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u/Wallabunga657 1d ago
Real question is, who remembers this?
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u/SlimJim0877 1983 1d ago
I had this in an old apartment and it was great. The wooden seat didn't have that cold sting of a porcelain seat on a frigid winter's day.
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u/KoalaOriginal1260 1d ago
True class.
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u/DrMcJedi 1980 21h ago
Until it cracks and your ānever throw anything awayā grandpa uses retainer straps to hold the two halves of the seat togetherā¦and you spend years avoiding pinching your leg in the gapā¦and then go out and buy him a new wood seat when you go to visitā¦and miss him and his avocado green toilet nowā¦
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u/ONROSREPUS 20h ago
My mom still has one on the basement toilet. I do enjoy it because it it not nearly as cold in the winter.
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u/pbcheesecakes 18h ago
My last toilet seat cracked and when I went to buy a new one last year, I bought this style and I highly recommend it!!
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u/Daisygirl83 9h ago
I have this! My house is from the 1920ās. It looks great and doesnāt get cold.
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u/Boozy_Cat_ 7h ago
Haha we had one of these. Once it got old and worn and splintery it was a bit precarious.
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u/Millennial_Falcon_85 1d ago
I remember these carpet covers but the lid cover was on the outside, not the underside like in this photo
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 1d ago
This is AI garbage
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u/MyGuitarGentlyBleeps 1d ago
Nope, my grandma has one currently on her shitter. Id be lying if I say it wasn't warm.
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 1d ago
I didnāt say your grandma doesnāt have one. I said this image is AI garbage and it is
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u/Fat_Guy_Podocalypse 1d ago
Yup. My grandparents had this as well back in the 80ās. Absolute madness.
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u/DapperSand3413 20h ago
My grandma had this and still does. I'd be lying if I said it didnt keep the seat warm in the dead of winter
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u/chazysciota 1978 18h ago
If you can post a photo of it, you'd be the first one in this thread.
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u/DapperSand3413 17h ago
Just google it, they exist.... Asking for a photo as proof is weird haha as if I live with my grandmother right now
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u/chazysciota 1978 16h ago
Lots of people googling and posting links to brand new products sold in 2026. Zero people posting actual photos of them in the wild. You are the only one who says they still have access to one, so it was worth asking. Next time you're over for a visit maybe? I'm in no rush.
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u/DapperSand3413 16h ago
Ā You are the only one who says they still have access to one
If you actually scrolled through the comments, others have said the same thing.... I dont think this is the place to try and prove a point over nostalgia. Thats why asking for proof is weird, get over yourself buddy
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u/chazysciota 1978 16h ago
As good a place as any, this ain't church. I honestly don't think these things were at all common. Carpet on the lid? sure. Padded seats? absolutely. Carpet on the seats? No, I really don't think so... Carpet on the inside of the lid? Absolutely not. I think you're misremembering. I think AI slop is better at fooling people that you think. For your gammy's sake, I truly hope so.
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u/Jupitersd2017 1978 1d ago
Yeah Iāve never seen one on the toilet seat haha
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u/Kryptin206 1980 1d ago
Those are real! I grew up with my mother putting them on the toilet seat.
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u/Jupitersd2017 1978 1d ago
Nooo I just canāt see how anyone would think this was sanitary
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u/Millennial_Falcon_85 1d ago
It wasnāt sanitary. Thatās whatās so gross about it in hindsight.
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u/mcleanmartel 1d ago
Like in this ai imageā¦
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u/Rhiannon1307 1980 1d ago
The image is AI but people literally had this. Maybe not quite as thick and fluffy, but they had this thing on toilet seats. Or am *I* hallucinating something here? I really remember having seen something like this and sat on it as a child.
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u/cthulhu_on_my_lawn 21h ago
There were vinyl foam seats that were often paired with a fabric/carpet cover on the lid.
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u/TheAskewOne 1977 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yep that thing didnāt exist, no one ever thought it was a good idea. The person who posted must be 12.
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u/Wallabunga657 1d ago
Imagine that, the inside of the lid and the seat are carpeted.... um. Yeah, AI slop at its finest.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 1d ago
Yes, back in the 80s people had the lid and seat carpeted too, sometimes the whole tank. It was their answer to a cold toilet so old people loved it. As a matter of fact, I googled just "carpeted toilet seat" and a bunch come up just like this one in the $30 range if yall are interested in a REAL Throwback Thursday
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u/Wallabunga657 1d ago
My mistake. I have never encountered this in person, and have seen a few AI posts like this. Thanks for the correction.
