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Is my pet hate. Handbags get put on the floor all the time - on trains, buses, shops, pubs, in the loo. Then people put them on their kitchen work top, or on the kitchen or dining room table when they come in. Do other people avoid doing that? Or just me?

I never put my handbag on the floor!

I never put my handbag on the floor - yuck! Especially not in loos!

Yes but it's Ok because I've installed a walk-through sterilization unit around our front door.

No my handbag never gets put on the floor, so the worktop doesnt bother me

Why would you put your bag on the floor?
especially the toilet foor? never ever!

i know ofa woman who would BLEACH her worksurface after unpacking her supermarket shopping

and she smoked

arf

Do you know what I do sometimes? Sometimes, if I sit on the floor, I end up touching it by mistake with my hands, and then....I touch surfaces and my mouth etc. with my hands! I'm surprised I'm not dead by now!

My handbag is on the kitchen worktop as I type .

Maybe I just have a cast-iron constitution or something.

OMG - I would never put my handbag on the floor in any of those places - the only time it's on the floor is in my house or under my desk at work.

I never put my bag on the floor either and I often wipe it with an anti-bac wipe so no, it doesn't bother me or make me cringe.

Can't afford one of Doodle's units so I cheerfully embrace filth instead

Srsly this seems like a weird thing to worry about. Bacteria/germs/dirt is absolutely everywhere, including on your kitchen worktops.

Really? Never on the floor? I don't in loos - always on the peg. But I do put it on the floor under my desk etc, and in the oub (where else does it go? surely not holding on to it all evening?), so I don't want it on my lap on the train, so on the floor it goes (second pet hate is bags on seats on rush-hour trains).

Doodlez, I like the sound of your sterilization feature.

what do you do with it in loos then?!! lol have it on your knee?

I am really very rarely ill (this is probably a bad thing to say of course as I will now be struck down by 1001 lurgies)

ah yes, the peg, if there is one....

I put bags on kitchen worktops - but then I don't put food straight on them, it's always on a plate or chopping board.

I put my handbag down wherever it is - I don't think about it at all.

In pubs or bars I tend to hang them on bag hooks if they have them or they go on the seat next to me/hang on chair. On train it goes on my lap, train floors are vile!

I can honestly say that this has never bothered me in the slightest.

i'd never put my bag either on a floor or a table. chair is best.

My main motivation is not crapping up my bag as opposed to germ avoidance though (apart from on trains, yuk).

bigchris have you never done the handbag around your neck and hovering over the loo whilst hoping desperately that you don't go into sprinker thing?

well I wipe my hangbag all over my bumhole
then I lick it
then I serve dinner on it

so there

ggirl

This thread might start to make more sense if we declare handbag interests

Me: £22 faux leather from Next