Toilet Trees

March 29, 2005 8:28 PM

Where do you hide your nasty-ass toilet plunger so the house guests won't see it? Under an attention-getting, gawdy as hell fake plant - duh.
posted by shoppingforsanity (20 comments total)

I usually just attach the suction cup to my forehead, myself.
posted by jonmc at 8:31 PM on March 29, 2005

NSFE (not safe for ears). I really hate audio on web pages, especially when they just read shit to you.
posted by e40 at 8:34 PM on March 29, 2005

Thanks for sharing SFS.
posted by woil at 8:36 PM on March 29, 2005

I came over to my parents' one day to find my mother's greyhound was racing around the back yard with it.
posted by brujita at 8:43 PM on March 29, 2005

“This is the perfect gift for someone who has everything!"

yeah....like a double-wide.
posted by j.p. Hung at 8:44 PM on March 29, 2005

There's nothing quite like a webpage with a midwestern accent.
posted by bigtimes at 8:53 PM on March 29, 2005

the most lousiest web page that talks to you is Melanie Griffith's homepage. Only tangentially poo-related.
posted by damehex at 9:04 PM on March 29, 2005

What sort of anal retentive needs to hide the plunger?
posted by HTuttle at 9:25 PM on March 29, 2005

If you hide it, how is someone supposed to use it when the bowl starts overflowing?
Maybe you should hide the toilet as well.
posted by 2sheets at 10:11 PM on March 29, 2005

Oh, WOW, I'm like, saving the planet with my choice of toilet plunger camoflage.
I feel so Globaly Aware!
posted by Balisong at 11:51 PM on March 29, 2005

I keep my toilet plunger in the toolshed, along with the drain rods, the blow torch and the other plumbing tools.

Why would anyone need to hide it? That's where tools belong, surely?

Perhaps they are confusing plungers with toilet brushes -- much beloved by people in The Netherlands
posted by PeterMcDermott at 2:16 AM on March 30, 2005

For the love of god, don't remind me about those Dutch toilets. I left the Netherlands 5 years ago and I am still traumatized. Before living there I had no idea just how much the water in a normal toilet bowl protects you from the lethal stench of your own shit. Ghastly doesn't begin to describe it.
posted by randomstriker at 3:21 AM on March 30, 2005

This kind of reminds me of those croheted toilet paper cozies. Jerry Seinfeld did a routine on those in which he commented that it looked like even the toilet paper was embarrassed to be toilet paper.

Jeez, people. Why not just keep the offending stuff in the bathroom cabinets or in the linen closet?
posted by orange swan at 5:45 AM on March 30, 2005

I like to imagine the people behind this saying "toiletries... toiletries... hey, that sounds like two words- Toilet, Trees! OK... what would that be? Hmmmmm..." and the rest is history!
posted by soyjoy at 7:06 AM on March 30, 2005

These are much, much better toilet trees!
posted by Specklet at 11:18 AM on March 30, 2005

Perhaps, if you find you need to keep a plunger like this next to your toilet constantly, you should consider changing your diet?
posted by iain at 11:38 AM on March 30, 2005

augh, that page-voice was horrible. "It's real easy to order see where it says "order"? Click on that."
posted by dabitch at 12:16 PM on March 30, 2005

I have never considered hiding the plunger. They don't get nasty if you clean them after you have had to use them, and I would hate to have to deal with one of these "trees" or any other frou-frou camouflage should I ... you know ... suddenly find myself needing to use the plunger NOW.

And yeah, the talking was more than a little annoying ...
posted by Orb at 12:44 PM on March 30, 2005

My mother has a Toilet Brush Dalmatian but leaves the toilet plunger out in the open.

There's nothing quite like a webpage with a midwestern accent.

Speaking as a midwesterner, that's not a midwestern accent. It sounds more like a western accent -- Arizona, from the looks of the whois record.
posted by afiler at 2:13 PM on March 30, 2005

Why would someone want to hide their plunger?

If someone comes over to my place and clogs the toilet, I want them to see the plunger and be able to use it without leaving a surprise for me.

How many times have you gone to a party and could barely pee because the toilet had overflowed and a plunger was nowhere to be found? Do you really want some jackass to pee in your tub if they can't use the toilet?
posted by echolex at 6:56 AM on March 31, 2005