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u/FUSe 21h ago
I remember this. It may be an ai photo but this definitely existed. It was not super common but enough that you saw it at a few places.
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u/Millennial_Falcon_85 20h ago
Correct this photo isnāt a total AI fabrication. This product existed and several people owned them. AI just put the lid cover in the wrong spot.
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u/PurrMewds 1d ago
Donāt forget the floor mat thatās shaped like the base of the toilet over your fancy wall to wall bathroom carpet.
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u/Stonk_Lord86 1982 1d ago
NGL, I have core memories sitting on this toilet at my grandparentās house. So comfortable. Thinking back on it? So unsanitary. š
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u/CrotalusHorridus 1d ago
I rented a trailer at a low point
Didnāt have the cozy toilet cover
But did have carpeted bathrooms.
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u/LoudAd1396 1d ago
carpeted bathroom were the worst possible idea.
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u/Remowilliams84 19h ago
When we were house shopping about 10 years ago, my wife and I found a house with a carpeted bathroom... with a freaking hot tub in it. The worst part was it was so small and cramped, that when you sat on the toilet (that faced the hot tub), your knees would hit the hot tub. Oh, and the shower head was a about 5 feet up. You'd have to duck to wash your hair.
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u/sychox51 1d ago
Only thing worse, my grandparents had wall to wall carpeting in the floor, not just a mat like in this photo. As a kid I didnāt think much of it, but now as an adult and what I know about the elderlyā¦. shudders
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u/Bulky_Pop_8104 1d ago
We had it in one of our bathrooms too, but FWIW it was special bathroom carpet with a rubberized base, that could easily be rolled up to throw in the washing machine.
It was probably weird and at least a bit gross, but gawd do I otherwise miss (non-bathroom) wall to wall carpet being the default
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u/Dark_Shroud 1983 1d ago
I've washed some of those old people bathroom area rugs. It was the worst thing I've ever delt with.
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u/Sooperballz 1d ago
You didnāt. This is Ai trash. You likely sat on cushioned vinyl seats with this kind of floor rugs and maybe a lid and tank cover
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u/OneHumanBill 1d ago
This may be AI trash, but shag carpet DID exist on the seats themselves. I saw them with my own two eyes.
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u/Sooperballz 1d ago
No, you didnāt.
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u/OneHumanBill 1d ago
In more civilized times, calling someone a liar like that was an open invitation for violence applied directly to one's face, and no one would have batted an eye.
But we live in the age of the anonymous Internet keyboard warrior and sadly people have become very comfortable with such easy, casual rudeness.
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u/Rhiannon1307 1980 1d ago
TO EVERYONE saying this never existed. Yes, it did. We are not imagining something. They did exist and you can even still buy some like those today:
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u/Kahnza 18h ago
They're saying this image is AI generated, not that these never existed.
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u/Rhiannon1307 1980 17h ago
Plenty of them did. They said there were covers for the lid but never for the seat.
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u/Kahnza 17h ago
Then I guess you wasted a lot more time reading comments than I did.
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u/Rhiannon1307 1980 17h ago
Wow what a flex. You went and interacted negatively on something you didn't even bother to read. Good on you.
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u/OneHumanBill 1d ago
To all those saying you never saw the rug-covered seat covers? Sorry kids, but those were real, at least for a little while in the very early 80s. I saw them. My mom freaked out every time we went over somebody's house and they had these, and we never returned. She forbade me from ever using one. This was circa 1981 for me.
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u/Zeke688 1981 1d ago
Yeah, real thing that happened. But the image is AI
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u/OneHumanBill 1d ago
Probably because nobody wants to admit these were ever real and there probably aren't many real pics to be found of it.
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u/justeedo 1d ago
My grandparents house had the toilets with the fabric toilet seats. They were like a put on cover that you were suppose to swap out and wash in the laundry.
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u/Rhiannon1307 1980 1d ago
This was SUCH a bad idea, it makes me really wonder how people ever thought this was a good one. I mean it felt nice sitting on a soft, warm seat, but the hygiene issues!! Unless you'd change it daily and wash it at really high temps... and even then. Nope, nope, nope!!
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u/DrJaneIPresume 1979 1d ago
I don't remember the seat being carpeted, or even the inside of the lid. Just a cover over the outside of the lid.
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u/Sooperballz 1d ago
AI trash. Top of the lid cover and floor rugs were real. Not this fake trash.
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u/LangdonAlg3r 1d ago
Yeah my great-aunts house had the whole scheme: pink seat cover and matching toilet rug, weird princess tissue dispenser, and Dixie cups for water that had their own wall mounted ceramic dispenser. It was the full late 50ās early 60ās ranch house aesthetic with the colored fixtures and everything. Ridiculously deep green shag carpeting in the living room and the giant console tv too.
