I assume touching is a whole mouth touch. The cat litter on the far side of the bathroom is the biggest challenge for me. The toilet brush and plunger I can reach from the toilet and he eats the toilet paper or shoves it between my legs or both. Thankfully he’s only figured out the dangerous chemicals in the downstairs powder room and not in the upstairs giant bathroom where I’d have to leave the toilet to save his life.
I should definitely be posting only in the parenting section.
I do give sacrificial TP squares to buy time. This is precisely what happens to me as well so far I’ve evaded her “helpful” attempts to try and help me wipe toddlers, man.
Hmm I think it really depends on where you are in your ‘travel hacking journey,’ but I personally like the capital one venture because of how you can just cancel out travel related purchases with points.
@Bracken_Joy Do you think it would be possible to have a little basket or caddy in the guest bedroom with bathroom-related stuff? Like everything in there: plunger, towels, extra soap, shampoo, TP even though they wouldn’t necessarily need or use any of it. It would probably require you to follow up and make sure stuff isn’t left in the bathroom tho so maybe wouldn’t help the overall embarrassment factor for guests… Hm.
If your MIL was already offended by the plunger on the sink, is there any harm in just leaving it there? I’d probably just figure the offense ship has sailed and keep it as is.
I mean, that was my initial tendency. I lean toward “fuck your sensibilities I’m being practical” lol but then I started getting up in my own head wondering if I’m triggering disgust in everyone who visits and being judged by the world and that was a sad spiral of misery, so I decided to try and ask the thread meant for it which was the greater sin
I would weigh how many different people use the bathroom and how likely it is to get clogged. While I’d be a little squicked out to see a plunger on the sink, I’d much rather see one in an odd space than not have one available when I needed it.
I had to tell my therapist that I clogged her toilet once because there was no plunger for me to take care of it myself. That was fun.
I wouldn’t like to see the plunger on the sink as a guest because I don’t think they’re clean. Is it possible to only put them plunger in the bathroom when you have guests? I don’t know how often they’re there… But maybe when you have guests the extra adults will keep her out of the bathroom plunger licking zone.
Can you keep it on the counter with a note saying “please do not put on floor, toddler thinks its a lollipop” or something?
I might raise an eyebrow to it if I visited a bathroom and saw a plunger on the counter, but would totally get it as a kid proofing method. And then be very grateful I just have a Luigi and not a clever child.
To mean that I put the plunger out when they’re here. So there’s not any difference to a guest whether it’s there all the time or just when they’re there, to my mind?
Ooooooh I see. No, unfortunately the grandparents are the main perpetrators of leaving doors open and poorly supervising the child, so if I’m trying to prepare food while they’re “watching” her, it is most certainly lollipop hour.
so far I’ve evaded her “helpful” attempts to try and help me wipe 
toddlers, man.
but then I started getting up in my own head wondering if I’m triggering disgust in everyone who visits and being judged by the world and that was a sad spiral of misery, so I decided to try and ask the thread meant for it which was the greater sin 