Daily Home Renovation Tips

We here at DailyHomeRenoTips.com like new products. Innovation is what progresses a society. We also like simple. So too do we like practical, easy to install and inexpensive home products.

Last year we were the first (or at least among the first) to bring to your attention and write extensively about EZ Snap exterior solar shades to help keep the interior of a home, cottage or even an RV cool and reduce air conditioning expenses in the summer.

As well, last year we were the first to your attention and wrote extensively about the new solar charged electric self-propelled lawn mower (which retails under the Solaris, Epic and Utopia brands).

Today we bring to your attention what I think is another new consumer and household product. This product is so simple in concept, so useful to reduce the spread of germs, viruses and bacteria that I am very surprised it is not already in bathrooms within every household, day care, assisted living, and public facilities.

Germaphobes, I am confident you will love this; parents with small children being toilet trained … ditto for wives and girlfriends whose husbands and boyfriends refuse to put the toilet see down once they are, well, done.

The product is called TidyTab. Here is what is looks like when we received it in the mail from ordering it through it’s web site:

OK, but what is it?

TidyTab is simply molded plastic with an adhesive on one side which fits onto the under-side of a toilet seat.

As the web site explains, all you do to install TidyTab is:

(A) clean the area of the under-side of toilet seat onto which you plan to affix the product

(B) remove the cover off of the ‘peal-and-stick’ adhesive area, and

(C) affix the product to the under side of the toilet seat cover.

No muss; no fuss. While you can place TidyTab at any position along the edge of the toilet seat, you will likely want a position similar to the one we chose so it is out of the way when not being used.

Ladies, you know how many of you are constantly ragging on your male household members to lift the toilet seat before they, well, do #1.  and then put the toilet seat back down when they are done?

Well, if you (yes you….this is so easy you don’t need ‘them’ to) install TidyTab on all the toilet seats in the bathrooms within your home, your male household members can no longer complain that they don’t want to get their danty fingers and hands dirty by touching the underside of the toilet seat. This is because they can lift and place back down the toilet seat by using TidyTab and not have to actually touch the toilet seat itself.

I see this product being very beneficial for parents with young sons who are being toilet trained. You can train them to use the TidyTab affixed to the toilet seat rather than touching the toilet seat itself. Train them when they are young and you will train them for life.

And, the risk of them getting bacteria and germs on their fingers and hands from touching the underside of the toilet seat followed by forgetting to wash their hands before they leave the backroom is, in my opinion, significantly reduced because they are touching TidyTab and not the underside of the toilet seat itself.

I also see potential for this product in group homes, assisted living facilities, hospitals, public washrooms … basically anywhere there is a toilet.

The cost? We paid all of $12.75 plus taxes and shipping from the TidyTab web site’s order page for three of these small little home maintenance products. TidyTab ships to anywhere in Canada and the U.S. from what I can tell. If you ask nicely, perhaps they will also ship it to locations outside of Canada and the United States.

TidyTab. Check out their funky web site (link in the top part of this article) for more information. Or, for such a low cost why not try it for yourself to reduce the spread of germs and bacteria around the toilet to your household’s members and guests? Here’s the link to the same TidyTab web store which we used to order this product.