take care of the problem before I make my trip in.

Down. But often it's ME putting it down b/c my 8 yo can NEVER remember to do it! LOL