Really weird stuff people do that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Really? Has no one ever got sick after being on holiday? I think it’s reasonably common actually.

@Newsenmum Not from a tv remote control! 😂

Germs don't survive that long outside the body and they are only really likely to make you sick if you're touching something, say 10 minutes after someone else.

Way more likely to catch something at the airport or on the plane. We got Covid through being in a checkin queue and the bloke behind coughing over us.

Really? Has no one ever got sick after being on holiday? I think it’s reasonably common actually.

We all know nobody’s getting sick from touching a remote control or walking on hotel carpet (except in some weird one-in a-million freak situation). It’s all just personal preference.

Everyone should just do what they’re comfortable with. What I object to is the remote-in-a-plastic-bag people thinking they’re being sensible or better by doing this.

As I mentioned, I had a real, misery-making germ phobia earlier in life. I can tell you, if I thought that carpet was dirty, there would be no walking on it at all, with or without shoes/socks. Because the dirty shoes are going to go back into your home or car, so you’ve got to wash those somehow. I couldn’t see any other way to be.

That was obviously bonkers and unworkable. I had to re-draw my comfort boundaries because it was getting out of hand.

What I am saying is, if you can cope with cleaning a whole hotel room before you set foot in it, go for it. But don’t pretend it’s just good sense - it’s just your personal comfort level. It has no link to real levels of risk.

DM puts her used teabags in the kitchen sink. This drives me absolutely insane, especially when she does it at my house and I'm constantly having to fish soggy teabags out of the sink. WHY can't she put them straight into the bin like everyone else?!

I don't know about pee, but my friend is an air hostess and she told me she works with several girls who use the hotel kettle to wash/boil clean their knickers when they do overnights. 😐

Many years ago after we had moved I found out my ex husband had done a number two and hidden it in the attic of our old house. I thought it was absolutely vile but he found it hilarious.

@MidnightMeltdown

I used to use paper towel to dry the cats dishes

I have a human tea towel and a cat tea towel that is specifically used for drying cat dishes. Not sure if that's weird or not, but I don't like the idea of drying my hands or dishes on the cat dish tea towel and it freaks me out if I catch guests using it!

We never use tea towels. Dishes are left to air dry if they are not done in the dishwasher and we use kitchen towel to dry our hands while cooking.

I used to know someone who didn't have one of those cutlery organisers in their cutlery drawer - everything was just thrown in.

I thought that was weird just because they're cheap to buy and much easier to find what you want quickly instead of rooting around in a drawer trying to find a teaspoon.

I’m not gonna lie.. I have a hand towel and a tea towel in my kitchen! I’m not broadly germ phobic (I’ve never cleaned a hotel room ) but I guess it’s something I was raised with and find drying hands on a tea towel kinda odd..

Why is that, @PrimitivePerson? I’m genuinely curious 😊

This whole thread makes me think that half of Mumsnet need a statistics course or some risk management training. Just because something could happen doesn’t mean to say it will happen - does no one do probability at school any more??

Yes there are germs in hotel rooms (like everywhere else) but the probability of catching anything is very low.

My MIL is like this too, lives in a flat and instead of a bin has a bag on her counter top, I don't understand this

My toothbrush is very NEAR my loo and I couldn't care less. I am rarely ever sick, and when I am it is because of something I have caught from a person, not a toothbrush. Mooncups weren't around in my day, if they were I probably would have washed it in the flush. If you really do think about this quite a lot you have a problem.

Honestly, MN is a whole other world.

Sounds more sane than most of the other stuff on this thread.

Do you do it on the steps of your mansion? 😆

People don't piss in hotel kettles, they boil their knickers in them to clean them HTH

There was a post on here a while back about people washing their moon cups in the flush of the toilet. Personally thought that was disgusting to the point I think about it quiet alot. There were so many people agreeing that they do it too. So we can't have a toothbrush NEAR a toilet but we can wash a mooncup inside a toilet and put it back inside us.

I don't use kitchen towels to dry my hands when cooking. I usually just wipe them on my clothes. Take that all you germ scaredy cats

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44401330.amp

Thanks for that 😐

Anyone who has ever done, or lived with someone who has done, a food hygiene course will know that you aren't supposed to dry your hands on a tea towel that's used for clean dishes. That's pretty grim in my opinion.