[tmm]

The number of people on this thread who leave cabinets open (and apparently come families of cabinet-door-openers) is astounding to me. Do you all leave toilet seats up too? What about the refrigerator? Car doors? Dresser drawers? Do you not push your chair in when you get up from the table? Do you at least return shopping carts?

I am not an organized person, I see a horizontal surface and I put stuff on it. But leaving doors open? I don’t think I even take my hand off the cabinet door when I open it. One hand for the door, one for the thing I’m getting.

The only door I leave open is the washing machine, so it can dry out. It gets closed the next time I’m in the laundry room though.

[mehphp]

One of those is not like the others. I see no issue leaving a toilet seat up.

It's just as easy for the next person to put it down as it was for me to put it up.

[tmm]

It’s not for the next person. It’s to keep the stuff in the toilet, in the toilet, rather than as an aerosolized spray that gets spread about.[1][2]

I guess it doesn’t really matter if your toilet is in its own room, but at least most houses in the US have the toilet next to the sink (where your toothbrush is).

Put the seat down before you flush, because it’s more sanitary.

[1] https://microbiologysociety.org/news/society-news/does-putti...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4692156/

[mkl]

You're talking about the lid, not the seat. Also, some of that aerosolised spray stays airborne under the lid and is released when you open it [1].

[1] I think Mary Roach talked about this in this interview by Adam Savage, but don't remember exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZ9RrxQ5NM

[frosted-flakes]

Toilet seats don't belong in that list l.

[DontchaKnowit]

I have literally slept overnight with my front door open multiple times this winter.

I am probably in like the 99th percentile of aloof people

[teepo]

I cringe when watching actors on television make an entrance but don't close the door.

[isleyaardvark]

And do these people not dust?

[DontchaKnowit]

I definitely do not. If things get grubby I'll eventually scrub every surface with a sponge.

But also, what does dusting have to do with leaving doors open?