the venerable housecleaning expert Fly Lady is right about many things but one of the best tips she has is putting old dish soap or body wash or shampoo or whatever in the cup of your toilet brush holder and just gently brushing out the toilet once a day-ish even if it's not actively dirty. you don't even realize your bathroom is getting that sort of dank, cavey smell even separately from the more typical fecal stink of a "dirty" bathroom until you start remembering to do this regularly. i mean it's a pool of enclosed standing water in a small room, it just makes sense. plus if you're fucked up and the toilet is actually currently dirty you can scrape off another layer every day instead of feeling like you have to do it all at once.












