Do you use blue tablets for your toilet tank?

I just use the white ones. I continue using them, even though a plumber once came to fix my toilet and said they erode the tank components, and to quit using them.

Most plumbers will tell you not to use toilet tank drop ins (blue or not) as they can degrade the seals in your toilet.

I don't use them, because they are toxic, I don't just say "oh well" to the environment, and if I forget to put the lid down on the toilet, I don't want the dog or cat to drink from it.

I just actually clean my toilet.

I received the same guidance from my plumber. It's not true for all toilets, but for ones that have rubber components, the chemicals erode the rubber and will cause your toilet to malfunction.

You shouldn't use them.

It is important to be able to 'inspect' your piss or shit for any changes and those colours can and do distort what you see.

My mom and sister used them. My roommate thinks it a great idea to put isopropyl alcohol into the toilet after you clean it. We have little isopropyl alcohol bottles all over. She insists we rub down our keys and phones before we enter the house. She wipes the egg carton with it. Once we clean something, she sprays the alcohol and wipes it...one last shot to save us from certain death by plague. 🤦‍♀️

I use Duck brand blue + fragrance. I had no idea they were bad for the environment or my toilet. I use them in hopes that they will cut down on the mold/scum that grows inside the toilet tanks.

I use the same R6! Don’t worry, our toilets are happy toilets.

If you have rubber seals in your toilet tank, the bleach in the cleanser tabs will cause them to harden and curl.

Then the seals won’t seal, and your toilet will run no matter how many times jiggle the handle.

Running toilet = spike in your water bill.

I color my toilet water yellow, then I flush.

They seem so Hyacinth Bucket Striver Class, tinted water to show you —in color— that it's clean.

The toilets are cleaned every day or two, first wiping down the exterior/dry parts with disinfectant; then applying bleach gel under the rim, let it sit, and later brush and flush. The tanks are the high, wall-mounted sort; I'm not getting a ladder every month or however often to put something in the upper tanks that will erode the rubber gaskets opening to the toilet.

Carry on with your blue scented signaling and I'll carry on with my method.

In the early 90s they also made pink, purple, and green tablets. What happened to them. Why is blue the default color?

End blue supremacy!

R9 = bitch who has never heard: "If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow let it mellow".

Pink water would be fancy or tacky? I’m not really sure.

No. I have a toilet with the flush buttons on top of the tank lid and it's too much trouble to take it apart and add tablets. When I used them in the past they left a stain in the tank.

R12 You don’t flush after pee? Wow, disgusting.

R15 - you aren't supposed to if there is a draught. Some greenies in LA don't flush all day, but I flush after 2 or if I know I will be peeing elsewhere all day. Also before I go to bed and I wash and air the bathroom. I mean, it's what I did in LA. Now, I am in a place with lots of rain and also I live with a roommate so in the off chance she needs to use my bathroom, I flush every time.

We're taking them for COVID. Some guy on the radio told me it would work.

"I don't care if it hurts the environment, it's pretty!" is the most DL thing I've read in a while.

[quote] [R9] = bitch who has never heard: "If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow let it mellow".

I didn't say when I flushed you ignorant troll.

I thought this was something that only grandmas do.

No. My toilets get cleaned regularly with toilet bowl cleaner and a toilet brush. The only households I've ever encountered with blue-tinted toilet water have been trashy relatives or the very, very old.

I use Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Bowl Cleaning Gel

Am I also killing Gaia?

“ They say it’s not good for the environment but, oh well.”

I’ll take Things Sociopaths Say for $200, Mayim!

The Clorox toilet wands with the disposable little scrubbing sponges are fantastic. I use those about twice a week.

OP is a relic from the 1950s.

The blue tabs are environmentally toxic. They are also toxic to human bodies.

And as others have stated, are associated with a time long in the past when society did not have more efficient, healthy and appropriate ways to clean the toilet (not to mention degrading toilet seals....if it breaks down the toilet, what is it doing to your body and the environment?)

“Oh well”, if the last four years have shown us anything, stupidity is clearly present in some individuals.

Plumbers also say not to use drano because it erodes pipes. Why are all of these products sold if they're ruining the very thing you're trying to fix?

I use the bleach tablets, my seals are silicone so nothing hurts it, besides I have a quality toilet, no one of those toilet in a box that you peasants have.

We are directly descended from Charles II (wrong side of the bed, obvs), so we don't actually use toilets for anything requiring a blue tablet.

[quote] I use the bleach tablets, my seals are silicone so nothing hurts it, besides I have a quality toilet, no one of those toilet in a box that you peasants have.

Funny that these blue tabs are predominate among the elderly or very trashy. Yet OP and those that defend them, consider them klassy.

They are toxic.

The first clue is often the use of the word classy.

Just put food coloring in there if you have to have color OP. We have enough land, so I just urinate outside. It's the best thing ever.

I use a toilet squeegee, and keep in in a utensil crock next to the toilet that I bought for that purpose. It works great, doesn't get nasty like nylon brushes, doesn't splash all over - unless you are trying to, and doesn't hold water, so it dries quickly. I give the toilet a quick clean daily, and use Mrs Meyers or Method toilet bowl cleaner weekly.

No need for toxic blue discs.

I use the ones you put under the toilet's rim.

^^^^^All that for non toxicity and then you go and eat a tricks shitty asshole.

If you are referring to me, R34, no, I don't. I don't hook up, and I don't eat ass.