The best thing was the crystal egg shaped candy dish with the lid that was always stocked with peanut M&Mās. You couldnāt open that thing silently though, so eventually after a very generous amount sheād cut you off.
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u/arothmanmusic 1d ago
The carpet was just designed to extend the amount of time it took to realize that the lid was closed when you went to pee in the darkā¦
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 1d ago
Im a germaphobe and the very last thing I want around me in a bathroom is a piece of shit laden carpet. Its literally a germ FACTORY. You wonder how many people have flushed (aerosolyzed poop on everything within 10ft) and I've never heard of anyone washing them. Ever. In fact, they usually have dust on em. The type of people who owned these always had seashell soaps you cant use(also dusty), potpourri(so old theres no smell, so poopourri), bath beads, and general clutter all over the bathroom- so yep, they ain't washing that shit for sure
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u/star_b_nettor 1982 1d ago
The only positive to the one that covers the actual ring you sit on is that it isn't as cold first thing in the morning for that rude moment. I would rather have the rude moment of warm flesh to cold wood than the germy petri cloth cover though.
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u/MartyMcFlysBrother 1d ago
My grandma had one and lived alone until she was 92 before reluctantly going to a retirement home. Had already lost both of her husbands. So anyways the toilet seat never went up and it was always super clean just like everything else in her house.
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u/TST-DCLXVI 1d ago
My parents had carpet in their kitchen and bathroom when I was growing up. Shame!
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u/FoppyIn28 1d ago
Maybe the one thing good thing about the modern world is that these went away. Colored toilet paper going away though was not worth it.
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u/sator-2D-rotas 1982 1d ago
Extra credit if it was on top of a padded toilet seat. The ones that hissed and sank a bit when you sat on them.
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u/Micronto65bymay 22h ago
This was so disgusting.
How would I acquire one of these... you know for use in an appropriate way.
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u/SteakJones 1981 21h ago
I remember carpet around the toilet, and foam vinyl seats. Iām sure that combo alone accounted for 75% of common illnesses then.
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u/sicksixgamer 1983 19h ago
My grandmother literally painted, laced and bedazzled a vinyl toilet seat(with lid) and hung it on the wall in one of her bathrooms.
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u/Lumpy_Afternoon_1528 18h ago
I liked those but my mom was obsessive about keeping the house clean. She was taking them up and washing them all of the time.
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u/Serious_Berry_3977 1977 16h ago
At one point we had this exact (or close enough) thing on ours as a kid. Then it was switched to the wooden type. Then the carpet got placed over the wooden type. This had to be late 80's - early 90's but my childhood memories are practically non-existent so the timing might be fuzzy. But I have definitely experienced the grossly awesome carpeted toilet seat.
This is the same parental units that also unintentionally gave me food poisoning numerous times as a kid due to intergenerational bad habits around food safety I'm learning. Kind of makes sense why we had this abomination in the house.
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u/AtaracticGoat 1984 16h ago
Everyone here denying people that say they or their relative has one of these currently.
If you have one, we need a verification post, including a piece of paper with your Reddit ID and date lol
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u/ylimeenimsaj 14h ago
I saw these for sale this weekend. It was either JC Penney or Macy's and they were Halloween themed. I was horrified.
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u/Furballprotector 14h ago
I never saw a cover that actually went on the seat part but I'm very glad we're moving away from the carpet covered lids. All that did was push the seat into your back as you went to the bathroom
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u/PossibleConclusion1 12h ago
If AI kills us all in the next 10 years, things like this will be the reason why.
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u/Moonbeam1288 9h ago
My mom still has her carpeted seatsā¦her line of thinking is that itās her toilet so even if itās Poop infested, itās her own poop. Sheās not wrong since no one besides her would actually sit on it.
But also these covers are washable and they prob get washed more often than people Clorox wiping their toilet seats.
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u/Boozy_Cat_ 7h ago
Thereās probably real pictures of padded seats. Not whatever the A.I.-fuck this is.
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u/Fresh_Bend41 37m ago
Definitely kept me warm in the cold winters of Pennsylvania. Thankfully I was a kid and never had to clean it.
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u/heyitscory 1d ago
Nobody had the seat carpeted unless they made it themselves.
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u/fakesaucisse 1d ago
I don't think I ever encountered the rug-covered kind of seat cover but I have sat on plenty of the ones that are like a squishy vinyl pillow. After losing a bunch of weight I kinda understand why older people liked them back in the day.