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

I’m not getting the outside clothes on bed either. I’ve just been out wearing jeans. Then sat on my sofa first, then on my bed? Is that not allowed?

I was in Morrisons yesterday and popped to the loo.

There was a lady there with a boy of about 7, she stood behind him but with the cubicle door open as he went to the toilet, which seemed odd to start with.

When he was finished they both walked straight out without any attempt at hand washing.

It's like people learned nothing about hand hygiene during covid.

Where are you going outside where you think you’re picking up bedbugs on your clothes? 🤷‍♀️ what about your car seats, can you sit on them?

For everyone obsessing about germs - a sentence that has entered family legend is 'DD1, please stop licking that chicken!'

My kids had pets hens and DD1 had a particular favourite. She used to lick its head. She is still with us, as are all the others, despite having been brought up, quite frankly, in utter squalor.

Didn't there used to be a PSI advert telling you to switch everything off?

A couple danced around and sang about their midnight routine as they switched everything off.

I may have imagined it 😁

As a person who frequently washes their hands (truth to be told, probably too often) I am of the opinion that many people don't wash their hands often enough. It never ceases to disgust amaze me the number of people who don't wash their hands after using the toilet (even after a number 2) or who come in from a shopping trip/day out etc and start handling food before washing their hands. I think that these are the same people that find it necessary to put the hotel room's TV remote control in a bag or to disinfect it before using it, because they have no intention of washing their hands any time soon. They are probably the same people who lay on their bed with their shoes on.

I’m not getting the outside clothes on bed either. I’ve just been out wearing jeans. Then sat on my sofa first, then on my bed? Is that not allowed?

Me too. I have read that it's safer to do this, especially overnight.

Good God no! That would be the ideal way to spread bed bugs. Just no! Don't sit on your bed with outside clothes. This is basic stuff.

Mumsnet is full of people who think even touching a germ will lead to a terrible illness. And don't even think about sitting on your bed in your clothes!

Woah, I didn’t realise people were so germ phobic. Have not once in my life got into a hotel and cleaned anything, never even thought about the remote or the kettle. I’m completely healthy and can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been ill. Surely germs are very important and exposure to them strengthens your immune system.

Ah yes, I ask myself this about myself every.bastard.month.

We have a ridiculous ‘system’ whereby DW in role as carer gets my pills out for me and hands them to me… but I’m the one that phones to order them.

Can we effectively communicate between ourselves when they are running out? No.

After 26 years of over communication in the best lesbian tradition, we cannot get it together over something so fucking simple.

This. We stayed in a hotel I'm Malorcs last year that was just refurbished so everything was brand new. The cleaner sterilised the kettle and cups everyday, but, they drank of the bleachy stuff she used, so although germ free, we had to rinse and boli a couple of kettles to get a brew we could drink.

Why do people leave it until their medicines have run out before ordering new meds. Surely they can see they’re all their last strip of medicines, and think, ‘time to order new meds’.

Woah, I didn’t realise people were so germ phobic. Have not once in my life got into a hotel and cleaned anything, never even thought about the remote or the kettle. I’m completely healthy and can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been ill. Surely germs are very important and exposure to them strengthens your immune system.

Woah, I didn’t realise people were so germ phobic. Have not once in my life got into a hotel and cleaned anything, never even thought about the remote or the kettle. I’m completely healthy and can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been ill. Surely germs are very important and exposure to them strengthens your immune system.

My inlaws have no kitchen bin. Any rubbish, recycling or food waste has to be taken to the outside bin after every meal. This is out through a back boot room, across a patch of grass, and into one of the garages. At least 3 times a day every day.

My sil doesn’t have a kitchen bin!!

Instead she has a carrier bag hooked over a cupboard handle, fills it and then takes it to the bin, why that’s preferable to having even a small bin is beyond me.

My inlaws have no kitchen bin. Any rubbish, recycling or food waste has to be taken to the outside bin after every meal. This is out through a back boot room, across a patch of grass, and into one of the garages. At least 3 times a day every day.

I pass scrambled egg mix through a sieve before cooking it so there’s no white flecky bits in the finished product. (bleurgh!) Been told by everyone this is very weird.