There should be nothing about the toilet that brings to the user’s mind any thoughts about cleanliness or the lack thereof.* Blue toilet water is like keeping a vacuum prominently displayed in the living room.

*A bidet or bidet attachment is the only exception to this, because its usefulness outweighs the awkwardness of providing a guest with a water gun to shoot at their heinie.

What gave me away?

[quote]I do, and I think it’s classy.

This is fucking HILARIOUS.

I'm picturing OP's bathroom in its full glory: blue shag toilet tank cover, matching U-shaped rug around the toilet, blue toilet "tissue". And and blue floral print guest towels that guests DAREN'T use!

"I think it's classy."

How weird. I only JUST bought some clorox toilet tablets. I'll stop using them after reading this thread

No! Trashy and environmentally harmful.

The only blue tablets I use are for my ED.

R39 do not forget the cushioned toilet seat that makes a funny noise when you sit on it!

R39, you forgot this and it's blue!

A lady never lets you see the surplus of TT

I dropped Viagra down my toilet and now every time I flush I get an enema!

R44 last year around this time people would be showing off their toilet paper stash like it was jewelry!

[quote]"If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow let it mellow".

If it's in the toilet, flush the fuckin' thing because it will make the bathroom smell like piss.

R29 Sorry but I really really don’t believe that you have been in an elegant establishment in your life. That said, I’m not even 30. Maybe the trend is coming back. I’m going to recommend it to all my friends and acquaintances. I wanna make it fashionable again.

R39 That’s funny

Toilets brush are trashy. Blue water is much better.

Blue water doesn't mean you never have to actually clean your toilet. Those tank drop ins are meant to increase the amount of time between cleanings, not replace the cleanings.

Blue water can't hide streaks above the water line.

Loving how especially bitchy and snippy the replies are (even by DL standards)!

Keep at it, girls!

Nope - Tried but I didn't stick with them; I still had to scrub

R51 The cleaning lady cleans it 3 times per week. I just want it extra clean everyday. It would be Joan Crawford-approved. So enough said.

They're toxic OP. I just clean my toilet every other day I'm single, if I had a partner it would be daily. The Lysol gel with bleach is my favourite.

I bet the blue water matches the crocheted covered extra toilet paper roll sitting on top of your tank, you tacky idiot.

R57 and the rest, my bathroom is really fancy, all black and white, with the blue water :)

Hitler just loved his blue toilet tank tablets.

60 replies and counting…add a sidebar about Tab Hunter or maybe Janis Paige and it will be up to 100 in no time.

Wait, Op is just taking this piss, so to speak, yeah?

R61). Well now I feel the fool. Good one OP.

I am with you OP I love my blue toilet water! Tidy bowel, Toilet Duck, Bully. And for that nostalgic urinal cake smell, I use...

I heard they cure Covid!

Lysol Click Gels are a better option. They smell better and when they fade out you know it's time to clean the toilet.

[quote]you aren't supposed to (flush) if there is a draught.

I flush regardless of air currents.

Buck would never drop old-lady tablets in the toilet.

If you know it is bad for the environment, why the fuck would you use it? Do you also throw your litter out the window when you are driving?

R7 There's no such thing as a happy toilet. They eat shit all day.

I've tried the white tablets. I don't think they actually do much at all.

Fuck it, said the bucket,

While sitting in the loo.

I don't have a pot to piss in,

And my whole world smells of poo

Blue toilet water is very non-u.

I'm not convinced these drop-in or hang-on toilet cleaners actually do any cleaning, but then I have very hard well water. I have to replace the flappers every year. I had to get a plumber to replace the fill tube on one of my toilets and it cost $259 for a $12 part and 15 minutes of installation time. I will do it myself the next time if it kills me.

The shitter was so blue that day.

This was a good thread.

A kid visiting our home asked why the toilet water was blue and I told him that the Smurfs who visit sometimes forget to flush.

He told his mom and she rolled her eyes at me.

They're the opposite of classy OP

My parents got them during lockdown because they couldn't find actual toilet bowl cleaner (and because I suspect my mom did not want to actually have to clean a toilet) and we would laugh about the white trash toilets with blue water

R77 You live with your parents and still dare to judge me?

R77 and I guess your cleaning lady couldn’t go because of the lockdown and that’s why your mother HAD TO clean the toilet, but she refused. We’ll I assume this is not the first time you hear it but your mom is a slog bitch and the cleaning lady wants to murder her. And you.

OP: Blue toilet water tablets. That is the hill I want to die on.

Do they come in Burnt Sienna color?

I use those sticky gel things you chunk onto the inside of your bowl. They keep it clean longer in between actual cleanings with Lysol toilet bowl cleaner. Don't use Clorox toilet bowl cleaner because that cheap slop won't cling to the sides of the bowl.

We used to use the clear bleach pucks that dissolved in the tank until we realized they were eating away at the inside bits of the terlet.

If the blue stuff (or any toilet cleander) splashes onto your butt-hole when you drop a deuce in the toilet, it can cause irritation and maybe infection.

I don't believe any of these chemicals work.

You need to get down there on your knees with rubber gloves and scrubbing brushes.

[quote]if the blue stuff (or any toilet cleander[sic]) splashes onto your butt-hole

..it'll look like a smurf splooged on you, whore.

I use them and I know they are trashy and toxic but oh well. I piss like 20 times a day and I need the toilet to stay fresh all the time.