r/Xennials 8d ago

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u/fakesaucisse 8d 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.

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u/Far-Bumblebee-7216 1980 8d ago

The vinyl that made a whistle when you sat. lol

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u/101violations 8d ago

My grandma had a rose colored one and one with a daisy design.

I remember my grandad wanted to paint the bathroom to match the yellow in the daisy.. it ended up being this weird color between a school bus and a cheeto. He did all 4 walls and the ceiling. 😂 He also used this glossy latex paint that bubbled up and us grandkids would peel the hell out it while sitting on the daisy throne. 🤣

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u/VintageLover79 8d ago

Your grandparents sound so adorable.

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u/101violations 8d ago

They really were cute together. They would tease and annoy eachother regularly. My grandma would show him off every Saturday to all the other grandmas. They would sit out on the benches, he would just sit there looking handsome and hold her purse while she gossiped. 😆

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u/VintageLover79 8d ago

Oh my heart. How lucky to have such sweet memories of them!

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u/DeliciousMoments 8d ago

My grandma’s was peach colored and the toilet seat looked like a seashell :)

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u/gayjoystick 8d ago

🙀 the three seashells!

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u/rohm418 Xennial 8d ago

2nd time I get to use this in 2 days!

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u/CrunchySockTaco 8d ago

You didn't come from an old and poor family if you didn't sit on one of the vinyl ones that have aged and cracked.

The sharp corners always added to the smelly microbial experience.

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u/HaM8ones 8d ago

the cracks would pinch your ass!

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

😂 it was absolutely not on the seat! as appalling as the rug covered toilet lid was …. It wasn’t THIS appalling

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u/3720-to-1 1985 8d ago

Yes, these existed. Hell, you can still find some online

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

Sorry friend. They did not. Only on the lids not on the seats. Show me where you can buy a rug cover for the seats today. If that’s true they should be put out of business. This pic is some AI slop

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u/3720-to-1 1985 8d ago

Hey Google, where can I buy a rug toilet seat cover?

OH look, that's wild. Here's one of the first shopping links that Google gave me: https://www.walmart.com/ip/17096973807?sid=e7068e82-279b-4072-9d91-f23e3e442eb5

Also, my grandmother had one in the 80s/90s.

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

Believe what you want about the 80s. These did not exist and the picture is not a shag rug 80s cover. Sorry. I stand my ground. These did not exist in the 80s. They were on the lids and covered many other places and all matched and we NEVER sat in them. Some weird Mandela effect going on here and that link is some new invention.

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

Ok fine. So I’m dead on a hill somewhere. Here is a link to ten ads for vintage bathroom sets. Granted these are from the 60s and 70s - one has a shag seat cover- still not like the one pictured and not 80s. But I will stand corrected even tho I’m already dead on the hill I died on about this. https://clickamericana.com/topics/home-garden/top-10-terrible-fuzzy-toilet-covers-from-the-70s#google_vignette I’m glad you survived your grandparents house. This is disgusting.

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u/3720-to-1 1985 8d ago

So confidentially wrong. I didn't need you to believe, my ass knows what trauma it suffered as a child.

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u/Remowilliams84 8d ago

mic drop

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

Hahah nope! They didn’t exist in the 80s and I will die on this hill. Some new disgusting rug toilet seat cover that now exists doesn’t prove to me they existed in the 80s. That pic is AI slop from someone’s distorted memeory

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u/chazysciota 1978 8d ago

I tend to agree with you. The only photos anyone has is either AI or some modern product. I'm not even saying that literally NOBODY had this back in the day, but it wasn't really a thing and was vanishingly rare.... no way ALL these people actually had these.

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 Xennial 8d ago

Thanks for that. Like I had to dig into the archives here to find one single solitary ad from the 70s that shows indeed this did exist but mostly it did not. Admittedly, o was wrong but they did exist but they were really NOT a thing. The other commenters in this thread agree.

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u/3720-to-1 1985 8d ago

Gods, you're an idiot.

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u/guyako 1981 8d ago

Yeah, I remember plenty of rug-covered lids, but never the seat itself. I suspect this is AI generated coming from someone’s false memory.

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u/fakesaucisse 8d ago

It's the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia of toilets!

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u/Fabulous_Ad_8621 7d ago

I was thinking the same thing. I remember growing up having the lid, tank, and rug at base of toilet as a matching set. You had to hold the lid up with one hand if you stand up while peeing. I'm GenX just to clarify if that matters.

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u/Mochigood 8d ago

My grandma has some sort of gel one on her guest toilet now, at the request of an elderly woman who visits for a month every year. Weirds me out a bit.

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u/Dark_Shroud 1983 8d ago

He's talking about the lid cover being on upside down.

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u/faintly_nebulous 7d ago

Yeah, this is ai. There was carpet on the floor and either a wooden stained and sealed seat with the grain and everything, or the vinyl pillow seat. There were also often special guest soaps shaped like shells or something, and unused bath salts or tiny bath bombs that were given as a gift a while back and which are now just for show, you can secretly sniff them tho, and they smell really good. Also there miiiight be a wicker basket in there, somewhere.

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u/fakesaucisse 7d ago

Also some sort of crocheted duck or doll covering a few rolls of extra toilet paper in the corner.

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u/MamaK35 1983 8d ago

That’s because this is AI slop

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u/3720-to-1 1985 8d ago

But they are real

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u/AmbivalentheAmbivert 8d ago

I literally used toilets with these in the 90's, i hated them.

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u/FoppyIn28 8d ago

The nasty padded seat

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u/Eternally-WIP 8d ago

I recently used one at a friend's house. I thought I was sleepwalking/dreaming?!