Toilet seat covers - are they a thing of the past?

A definite no-no from me ! As others have said use a towel.

I dry my bum after a shower then sit on the toilet lid to dry my feet. Where's the problem? I'm in my own shower shared with one other person not in public bathhouse.

I'd use a hand towel as I couldn't cope with a loo seat cover. No wonder they are hard to find

No wonder you can't find them, not very hygienic!
A towel is a far better option I'm sure.

Nope, wouldn’t have one, ditched them years and years ago, the same as a pedestal mat, not for me I’m afraid,

I haven’t seen such things for ages, nor pedestal mats. Not that I’ve actually looked but I dare say they’re still available.

After he developed dementia, my FiL kept angrily insisting that neighbours had stolen his manky old pedestal mat - as if! By that stage his aim was, ahem, very poor.

In reality a sister in law had taken it away and burnt it!

Didn't they go out with the Ark?
Just wrap yourself in a large towel & sit down in that?

I have got nice absorbent bathmats. I shove my feet into crocs and don't dry my feet at all!

My son when a small child [ he is now 35] used to refer to a lady we sometimes visited as xxxx with the fluffy toilet, meaning she had a toilet seat cover, so they were a rarity all those years ago, still available as matching pedestal and bath mats but on their way out
I do sort of miss pedestal mats for times when I'm barefoot and the floor is cold, mainly in the middle of the night, but now there is no one to pee anywhere other than the loo maybe I could reconsider getting one,or just have a bathmat handy to pop down

Bit confused by all the mentions of 'unhygienic ' here. Aren't we all scrupulously clean everywhere having just come out of the shower?

I stand on the washable mat I put on the floor outside the shower and dry my feet by lifting my legs, in turn, to rest on the toilet seat, then wipe it afterwards. Looks like I’m the only one doing this!

I think that toilet seat covers, bathroom carpet and toilet roll modesty covers must have ceased to be at least 40 years ago. Things have changed so much since then regarding hygiene, how could you ever keep a bathroom clean with those things in it ?

I have to do this too - but sit on a hand towel while using a bath sheet to dry everything else - toilet lid cover would be unhygienic.

I do still have pedestal mats in my loos but I live alone, don’t pee on the floor and I wash them regularly. I like to put my bare feet on something other than cold tiles.
My friend who is married to a Japanese gentleman always has a stretchy towelling seat cover on the actual seat rather than the lid. Apparently it’s the thing in Japan. I do think that’s unhygienic.

Toilet seat covers are not very strong. Meant to be, literally, what they claim just a cover for the loo!!! Not to be sat on or stood in. I know to my cost, stood on one to reach up at my old house, and it cracked right across. I was very fortunate not to sustain an injury. As this was when the house was on the market and viewers were coming round I had to sort out replacement very quickly.

Lors of good advice on here as to either having a small seat, or else to go into bedroom and sit on bed.
Horrible things, those old toilet covers - so unhygienic, cannot understand anyone wanting one.

I’d forgotten toilet seat covers ever existed!

I’d use a small towel to sit on. It could then go into the wash.

Can’t you buy towelling slippers to put on. I’m sure some hotels provide them along with dressing gowns. I always go into the bedroom to dry off: bathrooms too cold. I slip on a pair of Crocs. I think pedestal mates go back to when people used to have carpets in bathrooms.

LyWa I wrap myself in a towel or wear a towelling robe and head straight for the bedroom to dry off ,dress and dry my hair.
I don’t need to sit down in order to dry my feet , but would sit on the bed or chair if I did .

Ah yes, plastic rain mates, I remember they were in folds and you opened them out. School days when I had them
Toilet seat covers is a no no from me

I have never had loo seat cover,nor towelling mat around the recepticle. My mother and grandmother brought up to think them very Hyacinth Bucket and very unhygenic.

I just put my knickers on before I sit down to either dry my feet or put my tights on.

I don’t sit down to dry my feet ( though understand why some people need to) but toilet seats aren’t meant to take the weight of being sat on, so be careful.
Buy a small collapsible seat to use, one which you can store folded up.
I haven’t seen toilet covers in years, think they have gone the same way as tea-cosies, toaster covers and plastic rainhats.

Never liked them , never had one.

even after all these years I can remember the words of the little piece of paper pinned to her 'frock' Out of paper, don't despair. Turn me over and I'm a spare. Shudder

You can still buy knitting patterns for those crinoline dolls, GillT57
Apparently vintage is very in vogue
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I ditched mine years ago, with the washable bathroom carpet and pedestal mat. I wonder how many germs lurked within them? ?

Ugh! I have never liked them, they struck me as very unhygienic. I have a bath mat outside the shower cubicle to step on to and a little wooden stool next to it. If you don’t have much room I’d just put a small towel over the toilet lid and sit on that.