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

It’s a miracle I’m still here.

It's almost as though most of us have functioning immune systems, honed by 4 billion years of evolution.

I should’ve added above - I don’t use antibacterial wipes. Ever. Expensive, damaging to the environment and they won’t kill viruses.

I’m probably a lost cause anyway, as the cat walks on the worktop, sits on the hob and climbs into the sink to drink out of the tap. It’s a miracle I’m still here.

@WomanOfSteel oh god. So now I have to have 'bin mist' on the list of things to worry about.

My dad removes the labels from tins so they can be recycled, then writes the contents with black pen. All tins of course now look the same. Cat food, beans, peach slices etc. Obviously he prefers his own writing but pretending there is a need to recycle urgently makes me laugh as he keeps the tins for ages. He also keeps yoghurt cartons 'just in case' and does not recycle these so there are 100s (literally) yoghurt cartons stacked up in different shapes around the kitchen shelves. I cannot offer any explanation for this.

I don't believe that either. I mean you might have seen it online, but I don't believe it happened.

Because despite all your objective evidence my lived reality of decades of staying in hotels is that nothing you have suggested is anything other than needless worrying.

I don't think what you have said is "common sense"

Wow this thread is an eye opener! I’ve never heard of most of these things.

I stay in hotels once a month with work, I’ve never bothered cleaning any of the surfaces and I walk barefoot on the carpet and use the remote with impunity.

I never wash meat (it’s actually more dangerous to do this), I wash vegetables but I’m very happy to pull a raw carrot out of the ground on my friend’s allotment and eat it after brushing it on my jeans 😄 there’s no taste like it!

I have one tea towel a day, it gets used for everything and then chucked in the machine. And yes, I sometimes wash my tea towels with my undies. Still alive.
Use public toilets and sit on the seat (my thigh muscles aren’t up to hovering!) and the only reason I put the lid down at home is because otherwise the cat drinks out of it.

I do wash my hands thoroughly (like we were taught to do in the pandemic) whenever I go to the loo and when I come in from being outside. Never had food poisoning, and I’m rarely ill.

You do know our bodies are made up of millions of bacteria?

putting milk in scrambled eggs - now that’s REALLY weird. As is repeatedly spamming a thread when it’s clear that hardly anyone agrees with you …

That seems ridiculous. Cold water always on blood stains I was taught, and it works.

*hotel kettle, that should say!

I don’t know if a PP has shared this yet but I saw a “hack” posted online (with photos!) of a woman boiling her period stained undies in her hotel to get tue stains out. Never used a hotel kettle again 😬

Kids today have it easy, but don't realise it. When I checked expenses in an admin job back in the 80s, hotel bills often listed the films the guests has booked to watch in their rooms. There were not many family friendly films rented. The more experienced workers stayed in smaller hotels that just gave an un broken down bill. 'One night bnb plus evening meal.'

This is why they are close to millionaires. We aren't, but have enough for the rest of our lives, barring an unexpected disaster, but growing up in the austere 50s set many habits for life. DH worked for a large multinational grocery supplier in Marketing. Having seen that product development, new recipes etc was mainly done to make more profit (round teabags were not made to fit the cup better as they advertised at the time, but because they bought a machine that could produce more teabags quicker and more cheaply than the older square cut machine, marketing's job was to sell the change as a product benefit.) He now rarely buys branded product, saying most things reached their peak decades ago and most own label is better than the leading brands.

But no one has been able to explain why everywhere isn’t a hazard - just the remote?

Those fellow guest who you find so repulsive have presumably also touched:

• buttons in the lift
• the curtains
• the chairs (both in room and at breakfast)
• all the breakfast buffet stuff like tongs, juice jugs etc
• the room key/card (can’t imagine those are cleaned)
• the coat hangers
• the hairdryer
• the menu
• the world

Do you have to take your dettol wipes to breakfast too? In the lift? I mean, you’re obviously free to knock yourself out, but don’t kid yourself you’re doing it out of good sense.

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.

Eating off soapy dishes is still grim no matter where you live 😀

I do this! I really hate bins, hate cleaning them and they always end up with a smell about them whereas a carrier bag never does!

It makes a load of condensation in the bin - my mum won’t put them straight in for that reason. 🙂 My nan used to keep them in a bowl and then empty the tea leaves out to put on her plants.

I seem to remember a bloke a few years ago, who went to casualty, to have a remote control removed from his rectum. Makes you wonder how many do that without accident...

https://www.rd.com/list/gross-things-hotels-do-to-save-money/ 🤮.

To each her own, I guess. 🤷‍♀️
And I still need to think of something re your original question. 🤔

Hotel room surfaces are gross 🤢

Wrapped ours in cling film, as the family liked to leave it in puddles of water and consequently break it.
Thank goodness for eBay, cheap compatible remote controls

Hotel rooms are gross. Same rag used to clean multiple surfaces in multiple rooms. Have seem tv programmes about this. I always use Lysol wipes to clean surface and bathroom. Have done so for years. Guess I'm in the freak group. 💁‍♀️

Okey dokey. It takes perhaps three minutes to wipe all the hot spots, but I guess it's possible you might greiviously miss the three minutes you could have spent counting the minibar snacks or whatever.
You sound like a perpetually cranky sort with a stick lodged firmly in your rectum, but you do you baby girl.